Army of the Adrian.

Or A morphable French backed force for between late WW1 and Early WW2

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This is my Attempt to create a gameable force for WW2 covering some of the smaller nations of WW2, without actually having the correct figures available either because of cost of sheer difficulty of getting hold of.

On the Basis of the French WW1 figure, I have the following options available by swapping support weapons and armour. 

In A Green Khaki, this force can serve well as French Foreign Legion of WW1, Or other non French metropolitan troops of WW1, Polish troops of the Russo-Polish War and possible 2nd line troops for 1939, Greeks of the Greco-Turkish War of the Early 1920s, Possibly 2nd line Greeks in 1941, or finally Belgium's or French troops of 1940

If Painted Grey, they could be Italians of WW1, or their reservist that saw combat in Sicily in 1943, or Serbs of 1941.

Finally in the Traditional Horizon Blue they could be 


How does it look?

R-35 tanks. Sold to Romania as well as used by France. deliveries were due for Poland and Yugoslavia but war intervened. These are from the Cromwell Battle ready range and are most excellent models for my needs and come highly recommended.

Revell WW1 figures. Nice figures, now alas out of production. Although the Helmet detail is not so good, they have excellent poses and equipment. Each box comes with 2 Hotchkiss Machineguns with crew and a number of chauchat machineguns. A most excellent purchase if you can find them.

A German 77mm, Cheap in plastic thanks to Emhar. The Crew and horse draw is from irregular. Behind is a Days Gone die cast wagon. It has proved suitable as a supply/command vehicle. I paint such wagons up as indistinctly a possible so that I can mix and match them between forces. German equipment was common as reparations as well as being left behind by units in 1919.

The classic Airfix figures, Now from HAT. Again these could be French, Poles or Romanians. Nice variety of poses but lacking heavy weapons like machine guns. Also you need to buy 4 boxes to get a bicycle company for the rules I use.

The classic French 75mm. Most Eastern European forces either used these, Former German, Former Tsarist Russian or the Skoda guns, all of which would have wound up in their arsenals from the to-and -throw of the war, or the German/Austrian weapons via war reparations.

The Hotchkiss machinegun. I could also use maxim types. This was also used by Poland, though by 1939 it was generally replaced with water cooled Brownings.

Here some of the figures I painted blue/grey. they are supported by an Italian Fiat ZM armoured car. The flag has been painted along the lines of the flag of Hallers Polish forces in France 1917 (AKA the Blue division), it was a religious icon personally blessed by the pope in recognition of Poland's long standing association with the catholic church. I thought it would make a more interesting banner than a plain tricolour, and I could pass it off as a regimental flag in other games. As stated above these could be Yugoslavs in either World war, Italians on the Italian front 1916-18, or indulging in one of Musso's early adventures.

Here some the the Revell figures painted Blue/Grey support a pair of matchbox Renault FT. The FT17 is a Vital piece of equipment for any generic French sponsored army, certainly Poland received many in 1919, and wherever French interventionists were sent, the FT17 followed and was generally left behind afterwards .A good examples of this being Romania, Russia, And some Baltic States.

HaT have a Kit in development.

Here some Irregular lead gun crew, directed by an Escii officer man an Emhar German 77mm gun amongst some ruins 'somewhere in Eastern Europe just after the 1st World War'. A nebulous time and place most suitable for wargaming.

Another view of the FT 17 light tank. This tank eventually served for many nations as far a field as China. No generic army should be without them.

Notes.

HaT are now working on Poles for 1939

SHQ do suitable Polish Cavalry and Horse Artillery.

If Someone ever does in plastic WW1 French in Assault order and tunic (not great coat) it would make much better substitutes, and could even cover Republicans of the Spanish Civil War or the Russian Dare to Die units or Lettish Rifles of WW1/Russian Civil War as several million Adrians were supplied to Russia before 1917.

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