Awwww, Puppies!!

My WWII Russians are getting even more anti-tank resources (so far, they have anti-tank rifles, anti-tank guns and, of course, ACTUAL TANKS!!).  But when you're facing the beastly Hun, those terrible Hitlerites, nasty Nazis, you can never have too many ways of making the enemy tanks go BOOM!

As it turns out, today's offering was both horrid and particularly ineffective.  The Soviets experimented with training dogs to run under tanks, then strapping loads of high explosive on the dogs' backs, to turn the dogs into anti-tank kamikazes.  This was obviously horrible - you don't train man's best friend to go and blow himself/herself up, and apparently the troops who trained the dogs ended up with all sorts of psychological trauma from their task.  Furthermore, the scheme itself didn't really work:  the dogs were more likely to rush after Red Army tanks as they were more familiar than the German tanks they were supposed to target, or else they returned to their handlers when they were frightened by the noise, smoke and other experiences of battle.  But from a gaming point of view they are great!  You never know if the dogs will be more dangerous to your own side or the enemy's.  

So here are my two anti-tank dogs and their handler, from Warlord Games.