Flames of War - Machine-Gun Platoon (Afrika)

With 2 Machine-gun Sections Maschinengewehr-34 (Machine-gun, model of 1934), or MG-34, was the main infantry support weapon of the Deutsches Afrikakorps as well as the main vehicle (tank) machine-gun. MG-34 was also the first ever true Universal machine gun. It could be used as a light machine gun from bipod, as a sustained fire, medium machine-gun on tripod, as a tank or AA weapon. MG-34 was designed in the early 1930s by the team at Rheinmetall. Final design, adopted for service in 1934, incorporated numerous features from experimental prototypes built by Rheinmetall, Mauser, and others. As was requested by German army, it was a truly universal machine-gun, capable of different roles. It was put into production in 1935, and remained an official Machine-gun of the Wehrmacht until 1942, when it was officially replaced by the more reliable and cheaper to produce MG-42. Despite this the MG-34 continued to serve until the end of WW2, mostly as a tank machine-gun as it was better suited for the role than the MG-42.In the Desert the MG-34 on the medium machine-gun tripod served in the Heavy platoons of the Desert Fox’s army. Along with the mortars they served as the heavy support platoon for the motorised Panzergrenadiers companies. In Flames Of War Like the Mortar Section, this pack makes up part of the Heavy Platoon, but like the Mortars you get the command team so it can be fielded alone. Before you deploy your force you may detach teams from your Heavy Platoon to reinforce Panzergrenadier Platoons. The detached teams are no longer part of the Heavy Platoon, but become part of the Panzergrenadier Platoon they are attached to instead. The Heavy Platoon must retain at least one section under its own command. When working out whether the platoon is below half strength for Platoon Morale Checks, the attached teams do not count towards the number of teams in the platoon that are capable of fighting, however if they are destroyed, they do count towards the number of Destroyed teams in their adopted platoon.