STALINGRAD Bolt Action Mega Battle!

The ‘Siberian Veterans’ plastic box is the ‘Soviet plastic infantry’ box set, with the addition of 2 metal bodies, a selection of metal arms and weapons/equipment, and a range of metal heads with Central Asian features.

I love the variation that this brings to the tabletop, and they are seriously dangerous on the battlefield. And as such, I decided that I would like an whole platoon of them, and to use spare heads from the two box sets that I ordered to kit-bash my regular Soviet Weapons teams into Siberians. This will give a great visual overall look to the platoon and tie it all together when I use it in my Stalingrad Mega Battle.

Scenery by 4Ground, Miniatures by Warlord Games:

Soviet Infantry plastic box set

Soviet 50mm light mortar and Flamethrower teams

Flame Throwers have the great advantage that they ignore cover when shooting. In a city fight, this is particularly useful, especially when they also ignore enemy units minuses to hit for being down as well.

They also lay at least 2 pins on each enemy unit each time they have successfully hit, and then must take a morale check. This must still happen even in the unlikely event that no casualties have been inflicted.  This means that putting between 2-4 pin markers an hit, is going to cause many units to flee regardless of casualties. The odd pin from an infantry unit or a sniper first will mean that even Veteran units will turn tail and run from an hit from these guys, IF I can get them close enough?