Norwegian infantry, 2nd World War Great Escape Games October/November 2025
I've long had a bit of an obsession with Scandinavia in general, and Norway in particular - a beautiful country, filled with lovely, genuinely happy people, and with some fascinating history. Usually when you think 'Norway' + 'history', the mind automatically fixes on the viking age, but a recent rewatch of 'Narvik' on Netflix (which tells the story of the battle that would come to be known as the Germans' first defeat of the Second World War) had me in a real mood to paint up some of the country's staunch defenders of that period.Â
Here we have four riflemen (with NCO) and a three-man forward observation team for the early war period, sculpted and sold by the nice folks at Great Escape Games. As I understand it, fielding Norway on the tabletop is like playing in hard mode, given their lack of heavy armour and minimal anti-tank capabilities, but I don't really care - look at those gorgeous mountain green uniforms!
