The Mehal Sefari, literally “the one that camps at the center” are perhaps the most distinctive troops in Haile Selassie’s army. They have not the look of the European style Imperial Guard nor the tribal warriors of the powerful Rases, the...
In this post we introduce the main protagonist against the Italians, the Ethiopian forces led by emperor Haile Selassie, defenders of their homeland. Off course historically these were the two countries that fought the real Italo-Ethiopian War and thus the...
The next army list starts to detail some of the tribal forces of The Abyssinian Crisis. There were long standing feuds and inter-tribal warfare amongst the Eritrean and Somalian tribes that inhabited the Horn of Africa. They fought as much...
The Italians made extensive use of their Eritrean subjects, none more so than the militarising of the natural horsemen of Africa. The most well known soldiers of this type were cavalrymen known as the Penne di Falco (Hawk Feathers) due to their distinctive headdress....
The Italian Royal Corps of Colonial Troops, the Regio Corpo Truppe Coloniali, were principally comprised of Eritrean Ascaris in the north and Arabo-Somali Ascaris in the south. The RCTC included infantry, machine gun, cavalry and artillery units. Their cavalry, the ‘Penne di...
It’s Christmas time again and the team that brought you Chain of Command:Espana last festive season have done it again. This time they take us off to ‘a place in the sun’ in the Horn of Africa when Ethiopia was Abyssinia...
Readers of Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy Magazine cannot have failed to notice the very colourful piece in the latest edition, Issue 81, called A Beating for Benito from the collective pen of the duo that brought you Chain of Command:...
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