28mm WWII Early War French from Warlord

 All,

Well what do we have here, it's another force I bought off Ebay from King's Colours, of course!  I must admit, whilst I enjoy painting, it's pretty damn cool to get a box in the mail, open it up, and pull out a force that you're immediately able to jump into a game with.  Now I just gotta get jumping into games with them!

This was definitely an impulse buy; I'm not really that crazy about Fall of France, can't see myself really playing it out, over and over.  As a matter of fact, when I decided to do it with my Kampfgruppe Klink it was the first time I'd ever considered playing Fall of France, and when KG Klink was done with it, I figured I was too.  But I saw these guys on Ebay for what seemed a reasonable price, and I'd been collecting early war Germans, and it seemed like you could pit these guys against some early war Germans for some pretty balanced games, and I immediately began picturing my boys going at each other in some Fall of France games, with me umpiring, so I couldn't help but pull the trigger.  Then, to top it all off, another gentleman on Ebay just happened to be selling several light tanks for a very reasonable price, so I scooped those up, too.  I even ordered a 3D printed armored car, though it's languishing on the painting table, primed in green...

The whole mess: four HQ types, four 11-man rifle squads, an MG team, an 81mm mortar team, a 25mm anti-tank gun, a Char B1 bis heavy tank, and three Renault R35 light tanks.

A couple metal Warlord figures, NCO on left and officer on right.

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More metal figures: medic on left, comms guy on right.

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Now we get to the plastics.  We have two squad leaders with pistols; one of the squads consists of Colonial troops, or however the French phrased that.

And two with submachine guns.

Four light machine guns of the FM 24/29 Chatellerault variety.

Four assistants for the squad machine guns.

There are three NCO-looking guys.

Four men with grenade launchers.

Three guys throwing hand grenades.

Three firing their rifles from the off-hand position.

Four taking a knee.

Four cautiously advancing.

Well... four more cautiously advancing ;)

The machine gun team.

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The mortar team.

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The anti-tank gun.  25mm gun, so cute! ;)

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The leviathan, the Char B1 bis tank.

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And the three Renault R35s.

A closeup of the tank commander, color scheme, and decals.

All in all a great deal, ready to hit the table.  I'm pumping these posts out as quickly as I can so I can actually get some guys on the table!

V/R,
Jack