Favorite Army

I’m assuming and hoping  that the Fallschirmjager will be an early war paratrooper. But perhaps, it’ll get Had Charger or Steely Resolve to reflect that they were also elite infantry. I don’t think that they will be late war elite infantry because the Germans already have several elite infantry units.

Also, I agree about the Kubelwagen. Maybe it’ll be in a future set. It would certainly be nice to have.

And lastly, the reason I made that last post was to encourage everyone to vote for the Fallschirmjager. So vote already. I really would like to see the Fallschirmjager’s stat card.

The target does not have to be directly in front of the SU-85. It needs to be in front of the SU-85 as defined in the rules. See the page where the rules explain what it means to be behind or on the flank of.

All it really means is that you need to pay attention to facing when you end your movement.

I actually am expecting French Resistance of some kind in the D-Day set. They’d probably have stats as bad as the ones the Soviet Partisanss get, but I tend to field armies for flavor as opposed to “L33T-P0WARZ”, so I’m not going to be too broken up about that. I’d love to be able to recreate several battles from the movie The Longest Day, so so having some Resistance blow out some train tracks would be sweet.

-=Grim=-

For 8 more points, instead of a Tiger I, you can use a King Tiger.  It doesnt dwarf the Tiger I, but it looks scary on the battlefield and the stats are scary too, so id use it for psychological warfare.  You know……make them crap their pants.  :lol:

I don’t pay attention to number of units max, especially with the Soviets. 
My 150 army, when the map calls for it, involves one Nashorn and at least two more decent tanks.  This I play on defense and once I’ve got my movement kills on the enemy tanks, I will use the MBTs to close in and crush them.  Of course, this means that I can’t let myself get too spread out (Nashorn is expensive so I have limited defense otherwise).  Last night I tried this and got surrounded by the faster west-Allies tanks.

This game is great, but i cant find anyone to play with. They should make something like AA minies online, just the way they run MTG online.

Well. we’re now upto

2 Type 95 ‘tinks’ 18 points
2 Sargeants 18 points
4 Arisaka Riflemen 12 points in total
2 Type 92 MG teams 14 points
3 50mm mortar teams 27 points
and
3 47mm AT guns 21 points in total

110 points, enough for a standard scenario with a few variations. Hav’nt used it yet.

(The Type 95 tank got miscalled a ‘tink’ on one occaision and it stuck - seems kind of appropriate, the noise its 37mm shells make bouncing off a Sherman)

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Bl**dy hell! Take cover….

Last Thursday I played this army:

USA - M1 Garand x3
USA - “Red Devil” Captain
USA - Jeep x2
UK - SMLE No. 4
UK - 6-Pounder Antitank x2
UK - Vickers MG Team
UK - Humber Scout Car x2
USSR - T-34/76

Despite my crappy roles during the game I managed to hold on and almost win, despite losing my T-34 to a Tiger-I.

Some key things that I learned during the game were that cover is very important. The Jeeps were useful to get soldiers to the front very fast.

The Humber Scout Cars are good but just don’t leave them out in the open for attack, that’s what makes the strike and fade very useful.