Somewhere in Germany circa 1979
Courtesy of my pal Tamas, I took delivery the other day of three Grubby Tanks T-62. This brings my count of T-62s to six now, which with three left to go - is almost a full combat.
The figures themselves are resin and metal and have their problems. There's a bit of bubbling in the resin, which I had to attack with green stuff and I'm not sure the game was worth the candle. Regardless Tamas has done a lovely job on them and hopefully they will be storming across the North German Plain before too long.
The T-62 equipped units in the 62nd Shock Army, which is the unit I'm sort of modelling. Armed with substantial armour and a powerful 115mm gun, they were a match for the Centurions and M60s they were arrayed against.
Steel beasts unleashed
I had five minutes and threw a bit of set dressing together to snap some pics. If there is one piece of advice I can give the budding Cold War gamer it is get yourself some toy cars in your preferred scale because they dress a battlefield like nobodies business.
I had originally collected these with a view to using them with Battlegroup Northag, many many moons ago, but lost interest when they decided to shift to 12mm figures. I've run a fair bit of Cold War skirmish stuff using Savage Worlds, Force on Force and Black Ops. Of those Black Ops is the best wargame, but it is firmly a skirmish wargame and doesn't lend itself to tanks.
Tom is making noises about Seven Days to the Rhine which is very much a tank heavy game and I do have a copy, so I might have a look at that. Though between COVID and everything else, God knows when these will finally see the field.
Not the best picture I've ever taken
I wasn't going to use this picture, because I'd framed it badly, but it does at least give you a decent view of the tanks.
