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Gareth’s Armoured Panzergrenadier Company

Gareth’s Armoured Panzergrenadier Company

Gareth’s Armoured Panzergrenadier Company
With Gareth Richards

It has been a while since I last painted a German Army for Late War, my first being a Herman Goering from 3rd Edition. When 4th Edition launched I was excited to start a new German army. I like to try and get my armies painted quickly and on the table so that I can get games played and then tweak my list as I go along. With my play style I like a balanced force that allows me to have some flexibility. Reading through the new D-Day: German book I settled on the Armoured Panzergrenadiers.

I spent a couple of afternoons hunting through the web to find German units in Normandy and found myself drawn to the 21st Panzer Division. I Wrote a few lists and looked at Panthers and Tigers but these did not really suit my need for a flexible army. With that in mind I hit the book again, and the web, and settled on 125th Panzergrenadier Regiment commanded by Major Hans von Luck.

Like Alex I am cheating a little and working out of the new awesome D-Day: German book. It's not long till it is out and you can all get your hands on it and be tempted by an all Panther list. So no points included in my list, but this is my first 100 point draft army.

In my army I started with my core choices and went with full strength Panzergrendier platoons with added Panzerfausts. This will either rush forward to take the objectives, dismounting and then digging in to make them difficult to shift off the objective; or used as a mobile assault force against other enemy infantry.

I also want to make sure that I can pin enemy infantry down and have the ability to take out lightly armoured enemy vehicles, so I have chosen a battery of 6 Hummels. Now, this does take up a large part of my army points, I am then adding a couple of Tigers to either refuse a flank or go enemy tank hunting trying to ensure that I can get on the flanks to make the task easier.

Gareth’s Armoured Panzergrenadier Company

To round out my points I have taken some 7.5cm armoured guns and a couple of Pumas to spearhead them onto the flanks and again cause my opponent to maybe alter their battleplan. 

Gareth’s Armoured Panzergrenadier Company

Gareth’s Armoured Panzergrenadier Company

I think this is a nicely balanced force that will give me some good options during the Hobby League, but I can also easily swap out anything that does not feel right or is not working well in the game.

Gareth’s Armoured Panzergrenadier Company

My biggest challenge is getting this army painted is my infantry as it has never been one of my strong points, with my figures always coming across too dark and blending in with the bases. So I am going to try working off a white undercoat and see if that brightens up the paint scheme. 


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