Reinforcements for Warlord’s Commandos
March 26, 2011 by beerogre
With the release of the plastic British Commandos fast approaching, Warlord have released a selection of photos showing the metal additions that you can use to arm your Tommys with more heavy ordnance... or perhaps some plucky heroes and canny officers!
Just the sort of stout lads to put the fear in the boshe... because there's one thing we've all learned... they don't like the taste of cold steel!
BoW Andy
I always like pipers. Now this is not meant to be a deep judgement of there work, but is it just me or the lighting perhaps, they all look sad with puppy eyes? Also I have yet to see a kilted mini that gives them sgian dubh in the sock. How the blood hell do they expect them to protect themselves when some punk wishes to take a peek up his kilt?
He does actually have a sgian dudh, its just not evident in that photo, the one showing his alternate legs in battledress(kilts being slightly impractical on a modern battlefield) on warlords site you can just see it poking out. Lord Lovat ordered his Piper Bill Millin to pipe the troops ashore at sword beach, when Millin refused citing war office regulations, Lord lovat told him not to worry- “that’s from the English war office, We’re both Scottish.” Later several German snipers and machinegun crew admitted not firing at Millin when they had more than enough chance because they thought he’d… Read more »
love this set really treat to look at