Saturday 10 January 2015

Bitten by a Mid War Monster (AGAIN!)

Hi!

I've been bitten by a Mid War Monster (again!) and after BF publishing the new points limits for MW I started to update my older 1500 points MW list. As with the older list my idea was to go with a full armor heavy Panzer force. With both lists the plan is to rush and rush and rush. And die trying.




In the old list the plan was to put Rettemeier with the other PzIII platoon and 2iC with PzIV platoon and while 8-rads lifts GtG and PzIVs fire all they can on the enemy, the PzIIIs would berushing forward and trying to overwhelm one flank.

With the new list the plan is about the same except I'll have a platoon of 4 PzIIIs and Rettemeier rushing an enemy while PzIVs and Tiger give my forces some cover. I know the Tiger is not perhaps the smartest choice as it costs as much as a platoon of PzIIIs but its way too juicy when almost everything just bounces off its thick hide in Mid War.

I'm also trying to keep this as cost minimum as possible as I bet in friendly games I can use my Tiger I E with zimmerit and PzIV Hs as proxies. I have enough 8-rads too so that would leave me just 4 PzIII L or Ns (I like the non-schürtzen model more...), Rettemeier and the recovery Sd Kfz 9 Famo half-track to buy. But I think I could proxy the recovery vehicle too with a Sd Kfz 251 in friendly games.


OLD LIST 1500 points:


German Panzer
Tank Company, from North Africa, page 54

Compulsory Panzerkompanie HQ (p.55) - CinC Panzer III L or M, 2iC Panzer III L or M (230 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer IV F2 or G (30 pts)
- Sd Kfz 9 half-track (5 pts)
- Warrior Josef Rettemeier (45 pts)

Compulsory Panzer Platoon (p.55) - Command Panzer III L or M, 2x Panzer III L or M (345 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer III N (-5 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer III N (-5 pts)

Compulsory Panzer Platoon (p.55) - Command Panzer III L or M, 2x Panzer III L or M (345 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer III N (-5 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer III N (-5 pts)

Panzer Platoon (p.55) - Command Panzer III L or M, 2x Panzer III L or M (345 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer IV F2 or G (30 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer IV F2 or G (30 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer IV F2 or G (30 pts)

Heavy Panzerspah Platoon (p.69) - Command Sd Kfz 231 (8-rad), Sd Kfz 231 (8-rad) (85 pts)


1500 Points, 4 Platoons





NEW LIST 1710 points:


German Panzer
Tank Company, from North Africa, page 54

Compulsory Panzerkompanie HQ (p.55) - CinC Panzer III L or M, 2iC Panzer III L or M (230 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer IV F2 or G (30 pts)
- Equip Panzer III L or M or N or Panzer IV G (late) or H with Schurzen (5 pts)
- Sd Kfz 9 half-track (5 pts)
- Warrior Josef Rettemeier (45 pts)

Compulsory Panzer Platoon (p.55) - Command Panzer III L or M, 3x Panzer III L or M (460 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer III N (-5 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer III N (-5 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer III N (-5 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer III N (-5 pts)
- 4x Equip Panzer III L or M or N or Panzer IV G (late) or H with Schurzen (20 pts)

Compulsory Panzer Platoon (p.55) - Command Panzer III L or M, 2x Panzer III L or M (345 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer IV F2 or G (30 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer IV F2 or G (30 pts)
- upgrade to Panzer IV F2 or G (30 pts)

Schwere Panzer Platoon (p.53) - Command Tiger I E (early) (385 pts)

Heavy Panzerspah Platoon (p.69) - Command Sd Kfz 231 (8-rad), Sd Kfz 231 (8-rad) (85 pts)


1675 Points, 4 Platoons


So a few points short but I just don't know what to do with them.

Thanks for reading and please comment your thoughts.

2 comments:

  1. Mid War is always a tricky period, especially for building German armoured lists! The Tiger is good in that it gives you opponent a major problem to try and deal with, and I think they have a certain psychological impact too. I will be interested to hear how you get on with them as I'm looking at Mid War Panzer lists too at the moment.

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    1. Thanks Paul! This project might prolong a bit to summer time due to other pressing matters but I will return to this. I'd love to take a look on your MW German Panzer list and how you'd run it :)

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