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Since ACW is Out, What WWII German Sets Do We Need? |
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Mike Creek |
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May 8, 08 - 3:26 PM |
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mcreek25@aol.com |
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Naturally the WWII German Horse Drawn Wagons and Limbers are of the highest priority. HaT will do a good job of those, and I am sure I will buy about 100.
Pegasus wants to do WWII German Paratroops and despite their being Paratroopers from Airfix and Revell, and Orion and Esci / Italeri, they all suck badly. They are just terrible sets, the curse of the German Paratroopers needs to be broken and I hope Pegasus can do it.
Once HaT makes the wagons, perhaps we can get a more animated set of German Horse Cavalry. The one HaT makes now is great, I have loads of them, but the horse poses are a bit tame. They actually work very well for those officers, messengers and others in each battalion who get a riding horse, and I use mine for that job. The extra heads are a great idea, but a bit small, so some larger heads would be helpful next time.
German Military Police on Motorcycles was a good set too, but the police often functioned as infantry and so a set with them in more martial poses would be welcome.
German signals troops with a variety of wire rolls, switchboards, large radio sets, erecting antennas would be a welcome.
German Luftwaffe Field Divisions would be untrod territory for soft plastic figures. These units were not all absorbed by the army, at least one full division stayed separate until the end of the war and there were many independant battalions that stayed in the Air Force.
German KM Landing Party was a missed opportunity for Revell. Their set of Kreigsmarine is just a bunch of guys manning the rails of a ship. How lame. This set should include guys in square rig with submachine guns and with rifles and pea coats raiding a surface ship or putting ashore small parties for sabotage or weather collection.
Organization Todt and RAD troops. Infantry who also work as engineers. Building and destroying water works, factories, bridges, airfields, and bunkers. Often older men or younger men who were unfit for regular service or who have not yet entered the army, being used in combat support roles.
So many others, HIWIs, Cossacks, POV, Gestapo and spies, heavy artillery, Panzer crews, and on and on. |
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