Red Army for GPW

 Lisa from the Trumpeter's wargaming club has put a call out as she is planning a Stalingrad campaign.  So I pulled out the Red Army to see what state they are in.  Turns out that I can field a fairly substantial force!

Here's the breakdown.  The figures are from a variety of sources.  The biggest contingent are from the Plastic Soldier Company, from their regretfully small selection of 28 mm figures (regretfully, as they have such a large catalogue of 15 mm and 20 mm figures!).  There are also Crusader Miniatures, Rubicon, AGNM, Die Waffenkammer, Warlord Games, Bad Squiddo, Stoessi's Heroes and more in this army.  

Starting out with the command, looks like I have about 18 officers, commissars, agents and generally 'in charge' types.

The riflemen are proportionately under-represented.  There are 33 of them, but there should be more, especially for early war before SMGs got to be so popular!

Here are the SMGs - 22 of them.  

8 Degtyaryov light machine gun teams, plus a lost sailor with a Lewis gun (he's strictly speaking a RCW figure but he'd not be out of place in the WWII Red Army).

A brace of 45 mm anti-tank guns.  

Three 'angels of mercy' - nurses to save the injured soldiers.  

A scout or sniper team.  I have another 20 scout figures primed and ready for paint, if needed to add some elite support to the Red Army.

A pair of anti-tank mine dogs.  Notoriously ineffective (they tended to run for any cover they could find, which was more likely to be under a Soviet tank than a German one!).

Anti-tank rifles - we've found these to be surprisingly effective things to bring to a fight, as even if they have only a limited chance to damage a tank, they are still dangerous to armoured cars, trucks, or fortified troops.

No Red Army force would be complete without Maxim medium machine guns!

A battery of two 50mm mortars and two 82mm mortars.

The quad-Maxim MMG (from Rubicon) will provide some useful anti-aircraft support, which could be turned against infantry in a push!

And of course the armour:  a T-26 and a T-34/85 from Rubicon, two Waffenkammer lend-lease Valentines, and an AGNM T-34 (mysteriously damaged - I will definitely need to repair that before its next outing!)