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Engineer-Sapper Battalion

By: Battlefront Miniatures

Type: Miniatures Box Set

Product Line: Flames of War - WWII - Soviet - Box Sets & Miscellaneous

Late

Last Stocked on 9/2/2013

Product Info

Title
Engineer-Sapper Battalion
Sub-category
Publish Year
2009
NKG Part #
2147397694
MFG. Part #
BFMSBX13
Type
Miniatures Box Set
Age Range
14 Years and Up

Description

The assault Engineer-Sapper battalions were formed to capture or destroy enemy strong points and fortifications. They were equipped with a large variety of explosives, grenades and satchel charges.

Wearing the prototype SN-42 body armor, the sappers could close with the enemy protected from shrapnel and small arms fire.

Engineering Assault Brigades

The complexity and breadth of Operation Bagration greatly increased the demand for Soviet engineers. The need to break through increasingly sophisticated enemy defenses and assault across rivers, swamps, mountains and vast forests presented an enormous challenge.

Developing an engineering capability to support the massive offensive of Operation Bagration was a daunting task to say the least. Stavka (Soviet Supreme Headquarters) required immense engineering support.

The mission to provide the proper mix of trained engineering personnel capable of building roads and bridges, clearing minefields and obstacles, providing demolition experts, assaulting enemy defenses and assisting river crossings to secure critical bridgeheads rested with the engineering assault brigades.

These brigades contained four or five separate engineering-sapper battalions, a flame-thrower company, a motorized engineering and intelligence company, and a light transport company. The battalions specialized in bridging, demolition, or assault depending upon the situation faced by the particular Soviet Front the brigade was supporting.

The assault Engineer-Sapper battalions were designed to use explosives, grenades, pole and bag charges to take or destroy buildings, trenches, bunkers, and fortifications. These would include previously identified enemy firing points, earthen and concrete bunkers.

Once attacked and neutralized the assault battalion would be removed from the line and used against another enemy defensive position.

Engineer-Sapper Battalion Contains:

4x Command teams
1x Komissar team
20x Pioneer SMG teams
8x Faustnika teams
4x Optional machine-gun figures
2x Pioneer Supply trucks