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Bolt Action: New “Stummel” Half-Track Available

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May 28 2016

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Warlord Games releases the new Stummel kit for Bolt Action – Bring on the Half-Tracks!

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Adding close support firepower to your Panzer Grenadiers comes the latest upgrade for the Warlord Games Plastic 251 Hanomag series – the Sd.Kfz. 251/9 Ausf D Schützenpanzerwagen (7.5 cm KwK37), Nicknamed “Stummel” (“stump”).

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Sd.Kfz 251/9 Ausf D (Stummel) half-track

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The standard personnel carrier version of the Sd.Kfz 251 halftrack series was equipped with a 7.92 mm MG 34 or MG 42 machine gun mounted at the front of the open compartment, above and behind the driver. A second machine gun could be mounted at the rear on an anti-aircraft mount. The Stummel replaced the forward MG mount with a 75 mm L/24 low velocity gun, the same gun and mount employed on the early StuG III and Panzer IV tanks.

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With the characteristic “slack track” design with no return rollers for the upper run of track, and the distinctly recognizable Schachtellaufwerk system of overlapping and interleaved main road wheels common to virtually all German halftracks of the period, the 251 series had a low ground pressure and better traction for cross country performance than most other nations’ half-tracked vehicles.

 

Unlike the Allied halftrack armour the armour plates on the 251 series were designed to stop penetration by standard rifle/heavy machine gun bullets (like the Mauser 7.9x57mm bullet). They accomplished this through the combination of metal thickness (front-facing plates were 14.5mm thick) and sloped armour (V-shape, 8mm thick).

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From 1942 each Panzergrenadier Battalion would be supported by a platoon of Stummels, deployed as needed in direct support of other halftracks.

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Perfect for moving with your Panzergrenadiers, find a good firing position and soften up your enemy with plenty of pins before sending in the troops!

Cost: 93pts (inexperienced), 116pts (Regular), 139pts (Veteran).
Weapons: 1 forward facing light howitzer.
Damage value: 7+ (armoured carrier).
Transport: Up to 8 men.
Tow: Light or medium howitzers; light, medium or heavy anti-tank guns; light or heavy anti-aircraft guns.
Options:
. May add one additional pintle-mounted MMG covering the rear arc for +15pts.
. May add one additional pintle-mounted MMG covering the front arc for +15pts.
Special Rules: Open-topped

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Half-Tracks? Really it’s more like 2/3rds-track.

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Author: Adam Harrison
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