One of the Clash of Steel Starter Sets have been on my wants list ever since I found out about them at the beginning of the year. I ordered Operation Unthinkable boxed set containing the British and German tanks.
I decided I would add to the game by ordering the other Operation Unthinkable set, which contains American and Soviet tanks.
In the box, as well as the rules, counters, and dice, are twenty one tanks.
For the Americans you get
- Two T28 tanks
- Two M18 Hellcats
- Three T29 heavy tanks
The Soviets have
- Six T54-1 tanks
- Three IS-3 heavy tanks
- Five ISU-130 SPGs.
Here are the sprues from the box.
What I didn’t realise was that the T54-1 model can also be made up as a T44 or a T55 as the different turrets are included. This gives even more flexibility over just using them as T54-1 tanks.
I thought that these would make ideal models for gaming scenarios from the Hot War series of books by Harry Turtledove.
This is the Operation Unthinkable Workbench.