Arab armies of the Napoleonic period

Hi,
Just wanted to post up a book I bought by Mark Bevis. I'm  getting started on 20mm Ottomans  and bought this to help me flesh out the forces appropriately.  I'm just astounded at how many varieties of troops I can use, including the figures from  Revell's Muslim warriors and  Airfix's bedouin from the Lawrence set. I suspect i can squeeze in plenty  from the various colonial sets too.
An excellent reference if your thinking of doing Napoleon in Egypt or just  interested in the  wars happening in the region. i picked up my copy from Ebay for £20. I highly recommend it!

Thurn und Taxis fictional Napoleonics 20mm Artillery

As a warm up for a renewed burst of modelling and wargaming activity I tried the well established practice of creating a a fictional force. Given I have thousands of bases of figures for the Napoleon's Battles system I decided to stick with that basing system since, although I am more likely to use my own GRASP rules (beta free and available for download on the right of the page) the GRASP system will accommodate any basing style and I won't be stuck with years  of costly rebasing. So utilising some AWI figures to reflect  the Alte Ordnung der Artilleristen (?) I had a bit of fun.



Having looked at some old pic and stamps for Thurn und Taxis I can see that Yellow Ochre might have been a better colour for the Artillery but I'm pretending the newer field pieces, at least, are a present from their French allies.