Soviet Naval Troops

All the nice girls love a sailor, so here are some WW2 Soviet naval troops I've just finished.

Four squads of eight men (3 x smg, 4 x rifle, 1 lmg) as the rank and file of the platoon.

The Command team

For support these soviet sailors have a maxim mg, an anti-tank rifle team and a sniper team.

Last is an assault squad lead by a junior officer, perhaps a political officer to bolster their morale.

They are mostly Warlord figures with some extras from Black Tree and Artizan Designs and intended for use in our Battlegroup games.  There are some boats to come when I get around to them.

The Macedonians so far

Here is where I have got to with the Macedonian army.  Leading the charge is Alexander himself and his companions.  All the figures are from Wargames Foundry

Next are some Peltasts that I can use as the Agrianians or perhaps as Greek mercenaries.

These archers provide more light troops and can be Cretan mercenaries or perhaps Macedonians. 

Last but not least is the Phalanx.  These heavy infantry with be the backbone of the army and usually formed its core even on the smaller side campaigns.

Some more Phalangites and some Thessalians are on the way.  After that I will start some Persians.

Alexander goes east

My latest project is to do some armies for the Alexandrian Conquests.  This is another unfinished project from the archives and I haven't completed my Russians yet but I fancied something different for a while.

The plan is do small armies about the size of those for Lion Rampant or possibly a little larger.  I was never very good at finishing full sized armies for WAB or other similar games, the large units are just too tedious to paint.  I've enjoyed painting the RCW and Middle Earth forces though, so I'm again doing the same single skirmish basing. 

For games I'll either do scaled down battles or concentrate on smaller actions.  While Alexander's conquests involved a handful of great battles there were dozens, if not hundreds, of smaller actions. I don't have a definite set of rules in mind yet but there seems to be a few newish skirmish sets available now and I could use a Lion Rampant variant or Fistful of Lead Bigger Battles too.

RCW Nationalists

Here are a few pics of some nationalist units one of my club mates has done for our Russian Civil War games.

First some Estonians

And some others, which I think are Czechs or Poles

These have been kitbashed from various plastic sprues mostly Wargames Atlantic WW1 Germans but the lancers may have been Napoleonic cavalry originally.  I imagine these troops will fill in, with some of my less obviously equipped Russians, as the various nationalists, Freikrops and revolutionaries found all over the east at this time.  Not great photos but all I have for now.