Bolt Action: Late War Free French - Le Tricolore on US Gear [How I Paint Things] 

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You have to feel for the men of the Legion going up against their comrades. Same too with French troops having to fight Vichy forces - under different circumstances and for the stroke of a pen on the map they'd have been brothers in arms. Makes for an interesting opportunity on the tabletop, at the very least, and a fascinating moment in history.

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I found a book about the Legion history called "The Damned Die Hard" and it tells how once the Legion fought against itself when French wasn't the language they all spoke in the early days after it formed. Apparently they were all divided into different groups because of their diverse languages, and one day, an Arab ambush patrol crept up on some Legionnaires who were literally fighting each other to the death at an oasis. They were opposing German and Italian speaking troops, and had a falling out, which quickly turned lethal, much to the amusement of the Arabs. This was when the Legion wore Shako style hats and French Line Infantry Napoleonic style uniforms, with just a blue cummerbund to mark them as Foreign Legion. This incident was the turning point for the Legion, language wise, as they then made French the main language to be spoken, and mixed all the troops together so they had to learn French together. I also found a wonderful book called "Our Friends Beneath The Sands" about the Legion, and its history of the desert outposts up to and including the Algerian campaign. Huge book, but written by actual Legion historians, and very hard hitting about life for those who served in those days. I use these types of books to inspire war games for my various Foreign Legion forces throughout history, but the 1st & 2nd World Wars are what fascinate me the most, as many Legionnaires were fighting against their own countrymen at those times, so must have had quite a few issues to deal with, the same as the Americans who fought for Germany during WW2, after Hitler called for all "True Aryans" to return to Germany and fight for the Fatherland. Even some English troops who were captured, went on to create the Britischer Frei Korps (British Free Corps) who fought on the Eastern Front against the Russians, and there were two Irishmen who actually joined the Waffen SS, too. There's so much history that could be used to create games/scenarios, for Bolt Action or any other WW2 game system, that no two battles would be the same :-) Just watching your Chaos Cultist video too, and having ideas for creating a warband/army for WH40k now :-> Keep up the awesome work, and I'll keep on being inspired :-D

Happy to hear that!

Well, only makes sense, surely! If you've got a late war force, you can include the guys in original French uniforms as FFI units pulled into service and given legacy equipment out of recently recaptured stores... :D

Is the helmet that comes in the Wargames Atlantic kit an Adrian Helmet or are they a bit different?

@@joesturn7740 Yup that's the one; the helmet the chaps in the WW1/2 box set is the Adrian helmet.

I am not! I swear. 😅 I just do a lot of reading!

Sssh, you ain't seen nothin'. 😅

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio hihihi