PRE-ORDER: French Army Heavy Weapons platoon

This item is expected to launch around the end of November, so order yours now and be the first to command the battlefield!

Bring up the heavy weaponry!

Designed to fight attractional defensive battles and grand set-piece attacks, the French Army was well-supplied with heavy weapons, having learned the efficacy of mortars and machine guns in the trenches of the Great War.

This box contains everything you need to build a Heavy Weapons Platoon - up to six mortars, or two machine guns, or numerous combinations, plus a Platoon Commander. The Heavy Weapons sprue contains a venerable Hotchkiss M1914 medium machine gun, as well as a trio of mortars, with one 81mm Mle 27/31 medium mortar, and a brace of lighter weapons: a 60mm Mle 1935, and 50mm Mle 1937.

Contents:

• Two heavy weapons frames each containing one .Hotchkiss M1914 medium machine gun, one Mle 27/3 medium mortar, and two light mortars - one Mle 1937, and one Mle 1935.
• Three crew frames totalling twelve infantry models that can be assembled as crew or command squads, with a selection of heads, arms and equipment.
• Four 60mm and three 25mm bases, allowing you to construct up to four heavy weapons teams or three heavy weapons plus a platoon commander and bodyguards.
• Four Order Dice
• French Army decals