Warlord Games Restock their Bolt Action Polish Range
January 20, 2011 by beerogre
Hopelessly addicted as I am to Secrets of the 3rd Reich, any mention of new 28mm WW2 minis makes me feel all funny in the head and light in the pockets.
So... when I found out that Warlord Games are now selling a new range of Polish Sharpshooters... I had to investigate further.
To my delight, I found that Warlord Games are restocking their range of early war Polish miniatures... brilliant!
For me, Secrets of the 3rd Reich [SoTR] is a great small-scale wargame (slightly bigger than a skirmish, but smaller than a mass battle game like 40K).
When you're using a relatively small number of toy soldiers (my typical SoTR platoon has about 15-20 models), variety is everything and the Warlord Games Polish range has a really pretty and uniquely Polish unit... cavalry!
Now this is WW2... there are big tanks and stuff rolling around for goodness sake!
But that doesn't matter... I want horsies!
Of course, they'll be devastating against troops, which is great because in SoTR most platoons (i.e. your army) must buy at least a command and a troop squad (roughy 15 soldier models), so the cavalry should always have a target.
But that's not all!
The Polish aren't without a bit of armour themselves. For example, there's these Polish TKS Tankettes, which frankly will have to be included as well.
Unfortunately, it looks like the Tankette models still have to be restocked... but I'm sure the good folks at Warlord won't be long getting that sorted out... I'll keep dropping by the site and give everyone a heads up when they're available again.
I'm quite excited about getting some of these miniatures, not just because they'll need an Order of Battle (an army list to those not in the know), which I can write myself, but I can look up a bit of Polish folklore, in order to grab some supernatural elements to add a bit of Weird World War flavour... <insert girly squeeee!>
This is my favourite part of the hobby...
BoW Andy
Lloyd loves the polish 😉
I really do 🙂
Im not polish but seeing the horsies I wish I was 🙂
Yeah… you gotta hand it to them. In a war where armoured tanks we key, riding into battle on a horse clutching a pointy-stick, takes some level or courage I’m not familiar with! 🙂
According to WIkipedia (must be true then) the cavalry only rode to the battlefield, after which, they dismounted and continued on foot.
However, there were definately confirmed cavalry charges during WW2. So the horses weren’t entirely for show!
BoW Andy
Somebody at the SoTR forums has already wrote an OOB for the polish:
http://secretsofthethirdreich.com/forums/index.php?topic=2595.0
Maybe you can use it or at least it inspires you.
Greetings
When I do the OoB, I’ll post it here for download… maybe we’ll even get the blessing of Westwind… you never know! 🙂
BoW Andy
Nice. My family from Poland trained the horses for those lancers.
Actually, one of the greatest victory of polish cavalry was against german armoured company, it’s still celebrated every year in Krojanty. Love the models, especially sharpshooters:)
look nice pretty useless though in combat
You could also use the British troops as later war Poles.
No horsies though 🙁
Baranithil, never heard about that – sounds incredible!