Gallipoli 1915-16
18 July 2010
ANZAC Troops Advance
As the morning fog cleared the companies of Australian & British Troops moved into the wadi below the height known as Chunuk Bair – their mission to secure the hills on the far side for the following battalions to assault the mastiff itself. The good news was little or no Turkish resistance was expected – no troops had been sighted in the area as this was not the point where the main assault had occurred the first 2 days…
The fog and difficult terrain had delayed the arrival of half the troops, so the Australian Battalion moved off with just 2 of it’s Companies; the other 2, part of it’s MG Platoon, and the supporting Company from a British Battalion were only just arriving up onto the heights and would have to catch up…
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Tags: 1915-1916, 28mm, AAR, ANZAC, Australian, British, Field Guns, Johnny Turk, New Zealanders, Ottoman, TSATF, Turkish, WW1 | 
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11 July 2010
Johnny Turk - 28mm WW1 Turkish Infantry
For quite some time I’ve been wanting to get into some Great War gaming in 28mm using TSATF. As such I have a small force of German Schutztruppe for Africa that can double as pre-WW1 Colonial forces or the German East or West African forces in WW1 (such as von Lettow-Vorbeck’s). A chance purchase on EBay of some Middle East/African theatre WW1 British in Sun Helmets (for use as opponents to the above) led to me acquiring a large force of Turks & ANZACs suitable for Gallipoli & Palestine – so as a result I have now kick-started by 28mm WW1 forces enmasse!
The figures came from the author of a TSATF Great War variant (Andrew Champion) and are available on the Side Shows of the Great War Yahoo Group – Australian visitors may recognise them from a large Gallipoli game staged at CANCON in 2007 by Andrew.
Posted in Gallipoli 1915-16 | Tags: 1915-1916, 1917-1918, 28mm, ANZAC, Australian, British, Caucasus, Field Guns, Johnny Turk, New Zealanders, Ottoman, TSATF, Turkish, WW1 | 2 Comments »
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