The Downward Spiral


So I've been involved in the hobby for awhile now, gathering an admirable pile of figures and assembling the things with no real plan or logic behind it.

Naturally, there's many unfinished projects littering drawers... Seeing this as a problem, I've decided to start this blog in the hopes that documenting the struggle of my addiction, I might be motivated to finish something for once.

I decided recently to get into 15mm miniatures for a few reasons that better men have stated in other blogs... I.E. They're cheaper, take up less space, tons of variety, etc. Mostly though, since I'm not much of a painter and mostly get off on assembling the models, kitbashing and organizing forces for the tabletop out of my imagination, 15s really seemed like the place to be. With the stunning array of variety in the scale, the sky is the limit when it comes to creating imagi-nations and their theoretical militaries.

I recently started collecting Team Yankee models and kind of went bananas, just buying things I thought looked cool with little regard for obstacles such as "the rules" or "tables of organization and equipment." This will naturally make my life harder and justify more purchases in the future, thus spurring on my shameful habit.

My gaming group is pretty relaxed about WYSIWYG, so I don't think they're going to have a problem with what I bring to the table, but we're going to see what the guys at Trumpeter have to say on Friday.

I've ranted long enough, here's what I've bought so far...

•Five T-55AM2 from the Plastic Toy Company.
•The Yuri's Wolves box set from Battlefront, featuring Five T-64s and two BMPs.
•One T-90 from Khurasan.
•One T-64BV from Khurasan.
•One T-62M from Battlefront.
•One T-55AM2 from Battlefront.
•One T-72, again from Battlefront.
•Twenty Mid-Tech evil infantry troopers from Khurasan.
•Four insurgents from Khurasan.

So, that's a mixed bag of stuff right there... I picked up the Polish People's Army booklet because it allows the use of T-72M and T-55AM2 in the same detachment while allowing allied detachments to be used, which will come in handy finding a place for Yuri and his puppers.

The plan is to create a not quite historical Army of sinister and entirely ad hoc communist soldiers. In the spirit of the techno thriller, the T-90 and the T-64BV with its fat stacks of explosive reactive armor will count as T-72s in game play, but in pure fluff terms... The armor company will be lead by the ruthless Colonel Selyukov from his experimental T-85FT main battle tank, supported by his partner in war crime, Major Stanislaus Slavowski in the T-64BV.

The T-62M will serve as the battalion commander of my T-55AM2 component, since I'm aiming to have a little bit of diversity in my armor formations. I'll likely add a few more tanks to this unit and modify them with ERA in the form of modeling bricks glued to inane locations.

The T-64s will be T-64s... That part is straight forward.

With the Polish People's Army rulebook sitting in front of me, I realize I'm going to need a lot more BMPs and a lot more evil infantry from Khurasan... I'll learn more when the figures arrive, but the plan is to just make a full blown motor rifle company out of it.

A future purchase is going to have to be two boxes of T-72s. I also bought a couple packs of evil mid tech tank commanders from Khurasan and I suppose throwing them into these platoons wouldn't hurt.

I suppose I've rambled on long enough and I'll end this post with how I plan to organize the army. I'm pretty stoked to see how this turns out and what kind of dumb stuff I do to it.

T-72M Tank Battalion

T-72M Tank Battalion HQ - 1 x T-72M 3 points.

T-72M Tank Company - 5 x T-72M 16 points.
T-72M Tank Company - 5 x T-72M 16 points.

T-55AM2 Tank Company - 7 x T-55AM2 11 points.

BMP-1 Motor Rifle Company - 4 x BMP-1, 4 x rifle team, 3 x RPG-7 team 7 points.

T-64 Detachment - I'll need to get Red Thunder before I can figure this out.

Shilka AA Platoon - 2 x Shilka 2 points.

Army Total: 55 points (so far)


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