View in Store The US Rangers, during the Second World War, will forever be remembered for their daring assault on the cliff-top German gun battery at Pointe du Hoc, the guns of which could have potentially decimated the troops landing on the beaches on D-Day. Companies D E and F of 2nd Rangers Battalion would scale 100…
The Marder was a series of German World War II tank destroyers built from 1942 to tackle the new Soviet KV1s and T-34s. From the start of Operation Barbarossa in 1941, the need for a vehicle to take on the soviet tanks was apparent. The German army was fielding comparatively light tanks during this time and suffered considerably…
Due to the success of the StuG III and the Marder series, the idea of using pre-existing chassis for self-propelled guns would continue with the Jagdtiger. It was in 1943 that a mock-up of the Jagdtiger was shown in Prussia to Hitler. With the Führer’s approval, the vehicle went into production. The Jagdtiger was based on…
With the recent release of our Senegalese Tirailleurs box set, we thought we’d shed a little more light upon some of the French Colonial troops which fought during the Second World War, with the help of Sam Phillips and Alessio Cavatore. Senegalese Tirailleurs The Senegalese Tirailleurs (Senegalese riflemen) were a military corps of West African…
The early war grenadiers were the elite of the German army, later the term would be used more widely and would come to represent the generic German infantry. They were renamed in honour of Fredericks the Great’s army by Adolf Hitler. This was a moral boosting tactic by linking them to their elite counterpart units…
By the summer of 1943, Soviets tank commanders desperately needed a new tank to take on the heavier German Panthers and Tigers, complaining that the current generation of T-34 and KV tanks were virtually ineffective. With this in mind, two prototypes were created and paraded in front of Stalin himself. The KV-85 went straight into…
The Sherman tank was the mainstay of the allied tank forces, made even more potent when they decided to stick a rubber ring around it! The Duplex Drive version of this famous tank was designed to enable the Sherman to traverse short stretches of open water between Landing Craft and the Beach – and would…
The Sturmgeschutz (StuG) III Ausf G was based on the successful Pz.Kpfw II chassis and was Germany’s most produced fighting vehicle, killing more enemy armour than both the Panzers and Tiger tanks. The tank was designed to accommodate more ammunition than its predecessors and the crew compartment was strengthened. The crew now had a much…
With our plastic T34/76 due to start shipping out in the coming weeks, we thought it time to give you a little more insight into this workhorse of the Soviet forces… View in Webstore History The T-34 series, with its sloping armour, changed the principles of tank design during the Second World War. By sloping…
Friend of Warlord and grand master of the Volley Fire Painting Services paint mines, Andy Singleton has written a fantastic guide for new German players – a guide on how to paint three of the key uniforms worn by German troops on the Eastern Front. Handily, Andy has included the specific paints used – and…
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