Join the battle for Normandy and expand your Bolt Action army with a new support group! Help turn the tide by adding these powerful units to your force!
Drive the enemy back with an array of powerful weaponry, including mortars and machine guns. Direct the flow of the battle with senior officers and call in devastating air strikes with a forward observer. As casualties mount up, get your medic to the front lines to pull the wounded back from the brink!
British Army Support Group
The British Tommy faced his Axis adversaries throughout the war with tenacity, bravery and his legendary love of a ‘brew’.
After years of fighting in North Africa and the Far East the British Army set foot back in Europe with the invasion of Sicily and Italy. In 1944 they spearheaded the D-Day landings in Normandy before pushing on into the German homeland and ultimate victory.
British soldiers made good use of the water-cooled Vickers machine gun – the same weapon their fathers use in the Great War – and the 3″ mortar.
Contains:
- 2 officers
- 1 Medic
- 1 Forward Observer
- 1 medium mortar team
- 1 Vickers MMG team
- Bases
Fallschirmjager Support Group
Suffering heavy casualties in the assault on Crete during Operation Mercury, Adolf Hitler forbade German airborne troops from further airdrops.
The Fallschirmjager instead acted as elite infantry serving in all theatres in which Germany fought. Supported by two weapons with a high rate of fire – the deadly MG42 general purpose machine gun and the Granatwerfer 34 8cm medium mortar – they were respected by the Allies for their fighting ability and honourable actions.
Contains:
- 2 officers
- 1 Medic
- 1 Forward Observer
- 1 medium mortar team
- 1 MG42 MMG team
- Bases
Waffen-SS Support Group
The armed wing of the Nazi Party, the extremely well-equipped Waffern-SS were rightly feared by their opponents – both for their fighting ability and uncompromising ferocity.
Supported by two weapons with a high rate of fire – the deadly MG42 medium machine gun (nicknamed Hitler’s Buzzsaw by the allies) and the Granatwerfer 34 8cm medium mortar – the Waffen-SS, in their trademark camouflaged uniforms were a truly dangerous foe to face.
Contains:
- 2 officers
- 1 Medic
- 1 2-man Forward Observer team
- 1 medium mortar team
- 1 MG42 MMG team
- Bases
US Airborne Support Group
Re-equipped with the new M43 uniform following the D-Day landings the US Airborne were ready to tack some of their greatest challenges of the war – Operation Market Garden and the Ardennes Offensive.
Airborne units relied heavily on the support weaponry they could take with them into battle. The 81mm M1 and 60mm M2 mortars provided valuable indirect firepower whilst the M1 Bazooka gave the paratroopers a fighting chance against enemy armour.
Contains:
- 2 officers
- 1 Medic
- 1 Forward Observer
- 1 medium mortar team
- 1 light mortar team
- 1 Bazooka team
- Bases
Dan Hewitson
