Jagdtiger (GBX70)

Jagdtiger (GBX70) includes one Jagdtiger Tank Destroyer & one Decal sheet. The Jagdtiger was the largest and heaviest armoured fighting vehicle used by the German panzer forces during the war. Work on the Jagdtiger began in 1943 and Henschel, who already made the Tiger and Königstiger heavy tanks, submitted plans based on the Königstiger. Two prototypes were produced, one using the original Henschel Königstiger suspension, the other based on the Porsche suspension similar to that of the Elefant tank-hunter. The Henschel design was selected, but due to slow production ten Porsche vehicles were also produced. A total of 77 Jagdtiger tank-hunters were manufactured by the end of the war. Check out the Jagdtiger in the online store here...

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The Jagdtiger tank-hunter had thick armour and was nearly invulnerable from the front and even from the side only better enemy anti-tank tank guns could penetrate it. Its main asset was its powerful 12.8cm PaK44 anti-tank gun. This gun was derived from the K81 divisional gun and could penetrate any tank the Allies had, often blowing smaller vehicles into fragments. However, its armour and gun made it very heavy, which put a massive strain on its drive train and engine. This led to reliability issues and made it difficult to get good numbers of them into combat at once. The Jagdtiger heavy tank-hunter first went into action with 653. Schwere Panzerjägerabteilung during Operation Nordwind in January 1945 and stayed in service until the end of the war. Designed by Evan Allen Painted by Blake Coster

The Jagdtiger

The Jagdtiger in Flames Of War
Armour      Name  Mobility  Front  Side  Top  Equipment and Notes  Weapon  Range  ROF  Anti-tank  Firepower    Jagdtiger Slow Tank 16 8  2  Hull MG, Overloaded, Unreliable. 12.8cm PaK44 gun 48"/120cm  2 17  2+  Hull mounted, Breakthrough gun.

Overloaded Super-heavy tanks and heavily-laden assault guns often overload their engines and suspensions, making them very poor at crossing obstacles. When required to take a Bogging Check to cross Difficult Going, an Overloaded vehicle becomes Bogged Down on a roll of 1 or 2, rather than the usual 1. An Overloaded vehicle must re-roll successful Skill Tests to cross Very Difficult Going.

Unreliable Whether poorly designed, unsuitable for the conditions, or requiring more maintenance than current supply considerations will allow, these vehicles have a significant chance of breakdown when pushed too hard. If an Unreliable vehicle attempts to move At the Double, roll a die. On a roll of 1 the vehicle becomes Bogged Down.

Hull-mounted Guns Some tanks mount weapons in the front of the hull instead of in a turret to save weight or to make them easier to produce. A hull-mounted weapon mounted in the front of a vehicle has a 180-degree Field of Fire covering everything in front of a line drawn across the front of the vehicle. If the weapon is mounted at the rear of the vehicle, the Field of Fire covers everything to the rear of a line drawn across the rear of the vehicle.

No Saves from Big Guns Some weapons are just so powerful that there is no chance of surviving a hit from them. These heavy guns are often mounted in tanks and self-propelled guns designed to break through enemy defensive lines. Infantry teams, Gun teams, Passengers, and Unarmoured vehicles automatically fail their Saves when hit by a Breakthrough Gun or a Bunker Buster. This does not apply to Artillery Bombardments.

The Jagdtiger on the Prowl

The Contents of the Jagdtiger Box Set

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Description of Components

a. 1x Tank commander sprue. b. 1x Exhaust pipe sprue. c. 1x Spare track link sprue. d. 1x Left-hand side damaged mudguards sprue. e. 1x Right-hand side damaged mudguards sprue. f. 1x Left-hand side mudguards sprue.g. 1x Right-hand side mudguards sprue. h. 1x Right-hand side track.

i. 1x Left-hand side track. j. 1x Right-hand side fender. k. 1x Left-hand side fender. l. 1x Hull MG. m. 1x Commander's hatch. n. 1x 12.8cm PaK44 gun barrel. o. 1x Gun mantlet. p. 1x Resin Jagdtiger hull.

Assembling The Jagdtiger

Step 1. Begin assembly by attaching the tracks to the hull of the Jagdtiger. Note: Each track has been keyed to correspond with a particular side of the hull; this aids in ensuring the correct orientation of the tracks when assembling the miniature.

Below: The orientation keys on the tracks.	Below: The correct alignment for the left-hand side track.	Below: The correct alignment for the right-hand side track.

Tip: When referring to left or right-hand side in regards to a Flames Of War miniature, the orientation is determined as if looking at the vehicle from the rear.
Below: The left-hand side track attached to the hull.	Below: The right-hand side track attached to the hull.	Step 2. With the tracks attached, its time to move onto the side fenders. Each fender is stamped with the letter 'R' or 'L' to indicate orientation.

Tip: Always dry fit (Dry Fitting is assembling components of a model without any glue. This ensure that they go fit together correctly before a permanent bond is created and allows for any fine adjustments to be made.) components before final assembly.
Below: The left-hand side fender attached to the hull.	Step 3. Like the side fenders, the front and rear mudguards are also stamped to indicate correct orientation.	Below: The left-hand side rear mudguard attached to the hull.

Below: The left-hand side front mudguard attached to the hull.	Note: There maybe a small gap between the mudguards and the side fender; however this can be fill with 'Green Stuff.'	Below: The right-hand side front and rear mudguards stamped with the letter 'R'.

Below: Both the left and right-hand mudguards and side fenders attached to the Jagdtiger.	Step 3. Next up is the hull MG. This attaches over the circle on the front of the hull. However, first the small tab on the rear of the MG needs to be removed.

Below: Removing the tab on the rear of the hull MG with a hobby file.		Below: The hull MG attached to the front of the hull.

Step 4. Now for the main gun. The gun mantlet has a set of hoist rings used to lift the gun into place at the factory. If there is flash filling the holes use a pin vice to quickly remove it. Once any flash has been removed, attach the gun barrel to the gun mantlet.

Below: The gun barrel attached to the mantlet.	Step 5. Attach the main gun to the hull.

Below: The gun complete with mantlet attached to the hull.	Step 6. Next, attach the commander's hull to the top of the hull.		Step 7. Time to move onto the rear of the miniature and add the exhausts.

Below: The exhausts attached the the hull.	Step 8. Finally, add the jack to the bottom of the hull rear as shown in the example below.	Below: With the jack in place the basic Jagdtiger is assembled.

Adding The Tank Commander
Step 1. Attach the commander's hatch to the turret in the open position as show in the exampe below.		Step 2. Add the tank commander figure of your choice.

Adding Spare Track Links

The Jagdtiger box set includes spare track links. These are optional but can add that extra level of detail to your miniature.	The spare track links attach to the side of the superstructure using the tabs seen in the example below.	Below: Spare track links attach to the side of the superstructure.

Battlefront TV Basic Decal Guide Blake demonstrates the basics of applying decals. Below: The Jagdtiger decal sheet.

Adding Damaged Mudguards

Included in the Jagdtiger box set is a set of damaged mudguards. These are designed to simply replace or work in conjunction with any of the other standard muguards to add some modelling variation.	Below: An example of a damaged mudguard on the Jagdtiger miniature.

Below: More examples of the damaged mudguards on the Jagdtiger.

Adding Damaged Side Fenders

A quick image search for the term 'Jagdtiger' will reveal numerous images of the Jagdtiger's side fenders and mudguards in various states on disrepair. This can be very easily  re-create on your miniature. One option is to leave all the mudguards and fenders off altogether as seen in the examples below.

Below: An example of a Jagdtiger with no mudguards or side fenders.

To model damaged side fenders simply uss a pair of hobby cutter to cut the fenders at the joints and a file to smooth them down and then attach them to the minature.Using this method can create endless modelling possibilites.		Below: An example of a Jagdtiger with damaged side fenders.

Below: More examples of missing and damaged mudguards and side fenders.

Artillery HQ (JP710)

Artillery HQ (JP710) includes one Command Sword team, one Staff teams, one Observer Rifle teams, one Medium four-hole base & two Small three-hole bases. A staff team is an important component of large artillery platoons. The staff team’s job is to take the target’s map reference, radioed to them by the spotter, and convert it to angles and elevations for the artillery weapons. Left: The Command Sword team. Check out the Artillery HQ  in the online store here...

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Their technical expertise allows the staff to perform complex calculations and communicate the results to the rest of the artillery platoon quickly. Mortar platoons and rocket batteries lack artillery staff because their operation does not permit prolonged bombardments and sophisticated artillery tactics. Designed by Gary Morley Painted by James Brown

The Observer Rifle Team

Staff Teams To do their job, a staff team needs lots of maps, plotting boards, charts and tables, not to mention radios and telephones. All this equipment prevents them from being very mobile or effective in combat. Although they are an Infantry team, Staff teams are part of their Artillery platoon and move slowly as if they were a Heavy Gun team. A Staff team can shoot as a Rifle team, but cannot function as a Staff team in the turn it does so. A Staff team can function just as well when it is mounted in its own Transport team as it can when Dismounted (as long as it is not Bailed Out or Bogged Down), but cannot function at all when mounted in another Transport team.

The Staff Team

All Guns Repeat! If the spotter successfully ranged the artillery in last turn, the staff team can order all of their guns to repeat the bombardment on exactly the same place. The target coordinates for a repeat bombardment are exactly the same as the previous bombardment, meaning all weapons can fire again quickly and effectively. An Artillery platoon with a Staff team may Repeat an Artillery Bombardment fired in the previous turn. Because a Repeated Bombardment Ranged In on a previous turn, it automatically Ranges In on the first attempt this turn. The Repeated Bombardment must use the same Spotting team as the original Artillery Bombardment, and it must still meet the other requirements for a Spotting team (see page 126 of the main rule book). All Artillery teams that fired the original Bombardment and are still able to fire, must fire in the Repeated Bombardment, and no other teams may be added to the Bombardment. The Repeated Bombardment must use the same Template (see page 130 of the main rule book) as the previous turn’s Bombardment, unless there are insufficient weapons still firing. The Repeated Bombardment is centred on the original Aiming Point, regardless of whether or not the enemy team that was originally targeted is still there or not.

The Artillery HQ Prepare To Fire A Bombardment

Contents & Assembly Guide Coming Soon...

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Type 97 Chi-Ha (JP051)

Type 97 Chi-Ha (JP051) includes on Type 97 Chi-Ha Medium Tank & one Tank Commander. The Type 97 Chi-Ha was developed as a replacement for the Type 89 Chi-Ro which was considered obsolete by the late 1930s. In essence, the Type 97 was simply a scaled-up version of the Type 95 Ha-Go but with greater power-to-weight ratio, thicker armour and a two-man turret. Check out the Type 97 Chi-Ha in the online store here...

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Armed with a short-barrelled 57mm main gun, the primary role of the Type 97 was infantry support to which the gun was well suited. Secondary armament consisted of two 7.7mm machine-guns, one mounted in the front of the hull and the other in the rear of the turret. After facing off again the Soviet BT-5 and BT-7 tanks armed with their 45mm guns, it soon became that the 57mm gun had limited value against opposing tanks. This led to the development of the Type 1 47mm gun; a direct competitor to the Soviet 45mm gun. An up-gunned version of the Type 97 designated the Type 97-Kai Shinhoto Chi-Ha and went in production in 1942. Designed by Tim Adcock Painted by James Brown

The Type 97 Chi-Ha in Flames Of War
Armour      Name  Mobility  Front  Side  Top  Equipment and Notes  Weapon  Range  ROF  Anti-tank  Firepower  Type 97 Chi-Ha Standard Tank 2 2 1 Japanese Turret MG, Hull MG. Type 90 57mm gun 16"/40cm  2 5 4+

Japanese Turret MG Japanese tanks were often fitted with a rear mounted machine-gun. They used this by swinging the whole turret around to fire it at the enemy to their front. This meant, of course, that they could not fire the main gun while they fired the turret MG and the gunner must shift positions in the tank to operate it. A Japanese Turret MG has an all-round Field of Fire, but cannot fire at the same time as the vehicle’s Main Gun.

Japanese Model & Year System The weapons the Imperial Japanese Army used during its wars in Asia and the Pacific were designated using a model system based on the year of the Japanese Emperor they entered service with. This can sometimes be confusing as the weapons available could come from the reign of three different emperors; Emperor Meiji (1867 to 1912), Emperor Taisho (1912 to 1926), and Emperor Hirohito (1926 to 1989). To confuse things further, during the reign of Emperor Hirohito the model system referred to the year in the Japanese calendar, which was 660 years ahead of the current western date, so 1939 was 2599 in Japan. The model is usually referred to as Type in English translations. Examples The 6.5mm heavy machine-gun was an older weapon that entered service in 1914 during the third year of Emperor Taisho’s reign, giving it the designation Type 3. However, the 6.5mm Type 96 light machine-gun used by the infantry was produced in 1936, or 2596 in the Japanese calendar system, which was abbreviated to 96.

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