Heavy artillery battery completed

Finally completed my battery of 15cm sFH18 guns. I'm really banking on this platoon to help stave off the hordes of Russian tanks and infantries. Anti-tank of 5 and firepower 2+ for bombardments should hurt those tanks.

Now i have 4 days to complete my last aufklarung scout platoon and i'm all set for the Bagration campaign which starts on 18th May. 10 motorbikes with sidecars....

Aufklarungs platoon I completed

Completed this platoon last night. They were very nice to paint as in my opinion they were one of the third reich's distinctive units. You look at it and you just know its from the german heer. I will have 2 platoons of 9  motorbikes each. I forgot to paint another one for this platoon so i'll have to paint 10 bikes for the second platoon. So technically i guess this platoon isn't completed yet hehe.

Movement 16 inches with the ability to fire full ROF, that gives one platoon the ability to shoot 27 shots during each shooting phase. This should get rid of those pesky soviet hordes of forced patriotic troops. And 3rd edition has changed the save for motorbikes to 3+ :) Very nice indeed! This will give me survivability against any shooting. Unfortunately......from the look of things i'll most probably be facing russian hordes of tanks....ouchhhh. No worries. We'll still do it in style. And what's more stylish that motorbikes with MGs.

I'm continuing with my system of color coding so this platoon gets Red. I've found that doing this really helps when you field an infantry company like my previous american paras as it keeps track of how many bases are still available from each platoon on the table.

And i've rewarded myself for completing this platoon by applying the 2nd camo color to my Hans walker. Will be working specifically on it starting today to bring for Show n Tell this hobby night :)

Panzerspahkompanie

I've started building my Panzerspahkompanie for the Firestorm Bagration campaign that Legio will be organizing in May. This will be a 1500 points list taken from the Grey Wolf book.

 If you're into Flames of War then this book is a must buy. Battlefront took out all of the German army elements from their previous smaller books (Stalin's Onslaught, Hammer & Sickle, River of Heroes, Stalin's  Europe and Fortress Europe) and compiled it into a very nice hardcover edition. 265 gorgeous colored pages of all German forces which took part in the eastern front. Novel idea if u ask me :)

 I'm building an Aufklarungs company. Sounds cool doesn't it :) It means reconnaissance in German but aufklarung sounds more exotic. My list is taken from page 90 and will be filled with mostly recon elements supported by some artillery units from division.

 This Puma armored car will be the command HQ vehicle for this list. I have 2 full platoons of these vehicles so that's what i'll be working on for the time being.