#light infantry

[thegodemperorsmycopilot]

ArtStation - Gaunt's Ghosts

[bantarleton]

Eighteenth-century "satirists": Light infantry, but they're all overweight.

Absolutely everyone in the eighteenth century, apparently: This is the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life.

[theokone]

urban combat  

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Scan "Enemy" From "Slit" Trench," Windsor Star. June 21, 1943. Page 3. ---- CALLED out without warning, members of the 30th (Reserve) Reconnaissance Regiment spent Sunday in Yawkey Bush on a full day's training program which included fieldcraft and engineering. Above, three members of the unit are scanning the "enemy" front from a "slit" trench which they have just prepared. Left to right are: Trooper Clarence Bell, 1385 Ellrose avenue; Lieutenant I. D. Cocker, 365 Rankin boulevard; and Trooper John Anderson, 1375 Ellrose Avenue. (By Staff Photographer.)

[blue-and-gilt]

What happens when a friend and fellow sword collector comes round to talk swords, collecting, rifles, books and generally chew the fat.

[e350tb]

No one drips like the Royal Marines

[clove-pinks]

This night our men had a frolick, a drunken one, and were at a loss to find where or how they got the whiskey because in the morning every man was searched and all the whiskey emptied out. After some time it was discovered that they had filled their gun barrels with whiskey and had the vent stopped up with a little plug made of hickory wood and a tomkin of cork in the muzzle.

— Diary of Colonel George McFeely, 22nd and 25th U.S. Infantries, quoted in The War of 1812 in Person: Fifteen Accounts by United States Army Regulars, Volunteers and Militiamen, edited by John C. Fredriksen.

An illustration by Bryan Fosten in The American War 1812–14. From left to right: Sergeant, US Light Artillery, 1812; Corporal, Pioneers, 25th Inf. Regt., 1814; Sergeant, 22nd US Infantry Regt., 1813.

[corvidous]

Finally done with these fuckers:

Hyaenim Heavy Gunners! I love me some Space Gnolls! Partially they're a test of my "Palace Guard" color scheme that I'm going to be using on my Tempestus Scions, but also the Scions kit has so many special weapons. Of course you want to build them all! Which leaves all these cool hotshot lasguns...just sitting there...so why not stick them on some Frostgrave Gnolls?! These guys will make a great Heavy Infantry squad for Xenos Rampant and I will quite possibly be using them AS Scions in 40k, just to bulk up my squads with lasgunners.

This guy in particular I've entered in an LGS kitbash challenge competition, so I converted him up with a standard Guard torso, just to up-armor him a bit and make the kitbash, in my view, more "legit" (not that it wasn't legit, all kitbashes are legit, even the guy who just put an Anakin Skywalker head onto a SW Legion ARC trooper model, no matter how much I feel like that's fuckin' pushing it, I just like my conversions to be a bit more in depth). I had to cut the torso off the gnoll body, cut the gnoll neck off the torso, glue the Guard torso onto the gnoll lower half, cut the high collar off the guard torso and then greenstuff a connection for the neck to attach the gnoll gneck, and THEN arrange the arms and weapon, including cutting a section of the power cord to make them actually connect up. (It was such a pain in the ass that I just cut the cords off of all the others because fuck even I have limits.)

These guys were an absolute SLOG to paint for some reason. I don't know what it was, maybe I just wasn't in the mood but I just did NOT want to paint these guys, really had to force myself through it. But it's done and it's fine and they're going in the display cabinet with the rest!

[i-identify-tanks-in-posts]

M10 Booker LRIP batch reveal!

It sounds so good in Federal Standard 595 Color FS 34079.

Fuck yeah. That's an awesome vehicle.

I always hesitate when I try to figure out what to call the Booker. Is it a light tank? Is it a really heavy IFV? I suppose it'll mostly depend on how it's used, once it actually goes into service. After all, I usually tend to side with the "classification is decided by use, not specs" crowd.

[carbone14]

Soldats australiens au fusil-mitrailleur Bren sur la ligne de front pendant le siège de Tobrouk – Campagne d'Afrique du Nord – Août 1941

Photographe : George Silk

©Australian War Memorial - 009510

[herprivateswe]

Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, Passchendaele. Men of the 13th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, resting in trenches during their advance on Veldhoek, 20 September 1917.

[acornminiatureslog]

FINISHED!!!!!!!!! Another light mech for the mercs, as well as a trio of strikers. If I ever get to play in a battletech campaign, the strikers are a key component of how I'd wanna aim for garrison jobs. Have some mechs for if trouble actually happens, and some cheap light vehicles and infantry to actually walk around and secure a place without breaking the bank. Originally I was looking at some light tanks with autocannons, but then I read what the obsolete special rule actually means and my mercs were not gonna go bankrupt toting around museum pieces

[bantarleton]

One seriously badass photo from this year's Monmouth reenactment - British light infantry and jägers leading out Loyalists, Highlanders, dismounted dragoons. Courtesy of the 40th Foot Light Infantry/Bloodhounds and Bruce Neumann.

[theokone]

thrown into a trench , he watched , frozen as the horror of war unfolds around him. like a wave that stuck him. senses going numb for a moment.   shaking his head as he looked at his rifle. checking the chamber of the gun, tightly gripping his gun before trying to relax it and wiped the blood off from his visor. Now he is in the sh*t. time to  try and stay alive. 

[thetruearchmagos]

Feeling like bringing back an old WIP from the grave...

[theworldofwars]

This poem extols the virtues of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, a privately raised battalion. In early 1915, it became the first Canadian unit to serve on the Western Front. The Princess Pat's fought with the 27th British Division before joining the Canadian Corps in late 1915.