"Armies of Ethiopia for Bolt Action" Topic

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cbaxter	18 Mar 2014 10:13 p.m. PST
I worked on a home grown supplement for Bolt Action for doing the Invasion of Abyssinia. link
Porthos	19 Mar 2014 6:12 a.m. PST
Marvellous ! Thank you !
magister equitum	19 Mar 2014 8:44 a.m. PST
Interesting, I think you should add light machineguns, at least for the regulars. The imperial guard had them, they used a swedish model (I don't remember its name). Other regulars could have less, the fact is that, except for the guard, weapons varied widely between units, time and sectors. Almost everyone carried its traditional curved sword even if armed with modern weapons, some even the shield. By this time units armed only with hand-to-hand weapons should very rare, only the poorest of the local levies. The ethiopians had mostly firearms already in 1896. I remember reading about an old Ras who had fought at Adowa and died in 1936 during an ambush on an italian convoy, he carried a submachinegun.
CooperSteveOnTheLaptop	19 Mar 2014 12:06 p.m. PST
Would the LMG be the Madsen?
magister equitum	19 Mar 2014 12:32 p.m. PST
Yes it was danish (not swedish) and the Madsen of course! I found some photos in an old magazine issue, I'll post them soon
magister equitum	19 Mar 2014 1:14 p.m. PST
Levy with old rifles: postimg.org/image/hdqdquf1z Haile Selassie with a hotchkiss machine gun postimg.org/image/9upzztch9 Imperial guard postimg.org/image/46wmb4241 Soldiers of a local Ras postimg.org/image/lzewrnl2l Madsen Lmg postimg.org/image/dldkrkfvv Two fallen ethiopians with a lmg postimg.org/image/oflbj8sj1
Mooseworks8	19 Mar 2014 5:58 p.m. PST
Good book, thank you!
McSorley	20 Mar 2014 5:58 a.m. PST
Excellent contribution. Thank you.

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