Arriba é Non Pasaran and La Legion pic's

 

I spent a pleasant afternoon giving Arriba é Non Pasaran a final read through before pressing print.  Useful things came to mind in the process.  Regulars and bugle calls extending command radius for one.

My Spanish Civil War interest had lain dormant for years.  Then I read Ken's reports on Yarkshire Gamer and I thought he's onto something. https://yarkshiregamer.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-corunna-road-spanish-civil-war.html   That led me to Iron Ivan Games. Hence this project and Arriba é Non Pasaran.  The latter owes lots to both and to others too.

 

My next task was by way of a roll call.  What have I got and are all the bits there?  Pretty much so.  There is a Navarre shaped gap that I’m very tempted to fill.  Click for bigger pic's.

I did the unit stat’s for each contingent using Iron Ivan's Primera Batalla .  That filled 8 pages and covers all the units I own.  A dull job, but once done it’s there for good.  It’s also well worth taking the time to get it right first time.

Now to photograph each contingent starting with La Legion.  Almost always the best troops in any engagement.  La Legion took an awful lot of punishment during the War.

I’m working on the basis that support weapons and artillery can be allocated to either side at need. This seems to reflect reality-more or less and saves money too.

Mostly I’ll be pairing La Legion with the Moors creating a high-quality force.  I’ll offset this with Republican numbers and perhaps tanks.  That however will not be the subject of my first game. 

For Arriba é Non Pasaran’s first outing I’ll try the Guardia Civil and the Falangists against Grupos de Mujeres and Delgado Castro. 

A mostly militia fight.  Others may turn up when the shooting starts.

Meantime you see my La Legion in its current incarnation on this page.  I wanted to see them on my Wargames Geek* mat.  All my SCW bases are made to tone with it.

* An excellent product.  So good I bought three different ones from them.