Feldgendarmerie

 In 02h00, the German defenders come in two varieties:  sentries, who are regular German army (Wehrmacht), who are marginally better at combat (shooting), and the Feldgendarmerie or Military Police, who are slightly better at observation and spotting intruders.  In order to make it easy for players to know which of their figures are sentries and which are feldgendarmerie, I decided that the feldgendarmerie will all wear greatcoats.

Of course the real uniform distinction for the feldgendarmerie is their big, dinner-plate sized gorget plates.  I've added these to the figures where I could, but for game purposes the greatcoats will be the easiest way to identify them.

Most of these figures are German infantry in greatcoats, given to me by Doug.  I think but am not certain that they may be from Warlord Games.  If you can confirm their origin, please let me know in the comments below!  The last feldgendarm (the one with the flashlight) is from the Wargames Atlantic German sentries sprue that comes with the 02h00 base set.  

They look cold and miserable!  These are the rifle-armed ones.  Gorget plates are added from the WA sentries sprue.

And the rest.  Chap on the right is Wargames Atlantic.

I also built these two dog handlers.  Dogs are very useful to help the defender spot intruders and raise the alarm.

And here are the remaining guards from the sprues.  The prisoner has great potential for a variety of scenarios!

Finally, a scientist.  Some day I will need to learn how to paint things to look like glass, like this Erlenmeyer flask.  Today is not that day!

Woodbury House

 I picked up this Sarissa Precision 'Woodbury House' at Imperial Hobbies spring sale last month.  The house was designed for a game based on The Walking Dead, as a basic late 20th Century suburban North American home.  However, as I don't have anything else in my collection that fits that description, I decided to modify it a bit to help it fit in to my Northern/Western terrain collection.

The house is pretty roomy, lots of space to move figures around the interior.  It even has interior doors on functional hinges.

The exterior doesn't quite align with my preferences.

So I added popsicle stick cladding!

And with some paint - Captain Krustache for scale.

Finally a shot to show how big this new house is!  So rather than a residence, this may end up taking the role of something like the NWMP barracks or other government building.

Iro

 And back to Bad Squiddo's Women of the Resistance.  Here is Iro Konstantopoulou (Ηρώ Κωνσταντοπούλου), a member of the Greek resistance during WWII.  As an unarmed model, she will can easily fit into many non-combat roles on my tables as well! 

Isabel

From the Pulp Figures 1066 range, here is Isabel of Conches, a Norman noblewoman of the late eleventh century.

I've no idea of her real heraldry, so I just added a dragon decal that I found in my bits box.  I love that this set includes three versions of her!

02h00 on the Eastern Front

 Arthur decided that we'd had enough of 02h00 in Italy, so for a change he thought it would be fun to game some partisan action on the Eastern Front!

First up, a few images of the Russian village.  This village has been occupied by the Nazis, and is now a target of a partisan mission to collect vital military intelligence.

The partisan force, led by partisan hero, Zoya, assisted by an NKVD officer (using the card of a Jedburgh liaison officer, representing Red Army support to the partisans).

The Germans have set up a patrol route around the village.  The flags represent locations where intelligence has been hidden.  The 5 flags have values from 0 to 2 points.  The partisans will be successful if they can collect flags with a combined points value of at least 5.  They will need to reach the flag, succeed in a search roll, and then exit the board.

The old babushka and her grandson search the white dacha, and find one point of intelligence.  The partisans used a Plan card that allows them to access all buildings freely (they have the keys!), so they don't need to test to break down doors or smash windows, potentially raising the alarm.

Blissfully unaware of the partisan activity, the Germans patrol the village.

Zoya and the Turk stay in cover, hidden from the German patrols.

Similarly, the NKVD officer with a pair of partisan recruits remain hidden as the German sentry looks the wrong way.

German officer decides to stomp across the flower bed in front of his headquarters.

NKVD man and his pair of partisans continue sneaking around behind the German sentry.

Two partisan use an order card to coordinate a silent ambush against the German officer.  It was a near-run thing, but numbers counted, and they took him out!

Things are getting hot!  The straw-hat partisan successful snipes the feldgendarm, clearing the path to searching for more intel.

The gig is up!  NKVD man and his mates are spotted by the dog handler.  A fierce firefight breaks out.

German reinforcements rush on to the table, and engage NKVD man.  He declares, "Not one step back!" and engages the oncoming soldiers.

In a brief exchange of fire by the factory, the German sergeant shoots at Zoya with his MP40 but misses.  She shoots back with her rifle, and takes him out!

NKVD man and his colleagues carry on the firefight.

At the other end of the village, babushka and her grandson slip away with their valuable intel.

NKVD man goes down.  His last companion tries to flee, but is cut down by the oncoming Germans.

The Germans rush to the far end of the village, but the delaying action has been a success.  

While this gunfight was going on, Zoya, the babushka and her grandson have fled the village.  The Turk and the straw hat man searched the remaining locations, and found more valuable information.  In the end, the partisans escaped the village with 5 points of information at a cost of 3 of their 8 partisans.  A resounding success for the partisans!