I got this box and the Kursk box. An extreme amount of plastic for one person. Great value, and great video!

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree!

Fantastic starter set and hope to get most of the models based and base coated this weekend :). Great timing as I Am sat outside waiting for Swansea Wargame Club to open up at 6 30 for a game of MId War Flames of War :).

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Nice one mate - what will you be playing?

@aledroberts6580

Жыл бұрын

@@ModellingforAdvantage 100 points of US - Trying a Lee Company with a small infantry Company against Mark’s DAK :)

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

@@aledroberts6580 Interesting, those Lee's are pretty powerful for 1942. Good luck with it mate.

just paid £45 each for Stalingrad and Kursk boxes - lots of tanks and infantry to build and paint - Good value I'd say

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Cracking value, and the kits are great.

Great point about the number of infantry for a starter - it could be intimidating.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

A lot of painting eh? C'mon Todd, you know you love painting tiny men!

@ausaskar

Жыл бұрын

I am guessing this starter was specifically made for the grogs who have complained about Flames' other tank-centric starters.

Nice infantry and arty set. Edit: I added a storm group as a Hero SMG Company (lovely sculps, soft plastic tho) using them with Bagration stats, also a Hero T-34 platoon, 82mm mortars and a few more units included in this box, now the painting of the Soviet "hordes" of inf and crews 😅

@ModellingforAdvantage

11 ай бұрын

I think so too!

@OneofInfinity.

11 ай бұрын

@@ModellingforAdvantage Also great from BF to add theme colored dice, nice bonus.

This really is a fantastic starter set. I have hit the beach and do want to find the funds to purchase this too (at some point)..

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

I think all their two player starter sets are great value.

Great video. Would be cool to see you guys do a let's play from this box as the all infantry lists could make for a cool battle

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Already talking about it.

Nice review! A good look at German and Soviet infantry sprues that are pretty core to many lists. On the topic of women in the Red Army, have you ever heard of the Night Witches RPG by Jason Morningstar? There are rules for simulating bombing missions and roleplaying the barracks drama, scrounging for supplies and what not, in a campaign game that runs the whole war. I played it with some friends and it was really good stuff. We even got some Zvesda 1/144 Polikarpov Po-2 models for visual aids...

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a lot of fun.

As I'm just getting back into wargames I was most attracted by the kursk and stalingrad sets. Great review it would be nice to see a out of the box game.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Noted!

Very interesting unboxing, thanks! If I ever get back to my 15mm WW2 project this would be a definite purchase.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

It is a great choice.

Great video guys, I’m getting in to flames of war and this was really useful.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Glad to be of service.

Set looks awesome. Couple that with one of the tank platoon starters and you should be in great shape

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

For sure.

really great explanation of the box thank you K🤩

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome 😊

My idea for putting small guns on medium bases in FoW: Cut the crew minis carefully from their bases. Use the minis bases as plugs on the medium bases. If you do so you can place the crew freely in the medium base which makes things much easiers. I did it and it is really worth the effort.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Makes sense.

Fantastic stuff, it looks like a great set and would love to see it painted up. I'll have to add it to the list of future tutorials 😆 top stuff 😄

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

It is a fair whack of painting, but we will get it done one day! Kursk to follow.

@paintingpanzers

Жыл бұрын

@@ModellingforAdvantage awesome 😊

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

@@paintingpanzers Thanks

Great review:). Lot’s of tourney players range in with smoke just to get the ranged in marker down then switch to the painful ranged in bombardment from the next turn.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tips! Make a lot of sense, but I have never thought of that...

@aledroberts6580

Жыл бұрын

@@ModellingforAdvantage I am not really a tourney player, but is a good way of getting 5 games in on a weekend and you get to experience tricks like using smoke to get the ranged on marker down. I wish there were more one day events with two or three games.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

@@aledroberts6580 yeah, I need to try and get involved in more things like that to experience other ways to play.

Regarding komissars in the Red army, I *believe* that they existed at the company level (with equivalent rank to a company commander and the ability to countermand orders) through October of 1942. After that they adopted the term "political deputy" and were present at the battalion level and above. I'm not an expert though.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

I have heard similar things, so you sound right.

On the sprue for the Zis 3 76.2mm, the longer barrel is for the 57mm Zis 2, AT 11 from memory.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Thanks.

The other gun which can be build from the ZiS-3 76mm gun sprue is the 57mm AT gun which is very efffective. The soviet 45mm AT-gun is on the Nebelwerfer sprue which can also build the german 37mm PaK 36 AT-gun.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

I was really confused by the nebelwerfer sprue, but it makes sense now.

What I like about this one is that it’s primarily infantry. Though I think they could’ve included a couple German tanks.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Not only infantry, but their best infantry!

@Andrew-se4tg

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@greyscar687

Жыл бұрын

3 panzer 2s woulda been perfect vs the at guns

Again, I wish they included some of that flat terrain.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I flip- back and forth on this one... I am not sure this set is that good for total beginners tbh... and anyone else probably doesn't want it.

Which starter box is best for a new starter who also wants to get into Chain of Command when there are no preferences regarding factions? Hit the beach or Stalingrad?

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Hit the beach is probably better overall for range of options.

I don’t play this game. As much as I want to get one of these starters the infantry are just way too tiny for me to paint. That being said, I still watch all these videos. I love your commentary on the vehicles and overall historical info. Keep up the good work.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it. Watch enough of them and I start repeating myself!

I hope that You reviev second one too

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Already in the works mate, fear ye not!

I was thinking of buying this one or the Kursk one. But im going to buy the DAK Panzer company since im taking Afrika korp and my friend is taking the Armoured fist.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

All of them are great sets for the money.

@Warriorofgothenburg

Жыл бұрын

@@ModellingforAdvantage Yeah. Any ideas on where to go after that

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

@@Warriorofgothenburg you are gonna want some infantry. Unfortunately the flames of war ones are not available. I am looking at Sjytrex ones currently. Hoping to put together a review soon.

@Warriorofgothenburg

Жыл бұрын

@@ModellingforAdvantage Alright thanks whoever one you are

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

@@Warriorofgothenburg Kaiser@MfA

Also firing like that could burn your should or clothes.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I have my doubts about this one, but it does look cool.

bought this and kursk for the youth group, can both sets be merged together for bigger battles?

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Certainly can. Be advised the forces might be a bit unequal, these early period soviets are often very cheap units.

I know i'm a bit late on this, the other barrel is for the ZIS2 50mm but why would you model it rather than the ZIS3, it's why I love the SU-76. BTW "I am not a number, I am a free man!" I have the same No 6 pin, bought in Portmeirion. "Be seeing you"

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

I think you are the first person to notice - love the series. Be seeing you.

so im late to the video but panzergrenadiers had 2 MGs per squad

@ModellingforAdvantage

8 ай бұрын

Even early on?

@Freya_the_Valkyrie

8 ай бұрын

@@ModellingforAdvantage thats the thing every bit of research i have done never shows panzergrenadier unit organization till 1944. i believe until 44 they were organized like regular infantry as a 9 man squad. i cant find documentation of anything else. it could also be that when the organization was upgraded to the 2 mg system in 44 they disposed of the old documents because it wasnt relevant anymore. its a mess. which is a sentiment that my collage history prof also shared with me when we discussed this same topic years ago. i wish i could of found a source to give you sorry.

Oh snap James Workshop appears?! Very curious why he disappears a lot.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

We are all working people, but I try to get James in for all the Soviet stuff if possible.

"Inflation" will ensure prices keep going up. Rest assured.

@ModellingforAdvantage

Жыл бұрын

Oh for sure, but this particualr set has risen significantly in the past 3 years.