AFSR Armour

I have painted a tank for my mate's Drozdovsky AFSR force and added some details to his two Austin armoured cars, one of which was used in our last game.

The writing says генерал Дроздовский (General Drozdovsky).  I think this is actually a MkIV, and not a MkV as it should be, but it's a nice model and looks pretty good.  The Austins are from 1st Corps like my Bolo one.  The names are волонтер (Volunteer) and славный (Glorius).

Mikhail Drozdovsky was one of the counter-revolutionary White leaders in the early civil war but was mortally wounded in late 1918.

Drozdovsky had lead a force of officers and volunteers from the Romanian front in his famous march to the Don and his regiments fought with the Volunteer Army and AFSR until the end.

Siberia 1919

Somewhere on the Russian Civil War's eastern front the White Siberian Army of Admiral Kolchak clashes with Comrade Trotsky's Red Army for control of a vital railway line.

With the Red Guard railway workers defending the station buildings other Red Army forces have dug in on a nearby ridge.

Meanwhile the forces of the reactionary counter-revolution advance from the east.

Comrade Pavlov, commanding the Bolshevik positions, rushes his reserves forward to aid in the defence of the station and the redoubts on the ridge line.

 

Cossacks and White officers attack the station but are held up by the fierce resistance of the railway workers in the station master's dacha.

Eventually the Red Guards surrender but are all massacred by the victorius Whites.  This is a war with no half measures.

At close of play, intense shelling has driven the Communist Peasant battalion from the ridge and the Whites are pushing on from their victory on the flank.  A unit of internationalist Magyars rushes forward to try to hold the line.

This battle is fictional and while the uniforms are suitable for 1919, the armies are probably more fitting for 1918 in the Railway War period.  We used Setting the East Ablaze 2.0 rules with the following armies. 

Reds

Comrade Pavlov +1 Leader

Red Army Communist Peasant Battalion
10 figs C3 M3 Rifles, Bombs and 1 LMG
Kulomzino Railway Worker Red Guards
10 figs C4 M3 Rifles, Bombs
Moscow Factory Worker Red Guards
10 figs C4 M3 Rifles, Bombs
Tobolsk Food Requisition Detachment
10 figs C4 M4 Rifles, Bombs
Magyar Internationalists
10 figs C3 M3 Rifles Bombs

Tashkent Cavalry Detachment
10 figs C3 M3 Lances, Rifles, Bombs

Artillery Battery 2 x Field Gun C4 M3
1 HMG C3 M3
1 Austin AC C3 M3

Whites

Colonel Verzhbitsky +1 Leader

Omsk Officer detachment
10 figs C3 M3 Ferocious, Rifles, Bombs, 1 LMG
Irtysh Officer detachment
10 figs C3 M3 Ferocious, Rifles, Bombs, 1 LMG
Kurgan Officer detachment
10 figs C3 M3 Ferocious, Rifles, Bombs, 1 LMG
Ishim  Officer detachment
10 figs C3 M3 Ferocious, Rifles, Bombs, 1 LMG

Orenburg Cossack Detachment
10 figs C2 M3 Lances, Rifles, Bombs

Artillery Battery 2 x Field Gun C3 M3
1 HMG C3 M3
1 Austin AC C3 M3

Painted Steamer

Here are some pictures of my finally finished Russian Civil War Siberian paddle steamer.

As posted before, this is the inspiration image of a Red Volga Gunboat converted from civilian paddle steamer.

These are my original concept sketches

Some more close up shots of the steamer and crew.  I still need to do some flags.  The flag mast is detachable, so I can make the Steamer Red or White as needed for the scenario.

This Captain looks too well turned out and bourgeois to be a Red, so I will make a more suitably proletarian naval commander for the Bolsheviks. Fortunately the rest of the crew can serve on either side.

One late addition with the Flag.

War in the East

My Russian Civil War armies have finally hit the table.  At last some Back of Beyond 28mm action.

Not the best photos as I was concentrating on the game but at least they got on the table.

The fighting was confused as both sides tried to loot the village.  The Cossacks got shot up but managed to overrun some red sailors and here are about to charge a Bolo gun.

Meanwhile a large melee was developing in the woods nearby.  Comrade Zhelezniakov and the food requisition detachment are fighting it out with some white officers egged on by father Basil.

  

Here are some pics of the full armies on parade. 

First the Whites.

Then the Reds

New Recruits

After a busy weekend, here are some new units I have added to my Russian Civil War armies

First, a new unit of Cossacks.

Some new Red specialists made with simple head swaps.

Some more Red Sailors who are the figures I didn't need for the Steamer Crew.

And last a couple of fairly generic 'Russian' units than can serve as Reds, Socialist Revolutionary Whites and maybe Czechs or other Nationalists.

They have slightly different coat colours so they can be mixed or used separately to create subtle unit distinction.

These guys will be useful to bulk out other units when needed too.