These superbly sculpted plastic miniatures allow you to field squads of German landsers dressed in late war M44 tunics, camouflage zeltbahn poncho, etc. They can be equipped with a wide variety of some of the best weaponry available to any army of the war - from the deadly STG44 assault rifle to the tankbusting panzerfaust! We're going to make use of the dynamic poses and proper handling of the weaponry and give them a round assortment of what's covered in each sprue, beginning with a regular Kar 98K rifle and two assault rifles.

Of course, in the meantime Warlord Games released new and further improved plastic kits for Bolt Action, yet this kit was quite the clear message when it was released. A well done plastic kit, with lots of options at a very competitive price of around 25 GBP, now 29,50 GBP. This one is probably one of the best kits you can buy for the German army in plastic, if you get your hands on inidividual sprues of the other boxes, it gives you incredible freedom in building and converting. Most interesting the Waffen-SS and Winter Germans for weapons and heads.To break out for a bit more dynamic poses, you can give them panzerfaust or have them throwing grenades. In have of the open hand, I had the choice from different rifles, and went for a russian SMG. You get 11 heads, with helmets, bare or field cap. Of course you can mix these with the heads of other plastic kits or go for the individual sprues of helmets that Warlord Games offers as bits. x9 of these platoons for a company with a company command base, I would also add other support units like Artillery and antitank just haven’t worked that part out yet. Thanks, guys for all your replies I appreciate all that you have said, I am coming from Napoleonic wargaming where I have 5000+ figures for French and British. I came to this game with the wrong mindset thinking that I can create huge battles using the Bolt Action Rules like I can with my Napoleonic. There is also the Tank War expansion for playing big tank battles as well, which is where your tank platoon boxes will come into play, but for a standard game these won’t get used normally.

Fortunately, by this point in the war, German industry had improved upon the woeful designs of winter clothing employed in the early offensives, and German troops were more suitably adorned to endure the bitter hardships of WInter climates. The Battle of the Bulge Campaign book is no exception. In addition to 12 scenarios and detailed history of the conflict, you’ll find new units and theatre selectors to enhance the character of your German forces. Use in combination with the Armies of Germany Bolt Action book, you’ll have an exhaustive profile of all the units and theatre selectors at your disposal.Of course, a LMG team wouldn't be missed. In this case it is the MG42, which is included two times per sprue. Once shoulder mounted and as a individual bit, including tripod. The ammunition belt over the shoulders is a very popular bit, that we have seen in multiple sprues so far. I guess i went a little overboard with my collecting, i didn’t want to miss out on anything. its most annoying to have a game or build an army only to find that you have a unit missing and need to wait weeks or months for it to arrive.

And as we need someone to command this squad, let's have one soldier kneeling, with a SMG, a map and field glasses, to give him the proper officer look. If you prefer to build your force bit by bit we suggest looking at the following miniatures: Initial Forces reinforcements, Adolf Hitler personally selected SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny to assemble a special More were about to follow, mostly mid to late war, like the Waffen-SS Grenadiers, Afrika Korps Grenadiers and Winter Gear German Infantryin means of regular infantry.I concluded it all with a sprinkling of fine grain. We will return to work on the base once we have finished the painting work on the miniature. Coloring Bolt Action German Grenadiers: primer and base colors