Hi,
A friend of mine is currently building Blitzkrieg Germans for Bolt Action and so I decided to do some French to oppose him.
I really like the uniforms and the French Armylist has some interesting units to play with.
Looking at the sprues, I noticed there is one Body with high boots and no coat for every 6 men with coat and putees.
Are those officers or could I use them as Dragoons? I don't think they fit in as NCOs, since those mostly wear the same uniform as their squad.
I don't want to waste those Bodies, but I also don't need ten high ranking officers, when buying two boxes. But ten Dragoons would work. Is that viable?
The pictures show them as officers.
Early war French is not an area I am terrible familiar with so I am hesitant to weigh in. But your idea seems like a good use of officer bodies to me. I found the one attached picture of French Dragoons. I would sand the boot laces off the front of the boots and Exacto knife little strips of plastic card for the side buckles on the boots and it's a pretty good match.
(Dragoon on left)
Description for the previously posted Dragoon picture.
@Don Williams tbh Atleast its a 35 man box. your basically getting the officers for free. The MGs are coming as a seperate kit and will hopefully come with some cool new inf >.>
Got a new reference book - "Officers and Soldiers of the French Army 1940" by Jouineau.
Maybe these pics will help:
