Rommel Mid-War Soviets

Having really enjoyed Andy and I's Rommel games I thought I'd invest in a 10 mm Mid-War Russian army. The infantry and artillery are all from Minifigs while the vehicles are Pendraken.

A Soviet Rifle Division with supporting artillery and KV-1 tanks:

A small Tank Brigade with T-34's, T-26's and motorised infantry:

A larger Tank Brigade with added T-34's and a couple of SU-152:

A Motor Rifle Brigade supported by more KV-1's:

Finally, army level artillery support in the form of two Katyusha's and four 152 mm Howitzers:

The whole force comes to around 115 points in Rommel which is easily enough for all the scenario based games we play.

I think they will play differently to the Allies or Germans, it is quite hard to combine Russian infantry and armour in the rules due to their organisation and in the Mid-War period the armour have green crews which isn't great. It is also possible to downgrade the infantry to conscript or poor as well.

Where they are strong though is in artillery with a massive 10 elements of guns 6 of which are army level and can support anyone. This gives a huge 32 points of artillery support to throw into combats (the Allies and Germans would do well to have 10 available usually) though it will have to be used carefully as the Soviets can only use most of their artillery support in the first phase of their own move.

Given that I'm not bothered about the difference between the various models of T-34's it will be easy to change the army to Late War (replace the KV-1's with T34/85) or Early War (add a lot more T-26's).