Whilst the Soviet Union deems the Great Patriotic War to have begun in June 1941, she was not slow to exploit conflict in Europe by conducting her own expansionist campaigns before that date. In 1939 she shared a divided Poland with Hitler’s Germany, and later that year the Soviet Union invaded Finland in a war of conquest. Meanwhile on-going undeclared border conflicts with the Japanese were occurring along the Manchurian Border.
The list here will allow you to field Soviet forces for all of these conflicts. You can find it here: Soviet Army List 1939-40
We hope to have the list for Winter War Finn available in the next couple of days.
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Hello Joe, and welcome to Lard Island. Thank you very much for joining us in the Lard Island News offices where we have just been looking through a preview of Platoon Forward. My pleasure, thank you for inviting me. You have written a fair amount of stuff over the years for the TooFatLardies Summer and
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Great Job, can’t wait for the French list (hint, hint)
But there is a typo on the arsenal entry for the t-28s with thee instead of three for the number of turrets.
Cheers,
Will the Uraah! national characteristic be allowed for later Soviet platoons?
Thought I’d ask if there will there be a Japanese 1939 list to round out the the 1939 Russian conflicts.
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I second Roger’s question. I seem to remember a few years ago there being a 1939 Japanese army list floating around but can’t find it anymore.