Love the new Tuareg figures, are these a one off pack or are there more planned, once you have recovered Martin.
D&B
I'd say "count the empty boxes on the PP website", Dave :)
Simon
oooh, these are rather nice. I wonder if there are going to be some HMG crew amongst them? If there are and they are integral castings with a Hotchkiss a la the MexRev, all well and good. But for extra versatility a kneeling gunner with hands gripping could be coupled up to an AK47 HMG or even a DuSHka... I will wait with baited breath to see what Martin comes up with! ;D
Neil
I hoped so Simon, but i never 'ass ume' that is the case.
D&B
I make wild assumptions and am then prepared to look foolish afterwards, Dave :D
Simon
I would like to add a couple more packs of Tuaregs. camels.
martin :)
Will the Tuareg range also have modern figures in it so that it can cover Janjaweed or other similar AK47 forces? I'm no expert on Arabic clothing and so would see one lot of flowing robes suitable to cover ancient through to modern. There are doubtless differences but my (lack of) painting skills and dislike for rivet counting, negates these.
Thanks.
Derek of Cambridge
A character suggestion - Laurel and Hardy, with a nod to Sons of the Desert, in Foreign Legion uniforms; a proper Beau jest. Other legionaires could very simply be fashioned from the early WWI French. Definitely showing my age there!
In the modern day wars the Tuareg are wearing close fitting camo uniform.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2012/mali-20-january-2012-news-uk
martin :)
I would guess that in the 60s it was still more traditional garb though. I remember still seeing most Arabs dressed in long robe when I was a nipper in Aden 64-66 and that was town Arabs. I am sure in the countryside that was even more common.
Derek
You may well be right Derek.
I have not looked into it much.
martin :)
The Tuareg in the Alfellaga 1962-64 were in traditional garb and used traditional weapons. They failed because they were outgunned when fighting post war govt. troops with cold war weaponry while they still had the lance and hide shield and the straight bladed takouba sword, similar in many respects to the Sudanese Kaskara. Their Moroccan and Algerian brethren had access to the miquelet lock Kabyle guns as well as bolt action rifles. The predecessors of the modern Azawad Movement of the 80s to the present day had many more orthodox combatants who continued to wear traditional Tuareg garb as a badge of honour while many others did indeed wear combats. There are some interesting pics online of modern combatants and the ubiquitous 'camels' - the Toyota pickups. Google Tuareg Rebellion.
Neil
Thnaks Neil
Useful information.
martin :)
Wow didn't the Toyota do well ? Didn't realised they named a war after it ?
Google "Toyotas at war in Africa"
Goes to show you should make an effort in these vehicles as they are used and relied on a lot.
Miles
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This all seems to have gone into weird stuff. The rules are set in the 1880's.
All this stuff should be on the AK47 pages.
A swirling river of thoughts Les.
martin :)
That's a very definite "yes and no" It would appear that elements of the Tuareg range are usable from C&K via PITS to AK47. The discussion revolves around the degree of weaponry to be made available given, I believe, that we have more or less agreed, that there is no significant changes in Arabic clothing to matter to most people and much weaponry, and shields, seem to have much longevity.
Derek of Cambridge
Indeed, I think I have successfully recreated a 60's Tuareg force using Minifigs and Blue Moon C19 Berbers and Tuareg interspersed with Irregular Afghan Mujahideen, PP Tuareg, Dervishes and AK47 militia with Tuareg headswaps...
Neil
Well post it in the AK47 pages then this is for 1880's British colonial games.
The problem is a lot of their dress even 100 years or so down the line is very similar even if their mode of transport and warfare is not ?
So unfortunately the 2 will overlap, especially as AK 47 is in the foreground of a lot people's minds at the moment!
I have started a separate AK47 vehicle thread in AK47.
Miles
I have to agree with Leslie on this. I look forward to C19th stuff appearing on the forum, so talk of assault rifles and Toyota vans in an 1880s thread seems a bit awry to me. I think a discussion of a figure across various time periods should appear in general discussion, as it is by its very nature general.
Moving the chat to a more general area makes sense. Admin action required? Are there other figures which, rivet counting apart, can cover such a wide historical range?
Derek of Cambridge
Agreed, sorry if I've muddied the Nile waters with my stream of consciousness re Tuareg...
Neil