Balkan Wars anyone?

Started by iggy, 19 March 2010, 02:39:04 PM

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iggy

The WW1 range has Serbians in caps ,so how about Montenegran, Bulgarians and Romanians? They would be great for WW1. iggy.

Martyn

There is certainly some mileage there. You could even have the British and French in Greece which makes for an interesting change to the western front.

Leon

I've added these to the list!
www.pendraken.co.uk - Now home to over 10,000 products, including nearly 5000 items for 10mm wargaming, plus MDF bases, Battlescale buildings, I-94 decals, Litko Gaming Aids, Militia Miniatures, Raiden Miniatures 1/285th aircraft, Red Vectors MDF products, Vallejo paints, Tiny Tin Troops flags and much, much more!

Uesugi Kenshin

A war where the lessons learned were virtually ignored by all of the parties that took part in WWI (except the Turks, who got trounced in the first Balkan War).

I have always been fascinated by this war. Surprisingly, little is written about it and even fewer minis are made for it! At the very least, I would love to see the Bulgarians and the Turks made (no, you cant just use WWI Turks!  ;)  ).

If the range did well with those two armies, Serbs, Romanians & Greeks could follow.

Anyone else with me?

Reading material for those not familiar with the period or on the fence:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_wars
http://forum.uniforminsignia.net/viewtopic.php?t=3656
http://www.amazon.com/Balkan-1912-1913-Jacob-Gould-Schurman/dp/1153693852/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271931998&sr=1-3
http://www.amazon.com/Balkan-Wars-1912-1913-Prelude-Warfare/dp/0415229464/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271931998&sr=1-6
http://www.amazon.com/Defeat-Detail-Ottoman-Balkans-1912-1913/dp/0275978885/ref=sr_1_25?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271932094&sr=1-25

I appreciate any comments/ input!


Leon

I've put these on the lists.  We've had a couple of requests for things in this area, but we'd have to finish the WW1 range off first.
www.pendraken.co.uk - Now home to over 10,000 products, including nearly 5000 items for 10mm wargaming, plus MDF bases, Battlescale buildings, I-94 decals, Litko Gaming Aids, Militia Miniatures, Raiden Miniatures 1/285th aircraft, Red Vectors MDF products, Vallejo paints, Tiny Tin Troops flags and much, much more!

Uesugi Kenshin

Bulgarians would be great for use in the 1912-13 Balkan Wars. Then all we would need is some Turks in Fez!  ;)

RedRoy

Balkans wars for me please!
The armies mobilised were between 40,000 and 300,000 in size.
The national air arms were between 0 and 5 planes
Everyone used a variety of Maxims and combinations of modern German and French artillery along with older breech loaders without recoil systems (the mountain gun version of the French 75 was very popular).

First the Balkans states joined forces to grab land from the Turks then in the second war grabbed land from each other.

When this moves into 1914-18 almost everybody has troops fighting in this theatre. You can just about do the whole army of each combatant if you do Division level I think.

I only discovered this all about a month ago but it will be my "project" for 2012 which quiet by accident will be the 100 year anniversary


Sandinista


Elliesdad

Quote from: Sandinista on 28 August 2011, 08:56:21 AM
A book by a war correspondent

http://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Correspondence-Leon-Trotsky-1912-13/dp/0913460680

I often wondered what happened to the author.
Then someone told me apparently "He got an ice pick. That made his ears burn."

So there you go.