The tactics have the wrong man's name on them. In English they are still sometimes called "Hutier tactics," after General Oskar von Hutier, who commanded at Riga in September 1917 — but a French magazine put his name to them, the Allied press ran with it, and Hutier had had no real part in inventing them. The work was Hauptmann Willy Rohr's, done in the Vosges from 1915 with the army's first assault detachment: small squads, grenades and light machine guns, go round the strongpoint instead of charging it. Hutier executed the method well at Riga. He did not devise it. The Germans themselves never called it anything of the sort.

W. Britain has him crouched into the advance, the Gewehr 98 held low and forward, the roll and mess tin riding high on his back. His helmet carries the 1918 camouflage, as the No.2 figure does — the two are sculpted to move together. Note what he is not carrying, though: no grenade bag, no wire cutters, and a full-length rifle rather than a carbine. Build the diorama across broken ground rather than a neat trench line, the pair going past a strongpoint instead of at it, with the ammunition carrier working up behind and the infantryman advancing out on the flank.

W. Britain model 23135. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure advancing on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.