New Russo-Japanese range previews!

Started by Leon, 11 October 2022, 11:05:45 PM

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sultanbev

Great stuff! Not my period of interest, however full army lists are available in the MicroMark collection over on the Wargames Vault, cheaper than ever now the pound has been shortened.

The sailors look like they may be useful for multiple era/armies.


sultanbev

Hmmmm, am wondering if those Japanese cavalry can be used for WW2 Thai/Siam cavalry..


Existing WW2 French infantry will do for Thai infantry.

GrumpyOldMan

QuoteHmmmm, am wondering if those Japanese cavalry can be used for WW2 Thai/Siam cavalry..


Existing WW2 French infantry will do for Thai infantry.

Hello sultanbev

You could always use the WW1 British cavalry in cap with sword BP53 if they're not right -


Nevertheless a very handy range and I can see RCW, Chinese warlords, etc getting some new recruits from all these additions.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

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Just hurry up and paint "Oh, my God, it's uncle Richard !"..and send me a piccy.  :P

Baldrick is underway. ;)

I'll do this later

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Scott Blair

Morning Forum!

First off-loved the snowball quip!

I am the mad ( or sad)  man who commissioned this range. It reflects years of interest in this war which some historians are now calling World War Zero. Lots of hints in the conflict of what was to come and it of course laid the way for Pearl Harbour in more ways than one.

It has great scope as a period and when combined with some of the lovely ship models out there from 1/600 Old Glory to 1/6000 Hallmark, and perhaps some of the boardgames out there, you have the makings of great combined arms miniatures campaigns.  I favour 1/2400 War Times Journal models. For land battles I have used Bloody Big Battles inspired by the Two Marshals Blog. Bloody Picnic works and am also looking at WW1 Spearhead.

I am really  excited and really grateful to Techno for sculpting and to Leon for agreeing to this one. 

Ok, some more thoughts.

Can the figures be used for other periods? Definite use for WW1, not least the Russians-and also for RCW. Effectively the same kit and even some of the heavy weapons have later use. For example the M1900 field gun was a reserve weapon in WW1.

Japanese and Russians could see service in the Boxer Rebellion ( and I think that period is on a to do list for Leon somewhere). Japanese could fight Chinese in 1894/95. Russians in what if encounters with Boer War British on the NWF.

And can you use WW1 and other codes to supplement? Yes. The 76.2mm field gun from the Russian WW1 range was the gun which became the main field gun weapon in the RJW and saw a lot of service with the Russians and also, when captured, by the Japanese. So that code can be used with the new range. In addition most of the WW1 and RCW codes are of use.  Not least cavalry and cossacks.

As for extras-well-I am a bit of a sad completist.

Techno is now doing-

1. Russian Frontier Guard gunners and mounted.

2. Russian improvised trench mortar and crew.

3. Japanese improvised trench mortar and crew.

4. Japanese assault engineers ( for those Port Arthur moments).

5. Dismounted cossack Madsen LMG and crew (a Danish weapon and the first LMG to see action ever-and still in use by the Brazilian police on drug cartel raids).

6. Japanese with captured Madsen LMG.

7. Mounted and dismounted Chunchu irregulars.

I am also really stunned at the lovely comments from the Forum for a topic that is so off beat but has such great potential. As ever thanks!

No doubt I will ramble on more in due course.....

Scott 






 

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Hi Scott. Looks like you got a good one, enjoy em. like I said earlier not my period.
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DecemDave

QuoteI am the mad ( or sad)  man who commissioned this range.

Well thank you for adding this to our ever-growing options    :-bd

Scott Blair

 Lord Kermit, December Dave! Much appreciated there all round.

 I am also getting some more AWI sculpts done by Clibanarium so maybe temptation lies there....

Cheers
Scott


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fred.

Hi Scott - thanks for funding the sculpting of this range  =D>

Not sure Russo-Japanese war is for me, but WWI Russians might be a possibility - especially as a mate said he already has Austrians (and Germans).
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Cheers Fred, my pleasure.
I have WW1 Turks and can see me doing a Caucasus set up with the Russians. With the RJW and WW1 ranges you can do so much.
Scott

fred.

Turks, hmm

We have talked about doing that theatre as well. Frankly we've probably talked about doing most of them!

But hadn't thought of Turks vs Russians
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Hi Fred,

Turks would be an interesting opponent for the Russians in Black Sea and Caucasus theatres. You could even involve the British. Dunsterforce is of course post 1917 but no reason why you could not do hypothetical British involvement pre-Revolution.
I am looking to paint up my own Pendraken Turks to oppose the Russians.
As I said, the new RJW releases have great potential.

Scott

fred.

Lots of options then! Which doesn't help

Probably need to finish my 4 in-progress WWI armies first. Although 3 of them are very much at the playable stage, and the 4th the early-war British has been on the table too. 
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