The uniform of these men is also early war in appearance, with smart tunics and long boots. This was also used as an anti-tank weapon, but was both dangerous to use and not greatly effective in most cases.Īs we have said, these were early war weapons, when soldiers had to make do until new weapons that could handle the modern tanks came along, and were withdrawn by 1943. Finally the last rifleman also holds a concentrated charge - essentially a hand grenade with the charge from six others wired round it. The remaining two soldiers carry ordinary rifles, and are also important members of an anti-tank squad since the gunners would need protection. The detail is very good, and these are really nice models, so while they have been modelled in this hobby before, never as well as here.
Both the weapons have the twin magazines mounted on the side of the receiver, and both have the folding buttstock fully extended. Two figures are holding the PzB 39, the first and third as shown above, with one using it and the other carrying it. It is the PzB 39 that is depicted in this small game set, which is as well as it was by far the more numerous on the battlefield. Later in the war such weapons as the Panzerfaust family would solve the problem, but in the early years all the Germans had were two models of rifle, the PanzerBüsche 38 and 39. Like most armies it mostly had rather bulky anti-tank guns, and the only portable weapon for the infantry was the anti-tank rifle, but this rapidly became useless against most tanks as they quickly developed armour too thick for it to penetrate. When general war broke out in 1939, the German Army was surprisingly ill-equipped for anti-tank warfare.
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