The block of troops I got painted up in March gave my US platoon a solid foundation to build on and adding in the Sherman-T and a Coyote boosted it to a respectable sized force. Since the average size game locally is 1000 points I went through my list to see what holes they might have on the battlefield and did my best to find solutions to what they were missing. Surprisingly enough I was able to finish my force out by just adding six minis and all I had to do was pick up a couple of weapon sprues to finish them off.
One of the things that I noticed in my first game was the lack of any antitank weapons in my force. Our game was very small (only 500 points each). Even so my opponent had a scout car and the only thing that I had that could even attempt to get through its armor at range was my Coyote. Compared to the four panzerfausts he had running around the board I really didn't like my chances. To try to offset this I decided that I had to add a couple of bazooka teams. While these are dedicated tank hunters, their range isn't bad and it forces my opponent to deal with these two serious threats to any armor he might be fielding. Combined with the Sherman T this means there are three units on the board that have solid armor piercing capabilities which should give me some good tactical options as well.
For my final choice I decided to take an artillery forward observer. My first game I had also faced a German air force forward observer and while I can see how it could have gone very, very badly for me, the dice were thankfully on my side for that game. One of the things that struck me as a possible weakness was just the potential for enemy flak to stop the attack. I have no idea at this point if that is really a concern (heck, maybe no one around here plays with enough flak to be an issue...) but I decided at least for now to work around the problem by trying the artillery instead. Only time will tell if it is a good choice but I'm eager to give it a try.
As for when that's going to happen, I'm thinking that I'll going to try to get in a game in the next week using some proxy minis for my new additions. The online store that I have been trying out unfortunately told me eight days after I placed the order that they couldn't fill it. I looked at the Warlord store and surprisingly enough I was able to find the sprues for about the same price and with free shipping. It will potentially take a few weeks to get here but then again the online store that I was trying out isn't much better as far as how fast they fulfill their orders. It'll be proxies until they arrive but I'm okay with that.
One of the things that I noticed in my first game was the lack of any antitank weapons in my force. Our game was very small (only 500 points each). Even so my opponent had a scout car and the only thing that I had that could even attempt to get through its armor at range was my Coyote. Compared to the four panzerfausts he had running around the board I really didn't like my chances. To try to offset this I decided that I had to add a couple of bazooka teams. While these are dedicated tank hunters, their range isn't bad and it forces my opponent to deal with these two serious threats to any armor he might be fielding. Combined with the Sherman T this means there are three units on the board that have solid armor piercing capabilities which should give me some good tactical options as well.
For my final choice I decided to take an artillery forward observer. My first game I had also faced a German air force forward observer and while I can see how it could have gone very, very badly for me, the dice were thankfully on my side for that game. One of the things that struck me as a possible weakness was just the potential for enemy flak to stop the attack. I have no idea at this point if that is really a concern (heck, maybe no one around here plays with enough flak to be an issue...) but I decided at least for now to work around the problem by trying the artillery instead. Only time will tell if it is a good choice but I'm eager to give it a try.
As for when that's going to happen, I'm thinking that I'll going to try to get in a game in the next week using some proxy minis for my new additions. The online store that I have been trying out unfortunately told me eight days after I placed the order that they couldn't fill it. I looked at the Warlord store and surprisingly enough I was able to find the sprues for about the same price and with free shipping. It will potentially take a few weeks to get here but then again the online store that I was trying out isn't much better as far as how fast they fulfill their orders. It'll be proxies until they arrive but I'm okay with that.
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