Keeping score november

Finished

• 2x IS-152 
• 12 Italian infantry
• 3x Churchills
• 28x French infantry

Purchased

• 5x IS-2
• 1x SdKfz 250

 Scores so far

• Models purchased 38
• Models completed 49

Score -11

• 15mm purchased 426
• 15mm completed 431

Score -7

Keeping Score - October

 Well that was a lot of work. If I stay away from the purchases I may finish in the black

Finished

• 7x Panzergrenadiers
• 14xVistula Legion Lancers
• 1x SdKfz 251/16
• 2x Ba-64 
• 1x P-47d Thunderbolt
• 1x 25pd gun 
• 13x Chasseurs a cheval
• 5x German Artillery crew 
• 3x Misc Napoleonic figures 
• 12x Italian Libyan Paratroopers

Purchased

• 5x ISU 122/152

 Scores so far

• Models purchased 32
• Models completed 44

Score -12

• 15mm purchased 426
• 15mm completed 391

Score 33

Keeping score - September

So close yet so far to breaking even. A quick trip to Eureka added all the Napoleonics and I just could not get around to finishing the Vistula Lancers. Even by holding off publishing this update

Finished

• 2x PzKpz 38
• 2x 65mm cannon 
• 6x Italian artillery crew
• 1x 28mm Royal Navy Officer
• 3x Cannon

Purchased

• 34x 15mm Napoleonic infantry
• 24x15mm Napoleonic cavalry
• 1x 28mm Royal Navy Officer

Scores so far

• Models purchased 27
• Models completed 39

Score -12

• 15mm purchased 426
• 15mm completed 337

Score 89

Keeping score - August

Finished

• 2x SdKfz 251
• 1x Lancia 90L50
• 4x L3/35
• 6x French artillery
• 22x French infantry
• 4x French Generals
• 4x Italian artillery

Purchased

• 0

Scores so far

• Models purchased 26
• Models completed 34

Score -8

• 15mm purchased 358
• 15mm completed 328

Score 30

Keeping score - July

Yet another month has passed. Lots of painting but no writing


Finished

• 2x SdKfz 251
• 38x Argentinian infantry
• 8x Spanish artillery
• 22x French infantry

Purchased

• 1x Thunderbolt

Scores so far

• Models purchased 26
• Models completed 27

Score -1

• 15mm purchased 358
• 15mm completed 292

Score 66

Keeping score - June

Another month gone. Progress has been good but the purchases keep mounting up

Finished

• 2x JagdPanther
• 2x M20 Utility Cars
• 8x Spanish Cavalry
• 16x Spanish infantry
• 20x Polish Haiduks

Purchased

• 103x 15mm French Naploeonic

Scores so far

• Models purchased 25
• Models completed 25

Score 0

• 15mm purchased 358
• 15mm completed 224

Score 134

Keeping score - May

Would you believe a computer crashed stopped me posting this and it was finished.

Quite a busy month with a number of different opportunities for adding to the loot pile. Got some work ahead of me now.

Finished

• 1x Tiger
• 2x 105mm Howitzers
• 1x M2 Half track
• 30x War of 1812 Americams
• 10x American Gun crews
• 12x ECW Horse

Purchased

• 4x L3 Tankettes
• 3x Churchills
• 6x Ba-64
• 142x 15mm British para
• 2x Cannon
• 8x 15mm Spanish Cavalry
• 73x 15mm Spanish infantry

Scores so far

• Models purchased 25
• Models completed 21

Score 4

• 15mm purchased 255
• 15mm completed 181

Score 74

Some unusual units

Been reading a book on the 2nd Guards Tank army and I came across two units with some unusual equipment. They were the 9th Separate Signal Battalion and the 33rd Coastal Artillery Battalion or Battery( Both are used in the text)interestingly they are both armed with tanks, T-34s with the signal battalion and T-70s with the artillery. There are not many only 3-5 for the signals and 6 for the artillery.
So what are they there for? In fact I have not found out yet, my google-fu has been a failure. But I do have an hypothesis.
The easy one is the signal battalion. Tanks have radios, even some Soviet ones. Which means they have the ability to communicate with each other. There is unfortunately one problem in making this an easy task. This lies with the radios and the provision of those radios to the troops and their commanders. It is that there are often many different types of radios all operating off different frequencies. You might be aware of the difficulties had by airforces had in communicating with ground forces and even infantry with artillery. Then there are also some examples of armoured cars a reconnaissance vehicle being used on liaison duties all because they have radios. now using tanks on this sort of duty is a stretch I grant, but the Soviets are often short of communication equipment rather than tanks. So the radios may be more valuable than the the guns. Thereby making the decision to allocate some tanks to the signal battalion a sensible one.
The same logic also applies to the artillery tanks. Giving the artillery which has its own communication network its own tanks makes sense. It was not an uncommon occurrence in other armies to provide forward observers with vehicles including tanks so they could keep with the advancing troops. What is strange is the gathering of so many in what is called a coastal artillery unit. The soviets were often short of specialists due to their horrendous losses so a central pool of them makes some sense. It is also possible that these specialists came from a coastal artillery unit hence the name. Yet most artillery in a tank army is either direct fire or short range so there is limited for specialist artillery crew. It is still a mystery.
Well thats it hopefully I will find evidence to test these hypothesis. But they may make an interesting attachment to any army.
 

Keeping Score - April

Well a very quiet month. Really did not get into painting much at all.

Finished

• 2x T-34

Purchased

• 0

Scores so far

• Models purchased 12
• Models completed17

Score -5

• 15mm purchased 30
• 15mm completed 139

Score -103

Keeping score - March

Hey a good month. Nothing purchased and a lot of little things completed.

Finished

• 1x PzV 
• 2x Ba-64
• 4x Schwimmenwagens
• 15x War of 1812 kentucky mounted rifles
• 8x Korean war American RR crews
• 12x SS rece troops

Purchased

• 0

Scores so far

• Models purchased 12
• Models completed15

Score -3

• 15mm purchased 30
• 15mm completed 139

Score -103

Keeping score - Febuary

First purchase for the year, the SdKfz 250's. The rest is an outstanding order from last year Almost finished some figures but I have lost valuable painting time to world of tanks.

Finished

• 2x PzV 
• 42x SMG

Purchased

• 4x SdKfz 250
• 2x 105mm howitzers
• 1x 25 Pdr
• 1x SdKz 233
• 4x Schwimmenwagons
• 15x 15mm SS tank hunters
• 15x Italian MMGs

Scores so far

• Models purchased 12
• Models completed 8

Score 4

• 15mm purchased 30
• 15mm completed 106

Score -76

Keepin Score - January

Well a good start to the new year

Finished

• 1x Leonardo Tank
• 30x American Riflemen war of 1812 
• 1x PzIV 
• 4x 15mm war of 1812 British cavalry
• 4x Soviet Motorcycles 
• 30x American Infantry War of 1812

Purchased

• Nil, zilch nada

Scores so far

• Models purchased 0
• Models completed 6

Score -6

• 15mm purchased 0
• 15mm completed 64

Score -64