Bolt Action - Italian Army & Blackshirts cards the operations in the Ardennes

the operations in the Ardennes and Italy also saw troops in dire need of cold weather gear – the Italian winter in 1944 was the coldest for 150 years

21 divisions being formed with 12

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giving it great hitting power and better mobility and its armour had been doubled in places greatly increasing its survivability

At 28mm scale

Bolt Action - Italian Army & Blackshirts cards the operations in the ArdennesMussolini famously boasted that the Italian army had eight million bayonets standing at the ready. In actuality, the standing Italian army was far smaller than that, with huge numbers of troops conscripted into a war they neither believed in nor understood. The fighting ability of units of the Italian army varied greatly, with much of the rank and file lacking proper equipment, transport and even motivation. Still, there were several key battles in