"28mm WWII Early War French from Warlord" Topic

All,

Well what do we have here, it's another force I bought off Ebay from King's Colours, of course! I must admit, whilst I enjoy painting, it's pretty damn cool to get a box in the mail, open it up, and pull out a force that you're immediately able to jump into a game with. Now I just gotta get jumping into games with them!

This was definitely an impulse buy; I'm not really that crazy about Fall of France, can't see myself really playing it out, over and over. As a matter of fact, when I decided to do it with my Kampfgruppe Klink it was the first time I'd ever considered playing Fall of France, and when KG Klink was done with it, I figured I was too. But I saw these guys on Ebay for what seemed a reasonable price, and I'd been collecting early war Germans, and it seemed like you could pit these guys against some early war Germans for some pretty balanced games, and I immediately began picturing my boys going at each other in some Fall of France games, with me umpiring, so I couldn't help but pull the trigger. Then, to top it all off, another gentleman on Ebay just happened to be selling several light tanks for a very reasonable price, so I scooped those up, too. I even ordered a 3D printed armored car, though it's languishing on the painting table, primed in green…

French leadership.

Four light machine guns of the FM 24/29 Chatellerault variety.

A trio of NCOs.

The anti-tank gun. 25mm gun, so cute! ;)

And the leviathan, the Char B1 bis tank.

To see a bunch more photos, please check the blog at:
link

All in all a great deal, ready to hit the table.

V/R,
Jack

The three smaller tanks identified in the photos on the link are actually H35s and not R35s.

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Nice pickup Jack. The Crusader French are also pretty nice.

Thanks, Gamertom, I have a hard time discerning what is what when it comes to some of the more obscure vehicles.

I appreciate it, Fitzovich!

Thanks, Cardinal, and as you've seen, I'm definitely a fan of Crusader and Artizan as well.

V/R,
Jack

Very nice work!

Thanks!

Jack

Good stuff! But why are you not a fan of the 1940 campaign, if you don't mind my asking? I for one am a huge of the wacky camos and vehicle oddities fielded by the French.

Thanks!

Regarding Fall of France (and the Low Countries), I think it's just that it doesn't seem particularly dramatic, that it was over so fast, with the Allied armies basically just being run over and having circles run around them. I understand that there was heavy fighting in some locations at the tactical level, but largely the Allies were just stomped at the operational level, and even in the instances of heavy fighting there don't seem to be anything that really stands out to me.

Having said that, the period has never really grabbed me and so I'm not particularly well read on the subject; if anyone can recommend some good reading on tough, tactical level fighting, I'd love to jump into it.

V/R,
Jack

If you ever get tired of them, I will take them off your hands. I love the Fall of France period and have been collecting for a big paint up.

I'll keep that in mind ;)

Jack