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I am a devoted collector of FFL, but, I've never heard of this gun. I thought that most of the Legion at this time was deployed to the Western Front or to Gallipoli. I'm assuming I just paint the figures as shown on the box cover and use them to fight North Africans. Am I correct? Does anyone have a helpful photo or information about this? Do I need to wait for some new Legionnaires, or will those issued so far by Strelets be good.
the 37mm gun was used by the french right up to 1940 the legion in 1914 sent half there manpower to france the rest those staying were mainly german and austrians but remained loyal to france hope that helps
Good job I ordered those extra tents , accommodation is at a premium and more coming in. The fort is bursting !
As my attitude to historical timelines is extremely flexible anything within the same century will do.
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So we got WWII Japanese and FFL crews for 1916, how about WWI US Army crews too?
Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog
This was included in the French WW1 heavy weapons set that HaT proposed a very long time ago. As this set is very unlikely to appear it would be an obvious idea to do this artillery piece with French WW1 troops.
Martin Windrow mentions it in his book "Our Friends Beneath the Sands" as supporting the FFL which took heavy casualties in a battle against the Riffs in 1925, so definatly post war... though they proved to be ineffective in the rocky terrain.... Mortars likely stokes or similar are also mentioned as supporting, so the crew may work for those as well.
1916 is the date the gun was accepted by the Army Commission not specifically the FFL.