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Offline pallard

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #720 on: March 21, 2019, 08:08:15 PM »
Hi Ged
Can this book be downloaded in french or english?
Philippe

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #721 on: March 21, 2019, 09:43:26 PM »
I do not think that you have to belong to what you called an erudite company” to know that a 19c. book called “campagnes au Tonkin” , published by Lavauzelle, scanned, hosted and offered by Gallica thanks to Bibliothèque Nationale de France, has no chance at all to be in English !

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #722 on: March 22, 2019, 07:42:52 PM »
Italwars
I'm sorry for no replying to your first post where you mentioned the link. Just registered and so I'm quite clumsy with the process yet.
You certainly seem to read french. Do you speak as well?
Philippe

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #723 on: March 22, 2019, 08:14:59 PM »
Ged
What a marvellous range this is!
I was planning a colonial Tonkin project for my not-so-far-away old days of retirement... you must be my nemesis, how come can I resist long enough.
Tough times coming with my lady treasurer. Not to say the sheer amount of lead that stands to be painted.
And what about my saharian project (l'escadron blanc chasing Tuareg or Berabers ) on the shelf... with those nice spahis sénégalais begging to join in!
At least you don't do Italians and Ethiopians... my last pure carnal-free dream... as yet!
Philippe

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #724 on: March 22, 2019, 08:17:31 PM »

You certainly seem to read french. Do you speak as well?
Philippe

Ca dépend..peut etre..quand'il s'agit d'une jolie nana ;)

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #725 on: March 22, 2019, 09:09:02 PM »
italwars  en avant mes braves!! ;)

Philippe
I have to admit im a bit partial to la France and the Colonial era
as you rightly say my Sengalise Spahi could be redeployed :o o_o :D

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Ged
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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #726 on: March 23, 2019, 12:44:12 PM »
Italwars, je crois que je pédale dans la pizza là! Français?
Ged, you got me hooked!
Philippe

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #727 on: March 23, 2019, 12:48:02 PM »
What set of rules do you prefer? I'm particularly interested with skirmish level.
Philippe

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #728 on: March 23, 2019, 01:03:45 PM »
Pallard
just written a set with a good mate..for commercial production
apres Salute where they will have their first outing

en avant!!
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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #729 on: March 23, 2019, 01:43:48 PM »
Italwars, je crois que je pédale dans la pizza là! Français?


Mais non Philippe je suis tout à fait Italien de souche ;) and always happy to correspond with French wargamers about their rich military and colonial history.
Me too i love Tonkin campaigns..i must also admit that my favourite wargame and historical research period is French Colonial..(plus in a minor way British, Italian, Belgian and German ones..) above all Afrique Occidentale et Equatoriale Francaise and Maroc..i've plenty of minis for those fronts...Tonkin range seem very interesting..unfortunatly (for me of course) they are big miniatures if compared with other manufactures..but i'm beginning to think that they can be fielded without problems , once painted, with others...i'm just painting, in that very moment, the mounted Raisuli mini from Gringo..as a Moroccan Pasha for a Colonial historical scenario, gamed with The Sword and The Flame rule systhem special amendments for French Colonial era,  setted Morocco that i would like to game this summer....Tonkin range is very tempting above all for figures like Spahis that can be used in various campaigns also in Africa
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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #730 on: March 23, 2019, 09:29:03 PM »
Hi Italwars.So I figured right finally! And the jolie nana stuff would have proved it anyway: you ARE Italian! Great.
I have been quite rough not to first respond to your early welcome, but I was  like a child in a toy store really! I didn't figure that this forum could host such rich material, having read earlier mostly commonplace posts from time to time out of it. I finally decided to log in and to my surprise this is much more interesting than expected!
I once owned The sword and the flame, but that went missing with my last address change. To tell you the truth, I am from the old school and probably a little bit snobish about the modern lack of ambition (to my taste) of many young players, or lazziness of old hands... the old dog is me probably. I just get bored with remarks like "do we have to be Harvard graduates to read these rules" or " I don't want to get headaches with simulations!"    That is why I spoke of "erudition", because it compared to the company I used to play with years ago, to whom such level of knowledge was natural (I was learning much with them). But that once again must be the effect of my aging.
TSATF was my first taste of "modern" rules (I mean post-wrg way). I
admit that this was fun. I however am looking for the set "colonial skirmishes" of old, the one that inspired some parts of the famed "skirmish wargaming" book that you must know of. This is my grail.
Gringo miniatures are large indeed but humans are different anyway and I just received Aztecs from both G40 and The Assault group and intend to use them together


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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #731 on: March 23, 2019, 09:34:06 PM »
Or to be exact, will soon receive Gringo's Aztecs... do I have your confirmation Ged?..; lol

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #732 on: March 23, 2019, 09:38:08 PM »
The boobytrap is here: I did a whole jungle forest for the Amazonians and Mayas that preceded the said Aztecs, so with such fantastic looking Tonkin miniatures and my old book that we talked about having be

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #733 on: March 23, 2019, 09:40:25 PM »
having been on my shelves for so many years!!!

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #734 on: March 23, 2019, 10:11:44 PM »
Did you try The Men That would be kings?
I have some Touareg and french meharistes from Black Hat miniatures. Very nice. So these spahis from Gringo are also very tempting!
You must know the novels from Joseph Peyré: l'Escadron blanc, sous l'Etendard vert and Le chef à l'étoile d'argent. Is there the equivalent in Italy? Because we used to be neighbours too in the sahara, with a few Senoussi in between! Of course I have the Hugo Pratt comics.

 

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