So while I am an avid Battlefront Minatures fan, I've heard, read and noted rumblings over the game. My response is
ITS JUST A GAME!!!!!
Sure the bills are due, the kids need help with university tuitions, the rising cost of gas, food Yada Yada Yada
So with what little you have leftover funds you have for hobbies do you stress out over not being able to keep up with the rest of the Pact?!
NO!!
Go your own pace. Use what you have.
Case in point. Before I came across Team Yankee, I used different rules for the modern 1/72 kits and figures I had. I have tailed off buying and building any new kits as my focus has been on team Yankee.
Am I going to get rid of my 1/72 kits? Not sure yet.
Getting back to the Battlefront Minatures system. Do you need to max out the amount of Soviet tank units coming at you?
Not necessarily
Think in terms of what would actually happen in a war situation. Just looking at Russian losses in Afghanistan,Chechnya, and Ukraine. Battle attrition can chew through armour quite quickly.
Even looking at what happened to Soviet era armor in the Gulf War of 1991.
My own collection is quite a good size on the Warsaw Pact size. The Soviets I now have T-64 tank battalion, a mixed T-72, T-62 Battalion and a Motorized Rifle Battalion made up of BMP-1, BMP-2 with T-55 support.
I also have a company of BTR-60 mounted Motorized Rifles and a T-80 shock battalion.
My Polish force has a modest T-72 battalion, a modest Motorized Rifles in Bmp-1, BMP-2 and BTR-60 with T-55 support.
My East Germans are also modestly armed with Tanks, Motorized Rifles.
My Czechoslovakian force, same modestly armed.
Call for alarm? Not really, sure I'd like to add some OT-64 carriers and some artillery. But it will come.
So how does NATO stack up?
The US force I have specifically kept small because I find the Americans always get all the attention. However I do have a few American kits. So I've built a small cavalry based force of M1A1, M-60s, Bradley's a big HUMVEE force. No infantry, not much AA or artillery.
CANADA
Now I felt that I needed to have a full Canadian force. Meaning I have outfitted the Royal Canadian Dragoons. I have 2PPCLI in M113s with artillery and aa support.
FRANCE has a modest force of AMX-30 tanks, AMX-10 scout cars, infantry in armoured vehicles, and helicopter support
DENMARK has a modest Recce force
The NETHERLANDS has a modest armoured force with infantry support and artillery
The BELGIAN force is modest with a recce tank force
NORWAY slowly getting added
The BRITISH is probably one of the best forces I have for NATO as they have it all. Armor, Infantry, Artillery, Recce, Anti-aircraft, Air support!
My ANZAC force is modest but Armoured Infantry and Armor.
Eventually I'll boost up my NATO forces, but hey, IT'S A HOBBY. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE FUN NOT STESSFUL
Even when I don't have all the gear I'd like, I add what I have from WW2, which isn't bad.
