well I thought we didn’t have any events that gave sniper squad maybe I’m wrong and there was one but I cant remember TBH anyhow hope you will enjoy this
Germany
First I want to go over the unit itself actually I had 2 units in mind for this post those being 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf and 68th Infantry Division but seeing as the other one is SS and I don’t want sensor stuffed in game I will go with 68th Infantry division
A brief history of division
The 68th Infantry Division was formed on August 26, 1939 as the 2nd Wave Division by the 3rd Infantry Commander in Guben. The division was ready for action at the beginning of the Polish campaign, so that on September 1, 1939 the division became the army reserve of the 4th Army. From the area north of Krakow the division advanced via Sandomierz to Janow. After the Polish campaign ended the division was used as an occupation force in Poland until November 1939 and then transferred to the 16th Army on the Moselle north of Trier. At the beginning of the Western campaign the division was the army reserve of the 16th Army Command and only took part in the second phase of the campaign, the “Battle of France”. It marched from south of Sedan to Epinal. In July 1940 the division was transferred to eastern Poland to secure the border. On October 15, 1940, the division transferred a third of its strength (Stab IR 196, I./169, I./118 I./196) to the 340th Infantry Division. From June 22, 1941, the division took part in the Russian campaign. From the Yaroslav area, the division advanced across the San. Past Lviv, the division moved via Vinnitsa to the Cherkassy area. Here, the division provided flank protection for the 6th and 17th Armies. In October 1941, the division continued its advance via Poltava to Kharkov. Heavy winter fighting then broke out in the Izyum area on the Donets. This was to last until May 1942. The division then took part in the offensive battles on Izyum and Znamenka. In the summer of 1942, the division marched to Voronezh on the Don. The division remained here in trench warfare until February 1943, when it had to join the German retreat after the defeat at Stalingrad. Defensive and trench warfare followed at Oskol, at Gorshetsnoje and in the Ssumy area west of Kursk. In July 1943, defensive and retreat warfare followed on the Dnieper. The division then remained there until November 1943. On November 1, 1943, the division was converted into a new type 44 infantry division and the third battalions of the three regiments were disbanded. In November 1943, the division moved to the Radomyshl area and was near Shitomir in December 1943. It was then destroyed in this area in January 1944.
The remnants of the division were withdrawn from the front and gathered and refreshed at the Demba military training area. In April 1944, the division was moved back to the front and deployed in the Kovel area. Between May and July 1944, the division fought with the 1st Hungarian Army in the Lemberg area. From August 1944, the division had to retreat in heavy and costly rearguard action across the Beskids to the Baranow bridgehead on the Vistula. From here, the division had to retreat to Upper Silesia and then to Moravia. At the end of the war, it was taken prisoner by the Russians in the Jägerndorf area.
With that out of the way lets look at the weapon that I had in mind for the squad
W+F K31/42
The K31 was the first major redesign of the Schmidt-Rubin rifle; despite it being quite similar to the Schmidt-Rubin design, it was not designed by Colonel Rudolf Schmidt as he had long been dead by then. Instead, the design of the K31 was overseen by Colonel Adolf Furrer.
The weapon was noted to have incorporated improvements over the Schmidt-Rubin, such as a rear sight graduated down to 100 metres (330 feet; 110 yards). The first 20 prototypes were delivered to the Swiss Army for tests in 1932. The rifle was put into general issue on June 16th 1933 and discontinued in 1958, when it was replaced by the Stgw 57
Now the K31/42 is a variant of K31 with the optic:
Accurized version of the K31 featuring a Kern & Sohn 1.8× optic attached to the left of the rifle. Fitted with standard barrel and blade front sights. Optic is noted to work very similarly to that of a periscope. Known variously as the K31/42 or the ZfK 31/42
Now lets look at clothes for German snipers
some of these clothes weren’t used by these unit but I don’t think there will be a problem
This is first set
The face mask is in the game just look at the silent hunter squad with silenced MP-40s
Another thing the face mask seems to had different colors for better camouflage like green (Mp40 silenced squad ) , green-brown (Like the image above) and orange like the image below and others
( Bruno Sutkus a Lithuanian-German sniper from 68th infantry division)
Anyhow lets move to another set its the same clothes as above but with nets instead of face mask
And as far as I could find those nets also had different colors for better camouflage
anyhow after these we have one other set
The cloths are similar to top ones but with different colors , another difference being the face cover
Obviously there are other colors for the face cover,too
and these face cover was used by Machinegunner ,too
And as far as I could find these were used by SS units
The last set is simple one
face cover and some greenery on top of the helmet for camouflage
That’s from me hope you enjoyed it
