Thursday, July 6, 2023

Middle East forces for WW1

 The ME project is gaining momentum.. the available British infantry are complete, and now it's the divisional assets: HQ, some artillery, and two Rolls Royce armoured cars. I am at the moment simply painting the contents of the Irregular Miniatures Middle East division al pack. Using the higher troop density I prefer (2 figure strips to a base) the pack doesn't make a complete Great War Spearhead division. It also lacks trench mortars for later war. The Turkish division similarly will no doubt not make a complete division. So there will be an additional order, a 'gap filler' if you like, It may in fact be most cost effective to order another two division al packs, and then the TMs, MMGs and artillery, to fill the gaps. The British pack comes with trucks that won't be useful. But that may be a small price to pay.


Rolls Royce armoured cars



The pack came with four 18pdr and crew

The divisional HQ

I have more base labels to print off, labels I had forgotten at the time.

Onto the Galician plains 1914/15

Jon and I thought we'd try to get a little Great War Spearhead mojo back, so I set up a 1914/15 eastern front game between Russians and ...