Bolt Action: Italian Alpini – Support Group

Containing a medium machine gun team, a medium mortar team, two officers, amedic helping a comrade, and a radio operator that would serve well as a forwardobserver, this Support Group boxed set is the ideal basis of an Italian AlpiniHeavy Weapons Platoon! It also provides you with three Bolt Action Order Dice touse them in game.

Breda M37 Medium Machine Gun Team (05 per Heavy WeaponsPlatoon):

The most successful and most commonly used machine gun in Italian service wasthe Breda M37 8mm air-cooled weapon. A medium machine gun team is capable oflaying down a withering hail of fire, the bane of enemy infantry caught out inthe open.

Medium Mortar team (05 per Heavy Weapons Platoon):

Like so many nations, the Italian Army made good use of mortars, such as theMortaio da 81/14 Modello. A medium mortar lobs shells high over thebattlefield. Inaccurate at first, they range in over the course of a game,provided their targets dont move, of course.

HQ (1 Officer Team per Platoon, 01 Medic per Rifle Platoon, 01Forward Observer per Rifle Platoon):

For every platoon in your army, youll need a Platoon Commander. This boxcontains two officers, which can be used as commanders for any platoon type, aforward observer, which could easily act as spotter or as a an extra man in yourofficer team, and a medic to serve in a Rifle Platoon.

Contents:

• Four metal Italian HQ figures,
• One metal Breda M37 Medium Machine Gun with three Italian Alpini crew,
• One metal Medium Mortar with three Italian Alpini crew,
• Three Bolt Action Order dice, and plastic bases.