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Re: Foreign Legion in Skirmish

No Lewis but did have the CSRG Chauchat early 1920s, later the Madsen and FM24, in 1928 Madsens were issued to some FFL units as there was not enough new FMs available...
So no Madsen/FMs before 1928 only CSRG Chauchats...
The French only used the Stripped Lewis in Aircraft and not as an infantry weapon...

source: "Our Friends beneath the Sands" M.Windrow ch18 n75.

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Re: Foreign Legion in Skirmish

More expense , I always like prone and crouching poses, not a lot of cover in the desert and they look right. As panzer Mayer said when writing about his experiences during WW2 he only stood up and exposed himself to enemy fire once, in Poland ,after that he learnt. So to most soldiers.

Re: Foreign Legion in Skirmish

Too Deserty for me, I fear. Too much dust and sand flying around.:sweat_smile:

Lugging a 'light' machinegun, with sufficient ammunition, spare barrels etc, must have been quite a task in any desert conditions, so I pity the Lewis gunner...regardless of whether he is authentic or not. I don't think I can see a number 2 or 3 for this gun; or have they dropped the spare ammunition and joined the skirmish line already?

Noting Alan's points regarding not standing up in an environment where there is no cover for 'x' miles, is the officer here a casualty? He appears to have stood up bravely, as officers and gentlemen once did, and seems to have taken a bullet?

Re: Foreign Legion in Skirmish

I believe the idea of the FFL using a Lewis Gun comes from the movie "March or Die".

Re: Foreign Legion in Skirmish

A welcome set, but may I suggest more poses for manning a Fort now - men standing and firing downwards, lookout pointing, lookout falling backwards with a head-wound (hit by a bullet perhaps), lookout with binoculars, casualty/dead body hanging over battlements, men peering over battlements, mules being led around, mules and horses standing, bugler, men running to grab rifles, men repelling ladder attacks/incursions, men on guard, men opening ammo boxes, men running with ammo boxes, men pushing fort doors closed, officers pointing etc.

Re: Foreign Legion in Skirmish

Baratheon
A welcome set, but may I suggest more poses for manning a Fort now - men standing and firing downwards, lookout pointing, lookout falling backwards with a head-wound (hit by a bullet perhaps), lookout with binoculars, casualty/dead body hanging over battlements, men peering over battlements, mules being led around, mules and horses standing, bugler, men running to grab rifles, men repelling ladder attacks/incursions, men on guard, men opening ammo boxes, men running with ammo boxes, men pushing fort doors closed, officers pointing etc.
My future wish list is the same as Baratheon's list. Very well said in fact, Barateon! - the whole reason I show his recommendations quoted in my comments. The FFL's history accurately chronicles how many men died serving the French flag. And my favorite movies of them are, in fact, garrisoning the many fortresses and fighting atop the walls. Your camp life very nicely re-creates what it must have been like, in reality when not fighting Arabs - fighting off the effects of "le cafard."

Thank you for posting more fine figures. I'm looking forward to adding these to my collection! :palm_tree: :coffee: :wine_glass:

Recalling in my younger days laughing with friends, in the FFL it would be a life of ... "Wine, women, and song. Now it's 'beer, T.V., and the old lady!" - With all due respect. :innocent:

Re: Foreign Legion in Skirmish

Baratheon
A welcome set, but may I suggest more poses for manning a Fort now - men standing and firing downwards, lookout pointing, lookout falling backwards with a head-wound (hit by a bullet perhaps), lookout with binoculars, casualty/dead body hanging over battlements, men peering over battlements, mules being led around, mules and horses standing, bugler, men running to grab rifles, men repelling ladder attacks/incursions, men on guard, men opening ammo boxes, men running with ammo boxes, men pushing fort doors closed, officers pointing etc.
Now that is a set I would buy.

Re: Foreign Legion in Skirmish

Nice figures but for a Skirmish line there's not too many figures actually firing their weapons. My opinion I would think that there would be a couple of kneeling firing poses. I'll have to borrow figures from other sets to give them some Firepower.

Re: Foreign Legion in Skirmish

Wishes, wishes ... and even more wishes .... Just be happy about these new FFl figures that have never been seen in this way before. If you take all the FFL sets of Strelets together, you have an enormous number of options for representing FFL units in all possible situations. I think that's really fantastic .. right?

I like them... :scream: