My friend Rob just returned my WWI armies to me, that he had been storing for a while. So naturally it is time for an Armies on Parade post.
A quick count came up with the following numbers (note that this for Western Front only, doesn't include all the British Empire types for Gallipoli/East Africa/Mespot/Palestine etc, as those are in my Jamjhar collection):
Germans 1914-15
208 line infantry (mix of headwear types),
16 jaegers,
6 Maxim medium machine guns
15 cavalry (10 Uhlans, 4 hussars, one dragoon)
17(+) officer types
3 77 mm Field guns
French 1914-15 (these figures are worse for wear, and are overdue for a paint touch up!)
50 line infantry, 21 Zouaves, 6 officers, 2 Hotchkiss MG, 2 75mm field guns
British/Canadians 1914-15
61 line infantry,
28 Highlanders, 16 Lowlanders
2 Vickers MG (plus one team transporting their gun)
16 officers
6 18-pdr field guns, plus a trench catapult
Canadians 1916-18
29 Highlanders,
45 line infantry
3 Lewis gun teams, 2 rifle grenadiers
8 officers
1 Whippet tank, 1 Mk4 male tank, 1 Rolls Royce Armoured Car, 1 Armoured Autocar, 5 dismounted tank crew
My scratch-built Canadian Armoured Autocar!
and assorted signallers, casualties, stretcher bearers, and others.
