Begin The Blitzkrieg With WWII German Set By Warlord Games
June 16, 2015 by brennon
Warlord Games have put together another set to help you build your Bolt Action army. This time it's the Blitzkrieg Panzergrenadiers which give you a fast paced army that will be giving you a whole lot of board control...
The set comes with thirty of the Plastic German Infantry that are the mainstay of any Axis force alongside three Sd.Kfz 251/1 Ausf C Half-Tracks to carry them into battle. These vehicles are perfect for getting soldiers where they needed to be and then supporting them with machine gun fire via the mounted guns atop them.
If you're looking to strike hard and fast then I can see this being the right option for you to go for when it comes to a German force.
What do you think of the set?
"These vehicles are perfect for getting soldiers where they needed to be and then supporting them with machine gun fire via the mounted guns atop them..."
Panzergrenadiers have only been introduced in 1943…tut tut, someone didn’t do his homework.
Other than that it’s a great box to get started.
Actually it would make a nice Fathers Day gift..!!!
WarlordGames have become synonymous with fantastic historical WW2 miniatures/models.
I have a mess of these halftracks for my DAK force. They are really great kits.
I thought the Panzer Grenadier was a Pre-war concept as units of motorized infantry that were meant to keep pace with the tanks and mop up any enemy Stragglers and it was in 1943 the the term Grenadier was used for infantry units in general as a moral booster.
They were called Schützen pre 1942 I believe. Same role using halftracks to support tanks.
Sweet…. getting so close to picking up a regiment’s worth of German and Allied stuff for bolt Action.
I want it and I don’t even play Germans!
Ah, shiny nice early war uniforms…
I fancy a crack at early war – there’s something really appealing about the more rubbish equipment.
all well and good, but the current rules on transport are not to hot as the crew cannot fire its own gun and you need to put a unit into it to do so, so in reality the are not able to support. the units they just deployed which is very broken
Not that I’d imagine many would notice the difference, but are these troop carriers models that were actually in production in 1939-1940? I presume they’re the same ones they’ve had out for a while, rather than new and very similar kits, and I know that a lot of the vehicles that were in use throughout the war went through different versions and upgrades. So was wondering if the vehicles are actually representative.
the kits are Sd.Kfz 251/1 ausf C, mid 1940?
actually late 41 according to http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/nazi_germany/SdKfz-251_Hanomag.php for the Ausf C