French Army Heavy Weapons Platoon

Bring up the heavy weaponry!

Designed to fight attractional defensive battles and grand set-piece attacks, the French Army was well-supplied with heavy weapons, having learned the efficacy of mortars and machine guns in the trenches of the Great War.

This box contains everything you need to build a Heavy Weapons Platoon - up to six mortars, or two machine guns, or numerous combinations, plus a Platoon Commander. The Heavy Weapons sprue contains a venerable Hotchkiss M1914 medium machine gun, as well as a trio of mortars, with one 81mm Mle 27/31 medium mortar, and a brace of lighter weapons: a 60mm Mle 1935, and 50mm Mle 1937.

Contents:

• Two heavy weapons frames each containing one .Hotchkiss M1914 medium machine gun, one Mle 27/3 medium mortar, and two light mortars - one Mle 1937, and one Mle 1935.
• Three crew frames totalling twelve infantry models that can be assembled as crew or command squads, with a selection of heads, arms and equipment.
• Four 60mm and three 25mm bases, allowing you to construct up to four heavy weapons teams or three heavy weapons plus a platoon commander and bodyguards.
• Four Order Dice
• French Army decals

Miniatures sculpted by Wojtek Flis. Studio miniatures painted by Andres Amian.

Metal models supplied unassembled and unpainted