Bolt Action Late War Germans

[Commissar Glenn]

Hi. I have just bought my first Bolt Action 28mm troops: Late war Germans. 30 figures in the box, so 3 sections of 10? Given the different  options in the box can anyone recommend the best way to arm each group of 10?

Thanks,

Glenn

[Armstrong]

It depends on the rules you want to use and how accurate you want to set up your troops.

The normal "historical" setup of a german infantry sqad (around 1943 - 45) was a group of 9 - 10 soldiers.
Normally the group leader and his deputy were armed with mp40.
There were two machine gunners for an MG42 or MG34 (one was carrying the MG the other one had a rifle).
The rest of the unit was equipped with KAR98K rifles.
(Optionally some men later also carried a "Panzerfaust", depending on the enemy troops they were facing.)

But there were a lot of variations in battle.
Mostly depending on the strenght of the infantry regiment and of the weapons that they had at hand.