Bolt Action - German Afrika Korps Support Group - Warlord Games - FBA

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Product Overview

This set contains: 1 x DAK HQ 1 x DAK Machine Gun Team 1 x DAK 8th Army Medium
Mortar Africa Corps HQ German officers were capable and often experienced
leaders. Junior officers were trained to undertake the role of their immediate
superiors, enabling them to use their initiative to take control of situations
when necessary. The Afrika Korps (DAK) proved this through consistent
victories as well as elusiveness in retreat. Afrika Korps Medium Machine Gun
The Germans were equipped with two excellent machine guns in the MG34 and
rapid-firing MG42 - known to Allied troops as 'Hitler's Buzz Saw' because of
its distinctive noise, or 'Spandau'. Unlike other armies, the Germans used the
same machine gun both as a squad weapon from its bipod and as a tripod-mounted
support weapon. The tripod mounted provided a much more stable firing platform
and made it easier to keep up a sustained fire using a belt feed. Africa Corps
Medium Mortar The standard German medium mortar of the war was the 80mm
Granatwerfer 34. It was a very effective and accurate weapon that could
provide longer range, on-call fire support. It had a maximum range of 2,400
metres and could maintain a rate of fire of 15-20 rounds per minute. It was
carried by its crew in three pieces: a base plate, tube and bipod.