Romainian Troops in Winter

Fighting in lines when out with the Napoleonic Wars.

Yet, it's the best way to get firepower on the enemy.

Just now the first line is laying down.

Troops hide behind trees when they can.

A white sheet of plastic, and a few dollar store Christmas trees and it's winter!

Strelets Police Battalion

A small overview of my WWII German allied Cossack battalion, mostly Strelets.

A new Strelets set, their Police Battalion.

These troops rooted out partizans in German occupied territories.

Some of them were very harsh, and even earned the condemnation of some SS troops.

Guerilla warfare is never very clean, and on the Russian Front it was very bad.

These figures are a very good variety of poses.

Just the sort of troops to send door to door to ferret out hiding guerillas.

Troops knocking down a door, covering a doorway with their rifle...

Other troops rousting people along.

I will probably get a couple boxes for rear area security.

Artillery the King of Battle

One of the problems with having a massive collection of WWII Soviet artillery is having enough men to man the guns.

Zvezda often gives only two or three crewmen for a gun that might need 8 or 12 men.

One way to solve the problem is to draft troops from other places.

The Airfix WWII Russian Infantry set is very old and very tired.  

As a result most of the men from that set in my collection have volunteered to serve the guns.

Many of the old hard plastic Esci Russians are also transferred to the artillery.

Still more have been needed so I have been buying the Orion Soviet Artillery Crew set to fill in the gaps.