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Alan, how much stock do you have left? Are any nationality sold out yet?
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Sometimes. Some nationalities get fewer. Just because.
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Currently Russians are only available as Scratch & Dent. A few others are getting low. My die-cutter is not an essential service (though my printer is), so it may be a month or more before I can restock.
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Just placed an order for the US Army and the British. Thanks!
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Indeed. If you have the counters in stock for long enough then I will probably pick them up in bits and pieces over time. Buying the whole lot in one go is too much financial commitment.
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I am liking those!
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Just one thing: This tone of green for legionarios is only when wearing the tunic. If using only the shirt, the tone is a very pale green, of which the legionarios showed (and show) particular pride; and usually with sleeves rolled up. Only to add a little chrome...
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What is the status of the morale of these units? They may be underlined?
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They are Replaced by 2 HS, but they don't have a default 5 ELR. That's how I'm reading CH's explanation. And for non-CH scenarios that don't utilize that feature, just ignore.
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I was wondering about that, but thought I'd play it safe. I'll work on de-tunic-ing them over the next couple of days.Just one thing: This tone of green for legionarios is only when wearing the tunic. If using only the shirt, the tone is a very pale green, of which the legionarios showed (and show) particular pride; and usually with sleeves rolled up. Only to add a little chrome...
In the meantime, here's the Nationalist Army...
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I think they should put their tunics back on.
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They don't look particularly muscular to me. Maybe 1930s rations were not as good as those of today.
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They didn't have fast food and they were outside working all day.
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I don't think so. The shirt was a distinctive mark of la Legión, always so avid of accumulate distinctive tracts to foment their esprit de corps. The regular army was more strict about uniformity and so the tunic was mandatory, unless a) weren't enough uniforms to equip all the personnel or, b) the heat was so appalling as to result an inconvenient clothing. Of course, the more "regular" was the army, more uniformed was. I am speaking of the nacionales, of course. The Republican or Loyal army was more eclectic about uniforms, until was put in order about 1937, if I'm not wrong. But even so was equipped with all that could be found, giving a bit of an impression of patchwork.
Speaking about this, what, no steel helmets?
And we come to the problem aforementioned. There were steel helmets of all types, and all were used: French Adrian, Czech helmets... But the star and most used was the Trubia m26 helmet, and it's the iconic steel helmet of the SCW. In both armies. You may see it here:
https://www.lne.es/asturias/2010/11/04/trubia-puso-primeros-cascos/989612.html
But, again, there weren't enough to equip all soldiers. It's only a estimation made after seeing hundreds (thousands?) of photos, but I'd say that only 1 in every 4 was equipped with a helmet.
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