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Re: Wish List

1) 1940 British, including ATRs, 2" mortars, Vickers.
2) 1920s/1930s armed civilians - good for VBCW, Spartacist revolt, possibly even SCW.
3) Armed British police - fairly generic from about 1900 to 1930s.
4) WW2 Chinese Nationalists.
5) WW2 Chinese Communists.
6) RCW militia/partisans.
7) 1920s/1930s Royal Navy armed sailors.
8) RCW Sailors (Kronstadt revolt).
9) WW2 Greek army.
10) WW2 Greek ELAS partisans.
11) British SOE advisers and experts. e.g. demolition experts.

Re: Wish List

Dear all,
If we have to buy 10 boxes, they have to be something ‘generic’.
I would echo
1. European colonial infantry 1860-1900 - bare heads or cloth caps, minimal webbing would let some be French, Italian as well as British.
2. Indian subcontinent - mutineers or irregulars: just a musket and traditonal dress would make them hugely flexible.
3. Afghan/baluchi folk from ~1880 could serve as Muslim warriors for a wide range of times and places.
4. I think the idea of figures with hardly any defining uniform is very clever - could act as gunners, ammunition carriers, cooks, pioneers, wagoners for multiple periods and armies have always had many such folk working in casual kit. Even regular infantry would not wear much uniform when doing seige work. And sailors...

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Here is my wish list:

1. Vichy French troops - Casablanca
2. Mexican revolution
3. Vietnam war - including Australian, South Korean, Cambodia, Laos
4. French Foreign Legion
5. Italian Colonial troops 1800
6. Neapolitan troops
7. WW2 - Royal Navy, Filippino guerillas, Bulgarian Army, Chinese armies (nationalist /communist), Greek army, Albanian Army, Norwegian Army, Danish Army)
8. French Army post WW2 in Algeria & Indo China
9. Modern French & Chinese Armies & North Korea
10. Cold war - Cuban Army
11. Israeli Army 1967 & Arab World- Eygpt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon
12. Napoleonic navy (Eygptian campaign) & Mameluke army
13. General Aleskander Suvarov Army 1899

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Ancients: Decent Macedonians (Light and Heavy Sarissa Phalanx - five ranks leveled fighting/punching, one rank at 45° and further ranks straight upwards sarissas), Thureophoroi (like the contibution of the seleucid/ptolemaic infantry men), light troops from Hellas, Anatolia, Eastern Iranian provinces and Egyptians, Egyptian Machimoi, Tarentine Horsemen, Heavy Companion Cavalry and Seleucian Cataphractoi for Magnesia

Medieval: Byzantians

Modern: Guns Guns Guns!

Re: Wish List

royal naval brigade 1914 royal marines 1914 scottish infantry 1914 tams/glengarrys scottish bef 1940 retooled boar /sudan british infantry ffl bir harkim 1941/42 us infantry/marines 1900 1940 bef gas masks on chest and all rifes

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1.pack animals interchangeable loads so can be used for different eras
2.generic era supply troops,medical,camp followers
3.vietnam era
4.german paratroopers for Crete,Russia,Normandy,also specialist troops ie mussolini rescue,Tito assasination attempt,and supply echelons and heavy weapons
5.British paratroopers Sicily,Normandy,Arnhem also raiding parties for demo work and specialized weapons
6.American paratroopers north Africa,Normandy,specialized units and weapons
7.ww2 Italian units naval ,infantry,specialized,paras,heavy weapons ...early war,Africa,Russia,Italy
8.ww2 Balkan units
9.ww1colonial units
10.arab Israeli wars


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I agree with all of the above! And here are some more, in no particular preference order:

1. French Foreign Legion - Heavy Machine Gun Squads(circa 1900-1920 North Africa)
2. WWII Gurkhas (Japanese invasion of Burma/Malaya/India) - in attack, jungle patrol
3. Napoleonic British 95th Rifles - in SAM formats
4. WWII Indian Infantry (Japanese invasion of Burma/Malaya/India) - in attack, jungle patrol
5. US Buffalo Soldiers (Plains Indian Wars) - mounted and dismounted
6. US 7th Cavalry (Plains Indian Wars) - in defence (Custers Last Stand), mounted and dismounted
7. WWII Chindits (Japanese invasion of Burma/Malaya/India)- in attack, jungle patrol
8. WWII Malay Regiment (Japanese invasion of Burma/Malaya/India)- in attack, jungle patrol
9. WWII Burmese Army (Japanese invasion of Burma/Malaya/India)- in attack, jungle patrol
10. Imperial Roman Generals, Centuria, Command Set - mounted and dismounted
11. Native American Indian Scouts (ACW/Plains Indian Wars, some dressed in full or partial uniform)- mounted and dismounted

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Some great suggestions on this list. My own in no particular order

1. Vandals mounted and dismounted
2. WW1 Turkish Infantry in winter gear
3. Pack animals suitable for all periods-different types of loads could be included
4. Byzantine Cavalry -multiple sets regular and irregular
5. WW2 Tito`s partisans
6. Indian Mutiny - a range of sets starting with rebelling sepoys
7. WW1 Bulgarian Army
8. RCW Anarchists including Machine gun teams & Strelets Blue Coat Division
9. Roman Mob rioting
10.WW2 Greek Mountain Troops

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1 Late roman infrantrymen (auxilia palatina, legio palatina, limitanei.... all kind of troops !)
2 Late roman cavalrymen (scholae palatina, vexillatio...)
3 Vandals
4 Alan Cavalry
5 Franks
6 Early Byzantine (From Justinian to Mauricius) : exkubitors, bucellarii....
7 French troops of Indochine War & Algerian War(foreign legio, parachutistes, infanterie coloniale...)
8 Vietminh rebels of Indochine War
9 FLN troops (algerian rebels)
10 5O's random civilians

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I agree with these as well especially indian scouts,could also be used for acw era as both sides used Indians,the pack animals would sell really well as could be used for nearly all eras and theaters as pack animals used even now!!!!

Also French and proxy's in Indochina ,1960 colonial period many useful conflicts

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Hi @ll,

in my opinion there are too less civilians in all campaigns.
Strelets has a lot of civilian sets in the ancient or dark ages campaign but for example in the acw or especial in ww1 or ww2 there are too less figures on the market.

ACW:
Field hospital (doctors, surgeons, nurses, wounded soldiers, visitors)
Politicians (lincoln, davis, etc.)
Refugees
Cotton plantations owner with field workers
Slaves
Battlefield sightseers

WW1 & WW2:
Refugees (germans, european, russian)
Life on farms & towns
Workers & Scientists
Camps

best regards

Christian