Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Arab mounted troops for the Middle East WW1

 I've just completed the painting and basing of 8 stands of Arab camelry, and 8 stands of Arab cavalry, for the Middle East in World War 1. These are intended for my preferred rules set Great War Spearhead, and each stand represents the equivalent of a squadron in European terms. The figures are from the Irregular 6mm range.

I am still thinking about the base label format for these, so they are as yet unlabelled.




Cavalry and camelry on the right, the Arab infantry I completed several weeks ago are on the left.

Barring the way to Moscow ... October 1941

Having introduced Murray to WW2 Spearhead in 6mm, we decided to have a look at playing it in 20mm. The issue with this is that, when retaini...