{"id":10140,"date":"2020-09-29T18:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=10140"},"modified":"2020-09-29T18:54:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:54:56","slug":"finished-a-platoon-of-german-wwii-infantry-in-winter-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2020\/09\/29\/finished-a-platoon-of-german-wwii-infantry-in-winter-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished a Platoon of German WWII Infantry in Winter Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many moons ago, my friend Greg game me a couple of extra sprues of German WWII infantry in winter dress.  It was enough to make two squads.  So, I ordered a box from Warlord so that I could make a full platoon.  As with all these plastic sets of Germans, there are never enough rifles and too many assault rifles and submachine guns.  I wanted the Germans to fit from 1941 to the end of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_8315-1024x602.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10142\" \/><figcaption>A view of the reinforced platoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had barely enough rifles to make four normal ten-man squads, and I had to use a couple of semi-automatic rifles that will mostly go unnoticed on the tabletop.  I also used a few extra rifles from the later war Panzergreandier set.  Each squad has one machine-gun, a squad leader with a submachine gun, and an assistant squad leader with a rifle or submachine gun.  The rest of the men are riflemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_8316-1024x460.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10143\" \/><figcaption>Another view of the platoon.  You can see four squads in the front, three extra machine-gun teams and two leaders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There were enough figures and parts to make three more machine-gun teams.   So for late war, I can swap out two riflemen in three of the squads for a gunner and his assistant gunner.  As the quality of their infantry deteriorated, the Germans sometimes put extra machine-guns in their squads to compensate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_8317-1024x635.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10144\" \/><figcaption>A close up view of the squad leader and machine gunner in one squad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_8318-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10145\" \/><figcaption>Another view of some of the soldiers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the heads came with cloth covers on the helmets, so I painted them in white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_8319-1024x808.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10146\" \/><figcaption>The two leaders, two extra riflemen with Panzerfausts, and three machine-gun teams.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a bunch of Russians in winter kit for my Winter War games, so I am looking forward to putting these on the table when the plague subsides.  I also have a couple of squads of American infantry in greatcoats, so there might be a 1944 Western Front game in my future as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many moons ago, my friend Greg game me a couple of extra sprues of German WWII infantry in winter dress. It was enough to make two squads. So, I ordered a box from Warlord so that I could make a full platoon. As with all these plastic sets of Germans, there are never enough rifles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2020\/09\/29\/finished-a-platoon-of-german-wwii-infantry-in-winter-kit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finished a Platoon of German WWII Infantry in Winter Kit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}