I was a little disappointed (this is to take nothing away from the book, there are a lot lists to cover and one battalion isn’t worth losing a main list for), so I started to looking at other options to run the army ie, you could use Panzer III’s instead of Somua’s for example. I excitedly waited for Barbarossa to land so I could mess around with the lists, but then I found that there were no French or British tanks in the book (bar a few Panhards and Char-B flames tanks). A quick internet search later I found the Panzer-Abteilung 211 in Finland. I had heard of them using British and French tanks in Russia but I didn’t have much info about it. So when I heard that Barbarossa was on the way I started looking up the captured equipment the Germans used during the campaign. It’s all either lend lease or captured Germans vehicles. I have a Soviet list that I will run one day which has no Soviet equipment in it. I love captured equipment (or lend lease for the Soviets), there is something about using the enemy’s weapons against them that really appeals to me.
The unit took part in Operation Silver Fox, a joint Finnish and German offensive to capture the Soviet port of Murmansk, before sitting out the rest of the war until the Finnish swapped sides.īefore I go into the details I quickly want to explain why I chose the Panzer-Abteilung 211.
I’m starting with the Panzer-Abteilung 211 – a tank battalion fully equipped with captured French tanks that operated out of Finland at the start of operation Barbarossa.
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