More North Africans

Had a little time to paint a handful more North Africans. They are shown below. Four more on the painting table. Going to have to order some mounted models - Old Glory - to match these. Maybe some Chasseurs du Afrique too.

Side Distraction

As a side distraction, I am working on a home-variant of Legends of the Old West (LotOW) that zeroes in on the French Foreign Legion's escapades in the North African desert. I think it is working well, and I hope to play it before the end of the year. I'd love to even build a Fort Zinderneuf too!

Here are a couple of photos of some of the non-Legion troops I have painted.

The basic Foreign Legion "posse" would be formed from Hero Types: "Capitaine" and "Sergent" while the bulk of the "Henchmen" would consist of "Legionnaire" and "Legionnaire 2e Classe". Similar to the "Hired Guns" from the rules, you can add these types, as "Auxiliary Henchmen" to your posse in limited numbers: "Zouave", "Chasseur d’Afrique", "Tirailleur", "Spahi" and "Les Joyeux".


I would like to also explore the possibilities of creating posse lists for several of the "Auxiliary Henchmen" types.

However, right now this project is at a bit of an impasse as I wrestle with the concept of using LotOW's "Alamo" supplement's army lists as the basis. While I do think that would be better suited, I like the idea of smaller unit focus found in basic LotOW. I feel that my resistance to the Alamo is unnatural at the moment and need the time to sort it out. Luckily, work is busy and I am spending the vast majority of my spare time learning a new technology in hopes of landing a contract in that technology...so, I have time to let this percolate in the back of my mind.

French Foreign Legion

Below are pictures of my French Foreign Legion miniatures. They are suitable for early WW1 or late 19th century periods. I collected them for some WW1 games, but now that is over and I have no further need for them. So, our club has an annual swap meet & sale at its May meeting, and these guys are now up for sale (25MM Old Glory Miniatures).

The group contains 30 infantry and 4 infantry command as well as 1 mounted officer. There are 2 machine guns and 10 crewmen for those guns. IN addition, there is a 75MM field gun and 4 crew for that gun and an emplacement I built. I also have 32 unpainted "Arab" enemies for the men that I am tossing into the sale for free...oh, and there are 2 more unpainted machine guns with crew.