I recently decided that I wanted a third company of Soviet infantry to fill out my WWII 15mm Soviet army. I wanted a unit that would stand out a bit, to represent…
Tag: Soviet
FOW – Action by Kampfgruppe Stachwitz, July 1944.
The second small scenario I tested was an action by Kampfgruppe Stachwitz during the Kursk offensive in 1943. The rules used were Flames of War Version 4, with the unit reference cards…
FOW – Action at Alytus Bridgehead, June 1941.
I wanted to test two small tank scenarios for possible use in an upcoming open gaming weekend. The first scenario was the action at the Alytus Bridgehead in June 1941, in which…
FOW – Heiligenbeil Pocket, February 1945
We played a day during the Siege of the Heiligenbeil Pocket, 8 February 1945. The Pocket was formed when the Soviets cut off Konigsberg in East Prussia from the rest of Germany….
Flames of War Soviet Early War Painting Experiment.
I have a bit of a problem (anyone that knows me will of coarse think this already)… I painted up a ton of FOW Soviet armor some years ago and have collected…
Flames of War Russian Reinforcements.
I was chatting with a buddy of mine about WWII eastern front and what he should get to fill out his army. As I am easily distracted, it got me thinking about…
Battle of Radzymin (July 1944)
Background The Battle of Radzymin was one of a series of engagements between the Red Army’s 1st Byelorussian Front and the German Army’s XXXIXth Panzer Corps that occurred as part of the Lublin-Brest Offensive between 1 and 10 August 1944 at the…
Bagration Command Card Release
Following up on the Soviet Unit Cards, let’s take a look at the new Unit Cards. Just like all the other releases the new Bagration list has a full set of Unit…
Bagration Unit Card Release
Flames of War as finally moved to the eastern front with the latest Bagration release! We now have the Soviet forces for late war. The release includes the normal Army Book, Command…
Osipovitchi, October 1941
Overview: Six of us played a scenario taken from the May 1981 issue of “Wargamer’s Digest.” The scenario was large enough that we used the orders of battle verbatim from the magazine….