Bolt Action: Blitzkrieg

Following the static nature of the first world war, Allied commanders were ill prepared as German forces took them by surprise in a lightning-fast attack past the defensive lines of Allied forces. A revolutionary tactic that would become known as Blitzkrieg, a whole new style of warfare which set the stage for the fall of France and took the Allies to the very brink of defeat.

Whilst the glory often went to the armoured knights of the panzer divisions, the infantry were the spine of the Wehrmacht. Germany’s cunning use of Blitzkrieg tactics conquered Poland, swept through the Low Countries and defeated France, before turning their attention to the Soviet Union. 

Well-led, superbly trained and equipped with the finest infantry weapons in the world, the German infantryman was a skilled and dangerous foe capable of thinking for themselves if needed, giving them a significant advantage over their foes. Vorwärts!