T-34s and...not using them in a Battlegroup game.

 I painted three more T-34s for my Soviets last night.  I am aware the placement of numbers is not correct, but I'm not chasing that historical accuracy just yet.

My favourite version of the T-34, the '43 model with fuel boxes!

 

I also played a game of 500 points for Kursk today - and stole a lucky victory.  Almost everything went my way for a large portion of the game.

The German flanking force arrives...bringing with it a Ferdinand tank destroyer.

A Soviet Airacobra hunts down a truck before being driven off by MG fire.

The IL-2 braves continued MG fire to hunt down more targets - strafing a second truck.

The Ferdinand advances...finding no armoured quarry to engage.

A lone KV-1E appears!  It snipes a PzIII with a lucky shot and then is holed through by the Ferdinand from across the table.

German PzIIIs speed past the AT bunker and engage infantry and the 82mm mortar pit.

Tokens go all my way as the game starts...

The IL-2 strafes a 105 emplacement until it is withdrawn.

German infantry bail into a wooded copse only to find it filled with mortar, machine gun and rifle fire.

Early game, German halftracks advance trying to flank some defenses.

At the start of the game the center of the Soviet strong point is an AT bunker, an MG in a house, and a 82mm mortar pit (another pit with an MG is just off screen)

The Soviet side of the table, early game.

Two 120mm mortar teams who did very little during the game.

German PzIIIs ready to try to speed past a pinned AT bunker.

The IL-2 appears and fires rockets, killing a German halftrack.

A poor shot of the table, early game.