Tuaregs

[Wardy64]

Love the new Tuareg figures, are these a one off pack or are there more planned, once you have recovered Martin.

D&B

[Colonel Kilgore]

I'd say "count the empty boxes on the PP website", Dave

Simon

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

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!

Neil

[Wardy64]

I hoped so Simon, but  i never 'ass ume' that is the case.

D&B

[Colonel Kilgore]

I make wild assumptions and am then prepared to look foolish afterwards, Dave 

Simon

[martin goddard]

I would like to add a couple more packs of Tuaregs. camels.

martin

[Bankinista]

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

[Leman (Andy)]

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!

[martin goddard]

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

[Moggy]

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

[martin goddard]

You may  well be right Derek.
I have not looked  into it much.

martin

[sukhe_bator (Neil)]

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

[martin goddard]

Thnaks Neil
Useful information.

martin

[Smiley Miley 66]

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

[Leslie BT]

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.