I have expanded my Soviet army now couple of times with Artillery – first with 120-PM-38 Heavy Mortars and second time with with ZIS-3 and 122mm howitzers at Artillery Battalion. Between those expands I added one company of T-26 light tanks but now I get back to roots – the latest purchase for Soviet army is BM-13 “Katyusha” Rocket Mortar Battalion…
I have planned to have full company of these (8 pcs) and I have now painted one as test piece. So here it is:
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The model I have used is manufactured by Zwezda. I decided to use this model couple of reasons; it is much cheaper than Battlefront model and also because my Soviet army is basically builded up by using alternative manufacturers… So this Zvezda fit is very well… Also the crew is from alternative manufacturer: they are from plastic soldier company.
So as said earlier – I am planning to have total 8 of these in my army. These seems to be nice adding since I can use these BM-13 rocket mortars at Late War games as well as Mid-War games. I do not know how effective these are – but the models are cool and “devastating Bombard” rule sounds cool 🙂 I still need to model Command team, Observer team and Komissar team. So it most probably seems that I have to order another battalion HQ blister from battlefront…
(Finnish translation will be added later…)