Paracadutisti

 The next platoon is another rifle platoon! Although this one is a bit more specialised. This platoon is formed of two Paracadutisti squads and a commander.

"Rifle" platoon 

Commander with SMG

The commander is carrying a SMG the same as the troops. All the Paras have hard hats and googles. I have no idea if this is realistic or not, most of the pictures I could find they had hard hats on and I suspect a lot.of them.would have goggles if they could, plus it marks them out as different.


The squads themselves are a little different from expected. Each is actually a five man unit, not seven as in the pictures. This is because each has two Panzerfausts, for some (short) ranged anti-tank. For in game purposes, I have built extra models to swap out when the rockets (or recoilless gun??) have been fired. This means I will be able to track who's shot and who hasn't.

Panzerfausts 

Second squad

All these guys are armed with SMG's for close range assaults. I should probably look at investing in something like the Autoprotetto S37 for these guys to ride in, even a truck would do the job of getting them up the board a bit quicker.

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