Engineers

 Flamer


This is the start of a new platoon, one I didn't intend on building but things sort of got away from me and so now I have an engineering squad. 

I did not intend on building any more sections but when my boy got the German veterans box, there were several flame throwers going spare, so I though, why not. So, I now have a small engineers squad, with a flame thrower, along with another one on the table, ready to build. 


This is just a small 5 man squad, which can be bolstered to 9 or even a full ten men with the second flame thrower team and the officer and his two attendants. Most likely though it will stay as a small 5 man with either one or two flame throwers in. 


The German flame throwers are different to the Italian ones, as the German one has a main tank and smaller side tank (flammenwerfer 35) but the Italian is a twin tank design (lanciafiamme modello 35 or modello 40)


However, I don't really see this as an issue, as these are either hard core Italian Socialists using German supplied or new co-belligerent soldier using whatever they can get their hands on. 


The rest of the squad is formed of three engineers, all with rifles. One of them carries a demo charge or, as I think it's supposed to be, a german AT grenade. 


This model is in here because I thought it looked cool, no other reason. I mean what's not cool about a bloke holding a bunch of grenades strapped to a stick of wood!


The Engineers Platoon, as mentioned above, will be formed of a platoon commander with two attendants, the above flamer thrower squad, plus an additional flame thrower team and will also borrow a squad of infantry from the Rifle Platoon. I don't intend on running the engineers very often, but the flame throwers have proved quite good fun in games so far. 

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