Talvisota 2016, coming soon!

So the 2016 Talvisota (Winter War) tournament is coming and will be held in Espoo on 30.-31. January. Like last year it will be a Late War themed but the points limit has been cut down drastically, this time it will be 1750 points instead of 1900 points of Talvisota 2015 tournament.

This really limits my most liked options on what to field and I have had to revisit some of my lists that I've planned before to see if they could fit in. I'd like to run (again) a company of Jagdtigers but it's quite hard to get any kind of desent list with every needed support option. Other option would be to run either fully armored list, either trained from Desperate Measures or veteran from Panzers to the Meuse. There's also a few options of infantry companies but I'm personally not that much of a friend of that.

But I'll have to test some of the lists and see if they can work in any way.

Well there it is. Not much to update right now but there will be much more once my order gets here.

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.

Bridge by Bridge - 2./506. Schwere Panzerabteilung in Oosterbeek

Lately I've been thinking heavy, and I mean German heavy. I have a lot of planned lists of German Heavy Tanks that I'd like to run given enough heavy tanks (right now not nearly enough).

One of these units is the Schwere Panzerkompanie from Bridge by Bridge. It's currently the only heavy tank kompanie that I've planned with full King Tiger (another list that I have King Tiger is Schwere Panzerkompanie from Atlantik Wall with one KT).

With only four platoons and such a limited numbers I'll be always outnumberet and outgunned. But what this list gives me is heavy anti-tank weapons (88mm KwK43/L71) with excellent armour with infantry support that can scare a s**t out of enemy armour trying to flank my Big Cats. Lastly there is my Coup de Main, 3 StuH42s ready to take out any gunteams or soften up dug in infantry before my pioniers or King Tigers make the assault.

I didn't take recon as four fearless veteran teams for 155 points is kind of a lot. Also no artillery as not enough points, but for that I've my StuH42s.

Lastly with points limited and after checking multiple times that I couldn't get anything else useful, I took Bergepanther. No obvious use for this but it nicely works as a bullet-magnet, and it has AA MG.


This all drops me few points short but I think I can manage that. All in all this list needs to be played in concert, each element supporting and protecting the other (an obvious thing!).

All ideas and comments are welcomed.