Keep your enemies heads down with the German Sniper Team

The battlefields of the Great War were largely the backdrop to indiscriminate killing, men killed in their dozens by explosive shells fired from distant artillery batteries miles behind the front lines, or cut down by relentless bursts of machine gun fire. But these were far from the only menace on the Western Front.

The German Army were early adopters of sniping techniques, quickly recognising the value of sharpshooters in trench warfare - useful for killing off junior officers and killing morale.

German snipers were often selected from Jäger scouting units due to their marksmanship skills and experience in reconnaissance. They used advanced optics for precision shooting almost from the very start of the war, lenses made by Zeiss, Hensoldt and Oigee, which produced some of the best optical equipment of the time. These early scopes had magnification levels ranging from 2.5x to 6x, giving German snipers a distinct advantage until around 1917, when the Allies caught up.

Our German Sniper Team miniature sits on a 40mm base, and includes a detailed base topper and three figures: a Spotter with a trench periscope and two separate sculpts for the Marksman.

On the tabletop, they act exactly as you’d expect from a sniper team - they can infiltrate, they’re crack shots, and they can pick out a high-value target with their Scoped Gewehr rifle. Simply sit them in cover and wait for an enemy officer to scamper out of cover to disrupt your enemy’s entire battleplan.

German Sniper Team (Physical)

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