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Italian Infantry

SKU WAAWA003
Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95
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$34.95
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Current price $34.95
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CREDERE, OBBEDIRE, COMBATTERE!

“Believe, Obey, Fight!” was the slogan of the Fascist government of Italy under Mussolini as it entered World War 2 as an Axis member. Italian troops fought in France, North Africa, Eastern Europe, Russia and on other smaller fronts in the war. The Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943 sparked an Italian Civil War with Italy surrendering to the Allies in the spring of 1945.

This hard plastic box set allows you to build up to 32 soldiers equipped with standard Carcano rifles and carbines, Beretta Model 38s, Breda 30s, grenades, pistols, and more. You can also build up to two Breda 37 heavy machine guns with crew. Several different heads are included for all figures including the standard helmet, pith helmet, Alpine hat, Bustina, and separate feathers to create Bersaglieri!

Models require assembly and painting. Bases are not included. Not for Children. Contents may vary from photos.

  • Research: Jamie Tranter
  • Sculpting: Gia Huy Tran
  • Illustration: Peter Dennis
  • Figure Painting: Matthew Leahy

Customer Reviews

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Khayman Bliss
Excellent kit with only minor, fixable issues

WGA's Italian Infantry kit is easy to assemble even without instructions, the details are crisp, the poses are dynamic, and the range of models you get in here is a positive steal. While I have some minor gripes about the kit, none of them have to do with the quality of the models or the build. Barely even ran into any moldlines.

You get 32 guys in standard uniform (no short shorts for Colonial Front) that can be assembled as standard infantry, bersaglieri, or Alpini, with kit options for officers, light gunners, grenadiers, or SMGs, covering pretty much the entire timeline of the War. Two of the crouching poses can be assembled as MMG gunners. If you skip the backpack and only use the pot helmets and full-length Carcano rifles, you could maybe get away with using these guys as WW1 infantry as well (helped by the generous amount of trench weapons and petards).

Onto the minor issues, most of which can be fixed with kitbashing. First, you don't really get kit options to assemble loaders for the machine guns. While somewhat true to form (in theory the Breda M30 could be easily self-loaded, in practice nothing about the Breda M30 was ever easy), this does clash with game systems that ask you to visually designate your loaders or MMG team members. This can be fixed pretty easily by bashing in some ammo box arms from other kits.

Another is the kit comes with surprisingly few single arms, as almost all the arms on the standard sprue are paired and there are only about three on the two command sprues that aren't holding a trench weapon. This makes it a bit harder to create neutral poses or specialists like engineers and the aforementioned loaders. Again, fixable with kitbashing.

Finally, and this is less a problem with the kit than a problem with the majority of game systems you can use it in, because historically WW2 Italian force organization was incredibly strange and most games' points and list-building systems attempt to reflect this, you wind up with just a small handful of models short of fielding full infantry and heavy weapon platoons out of the box unless you mess around with squad sizes and upgrades.

Yes, the biggest criticism I have of this box is "you can only build almost two full platoons for a dollar a model."

Still, all you have to do to get around it is focus on building standard infantry and the MMGs with the box and track down a handful more models to use as command squads or specialists, which you were probably going to do anyway. Look, the kit is great. For your money, its the best way to get WW2 Italians on the table without sacrificing quality. Absolutely recommend.

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Paul Saunders
Italian infantry

Fantastic product

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Sebastian Slee
Great Miniatures

These are awesome miniatures both as historics for a collector or as troops for WW2 games like Bolt Action.

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Tom Ryan
Brilliant

Great detail and lots of customisation options

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Philip Nannery

Really good, would like to see some info sheet or guide along with the miniatures, can't wait to put these together!