"10mm Modern French Foreign Legion, and Help With Campaign" Topic

All,

I recently purchased some more modern French to base them up singly for a campaign I plan on running using "No End In Sight." I built up a unit with HQ, Wpns (so far just SAM and 81mm mortar), and six 5-man rifle teams in both 'green' and 'desert,' with assorted vehicle support.

Here's a photo of three AMX-10Ps I picked up:

And who can tell me what kind of an ATGM this is? Looks to me like a Javelin. Do the French use Javelins?

For about 15 more photos, check the blog at:
link

Regarding the campaign, I'm looking to start Tuesday (Veteran's Day). I think I've got the OOB figured out. For the setting, I think I don't need too elaborate a back story. This is the Legion, so they are available for worldwide deployment in service of France's foreign policy objectives. I think I'll stick with real-life countries, with real and imaginary incidents/conflicts. I'm looking at early/mid-90s, with lots of action in the Balkans and Eastern Europe following the break-up of the Soviet Union. I'll be looking a lot at former French colonies, so we'll also have plenty of Northern and Western Africa, maybe some Lebanon, Cambodia, and Laos, maybe some Caribbean, need to look into Central/South America, and the Pacific (terrorists in Tahiti/French Polynesia?).

Whaddaya think? If you've got ideas regarding OOB or campaign hotspots, hurry up with'em!

V/R,
Jack

Milan?

It looks a bit like a Javelin from what I can tell, and a quick check found that France does indeed use them; "76 launchers and 260 missiles for use in Afghanistan."

I continued to Google, because it looks thicker than a Javelin, and the hand placement is different than the Javelin (sorry, I need to get you guys some better pics of the figure), and I think it's this:

the Eryx:

Although it's still not perfect; the figure has a much larger targeting sensor/optic than any of the pics I've found (it doesn't match the Javelin, either).

V/R,
Jack

It is the tripod mount on the mini that might be causing confusion

I went on the tripod, the side 'control' part and what appears to be 'end bit' on the model.

Can you take a photo showing the other side of the figure firing the missile please?

I am beginning to wonder if it is a Milan after all. I found some images with less 'sighting parts' on it:

It is the fact the mini is sitting and the lack of the sight on the top that leans me towards the Javelin, but it could be a type 2 Milan?

All,

For some reason I really want to start off in the Baltics, like the Soviet Union is breaking up and Estonia wants to break away, but internal hard liners want to keep the country Russia-aligned. Estonia's interim government, headed by the cousin of the French President, asks France for help to crush the hardliners before the Russians are able to devote too much attention to keeping Estonia under its sphere of influence. So the Legion is sent in. Then I plan on a Northern Africa; as mentioned, maybe Chad, Libya, or Mauritania. From there, the world is my oyster ;)

For those familiar with my previous FFL campaign, we were following the exploits of Major LaPieux, and his superiors, Colonel Louis-Louis and General Pouspous circa 2013, in the fictional former French colony of Perplakistan. My intent here is to again follow LaPieux and Louis-Louis as they ‘grow up,' with Louis-Louis as the task force commander and LaPieux one of his subordinates.

For my FFL campaign I'm going to put more guys on the table (both sides), a bigger (3′ x 2′) board, and 6″ reserve/out of contact movement. I also plan on my good guys being qualitatively better (pro vs trained/irreg), and usually with the good guys having more troops. I know it sounds backwards, but I like to win ;)

Actually, the point is not winning, the point is that I think this is generally a better concept of modern warfare for Western forces in most encounters: the Western forces are not in danger of being eliminated; ‘winning' is based on accomplishing the mission objective(s) efficiently and with negligible casualties, otherwise the Western commander has ‘lost.' I think this works well as a game at this level as you have to actually fight, not just sit tight (or fall back) and call in supporting fires. Though I reserve the right to fall back and call in supporting fires if I'm really getting my butt kicked ;)

Shelldrake – Stay tuned, I'll try to get you some better photos of the ATGM. I'm pretty sure it's the ERYX though.

V/R,
Jack