Painted up my Soviet Mortar platoon.
Equipped with the universal 81mm (or 82mm for the Soviets) mortar, its main purpose is to pin down enemy guns and infantry before the Udarny company charge into close combat.
I'm too used of having two observers for a mortar platoon if I'm playing Germans. So a single observer will crimp my style a bit and worse they have no smoke shells to cover my infantry approach. We shall see their effectiveness in coming battles for the Motherland!
They are equipped with the 82-PM41developed during the Second World War as an infantry battalion mortar, and which begun production in 1941. Design improvements were subordinated to the technological possibilities of production and directed toward the reduction in the weight of mortar, labour expenses of its production and improvement in the manoeuvrability characteristics.
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Saturday, 5 May 2012
Thursday, 19 April 2012
And the Soviet Bear continues to grow....
My brother passed me another batch of Soviets for me to paint up after seeing surge of "Red" energy.
You will seeing them painted soon...
Stay tuned Comrade! ;)
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Thursday, 29 September 2011
German Mortars in WW2 (81mm)
I'm quite happy to say, that mortars in FOW are very useful to any infantry list.
It's ability to smoke or pinned infantry outweigh its capability to kill.
Unlike the worthless mortar of my Warhammer 40K days (it sucks in Imperial Guards, can't kill for nuts...)
FOW mortars plays an integral part of an infantry list in either supporting for an assault or blinding long range guns.
In my tournament list, I am playing a Fallschirmjager mortar platoon (2 x 81mm mortar sections) and attached HQ mortars ( 2 x 81mm mortars) to support my infantry marching across No Man's land.
It will be useful as well to blind any arty observers if needed be.
Note that the Fallschirmjagers used an airborne version of the standard 81mm mortar which they nicknamed it as "stumpy".
For those serious wargamers who are into the nitty gritty details of mortars used by the Germans, I have found an interesting link to read up about the use of 8cm Granatwerfer 34
8cm Granatwerfer 34
http://www.lonesentry.com/manuals/german-infantry-weapons/german-8-cm-heavy-mortar.html
8cm Granatwerfer42 Stummelwerfer
http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=663
It's ability to smoke or pinned infantry outweigh its capability to kill.
Unlike the worthless mortar of my Warhammer 40K days (it sucks in Imperial Guards, can't kill for nuts...)
FOW mortars plays an integral part of an infantry list in either supporting for an assault or blinding long range guns.
In my tournament list, I am playing a Fallschirmjager mortar platoon (2 x 81mm mortar sections) and attached HQ mortars ( 2 x 81mm mortars) to support my infantry marching across No Man's land.
It will be useful as well to blind any arty observers if needed be.
Note that the Fallschirmjagers used an airborne version of the standard 81mm mortar which they nicknamed it as "stumpy".
For those serious wargamers who are into the nitty gritty details of mortars used by the Germans, I have found an interesting link to read up about the use of 8cm Granatwerfer 34
8cm Granatwerfer 34
http://www.lonesentry.com/manuals/german-infantry-weapons/german-8-cm-heavy-mortar.html
8cm Granatwerfer42 Stummelwerfer
http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=663
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