For some time I have been daydreaming about staging a large wargame. I umpired a 1/32nd Waterloo game down in deepest Devon a few years back and I fancied something similar but with 1/72nd figures and a Second World War theme. I wanted a big table and lots of tanks so The Battle of Kursk seemed the natural choice. Now, this comes with some issues! Like all WW2 'battles' it is vast - they aren't really battles at all but campaigns so I have had to break it down a bit in order to give the players the sense that they are commanding a large formation in the second world war and give the essence of warfare in that period without getting bogged down in detail. So I want it to be grim but fun!
This has entailed the construction and painting of a vast amount of figures and I have used some of them to test the intended rules (Rapid Fire). I got a bit lost as to what I had and what I need so have conducted an inventory. This is the Soviet 5 Guards Tank Army and friends:
For scale purposes - these are 1/72nd figures and vehicles laid out on an 8 foot by 5 foot table so currently no room for the Germans!
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