Blitzkrieg Kradschützen and Aufklärer

[invisible officer]

I did a lot with “Hardware” in the last weeks (like bicornes, spiked helmets), so little modelling. But yesterday I did two bikes for my Blitzkrieg Germans.

The Kradschützen served together with the Panzer Division recce units. Most had been converted pre war from cavalry units. They had a bad driver / fighter ratio of one for two and had problems away from streets. In Africa and Russia they lost a lot material.
In 1942 most got converted into recce Panzergrenadiere or armored recce.

Late war the bikes are no longer Kradschützen but transport for staff, messengers, mechanics and similar.

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[invisible officer]

Firing the LMG from the bike was possible but rarely done. And not Indiana Jones style in full speed.
Like the tanks they normally did a “Schießhalt”, a stop for aiming and Shooting.

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[Corso]

Lovely motorbikes 🙂

[Charge The Guns]

Very nice IO !

[Richard]

Nice 😀

[demi_morgana]

Yeah, those are so cool.
Bikes are lovely 🙂

[Dr Dave]

…but no Steve McQueen 🙁

[Mark Stanoch]

What percetage of the bikes had sidecars.

[invisible officer]

Most.

In 1941 Kradschützenkompanie the
Gruppe had
3 Drivers with K98 for the 3 sidecar bikes
a leader with SMG in sidecar
5 men ( 2 with LMG and pistol in sidecar and 3 with K98 on backseat)

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Singles got used by Melder (transporting Messages) that served the Kompanie and Zug HQs. The Zugführer rode in a car.

[Alan Evans]

I bet that army would be a lot of fun to play!

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