Cold War Soviets for Seven Days to the River Rhine

For quite some time, Martin and I have talked about playing some Seven Days to the River Rhine when I got back to the UK. I'd initially picked up the rules at The Other Partizan while visiting in 2019.

After some Facebook messaging Martin and I decided to play our games in the approximate 10mm scale that is supported by Plastic Soldier Company, Timecast, etc. with Martin putting together a small force of British while I would put together a small force of Soviets.

Martin picked up some of the PSC Northag British and was less than whelmed with the quality of the castings, forewarned I decided to go the Timecast route.

Be warned the Timecast site is rather dated, but worth persevering as the models though are lovely, the vehicle hulls and a few of the turrets are cast in resin with the remainder of the parts in metals.

My force is based around a well supported Motor Rifle company in BTR-60PBs

Company command in BTR-60PB

First platoon of three sections in BTR-60PB

Second platoon of three sections in BTR-60PB

Third platoon of three sections in BTR-60PB

First platoon of T-64B

Second platoon of T-64B

Air defence: ZSU-23-4 Shilka and BRDM-2/SA-9

Recon: BRDM-2s

Anti-tank: BRDM-2 with AT-5 Spandrel

Communications: BRDM-2U

An extra platoon of dismounted infantry

Support: AGS-17 grenade launcher teams

Support: pair of SPG-9 recoilless rifle teams, pair of mortar teams and an observer

Support: AT-4 Spigot teams

There is rather a lot of stuff here and I've more than doubled our initial target of getting a about six hundred points a piece painted.

I have another platoons worth of transports on order and I have a few more figures to paint up to finish off this force and they should be on the blog soon. I also need to sort out some suitable terrain too, all mine is suitable for either 28mm or 6mm gaming, some of the latter is likely to come in useful.