West African troops from France’s colonies provided fierce and loyal troops to the French army in two World Wars. Though raised across France’s territories in west, central and east Africa, they took the title Senegalese in honour of the first black Tirailleur regiments formed in Senegal. buy now in store Ever since the 1850s France…
Following the success of the World War I tanks released late last year, our modellers have been hard at work – and we’re proud to follow-up this week with the release of the French St-Chamond Tank! With much of WWI involving French troops we couldn’t really let the British and Germans have all the glory……
The French army receives new units this week to hold back the German Blitzkrieg – a brand new HQ set as well as the Lorraine 38L armoured carrier: The HQ consists of an officer with pistol (and Gauloises cigarette!), Officer with MAS-38 sub-machine gun, spotter with field telephone and a medic rushing to the aid of…
12 Days of Christmas – Day 4 Today’s treat is a look at these fearsome-looking Senegalese Tirailleurs for the French Army in Bolt Action. Sculpted by Steve Saleh and painted by Andrés Amián they’ll provide something rather different to your army. The Senegalese Tirailleurs were a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army recruited from Senegal, French West…
Patriots had been fighting the Germans ever since the fall of France. Hundreds of small groups were constantly sabotaging rail lines, demolishing German supply depots and sending invaluable information to the Allies. A small movement at first, it grew to over 100,000 members by D-Day. In true cloak-and-dagger fashion, these brave men and women risked torture and death to get…
The 17 year old French resistance fighter known as “Nicole Minet” was a farm girl when the war broke out. A few years later in 1943 she joined the Franc Tireur Partisan Français (which translates to “free shooters”), which was named after the saboteurs who fought the Germans during the Franco-Prussian War. The resistance was…
With the gloomiest time of the year upon us I felt the need to reacquaint myself with some of my more distant relatives, as is only fitting in these darkest days, and so I chose to pay a visit to my late grandmother’s younger sister. Before you click the ‘back’ button in your browser: my grandmother’s name was…
Warlord’s own Dave Matthews presents a historical account of one of the lesser known Napoleonic battles – the Bridge at Lodi. As a somewhat less epic engagement than the likes of Waterloo, it makes a great scenario for the tabletop, so Dave has included suggestions for fighting the battle with Black Powder rules, to enable gamers…
Out today we have two new French Napoleonic sets ready to build your forces for the Battle of Waterloo. Pound the British lines with this 6 pdr Cannon, manned by four characterful crewmen: View in Store Lead the charge with the heroic Marshal Ney and the mounted French officer: View in Store Check out our…
Following their initial victory last week, Bernard Lewis’ German panzers rumbled onward – this week they happened upon a new foe. How would they fare as they clashed with the lend-lease Shermans of Dave ‘Boycie’ Lawrence’s Free French forces? Build-Up to the Battle After the first tank war campaign game, Bernard’s Sd.Kfz 222 command vehicle…
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