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[Tanelorn]

Adding to the previous page Balkan Wars set:
Italian volunteers in the Greek army (Garibaldini).

 

[Tanelorn]

Or the Asia Minor Campaign. The Greek side, mostly mixed summer/winter uniforms and hard 1910 French style kepis. For 1908 kepis and winter uniforms check the Balkan wars post in the previous page. The Armenians fought on their own (edit- with French assistance and Canadian equipment) against the Turks in 1921. I will add more factions (Kurds, Circassians, Chaliphate, Turk Nationalists etc.) in the next post.
The guys with the sidecaps are the Cretan gendarmerie.

 

[McMonkey]

Fantastic units you've been churning out recently Tanelorn. There are fewer and fewer gaps in the library nowadays!

 

[Tanelorn]

Thanks M!
Hopefully these will jumpstart new scenario ideas.
Let's take a step back to the struggle for Macedonia (1904-1908) that directly preceeded the Balkan wars (1912-1913).
These were easy to do. Abdul Hamid reign Turks are in the previous pages. I will also be rounding up the Bulgarian roster after the 1922 stuff.

 

[Tanelorn]

Asia Minor Campaign Irregulars 1919-1922, each fighting for or against the Greeks and the Turkish nationalist/ Chaliphate factions.

The Circassian would be fighting for any of the three factions as a mercenary. Chaliphate Ahmediye were particularly notorious.
The tribal Kurd may be an Alevite anti-nationalist rebel or a Cete Turkified raider.
The pashlik headdress of the Pontic (Black Sea) guerilla can be worn in various ways. The zipkos pants can be even more tight fitting as in the previous picture. He can be either Greek or Turkish speaking, Christian or Muslim i.e. Kemal's Giresun (Κερασούντ&#945 bodyguard.
edit- These can be used for 19th/ 20th centuries conflicts with small changes in weaponry

 

[McMonkey]

I might just pinch that Circassian for my YP scanario!

 

[gapetit]

Uaaaaa nice units Tanelorn

 

[Tanelorn]

Thanks Gapetit.

Mustafa Kemal's nationalist army and a Pontic Greek Gendarme. The Sultan's army of the Chaliphate used the WW1 Ottoman uniform, the nationalists adopted the peasants hat (and lots of captured or abbandoned allied equipment). Later the Ottoman navy peakless kepi and green uniforms were adopted to differentiate themselves from the Ottoman loyalists. The Greek gendarme uses some US WW1 equipment.

P.S.: Turkish nationalist officer.

 

[McMonkey]

Great units T. I hope to see a scenario on this conflict one day!

 

[Tanelorn]

Thanks, I sure hope so.
Balkan wars Bulgarian tobacco brown uniform. It was further simplified in WW1. Will do.
The elite patron regiments are dedicated to some patron Saxe-Coburg royal and have distinct regimental colours. Their officers wore green. The other green clad Bulgarian is one of the Macedonia-Adrianople volunteers. The militia is the "narodno opolcenie" territorials.
The Machedonomachos is a local Greek guerilla. The Cretan is either one of the 1500 strong Cretan gendarmerie contigent or the 3500 Cretan volunteers in the Greek army (Crete's union with Greece wasn't internationally recognised until after the Balkan wars).

Ottomans and Serbians next.
A good source for Bulgarian uniforms is Alexander Vachkov. I know there are pictures of green Bulgarian cavalry uniforms as well, these are officers.
Edit- Konstantine elite regiment, green with blue facings. Will do.

 

[McMonkey]

Cool. There's a couple here that I can adapt for my YP scenario.

 

[CurtSibling]

Funky work, Tanelorn! Covering all the bases.

 

[Tanelorn]

Thanks guys.
Getting there, Ciaran. These Balkan war allies, Serbs and Romanians here also work for WW1:

edit- Fix for Romanian cavaly boot and pants colour:

Romanian lancers are 1913-1917
Serb cavalry in early war finery:

Next stop, the Ottomans.

 

[Tanelorn]

1912 1913 Balkan Wars Ottomans,
Including 1900 brown uniforms (dropped during WW1) and 1909 reforms.
The WW1 Enver kabalak head piece first appears for the cavalry.
I will probably add a full 1911 Italo-Tukish war roster later.

The Albanian irregular can also represent a rebel and is also available to the Montenegrins.
Fezes can be swapped to depict more units. Red is for reserves (also in 19th centuy blues) or territorial, khaki for regular troops and white for Albanians or Fedais fanatics (in WW1 Fedais Jihadis included Afghans...)

 

[Patine]

What year did the Ottoman Sultan formally disband (or at least end the legal hiring) of Bashi-Bazouks, Tanelorn?

 

[Tanelorn]

According to Flaherty, the imperial corps was officialy disbanded in 1878 but in 1883 (Balkan) Bashi Bazouks were operating in Egypt. In 1890 the (Asiatic) Hamidiye corps was established in their place. In practice though these irregular mobs of looters kept springing up, especially around the turn of the century and in to the 1920s.

 

[Tanelorn]

Balkan allies 2nd line units and Bulgarian elites.

 

[gapetit]

Very nice units Tanelorn

 

[tootall_2012]

Hi Tanelorn,

I can't believe not only the quality, but the quantity, of units you have been producing of late.

Truly great work.

 

[Tanelorn]

Thanks guys, knowing people are interested motivates and inspires me. Gung ho!

Further information:
http://www.bulgarianartillery.it/
http://landships.activeboard.com/t40273627/rumanian-75mm-krupp-m03/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:75mm_CANONE_DE_SCHNEIDER_MLE_1912_kalemegdan.jpg
Will do a few more Schneider models later.