Skirmish Campaign “Russia 41-into the Ukraine"

One of my flea market purchases at this year’s Cold War’s convention was a copy of Skirmish Campaign “Russia 41-into the Ukraine” by Scott Fisher and Nathan Forney. The book includes 10 scenarios that cover the June/July German invasion of the Ukraine during Operation Barbarossa. These scenarios were written for smaller skirmish size games, but with some simple modifications, I believe that they will work well with my preferred World War 2 rule set, Blitzkrieg Commander II.

Over the last few weeks, I have taken a brief detour away from my nonstop American Civil War project to work on down grading my mid war German and Russian armies. These armies are comprised mostly of figures from Battlefront. Since my last foray into 15mm WWII, Zvezda and the Plastic Solder Company have started to offer plastic models. Priced at less than half of what a resin tank from Battlefront costs, I decided to use plastic models whenever possible for this expansion. Having now painted and assembled around 30 plastic tanks, I must say that I’m pleased with them. Going forward, I will probably choose plastic over resin whenever possible.

Let’s take a look at my reinforcements:

T-28's, manufactured by Battlefront.

 

BA-10 armoured, manufactured by Old Glory 25.

 

T-35 Super Heavy Tank. These all resin models were manufactured by Gaming Models. Priced at only $5.00 each, these are the cheapest T-35’s on the market today. Link: http://www.gamodls.com

 

T-26 Light Tank, manufactured by Zvezda.

 

OT-26 Flamethrower Tank, manufactured by Zvezda.

 

BT-5/BT-7 tank, manufactured by Zvezda.

 

Panzer IV F, manufactured by Plastic Soldier Company.

 

Panzer III G, manufactured by Plastic Soldier Company.

 

German Motorcycle infantry, manufactured by Battlefront.

 

SdKfz.222 & SdKfz.232, by Battlefront

 

Panzer II, by Zvezda

 

StuG III B, by Zvezda

 

Sd Kfz 10/4, by Battlefront