Grenadier

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Contents 1 Game Play 1.1 How to Fire a Rifle Grenade 2 British 3 French 4 German

Game Play

How to Fire a Rifle Grenade

1. Press B to Attach the grenade cup to the end of your rifle.
2. Press R to load a grenade into the cup and a round in the rifle chamber.
3. Fire when ready
4. Press R to reload
5. Fire when ready
6. Press B to Detach the grenade cup when done firing grenades.

Note: you cannot detach the grenade cup if it is loaded.

British

British grenadier

Special Equipment:
No.68 Mills Bomb HEAT (anti-armor)
Explosive: 800 g (each grenade)
Range: 250m
Included Weapons:

• 1 x Lee Enfield .303 Rifle
• 6 x HEAT Grenades
• 1 x Combat Knife

The British Rifle-Grenadier is unique in that he is armed with the only anti-tank grenade in Battleground Europe. The No.68 Mills bomb was fired from a cup fitted to the end of a regular Lee-Enfield rifle and employing a special high charge "blank" cartridge loaded into the breech.

While effective against tanks or armored vehicles it did lose that effectiveness as armor became thicker later in the war, and required the rifleman to gain an almost ideal, perfect angle shot at 90 degree obliqueness to the target, very difficult under most combat circumstances. for these reasons ... generally only the very skilled and careful rifle grenadiers do well against most tanks, and the HEAT properties of this grenade are not well suited against enemy infantry.

French

French grenadier

Special Equipment:
Vivien-Bessière HE Grenade
Explosive: 600 g (each grenade)
Range: 250 m
Included Weapons:

• 1 x Lebel 8 mm Rifle
• 10 x HE Rifle Grenades
• 1 x Combat Knife

The French Rifle Grenadier employed a regular infantry rifle and a cup launched rifle grenade of the high explosive fragmentation type. It was an anti-personnel weapon and not an anti-armor weapon like the British HEAT grenade was. The VB grenade is time-fused, whereas other rifle grenades in the game are impact-detonated.

German

German grenadier

Special Equipment:
GewSprGr.30 HE Grenade
Explosive: 700 g (each grenade)
Range: 250 m
Included Weapons:

• 1 x 7.9 mm Kar.98k Mauser Rifle
• 10 x HE Rifle Grenades
• 1 x Combat Knife

The German Rifle Grenadier employed a regular infantry rifle and a cup launched rifle grenade of the high explosive fragmentation type. It was an anti-personnel weapon and not an anti-armor weapon.