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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: italwars on September 12, 2019, 05:27:10 PM
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hello
being in the process of digitalising my archive i find some images from an old Ialian magazine that i share here..maybe could be useful to foreign wargamers of the period:
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some more..among them a Lybian Askari ...a purposly formed sort of élite Lybian Brigade fought also in Ethiopia..those soldiers being Muslims were extremely happy to fight and giving no mercy Vs Coptic/Christian Ethiopians....i must admit not the best fairplay on the part of Italians:
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a few more
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among them also the Alpini Mountain troops...Ethiopia also if in Africa had quite a few rough mountain ranges
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still have more if interersted
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Excellent plates - pity that Empress seems to have neglected this range.
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Fantastic resource. Love it and would love seeing more!
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Oh crap .
Very tempted.
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Fascinating stuff... thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for sharing.
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Very useful stuff!
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Great ! Thank you very much, I downloaded them immediately. I for one would be happy to have more !
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Great stuff! I love all the images of the Askari. That is something that has always been of interest to me.
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Great pictures thanks for posting them!
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They fantastic illustrations. I'm sure they will inspire many with a interest in the period
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Italwars, beautiful plates, highly inspirational! Thank you for sharing my friend.
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you're welcome
happy that you liked it
i have some others but i realized that, also if dealing with Italian East Africa, they refer more to the 1940 WW2 campaign..in fact Italo ethiopian war never ended..Italy was'nt able to conquer the whole country before the Allied invasion..in my opinion for the sake of continuity and also because the appearance of the fighters is the same or very similar (of course Italian tankers and SADF soldiers are out of topic) i could post those plates in this very section, also if labelled , "Interwar" ..but sorry to the moderator if i did wrong..he will probably remove it and i'll post them again in the WW2 section..among them a native constabulary of the PAI (Italian African Police) on motorcycle and sporting a special version of the weapon/bayonet designed especially for this unit ..
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Cracking! Thank you for sharing!
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Love the pose of that radio man.
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Very nice illustrations. I just came across these while painting some of the new Eureka miniatures Askari for the latter campaign. Very inspiring and previously unavailable illustrations here. Thank you for the effort!
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Thanks for sharing. I have recently finished a (fiction) book set in this period.
Two blokes & a girl get involved with selling the Ethiopians some dodgy old
armoured cars. Can't remember the title, though it is something like Wolf's Call,
as it is with Vodkafan at the moment. Lots of great ideas for games in it, &
Empress do some lovely figures.
MUST RESIST!!!! MUST RESIST!!!!
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Great, Italwars, thank you very much ! And of course I will not resist for more than about two seconds ;-)))))
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Excellent! Many thanks for sharing!
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thanx for sharing...another period to game..sigh...
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This is awesome - gives me some help with my North Africa WW2 Italians...
Thank you!
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Beautiful plates, wonderful references, thanks for posting these!
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Thanks for sharing. I have recently finished a (fiction) book set in this period.
Two blokes & a girl get involved with selling the Ethiopians some dodgy old
armoured cars. Can't remember the title, though it is something like Wolf's Call,
as it is with Vodkafan at the moment. Lots of great ideas for games in it, &
Empress do some lovely figures.
MUST RESIST!!!! MUST RESIST!!!!
I think the book is Cry Wolf by Frederick Forsyth?
Love the pictures, I wish Empress had done the Somali dubats and more Eritreans.
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Cry Wolf is Wilbur Smith rather than Frederick Forsyth, James. It is about armoured cars in Ethiopia, though.
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Thanks guys, it is Cry Wolf. Good read, my copy is with Vodkafan at the moment.
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It may be a coincidence, but I think the 1980s Italian comic book Bab-el-Mandeb by Attilio Micheluzzi is based on that - two chaps, a girl and a pair of Rolls' bound for Abyssinia... a bit akin to Corto Maltese in style, albeit not quite there. Still an interesting read with nice imagery, if you can find it.
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Cry Wolf is Wilbur Smith rather than Frederick Forsyth, James. It is about armoured cars in Ethiopia, though.
Ah yes! Not read it for maybe thirty years
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unfortunatly for wargamers like me that prefer to stage on tabletop only historical events , the Ethiopian army never employed any true AFV. They had at their disposal one or maybe even 2 tanks given as gift by us Italians before the escalation to war...but, in the best tradition of African satraps they were keep in the Royal Palace barracks for fear to have them fallen in the hands of other Ras ...Hailé Selassié was loved by his Hamara lords and people but had a lot of ennemies in the rest of his large empire....
anyway i have to find among my files a small battle map and a report of actual use of "armoured" Ford trucks armed with Oerlikon MG/cannons that, in the Somalian front, countered the advancing Italian motorised columns supported by Lancia Armoured Cars...in the subsequent action i remenber to have read that a pair of Egyptian officers and a Belgian advisor were captured..the last one being immediatly released by Italians..so we can say that we had a sort of armoured skirmish even in Ethiopia 1935
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Italwars, I hope you can find that map and battle report. If so please post.