[Wargaming] Finns for the Continuation War -41 onwards.
One of the projects during the past winter was to paint up an army for Finland during the Continuation War that raged from -41 to -44. A popular choise for wargamers tends to be the winter war and while I do like the military history and unique fighting that took place during that period I don´t have an interest to run it skirmish-style. For me, and this is just a personal opinion, it would take away the uniqueness of it all to focus on the usual "50 meters of frontline" that we tend to represent on the gamingtable in skirmish-battles. Not to mention needing opposing armies and the terrain to be specific to winter conditions.
I will however do the winterwar as a separate project somewhere down the line, but in 6mm! I am pondering to even do it in 2mm but that might not be needed as I am mostly interested in representing the Motti-tactics where the finns essentially encircled small pockets of the Red Army and destroyed them piecemeal. The battle of Soumussalmi is where it´s at really!
2mm suits better for "grand tactical" and systems like Rommel, which might be to zoomed out for what I want to do. That said, Rommel on the Karelian Isthmus would be pretty cool, ngl.
The painting-project itself was pretty quick. If I sum it up, there is probably like 12-14 hours in the whole army done over a period of a couple weeks. The joy of 15mm.
The systems I am most keen to use are Chain of Command and Disposable Heroes II, so I chose to build a standard Jalkaväki platoon consisting of 4 squads and a commander together with some options like HMG and the like.
Models for all standard infantry are metal from Battlefront while the options are resinprinted from various sources.
The options were painted a few weeks later and didn't have the energy to bring out the prettified photo-setup.
All in all, a quick little project I am very happy with. As for their opponents, the Red Army, they are about halfway done in the cabinet beside me as I type this. Hope to get them done "soon".
/Skald