How To Build Soviet Infantry for Bolt Action

[@fin4889]

To be honest there are so many squads that are max 11 with so many variations and such that planning is quite hard to do properly. It'll depend on each list in my opinion and I'd advise any Soviet player to make a list before doing this if they have the time. Soviet squads seem to have a lot of peculiar options like 2 lmgs and many have the option to take all smgs. It'll really depends on which infantry you'll want to field at the end of the day. Secondly, you'll want the option to take 3 anti tank rifles probably, as the soviets can take 3 anti tank teams per platoon which is the competitive choice for early war.

[@mattcappelli5822]

Thanks for the video. Very helpful. I just got the Soviet starter army and I am beyond frustrated trying to match arms together to look like they are holding weapons. Taking forever!

[@devangrey4376]

Dude I am just looking to get into bolt action. I love ww2 history. Thanks for your videos. Thanks for the information on this. I plan to start a Soviet army.

[@nheather]

Great advice. One disappointment with the Russian Infantry box is that it provides such a variety of weapons that there are not enough rifles, especially Mosin Nagant which is what I want. From memory there are three weapon sprues, each with eight Mosin Nagants (one has a scope that you need to cut off, assuming you are not using it for a sniper). That gives you 24 rifles and for your example platoon you need 31. It’s not a big deal, you can use SVTs as you suggest or buy extra weapon sprues.

[@cohen491]

I ended up just using the svts, it works and anyone your playing against "should" be kind enough to allow those as mosins even though there is no difference in the rules. I see no problem using svts in early war, even if it may be not 100% accurate.

[@cloaker2829]

Early War soviet had a sniper embedded in the squad

[@HeadHunterSix]

Thanks for the advice. Your German Grenadiers video was helpful for me and now that I pulled the trigger on a Soviet Winter starter army, it will be good to get some perspective on how to best kit out 80 little plastic comrades.

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

Also worth noting is alot of russian tanks include a sprue of infantry, so you can make alternative options you can swap out on the fly before games

[@TheYorkshireTankie]

Excellent video comrade! I went with 9 men per squad to be more historically accurate, but it also gives you a few left over to boost your inexperienced squad to 12 or make a support team

[@DukeExeter]

I have a whole Soviet infantry rifle company of models :D a total of 117 dudes. For Soviets I take everything and push it the extreme. Six rifle squads of nine men, three squads have an LMG. Three squads of all SMGs. The riflemen are the anvil to pin down most of my enemy with, then I swing in my hammer of SMG squads to pound them into dust. Works pretty good for me

[@HeadHunterSix]

I'm leaning that way for my 80-man starter army. I want to avail myself of the available special options so I'll build anti-tank rifles and snipers etc. but there'll be plenty left for rifle squads and especially murder gangs of SMG soldiers. DAVAI!

[@albob8458]

Just got the winter starter set along with a katyusha and t34, 80 men in total. I built 20 smgs, 32 rifles, 4 lmg teams and then extra rifles and a commissar with the remainder. Also 3 AT rifles teams a sniper team and 3 smg troopers have panzerfausts on their backs.

[@cabordelu]

Could you allow autogenerated subtitles for deaf ppl? 💜

[@wifi_soldier5076]

My soviet list consist of 2 regular guard squads. 10 men, nco and 4 guys have smgs and 1 panzerfust. I then have a 10 man veteran tank rider squad all have smgs. Then an assult engineer squad. 8 men, nco and 7 men have smgs. 1 man has a flamethrower, 2 panzerfust and they have the body armour rule. The free squad has 11 men with rifles and 1 man with the free flag. Could you do a review of the Hungarian army. I just got myself some Hungarian paratroopers. Their super elite expensive units.

[@stacypierce3335]

I had no idea that the flag was free also..

[@wifi_soldier5076]

@@stacypierce3335 a lot of tournaments ive been to say it isnt free. But if you play rules as written it is. The free squad may take all upgrades available to it for free. And the flag is a available to all infantry units.

[@stacypierce3335]

@@wifi_soldier5076 yeah know that's 💯.. I totally agree.. how is it in game play

[@chrism3840]

My god the channel has grown fast well done

[@HollywoodWargaming]

IX.9thNY.A1 Guy with a phone ZooZooZoo Thank you! Trying to get more content out soon

[@chrism3840]

Has a new hobbyist I found your videos to be really helpful. What was your third set you bought, and how did you like your Afrika core box and the replacement one because you made to many smgs?

[@HollywoodWargaming]

IX.9thNY.A1 Guy with a phone ZooZooZoo Afrika Korps box is fantastic. The heads in it are especially awesome. As far as sets go, I bought a bunch of various German sprues to kitbash with, as the Afrika Korps used a bunch of different fatigues and gear hobbled together. The blitzkrieg sprue actually works nice for DAK if you want to make Officers and the like. But my first few vehicles were what I got after my DAK box, and those were a hanomag and 222 from Tamiya. Great kits, great vehicles.

[@chrism3840]

Hollywood Wargaming thank you for your feedback. I’m thinking of getting a universal carrier go to with my British 8th Army do you think that would be a good complement to my army?

[@HollywoodWargaming]

IX.9thNY.A1 Guy with a phone ZooZooZoo Absolutely. Universal Carriers are one of the best transpo vehicles in Bolt Action, as you can add a second LMG without losing the transport capacity. It’s great for moving HQs and specialists into place and providing extra firepower to support them. Must own for any British player.

[@nibbles9357]

Thank you!!! Exactly what I needed!

[@sarahrogers3477]

I like this advice, but what do I build all the prone bodies as? 1x anti-tank, 1x sniper ... do I do the 2x LMGs prone?

[@leej296]

I myself have all my LMGs prone.

[@redneckgopnik8164]

Thx bro❤

[@e-4airman124]

Please do one on the italian Blackshirts

[@HollywoodWargaming]

I plan on it. I want to see their rules in the new campaign book too though before I dive into it. Honestly for the time being though, I would build them with my standard infantry build (1 SMG 8 Riflemen 1 LMG)

[@Andrew-yl7lm]

So how many anti tank/snipers do you get per box?

[@HollywoodWargaming]

I believe 1 Anti-Tank Rifle per sprue, and most boxes come with 6 Sprues.

[@bonddizzle]

Would you recommend this build for the starter army box? Or would you just build the army they suggest on the box?

[@HollywoodWargaming]

I would recommend this build yes

[@RR-le4gm]

How do you field 4 anti tank units in a single platoon?