Been busy all week building my Wargames Factory German's sent to me by my mate Drew. Reading into it and joining a Bolt Action Facebook group I found that around 500points is the size to aim for to start with as pick up games at clubs are either at that level or slightly smaller (400).
Theres a handy online tool that you can create an account for and you can build your army that way. I've gone for a Generic force at the moment as I'm not sure on a particular theatre I want to go with yet. But that doesn't mean you can choose one of the forces and play against others.
Its quite a useful tool with good options for saving your platoons. You can calculate points before adding to it.
So far the 500 point force is as follows
First Lieutenant with additional Soldier
9 man Heer Grenadier Infantry Squad (Regular)
2 Assault Rifle's (STG 44) and 1 LMG (MG42)
9 man Heer Grenadier Infantry Squad (Regular)
2 Assault Rifle's (STG 44) and 1 LMG (MG42)
9 man Heer Grenadier Infantry Squad (Regular)
2 Assault Rifle's (STG 44) and 1 LMG (MG42)
Sniper Team (Regular)
Here is the whole force so far I tried to make the NCO's stand as if they where signalling to advance or shouting. Each squad is either defending, advancing or attacking but could be mixed just as easily.
First Lieutenant and his Additional man. (May replace this with a radio OP but need to look into it)
Grenadier Squad
Grenadier Squad
Grenadier Squad
Sniper Team
I've pretty much built the force just out of the 30 man box set. The only thing I'm missing is the assault rifles. I had one STG44 in my bits box and I've converted one but I'm not totally happy with it if I'm honest and I think I will rip it off and just buy some metal figures already armed with them.
Next I need to clean all the mouldlines off and fill a few bits here and there. Then I need pick up some uniform paints handily Warlord do bundles on there website and a local model shop carries the Vallejo paint line. So all being well I should be able to go in there with a list next week and pick up what I'm missing on pa day a pop into my LGS Waylands Forge and see if I can get me some Artizan troops with STG44's
