Lets face it... this was almost inevitable really once I started modelling again...
The idea was always for me to do a late war Waffen-SS army for the last six months of the war.... ideally based around Kampfgruppe Peiper from late 1944 on the Western Front, (all the big cats!) and be as historically accurate as my nerdy little head desired... my choice of what to include was stifled by the sheer amount of information I had, so once the RapidFire! supplement came out, I had my basis for a list.
<<EDIT>> 27-05-2020 - I need a handful of Fallschirmjager for the Stoumont Scenario too....
BUT I wanted a "get out" clause... and so this initial idea collided with a series of books from my youth, the SS - Wotan series. This was my get out... by building Kampfgruppe Wotan I could create Kampfgruppe Peiper and satisfy my inner OCD nerd, but when something cropped up that I preferred (or couldn't get a model for... or just plain disliked) then my justification was that it was KGW - not KGP. This gave me a way of dodging inconvenient historical details.
SS Wotan was a series of books by author Leo Kessler, allegedly based on the memoirs of former SS Officer Kuno VonDodenburg, whose manuscripts Kessler had "discovered" in a second hand shop in Berne. Published in the late 1970's the original series of seven books charted the course of SS Assault Battalion Wotan (itself a named battalion within the 1st SS Pz.Div LSSAH) through the war, where ever the Leibstandarte went, SS Wotan had a story for each major engagement. (Kessler was of course a pen name for Charles Whiting, a prodigious author and historian who published over 350 books under a variety of pen names). Here's his wiki page... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whiting
So I began this foolishness so long ago I can't remember it? - Somewhere around 2010 perhaps? Ten years on I am no nearer finishing than I ever was, but its going to be fun to try...
Cheers!
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