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600 Point Italian Motociclisti List

Vastatum — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:14:46 +0000

The Italian motorcycle platoons (Motociclisti) were legendary during the war. Compared to the Bersaglieri they must take motorcycles. This gives them a lot of mobility and increases the platoon sizes by one for most units. They are also considered elite units which makes them very hardy in battle. Great mobility, hard to break, lots of weapons, the motociclisti are a very fun company to play. If you have a Bersaglieri company and want to try out the Motociclisti this is a good place to start.

Motociclisti HQ 65 points

company HQ
Slothburn AT rifle + truck

motociclisti Platoon 230 points

command Rifle MG
motociclisti squad
motociclisti squad
motociclisti squad

AB41 squad 76 points

2x ab41’s

Support self propelled gun 75/18 170 points

2x 75/18 assault guns + AA MG on one of them

Support mortars 60 points

mortar HQ
2x mortar sections

This army will be a lot of fun to play. Your motorcycle troops can quickly deploy to objectives around the board while your support mortars use their smoke to keep enemy tanks on the move. When playing against an infantry force the AB41’s can spot ambushes. When attacking the self propelled guns can deal with large threats and dig out machineguns and other anti tank weapons.

While defending your self propelled guns will be able to deal with the enemy anti tank and your infantry will prepare to assault tanks that get too close. your mortars can deal with lighter armoured threats as well as your command anti tank rifle. The Cars are ideal for flanking any static guns your opponent might have as they are quick and can avoid being attacked since they are recon troops.

600 Point German Panzerkompanie

Vastatum — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:06:08 +0000

The German army has some fearsome tanks. What better way to play flames of war than to have a whole company built around the mighty panzer. This list is a good starting list to get used to the game. It gives you a decent number of tanks to play with and a support option. This is using the Afrika korps book.

Command 240

1 Panzer IV F G
1 Panzer III G H I (early)

Panzer Platoon 270

3 panzer III G H I (early)

Armoured Car Platoon 90

2 sd kfz 231

This list gives you some interesting options to play with as you learn the rules. The Panzer IV G H comes with the ability to fire bombardments and has smoke. This is a key tactical tool of any tank commander and learning to use it effectively is key to winning a battle.

The Panzer III’s are well armoured and great at taking out the enemy. Most enemy tanks will go down to their fire and dug in infantry don’t really stand a chance. Watch out for long range guns though they can put some hurt on your tanks. This is what the smoke and the fast armoured cars are for.

The armoured cars are very fast and pack some punch. They can be used to quickly flank your enemy, getting side shots on their armour or engaging their guns. They are fragile but perfect to learn flanking and hit and run tactics with.

This force is something you can put together over a weekend very easily. Great way to get your feet wet as a german panzerkompanie. Remember you can pick whichever tank looks cool from the letter ranges, if you want to create a historically accurate force the descriptions of where each model was used is on the packaging.

600 Point British Infantry

Vastatum — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:17:18 +0000

This is a starting 600 point Afrika Korps list for the British Infantry. It takes a little bit of everything and is able to deal with very heavy armour as well as entrenched enemies. It is a list designed to give you models that you will use, to give you a feel for the game and how your army will play. It is very easy to expand on this list into a full 1500+ point army without having any models go to waste.

The idea behind this list is to use the heavy 17/25’s to deal with heavy enemy armour (seeing a panther in a 600 point list can be tough to deal with). The light mortars are to smoke targets so you can focus on dealing with one target at a time. The infantry have the numbers to stay alive for a long period of time, since you only have one platoon, if it runs away that is a very bad thing.

If you are assaulting, the valentine 2’s are there to back up the infantry charge and to take out moderately armoured threats. Since they have no HE let the infantry mortars / AA guns dig out infantry.

Rifle Platoon 145 points

command HQ rifle/mg team
rifle/mg section
rifle/mg section
light mortar team
PIAT

AA-Platoon 55

2 Portee 20mm

Mortar section 75

2 3″ mortars + observer team

Tank Platoon 150

3 valentine II

Anti tank platoon 170

command rifle team + jeep
2 17/25 guns + quad tractors