No End In sight

Johan Augustsson brings a Great War combatant to life with Andrea Miniatures’ 90mm Stormtrooper, 1917 figure

Considering this was a white metal figure, the 20 parts were superb, with nary a casting seam in sight.

2017 marked the centenary of those soldiers who died in battles on the Western Front, at evocative places such as Passchendaele, Ypres, Arras and Bullecourt. One of the later tactical developments employed in those locations was that of assault troops, trialled by the Germans on a small scale in 1915, before they were utilised in a major offensive at Verdun in 1916. These tactics continued for the remainder of the war.

Although commonly called Stormtroopers, German assault/ infiltration soldiers were more correctly known as Stoβtruppen (Shock troops); the former was actually derived from the name given to a company of troops – Sturmtruppen (assault troops).

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