Strike From The Skies With New Flames Of War Booklets
November 1, 2019 by brennon
Some new Booklets have now been released by the folks at Battlefront Miniatures for use in Flames Of War. This time around we're looking to the skies as paratroopers fall from the skies to strike at key strategic points on the battlefield.
"America has entered the war and its newest branch of the army, the airborne divisions, are ready for action. Every paratrooper is a volunteer, equipped with the best equipment US industry can provide. Each paratrooper is a keenly honed weapon poised to strike at the heart of the enemy, trained to operate as a deadly team."
As well as the Americans coming in with their paratrooper volunteers, looking to get stuck in and strike at the heart of the enemy you've also got the grim and determined Fallschirmjäger for the Axis.
"The Fallschirmjäger are Germany’s elite volunteer paratroops and amongst the finest troops in the German armed forces.The elite Fallschirmjäger are more than capable of stopping the best the Allied armies can throw at them, whether fighting in the deserts of North Africa, in the Greek Islands, across the mountains of Sicily and Italy or the swamps and forests of the wintery Eastern Front."
As well as the booklets which you can see above which provide you with little elements to help tweak your force, there are also a good bundle of options in plastic for the American, German and Italian forces that you might find fitting well into this period.
There are a lot of plastic kits for you to check out plus some Direct Only options too. Check them all out HERE.
Will you be snapping up these booklets and some of the model releases?
"There are a lot of plastic kits for you to check out plus some Direct Only options too..."
I wish I’d known about this BEFORE I spent money buying models for a Fallshirmjager list according to the D-Day german book – I may have delayed and waited for this!
This is mid war. The models you have work for both with only a few minor exceptions
Oh – I stand corrected! (Now reading the dates on the cover)
Haven’t played MW Germans, but why not?
you can get a recoilless 7.5 light gun 😀
its hard to find any para action on the net so its just the likes of the Norway water plant is the only one I know off before D-Day.
here’s a link on WWII raids
https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/famous-battles-of-world-war-two/the-battle-of-arnhem/paratroopers-and-world-war-two/
I simply have to get the All Americans book! I’ve done a ton of research on the 82nd Airborne, and when I played paintball back in the day and traveled to the Oklahoma D-Day Paintball Event for several years running I was the regimental Sargeant for the 325th GIR (which is Glider Infantry Regiment). Side note, soldiers in GIR’s were not volunteers they were assigned to the unit whether they wanted it or not. Also, they were not paid as much as paratroopers. Their bravery was not recognized for decades …. Walter Cronkite was a war correspondent in WWII. This… Read more »
Not sure “how” you would use the US Para’s mid war (as they were all in training at the time), I guess it would be fictional?
The German Fallschirmjäger saw action throughout the war, and even the Russian Paratroops (who never did a combat drop) saw action before the US (where’s their booklet?)
Think we’re heading into “Sgt York” territory again from Battlefront with the release of mid war US Paratroop lists 🙁
The 82nd did parachute into Sicily and Salerno