Wednesday 4 March 2020

The Rotterdam Project Part 3 - Support Troops

As I mentioned, the core of my force are Dutch Marines, who fought in the defence of Rotterdam in May 1940. In Chain of Command these troops can (and need to) draw their supports from other Dutch lists, so I have a few choices.

Initially I'm going with a Forward Observer, a Swartzloss Heavy Machinegun team, and a Pioneer team. All the models are from May 1940 miniatures Dutch Infantry. The Pioneers are "repurposed" stretcher bearers with cable reels and the like added from spare bits from the Warlord German Pioneer set, plus a spare officer pointing to tell the guys where to plant their bits. The Pio team is needed as some of the Blitzkrieg scenarios in Chain of Command require you to blow up "stuff" to slow the Germans down.


My last support choice for now is a Landsverk Armoured car. The Dutch had no tanks, but did have a couple of dozen armoured card that by 1939-40 standards were not that bad. This model is another 3d print that went a bit wrong, getting a bit twisted in the curing stage, but it has cleaned up ok and will certainly do til we can get another (better) one run off.

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