{"id":54,"date":"2009-11-01T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/partridges.org.uk\/?p=54"},"modified":"2009-11-01T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T10:03:00","slug":"flames-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/01\/flames-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to put up some pictures of my Ottomans, but there seems to be a monsoon outside and the figures are in the garage. Since my Panzer Lehr FoW figures are actually in the house, I will put up some pictures of them instead.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_3493.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55 \" title=\"DSC_3493\" src=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_3493.jpg\" alt=\"Platoon Command Sdkfz 251\/10\" width=\"448\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_3493.jpg 640w, https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_3493-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 85vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Platoon Command Sdkfz 251\/10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First up, a platoon commander 251\/10 with a 37mm AT gun. Fairly useless against tanks at this stage of the war but very handy against enemy half tracks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_3499.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56 \" title=\"DSC_3499\" src=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_3499.jpg\" alt=\"Grille H\" width=\"448\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_3499.jpg 640w, https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_3499-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 85vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grille H<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Second, some organic fire support, in the form of two Grille H. Basically a modified Pz II chassis with a 150mm heavy infantry gun mounted in an armoured box. Hopefully these will be useful for knocking dug-in enemy infantry out of their fox-holes, while still being able to keep up with the rest of the company.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_3500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57 \" title=\"DSC_3500\" src=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_3500.jpg\" alt=\"Pz IVH\" width=\"448\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_3500.jpg 640w, https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/DSC_3500-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 85vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pz IVH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And finally, some divisional support, in the shape of an attached platoon of Panzer IV(H). The last version of the Panzer IV and still fairly handy although seriously outclassed by the Panther. Perfectly capable of handling itself against the Sherman or T34, but showing its age against the Firefly or T34\/85.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to put up some pictures of my Ottomans, but there seems to be a monsoon outside and the figures are in the garage. Since my Panzer Lehr FoW figures are actually in the house, I will put up some pictures of them instead. First up, a platoon commander 251\/10 with a 37mm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/01\/flames-of-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flames of War&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wargaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}