Manda (Amachan) goes to the Eastern Front

While this might seem like the most unstable project I have ever created, it kind of isn’t. This project came forth in order for me to cope with a mental health breakdown and thus it hadn’t been thought out as much as I usually do.

Because of limited space after the renovations of my apartment, I can only have a 3×4 table setup rather than the 6×4 I had before. The 6×4 was actually already too big for my apartment before, but since things have gotten even smaller it pushes this fact out a little more. Now in order to make Flames of War still a great game to play with armies of like 100 points or so, I have decided to really focus on urban warfare. The close urban warfare from the battle of Stalingrad would still be great to do at 3×4. I also said that I didn’t want to do winter stuff and the battle of Stalingrad happened way before winter started in 1942. However the battle of Stalingrad is just 1 battle and doesn’t give me much options for moving forward. So I have decided to look into the many battles of Kharkov, none of which took part in the winter and are spread between 1941 and 1943 and thus will be a perfect focus for everything I want to do mid-war.

I am also making a small change to the German army list. I am changing the Panzer III (Uparmoured) Tank Platoon to normal Panzer III Tank Platoon with long 5cm guns. This would be equivalent to the Panzer III Ausf. J rather than the Ausf. L. These were a bit more common in the early parts of mid war and the only real difference for those equipped with the 5 cm KwK 39 L/60 gun is the spaced armour that the Ausf. L has. It also brings the point balance a little bit closer. Now I could have gone for 4 short 5cm ones rather than 3 long 5cm ones as it would make the point levels completely equal, but I really like the long 5cm guns. For those who don’t know, the Panzer III Ausf. L is my favourite German tank and this way I can still build an Ausf. L command tank. I’ll get more Panzer IIIs later most likely.