Europe at War is a historical mod for Company of Heroes that adds new battlefronts with new commander trees, abilities, units, vehicles and weapons for each, representing in the best way, as far as possible, historical accuracy, to immerse players in a much more realistic gaming experience. Situated on a Western theatre from the warm sands of north africa, italian battlefields, beaches of Normandy, Dutch Tulip fields, ardennes forests and defensive lines of the Rhine in germany.
"Black Devils" (Devil Brigade)
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perfectly. Italya and the Germans will fear them
seem to be an exellent unit for the guerilla tactics
To distingush them even further from the riflemen you can give them the M1941 Johnson LMG instead of the M1918 BAR (you can find it here Forum.medpackstudios.com) and use a modelmix with the paratrooper legs and boots(as they were also trained as airborne troops, reference image Actionsoldier.it)
Quite sure that that those aren't paratrooper pants in the picture, they're actually HBT uniform pants.
According to this book Ospreypublishing.com the 1st Special Service Force wore the "mountain trousers" (it calls them their) which are basically heavy hbt pants with two large cargo pockets (which are visible in the picture). I suggested the paratrooper legs because of their baggy appereance (mountain trousers were baggy too) and for the Corcoran boots the Devils also used.
Furthermore the 1st Special Service Force was issued the M1943 field coat just before leaving for Italy and were the first unit to wore it.
* (it calls them their trademark)
The Johnson wasn't really used - it was field-tested in the Pacific theater and the soldiers there said it was very crappy, and weapon production was stopped. How it would end up in Italy 2 years later would be a bit odd, IMO.
The same book I cited in the reply above also features photos of the M1941 used by soldiers of the Brigade in 1944 (arwork here Photo.qip.ru). You can also see it in the hands of the third guy from the left in this photo En.wikipedia.org taken at Anzio. It was one of the trademark weapons of the unit along with the V-42 combat knife.
A couple of things that can help realism : they used the M1A1 carbine with folding stock and the M1936 Musette Bag as backpack.
looking good
you sure yankees had such kind of squard in ww2? I thought it was just story, yet if those SOB are for real, stormtroopers are so screwed...