Flames of War Plastic SU100 and SU85

It's been a long time since I painted anything for my Flames of War armies and I've had a box of Plastic Soviet Tank Killers (SBX31) sat part finished on the shelf for a long time.

So I finally got round to completing them ready for a game on Monday.

SU100s

SU100

... "But, you said you only had one box of Tank Killers, there's only 5 in that box and you have 10 tanks there!!!"

Early War Flames of War game at COGS.

The Flames of War game on Monday was an early war battle between my Soviet Fast Tank Battalion and Martin's British Rifles.

At first glance this would seem a silly match up. But in fact if Churchill had got his way it could have happened. He wanted to send assistance to the Finns in order to resist the Soviet offensive but wasn't allowed to.

The game was No Retreat and was a close run thing. We ran out of time but at the end I had units in the objective and still quite a few of my tanks were active. I'd started with 25 in total.

A high point for me was when my massive infantry company finally managed to cross the hill just in front of the closest objective.

Backgound image... Soviet Horde!

I struggled to find a background image for the blog and in the end thought that a nice image of my Flames of War Soviet horde would be good. This was from a few years ago and I've extended the army quite dramatically since then.

Here it is more clearly in order that it can be viewed better.