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SoS Wargaming05 May 2020 11:43 p.m. PST

I recently painted some 15mm Romanians for the Second World War to use in Lardy games such as CoC or IABSM, they are an addition to my older Romanians and there's some more photos on my blog:

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Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian06 May 2020 3:30 a.m. PST

Who makes the figures?

Dave Jackson Supporting Member of TMP06 May 2020 7:46 a.m. PST

True North, now made by Old Glory 25

Don Perrin06 May 2020 8:43 a.m. PST

Fantastic!

badwargamer07 May 2020 7:39 a.m. PST

Very nice . Love seeing other nations than the mainstream ones.

SoS Wargaming08 May 2020 1:06 a.m. PST

Cheers guys, I think more people should use the smaller nations in games!

Mark 1 Supporting Member of TMP09 May 2020 3:52 p.m. PST

Nice figures.

I completely agree that smaller nations make for some very interesting gaming. Although the Romanians were actually not that small in terms of the size of their military. They were the 3rd largest Axis army (after German and Japan), and the 4th largest Allied army (after USSR, US and Britain/Commonwealth). In fact the Romanian army in 1940 was some 4x larger than the US Army (which speaks more to the scaling up of the US Army from '40-'43 than anything else).

The Romanians can be fun for a couple reasons.
1) They fought on both sides. You can fight WITH Germans against the Russians, or WITH the Russians against the Germans (and the Hungarians, if you want another lesser army in the match).

2) You can use LOTS of your stuff! Once you have the infantry in place, you get to supplement it not only with interesting Romanian kit, but with stuff from so many other armies, some of which you almost certainly have in your forces somewhere. French, Italian, German, Russian, even Polish kit can be added. For example, my Romanian force has ATGs from 4 different countries: 37mm Bofors ATGs used by (and often available as) Poland, 47mm Breda ATGs used by Italy (and used by the Dutch too from the original designer Boehler, who licensed it to Breda for Italian production), German 75mm Pak 98/38 ATGs mounting captured French 75mm guns onto the Pak 38 carriage, and 75mm Resita indigenous Romanian ATGs. Tanks, trucks, scout cars, artillery, aircraft are all a similar mish-mash.

Fun stuff!

-Mark
(aka: MK 1)

Maxshadow15 May 2020 6:28 p.m. PST

They look great. How about a photo of you entire Romanian Army some day?

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