Squad 2
Here's the second squad of Volksgrenadiers that I have completed. I've got 4 built and primed in total, but other projects keep muscling their way to the front of the 'to-do' list, so a large platoon of these guys keeps getting put back. As it is, I now have two squads and a HQ to represent the minimum required. I'm getting there slowly. Let's see how long squad 3 takes to appear?!
As with the first squad, I didn't just want to build whole 10-man blocks of figures from the Warlord Winter Germans plastics. I also wanted to add grenadiers to each squad to represent the mismatch in equipment that individuals could be supplied with by the war's end. Not everyone got a greatcoat or a StG44, and I swapped heads and equipment around between the two sets to blur the lines between them. I also didn't want to build min/max squads armed to the teeth with assault rifles- I would have liked to have left it at the basic 5 StGs, but had to include 6 per squad solely down to practicalities of what was on the sprues, how many grenadiers I already had built and what I could stretch the box's content to represent. Surprisingly, there aren't that many rifles on the Winter German sprue, which is quite strange- but plenty of MP40s and StG44s, so I worked with what I had and compromised slightly.
Volksgrenadiers aren't the best, but I like the idea of their variable troop quality- even moreso than other Green troops. They can be quite swingy, and die easily when they are Inexperienced, but I enjoy it when they surprise both me and my opponent and bump up to Regular, or even Veteran!
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