on the workbench Sturmpioneer Platoon Blitzkrieg /Barbarossa /Kursk

German assault pioneers are a really interesting troop type in Battlegroup. Expensive high BR infantry with unique equipment. When the enemy are in prepared defences there demolition charges and flame thrower teams can be exceptionally useful.

Minesweeper at work from Grubby tanks

An infantry sectiuon infiltrate through the ruins Advancing MG 34 team from EWM

the rest from my old War of the Rats range from an old manufacturer who name a forgot

Platoon HQ with radio and a flame thrower team all from War of the Rats range except the rifle man supporting the flamethrower from Grubby tanks

Sturmpioneer section from Grubby tanks armed with grenades and demo charges

Flamethrower from War of the rats and demo charges from Grubby assaults a bunker

The war of the Rats flamewurfer and a Britainia commander for the flamethrower followed by Grubby demolition charges from Kelly's Heroes

Another War of the Rats democharge on a pole and Grubby flamethrower

The third flamer thrower team for Kursk games

Antitank mines to add to sections armed with them

HQ in a log bunker

mineclearer covered by Kellys Heroes models for these infantry men

a mix of miniatures in this section, The wire cutters from Grubby

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Scenario and AAR Second Battle of San Salvo 2-3 November 1943

Tanks of 46 (Liverpool Welsh) RTR History “On the V Corps of 8th Army front was paused on the Trigno river, British 78th Infantry Division attacked along the coastal road while 8th Indian Infantry Division attacked some 10 mi (16 km) inland. Fighting was fierce, but on 3 November, British 78th Division reached San Salvo, some three miles beyond the Trigno, at which point Generalmajor Rudolf Sieckenius—commanding 16th Panzer Division—decided to make a fighting withdrawal to the Sangro river and the formidable Gustav defensive positions overlooking the river from the ridge tops on the far side. The plan was that the Skins were to capture San Salvo and the ridge on the left, while the Buffs were to capture the ridge to the right of the town. The first part of the attack was to take place just before first light, and from first light onwards the two Infantry Battalions were to have the assistance of a Regiment of Tanks. The Buffs had a pretty clear run through on the ...

on the workbench Sd Kfz164 Nashorn

Captured Nashorn Italy 1944 Model by Alkett Crew by AB miniatures Infantry support from Xan Miniatures Afrika Korp camo net scratch built from surgical gauze and stowage from Early War Miniatures Inspired by a Nashorn from schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 525 captured in the Liri Valley

on the workbench Fields and Gardens

Time to improve terrain. Fields and gardens on an old piece of hardboard. Corrugated paper then textured and spray painted. Plants from scatter static grass on lines of PVA. Grass tuft in rows and green paint soaked sponge and pieces of clump foliage. Fences a mix of plant ties and bamboo skewers for the hurdles and garden thyme stripped of leaves to be the brush in the brushwood fences. a mixture of open field and fenced gardens house at the cetre of a fenced gardens and crop fileds Patchwork of fields - the irrigation ditch is scratch built from acrylic sheets Vines in a ploughed field - vines scratch built from pipe cleaners Patchwork of gardens the pigsty is bought from Hovels yonks ago Brush wood fence some scattered static grass used for young crops Ploughed field with orchard trees A series of the fields to make a patchwork close to a village ploughed field with shredded sponge cabbages A mix of lants made of clump folia...

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