This mod makes available for battlefield scenarios a typical Axis foxhole manned by two Waffen-SS troopers of the late 1944/early1945 period. The troopers are both armed with Stg44 (Sturmgewehr 44) assault rifles and a supply of Panzerfaust 60 anti-tank weapons.

The Stg44 chambered a shorter version of the standard 7.92 mm rifle cartridge loaded in curved 30 round magazines, which, in combination with the weapon's design, allowed it to be used like a sub-machinegun at close quarters but with greater accuracy and range than a sub-machine gun at more distant targets. Although it had much less range and power than standard infantry rifles of the day such as the German Mauser 98K, by the time the Stg44 became available to front-line combat troops in July 1944 much of the fighting was taking place at closer ranges such as was found in urban and heavily-wooded areas.

The Panzerfaust 60 (literally armour fist) was an inexpensive, recoilless German anti-tank weapon, one of a family of similar one-shot throw-away weapons. It consisted of a disposable launcher preloaded with a rocket-propelled grenade. Fitted to the front of the launcher tube by its wooden tail stem and metal fins was an oversized warhead, 15 cm in diameter and weighing 3 kg. It contained around 800 grams of explosives which could penetrate up to 17 cm of steel armour. The Panzerfaust came in three main variants, the 30, 60 and 100, these model numbers essentially denoting their effective range. Whilst having neither the range, accuracy or stopping-power of the Panzerschreck anti-tank rocket launcher, the Panzerfaust 60 had the huge advantage of cheapness and simplicity of manufacture which resulted in them being issued in enormous quantities to all frontline combat units, second-line garrison troops and Volksturm home guards. Production started in September 1944 and called for 400,000 pieces per month. This figure was met by October 1944 but by then the request had been increased to 1.5 million per month. This was almost achieved in December 1944 with close to 1.3 million produced.

| The Panzerfaust 60 was commonly fired from the crook of the arm. Despite its seemingly easy usage and the fact that simple instructions were printed on each weapon, accidents commonly occurred because of wrong handling by often ill-trained personnel, and sometimes also because of material defects in the weapons themselves. Although officially a single-use throw-away weapon, the spent tubes of all the various Panzerfaust weapons were usually collected and returned for reloading at the factory

This mod replaces the standard Axis 105mm le FH 18 Field Howitzer in the Mission Builder or Dynamic Mission Editor (DME): Select Create > Artillery > Axis > 105mm Le FH 18 In action in the game, the Waffen-SS Foxhole team will attack any Allied tank or vehicle within range and has the capability to destroy them. WARNING: This modification uses high-resolution (512 x 512) images and should only be installed on computers whose video cards support high-resolution textures. Attempting to install high-resolution textures on a system with a video card which does not support them may cause the game to crash. As this modification introduces very complex 3D objects with large file sizes, unless your pc has sufficient processor power, memory and video card capability, creating multiples of these objects in a mission will greatly reduce your display frame rate and affect game performance. Before installing this or any other custom modification, you are advised to take a backup of your original ww2.sqs archive. Extract the contents of this archive to the WWII Fighters\Data directory. Assuming the default installation, this is: C:\Program Files\Jane's Combat Simulations\WWII Fighters\Data. The files will be extracted to a new directory WWII Fighters\Data\Axis_Foxhole. Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the WWII Fighters\Data\Axis_Foxhole directory. To install, double-click on the Foxhole Installation.bat icon. This will open up a DOS session and the installation will proceed in this window. When the installation is complete, a message saying "DONE...CLOSE DOS SESSION" will be displayed in the window. Close the DOS session by clicking on the 'X' close button in the top right corner of the window. Installation is now complete. Note:- some versions of Windows will automatically close the DOS window after installation is complete. Alan Hutchins Perth, Western Australia August 2005