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Re: World War I - What's Left To Do?

Never too late for another tedious wish list, isn't it? :sweat_smile:

1914
- Austrian early (advancing) infantry & machine gun crews
- Austrian early cavalry (Dragoner, Husaren & Ulanen)
- Austrian artillery crews (light & medium field guns)
- Serbian early infantry usable for Balkan Wars as well
- Serbian early artillery crews (light or medium field gun) Balkan Wars
- German early (advancing) infantry & MG crews
- German artillery crews (light & medium field guns)
- German early cavalry (updated Husaren, Ulanen & Dragoner)
- German Marinekorps Flandern
- French early (advancing) infantry & Zouaves with MG crews
- French early cavalry (Dragoons & Chasseurs) largely usable for FPW
- Belgian early infantry & MG crews
- Belgian early cavalry (Lancers & Chasseurs)
- Belgian Carabineers with MG crews
- Ottoman (advancing) infantry & MG crews usable for Balkan Wars
- Ottoman artillery crews (light & medium field guns) Balkan Wars
- Ottoman mountain gun with crew Balkan Wars
- Ottoman regular & irregular cavalry (diff. headgear options) Balkan Wars
- British artillery crews in Palestine/Mesopotamia (QF 13-pdr field gun)
- German Schutztruppe East- & Southwest-Africa (infantry & mounted)
- Japanese infantry usable for RJW as well
- Japanese artillery crews (light or medium field gun) RJW

1915
- Austrian Gebirgsinfanterie (Stand-/Landesschützen & Kaiserjäger)
- Austrian mountain gun with crew
- Italian mountain gun with Alpini crew
- Italian cavalry (Lancers & Light Cavalry)
- Italian artillery crews (light or medium field gun)
- Italian Bersaglieri cyclist infantry & MG crew
- German Alpenkorps
- Mule trains appropriate to mountain warfare
- ANZAC infantry & MG crews
- ANZAC artillery crews with light field gun
- Bulgarian early infantry & MG crews usable for Balkan Wars
- Bulgarian artillery crews (light or medium field gun) Balkan Wars
- Austrian infantry & artillery crews in Turkey & Palestine
- Indian crew with mountain gun
- Canadian infantry, MG & artillery crew (1 or 2 special tribute sets) :+1:

1916
- French "1916+" infantry & support weapons usable for post-WWI conflicts
- German "1916+" infantry & support weapons
- Austrian "1916+" infantry & support weapons
- Romanian infantry usable for the Balkan Wars
- Romanian artillery crews (light or medium field gun) Balkan Wars
- Greek infantry & Evzones Balkan Wars
- Bulgarian "1916+" infantry usable up to WWII
- ANZAC Mounted Division (horse-mounted & dismounted)
- Indian Cavalry Brigade (horse-mounted & dismounted)

1917
- Austrian Sturm-Bataillon with support weapons
- German Sturm-Bataillon with support weapons
- German Asien-Korps, infantry & artillery crews
- Ottoman Yildirim Army Group with Assault Battalion
- Italian Arditi assault troops with support weapons
- Portuguese infantry & artillery crew (1 or 2 special tribute sets)

1918
- US infantry with support weapons
- US artillery crew (light or medium field gun)

Generally
- Russian (advancing) infantry & MG crews usable for RJW & RCW
- Russian artillery crews (light & medium field guns) RCW
- Russian cavalry (updated Regulars & Cossacks) RCW
- French Spahis usable for many other conflicts
- French Tirailleurs (north african & senegalese) many other conflicts possible
- Medium & Heavy Trench Mortars/Minenwerfer with crews (A.-H., France, Germany & GB)
- Indian infantry & MG crew
- King's African Rifles
- German Colonial Askaris
- conventional Limbers & Caissons with appropriate numbers of draft animals (France, Germany, A.-H., Russia, GB)
- Sappers for the major belligerents (France, Germany, A.-H., Russia, Ottoman Empire, Italy & GB)
- German & British sailors in battle, on duty or in harbour
- German, French, A.-H. & British Empire pilots + ground crews

Related & Subsequent
- Russian & German sailors revolting
- Communists & Spartacists 1918/19
- Russian & German workers/proletarians revolting
- Russian & German police forces in anti-riot action
- Makhnovists & other fractions of the RCW
- Freikorps 1918-23
- Polish cavalry (Polish–Soviet War 1919-21)
- Greek infantry & Evzones (Greco-Turkish War 1919–1922)
- Irish Volunteers
- Mexican Revolution Zapatistas/Villistas
- US Mexican Expedition, infantry & cavalry

- Monarchs, Political Leaders & relevant characters:
Peter I of Serbia, Franz Joseph I & family, István Tisza, Nicholas II & family, Goremykin, Wilhelm II, Bethmann-Hollweg, Clemenceau, Poincaré, Mehmed V, Enver Pasha, Albert I of Belgium, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, George V, Asquith, Lloyd-George, Kitchener, Hussein bin Ali, Victor Emmanuel III, W. Wilson, Lenin, Trotsky, Krasnov, Rasputin, Constantine I of Greece, F. Ebert, K. Liebknecht, R. Luxemburg, E. Thälmann, Mata Hari, Gertrude Bell, Max v. Oppenheim ...

- General staff & high-ranking or iconic commanders:
Putnik, Bojovic, Erzherzog Friedrich, Ehzg. Eugen, Ehzg. Joseph Ferdinand, Hötzendorf, Józef Pilsudski, Böhm-Ermolli, Alekseyev, Brusilov, Ivanov, Kolchak, Wrangel, Rupprecht von Bayern, Leopold v. Bayern, Wilhelm v. Preußen, Albrecht v. Württemberg, Falkenhayn, Hindenburg, Ludendorff, Mackensen, Lettow-Vorbeck, Tirpitz, Scheer, Hipper, Joffre, Foch, Nivelle, Pétain, Liman v. Sanders, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, Panagiotis Danglis, J.W. & A. Murray, W. Robertson, Allenby, Haig, Jellicoe, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Cadorna, Faisal bin Hussein, W. Birdwood, A. Godley, Pershing ...

- Era-characteristic & country-specific Civilians:
both sexes, all ages, urban & rural, bourgeois & proletarian, agricultural & factory workers, craftsmen, merchants, clerics ...

(reasonable cultural demarcations could possibly incorporate: France-Germany-A.H.(partly)-UK, Russia-Poland-A.H.(partly)-Bulgaria-Serbia, Ottoman Empire-Near East/Arabia)


A bit ambitious some may say, but it easily demonstrates how much more could be done for WWI and connected conflicts.
Really tired of outdated Airfix and frequently insufficient Hät figures. All we effectively have are a few sets (Revell, Emhar, Caesar, Zvezda, Pegasus, Waterloo & recent Strelets figures).

Waterloo1815 are working on a decent set of Arditi and Strelets has several WWI subjects in queque. Let's call it a solid start. :laughing:

I'm fully convinced that the current Strelets style could add essential expansions for this significant period! :wink: :+1: