Anti-Aircraft Tactics

I have set up these guns in a four gun battery.

Anti-aircraft guns often set up in a square or diamond formation.

This allows all four guns to bear on a target from any direction.

They can put the fire direction equipment in the center of the guns.

That way wire runs don't have to be long for communications to the gun directors.

When the enemy is expected from a specific direction, such as along the coast...

Guns can be set up in a long row.

This formation allows guns to cover a longer area of coastline than a square.

And it's easier to fire at multiple targets using different guns.

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German Bofors Gun

This is the 1/72nd scale Zvezda Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun.

The kit is sold as a British weapon and comes with a British Army crew.

I have replaced them with a four man German Army crew.

In my set of wargame rules guns must have a crew at least as large as the gun caliber in centimeters. 

So a four centimeter gun gets a four man crew.

The crew if from the Caesar Miniatures German Anti-aircraft crew set.

40mm Bofors Gun

In World War Two the Swedish Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun was used as a ground mount by both Axis, Allied, and neutral powers.  They Germans both purchased and captured them.

The Germans used them on ships, on buildings, and as mobile mounts, with and without the gun shield.

Zvezda makes an excellent Bofors model in 1/72nd scale.

I already have the Airfix 40mm Bofors gun, and I have assigned them to my American Army.

Airfix makes an excellent kit and I have drafted the British crew into being a crew for early World War Two US Army troops in the Philippine Islands.

The Zvezda models have been drafted into the German Army.

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