Flames Of War | Hungarian | Rifle Platoon | 15mm Metal Blister Pack

Rifle Platoon (HU702)
includes one Formation 39M SMG Team, one Unit Leader 31M &95M Rifle Team, six 31M & 95M Rifle Teams, one Panzerschreck Anti-tank Team, one 20mm Anti-tank Rifle Team (Mid War)

1942-43

The backbone of the Hungarian 2nd Army in Russia in 1942 were the riflemen of the Light Divisions. Nine Light Divisions in three corps were deployed along the Don River supported by the 1st Armoured Field Division in reserve.

The Hungarian rifleman has a long and proud military tradition going back to the 15th and 16th centuries when Hungarian Haiduk musketeers served as mercenaries across the Balkans and Eastern Europe, even spawning imitators (Polish Haiduks). Under the Austrian Hapsburg Empire the Hungarians (along with the Croatians and German Austrians) provided the most reliable infantry during the 18th and 19th centuries and into the First World War.