[COMMERCIAL] Empress Miniatures Cold War Range. T64 RELEASED.

[has.been]

I know I have a photo of Boar 75mm Krupp Quick Firing Field Gun L24 some where. 

Ah, but that was when holidays were a real adventure. 

[commissarmoody]

To jump in here. Those aren't Russian soldiers, but Ukrainian separatists. Nor is that a Russian RPG-7, rather its a captured American produced RPG-7 clone (can't recall the name) that was provided to the Ukrainian Government.

I think they are called "PSRL-1".

[Golgotha]

When I started wargaming a 'Modern' set of rules
referred to WW2! 

The Early Modern Times lasted from the end of the 15th century to the Industrial Revolution at the end of the 18th century, circa 1450/92 to 1750/92. Modern Times is the period from Enlightenment and the 18th century until today. From a historian's point of view...

I had a student who was surprised and evidently disappointed that a modern history unit at university had them looking at the Napoleonic wars - 

[has.been]

I had a student who was surprised and evidently disappointed that a modern history unit at university had them looking at the Napoleonic wars - 

Well we do still have Income Tax, which was brought in as a
temporary measure to pay for defeating Napoleon. 

[carlos marighela]

The UK has a fondness for hanging on the ‘temporary’ consequences of past wars. It took seventy odd years to get rid of licensing laws introduced in 1914. That said, a similarly bizarre regime existed here and took a good fifty years to kill off.

[Wyrmalla]

Some evidence of the Russian Military using RPG-7 in 2022.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1505365541434839040

Obviously I brought it up, but I think we're going off topic discussing Empress' Modern range now instead of this Cold War stuff.   

Empress, if Moderns aren't on the list currently, can you at least tick off something from my wish list and start doing casualty figures!? 

Edit: Another example.

https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1506556949684490241

[commissarmoody]

Some evidence of the Russian Military using RPG-7 in 2022.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1505365541434839040

There you go then. 

[Kikuchiyo]

Some evidence of the Russian Military using RPG-7 in 2022.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1505365541434839040

Obviously I brought it up, but I think we're going off topic discussing Empress' Modern range now instead of this Cold War stuff.   

Empress, if Moderns aren't on the list currently, can you at least tick off something from my wish list and start doing casualty figures!? 

What on earth was that?

[Brummie]

What on earth was that?

Poor drills.

Nice VDV, but I hope empress don't stop doing some sort of Ultra-moderns: just dodge the elephant in the room, plenty of other subjects to pursue.

We still haven't gotten over the Norman invasion btw. The Domesday book is the foundation for at least an aspect of property taxation still active in the U.K, specifically Plant and Machinery. Its a tradition no ones that fond of, but it is pretty funny going through the manual and discovering you can tax someone for having a moat or palisade.

[carlos marighela]

Alas, the people who have moats tend to pay very little tax as the moat usually belongs to a shell company registered in the Cayman Islands. 

IIRC a few years one of your more enterprising MPs was having maintenance on his moat come out of his constituency stipend. Creative and possibly a quite literal take on ‘every man’s home is his castle’.

[AKULA]

{cough} anyway back to the thread, before the mods get unhappy 

Lovely looking greens Paul 

Next batch of Soviet VDV paras.

The Bazooka looking thing is an RPO "Rys" Rocket-propelled Infantry Flamethrower "Lynx". Its a napalm rocket-propelled grenade launcher classified as flamethrower by Russian military. The RPO had first entered service in 1975 and it was intended to replace the obsolete LPO-50 flamethrowers.

The RPG is the RPG16. Designed for both special forces and VDV.

We also have the SA-7 Grail.

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

{cough} anyway back to the thread, before the mods get unhappy 

Lovely looking greens Paul 

Thanks you. Glad you like them 

[Wyrmalla]

Did the RPG-16 see much use outside of the Afghanistan conflict? Wikipedia lists the War in Iraq - which implies that if stocks persists they'd be used throughout the region post-Iraq War.

Were they out of service with the Russian Military by the time of the Chechen Wars? I get the impression that they're inability to take larger warheads and proprietary ammunition put them out of service at the first opportunity - so stocks presumably are now in long term storage.

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

We have some more packs of Cold War, circa 1980, VDV Soviet Paratroopers released today.

These are 28mm scale and link to our previous packs and all ready to take on our BAOR figures.

https://www.empressminiatures.com/cold-war-soviet-vdv...

Command Pack VDV5

Soviet Paratroopers -  VDV-  armed with AKSD folding stock assault rifles and one officer with a silenced AKS.
One radio operator and one squad communications trooper with an ear receiver.

Pack VDV6

RPK Light Machine Gun armed VDV.

Pack VDV7

Two snipers armed with Dragunov rifles.

One VDV trooper armed with a 9k32 Strela 2m shoulder launched Anti Aircraft missile launcher.

One VD trooper armed with a  The RPO Rys ("Lynx") is a reloadable rocket-propelled flamethrower weapon developed in the 1970s by the Soviet Union. It was one of the earliest weapons of its type, and also one of the largest and most powerful.

Pack VDV8

The RPG16 was developed for special forces and paratroopers in the late 1960's and became operational early 1970's.

Troops wear a mixture of the khaki coloured jump overalls and the light green coloured coveralls with hood.
The VDV beret is light blue.

[carlos marighela]

Love’ em!