Flames of War German Grenadier Company 600 Point Force Pt 1: Company HQ and Rifle Platoons

As night comes down over Normandy, a battered company of Grenadiers make their way toward the front...

I've been working on these guys all summer.  It's taken a long time to finish them.  Painting these 56 infantry figures took a hell of a lot longer than painting my first 600 points of British did, but that was only eight tanks, and this is less than half of the 600 point starter force of Grenadiers that I have planned out.

I'm fairly pleased with them, though.  Here is my company commander.  I wanted the commander model to stand out, so I gave him an Alsatian from the Partisans and Police set.  Also gave him a panzerfaust.

Here's the XO or 1st Sgt. Tried a camo smock on the fellow pointing over the XO's shoulder.  Came out really dark, though.  Will try to go lighter next time.

The army list I'm using is from the Atlantik Wall book.  An anti-tank section is available to this version of the Grenadier Company in the form of a double panzerschreck team or as a puppchen.  They cost the same amount of points.

 The panzerschrecks have twice the number of attacks but half the range of the puppchen.  I thought the puppchen model was fun, so I painted up both options.

Second platoon, led by a tough old Sgt...I made both platoons Panzerfausty for an xtra 10 pts each.

I painted pretty much everything in Reaper paints. I did buy the German infantry paint set from Battlefront, but the colors came out so dark that all my little Grenadiers came out looking like black blobs and I had to start over.

Army so far:

Company HQ:  Commander with Panzerfaust, XO and anti tank section..........................65 points
1st platoon:  2 squads with Command Panzerfaust team.................................................95 points
2nd platoon: same......................................................................................................95 points.
 Total:.................................................................................................................... 255 points

The other half of the force will consist of an anti-tank battery of 3 Pak40's and an assault gun platoon with 3 Stug III G's.  The force is very anti-tanky because their first opponent will most likely be my Grenadier Guards armored company, currently at 900 points.  Hopefully the support choices won't take as long to paint as the infantry have....

"Angriff!!"