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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Peter on 17 June 2021, 02:13:04 PM
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I start to built a Zulu table for Rorkes drift.
See some older pictures (houses have red stones), and the new buildings I painted for the table.
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now the new pictures
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Looking good!
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Fantastic stuff!
Enourages me to finish mine....
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Very nice looking board.
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Very nice Peter
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Ahhh a wargaming classic looks great.
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In the next weeks I start building a table for the scenario. Thanks Helen and Diablo Jon for the ideas in your artikels.
Momentanly stand the buildings on my normal playing board with gras.
Sorry for my unconfortable English.
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I Start building the table, beginning with the Oscarberg.
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I do like making scenery and I'm always interested in seeing how others approach there's. That looks like a really promising start I look forward to seeing how it turns out.
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First Colour
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Looking good mate. Looking forward to seeing the finished product
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very well done !
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Very nicely done! I’m looking forward to the finished terrain pieces.
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That is looking top notch well done.
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The only thing missing is the greenery and the background image and more Zulu
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That looks great love it
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Fantastic layout.
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Very nice indeed!
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The Background is ready
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That's a great composition and some wonderful colouration on the boards. :-* :-* :-* Care to share your painting colours?
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That looks really good 👍
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Awesome stuff buddy 👏
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Backdrop looks FANTASTIC! Combined with the rock formation, ground-cover, buildings and figures, you have an awesome set-up!
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Now with a little bit more green
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Top work my man looks excellent.
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looking great - well done sir
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Pictures from my first Rules test Game
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Wave one ( 30 Zulu attack the station) frontal
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The end of the first wave ( The Zulu losses reach the turn over point - I don´t know if it is the right word)
Now the Zulu start with 2 Impi - one from right and one from left - each 30 Zulus
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With Hooks kill in the Hospital, the second wave ends imediately
Sorry for the bad quality of some pictures
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That's a great looking game well done.
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The third wave
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Now they come from three sides - 90 Zulu
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Close combat inside the hospital
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more c&c in the front
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The assault collapses - the Zulu have too much losses
The main assault
Now 120 Zulu start their advance
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to be continued
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Good job! :)
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Lovely work.
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Wow! Impressive!
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The main assault
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Bitter hand-to-hand combat on all fronts
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Many Zulu inside the parameter
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Much british losses
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Shortly before the British are overrun, the fortieth Zulu succeeds in eliminating the main attack
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That was close. Another round of close combat would have been fatal for the defenders.
The rules worked. Little things have to be changed until the rules are perfect.
I hope the game report was exciting and fun
Sorry for my bad English - I gave my best and had help from the online translator
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What is this??????
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Loving the jungle Peter look forward to seeing what you're conjuring up next.
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Really impressive!
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Continuation of the construction of the plate:
A slightly hilly part is being built.
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Furthermore, a mountain range will be added to the area of the station
so that I can also use the area for other games.
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The third game board is now also ready
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The mountain range that will replace the station is also ready
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Fantastic work Peter, glad to have caught this, it's really inspiring.
Good for you keeping at it.
Ryan
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Wow, Peter, great idea and great execution! Building an alternate terrain piece to fill the open space you created for the Rorke's Drift buildings shows you can do labor intensive custom work to make a historical refight game the best it can be, and still find ways to use it for totally different scenarios. Very well done!
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Great looking table.
The backdrop looks brilliant.
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Thanks guys - I do my best
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Great looking table Peter well done
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some pictures with the new mountain range
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Buller with a native contingent
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the natal carabiners in a night march
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thousands of them, or exact 170 of them
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Very effective terrain, well done.
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next step (in the background you see some trees from my Kongo terrain)
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There is a lot of excellent work here! Well done.
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Stunning!, I'm impressed by it all....figures, terrain, photography.
A work of art, thank you for sharing with us.
Ry
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Natal mtd. Carabineers
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Natal mtd Police, Buffalo Border Guard and Newcastle Rifles
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Imperial mtd Infantry
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Dunford and the Natal Native Horse
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Wood
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Beautifully executed! I love the figure and terrain!
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This is a really good thread.
I love projects which include terrain and figures to reenact a historical battle. :-*
Well done
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Terrific stuff mate!
Lovely terrain and figures, well laid out and great to see the WIP pics too.
I'll be following this for sure.
Ry
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That’s fabulous. Really like the gun team.
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Thr horde is coming
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great stuff
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Loving it! Brilliant work.
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Fantastic!
Another great impi to drool over, I'm being spoiled.
Cheers
Ry
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Impressive terrain and nice figures! Lovely! :-*
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Great inspiration! Thanks for sharing!
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now it's going to the north, more precisely to the Sudan
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Great stuff :)
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Great additions
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These latest pics - now that's frightfully evocative! :o
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Wow! a scary crowd!
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super stuff - cannot believe you are painting the eyes on the dervish :o
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It is REALLY SCARING !!! Amazing stuff indeed. So inspiring and so beautifully made. :o
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Fantastic looking games! Superb terrain and brilliant brushwork! I love the religious leader in white!
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the opponents march on
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Beautiful stuff indeed. Very evocative! March on sir.
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We try a test game based on Björn Reichel's
Triumph & Tragedy rule, with minimal house rule additions
It is set in South Africa in the country of the Zulu
The game will take place tomorrow evening, but today I'll show you the protagonists and the game board
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The Zulu: Two units with 20 Zulu and leader (one married / one unmarried
8 Zulus with rifle and zwo Heros
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The British with 10 Infantry,+ Leader and Trumpeter, with Dunford
and two units horsemen
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Looking forward to seeing the AAR in due course. :)
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Excellent, T&T is a wonderful set of rules, I am interested in seeing the house rules you think necessary.
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Very nice! Iam looking forward to read the report :)
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As promised, some pictures from the test match.
Please do not be disappointed if you were expecting a smooth picture report on a scenario.
We tested our cavalry orders and fog tokens here.
Our house rules have an additional order (cavalry action - mount / dismount and move cavalry) that we wanted to test.
Below are two dismounted cavalry
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A Zulu unit approaches the dismounted carabineer force
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You can get up just in time and cover a little distance.
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The Zulu can still get to the riders.
I shouldn't have waited so long and saddled up earlier.
Before that you already have the mtd. Infantry overrun (unfortunately forgot to take pictures again)
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We should try that again in a real scenario in which there are tasks to be solved.
The Zulu shooters impressed with their great luck with the dice
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We played with fog markers that were either rivets or represented units.
It was a complete success and will definitely continue to do so.
All those who expected a correct match report have to be patient a little longer.
A real scenario is being planned and will follow
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Fantastic miniatures! Great looking game! One of my favorite colonial periods!
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Now Iam very curious. :)
Maybe you share your thoughts with me!
Cheers
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Allowing Cavalry to remount is something we have done in T&T also, but without special order. We just do not remove the mounts like the base rules require.
Riderless horse figures must be provided along with a horseholder and are subject to casualties. They cannot move, Dismounted figures must return to them to remount.
The "fog" markers are a form of hidden deployment yes?
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Nice looking battalion. I might do the same with the extra Zouaves that I have no use for.
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Today we played again according to the rules of Björn Reichel Triumph & Tragedy.
Again with fog markers and tasks.
We have set up a UK camp and station at the long ends of the table. The British had to either eliminate 30 Zulu, move ammunition from camp to station, or move supplies from station to camp.
The Zulus had to either destroy 30 Britons, the camp, or capture the station. The order was drawn secretly.
But now look at the pictures. Of course I forgot again to take more shots during the game
The station
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The Camp
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Wood and the Natal mounted troops occupy the hill
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Zulus attack dismounted irregular troops
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Two large Zulu units on their way to camp. The white stones on the movement tiles represent suppression markers
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Another large Zulu force is threatening the station
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We had homemade maps for all the troops. This made it easier to assemble our army.
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Ultimately, we both had the task of destroying 30 enemies. However, during the game I was convinced that my opponent had to conquer the camp. He so massively steered his Zulu in that direction. The game ultimately went very narrowly in my favour.
I hope you liked the little report.
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Great looking game!
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Splendid 👍
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Lovely looking game.
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Hey, this looks very nice and sounds like an interesting game.
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Thank you for the wonderful rules.
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Here the whole South Africa terrain
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Wood gives his Irregulars new orders. Buller is already storming ahead
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Great stuff :)
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Gordons last stand
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That is going to look really good can't wait to see it resembling the famous painting.
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Yes,
this picture is on the backside of our T&T cards for the Sudan, too.
I'm not sure yet if I'll only build this one building or if there will be several houses so that I can attack Khartoum.
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Where's Gordon?
He's still waiting to be painted
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The building looks fantastic.
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Excellent building! Bow to have Gordon facing down the Mahdi's men before they skewered him!
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Some pictures from our last game.
I forgot to take more photos - therefore no game report
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Great looking figures and table!
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Great looking figures
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My desert table
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Very nice :-* :-*
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Wow -- awesome looking table!
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Lovely game table.
You could use that for Afghanistan and India, Greece and Persia and out through Ethiopia just by changing the buildings and foliage. Very clever.
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Well that certainly looks the part like all the mountainous outcroppings great for creating cover and interest.
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Another brilliant table!
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I cannot help to add to everyone's praise for such a beautiful table, most awesome and I'm sure a pleasure to play upon. Thanks for sharing.
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WOW! Impressive!
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Fantastic
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Outstanding!
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That’s a great wadi.
I made one very similar for my Zulu War / caveman table a few years ago :)
The whole table looks lovely. Well done.
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Gorgeous table and minis!!!
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Stunning! :-*
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Superb terrain! Wow.
Dan
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Finally my Sudan figures have arrived. Started painting immediately
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Just top notch
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Desert table looks fabulous
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Top notch excellent work. :-*
Mark
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A great vignette for your wonderful desert table.
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A wonderful array sir
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What a glorious charge.
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Brilliant!
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Fantastic looking figures!
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A beautiful looking collection and table :-* :-* :-*
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One word WOW!
Mark
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Outstanding!!!
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Masterful!
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Bengal light cavalry
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More beautiful figures! Lovely collection!
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Very nice indeed.
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Superb! :-*
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Really nice. ;D
Mark
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Amazing masterpiece :-*
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Brilliant! Excellent looking game!
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My first pictures from my new Gandamk - Retreat from Kabul project.
I'm going to try to modify my WW II Winter plate a bit to get a little bit closer to the mountains in the Afghan highlands.
I am currently waiting for my order from Empress miniatures. I have the Perry plastic Afghans.
sorry for my bad language
What trees were there?
I used my winter trees first.
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Very nice. It looks nippy though.
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So much to love! 👍
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Wow! doesn't do justice to the figures, I sure would like to kill a bunch of them and I don't care which side I'm on.
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Looks good so far. Looking forward to more...
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Did a quick check for images of the retreat via Google and few of the images showed any trees at all.
I hope the "My God, Maiwand" member shows up in your thread with an update - he is probably your most knowledgeable source for the era - though Kabul is north and east of Maiwand.
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Peter: Great work as always!
From the Britannica article on Plant Life of Afghanistan:
The high mountains abound with large forest trees, among which conifers, such as pine and fir, predominate. Some of these trees are 180 feet (55 metres) high. The average elevation for the fir line is over 10,000 feet (3,000 metres). At lower elevations, somewhere between 5,500 and 7,200 feet (1,700 and 2,200 metres), cedar is abundant; below the fir and cedar lines, oak, walnut, alder, ash, and juniper trees can be found. There are also shrubs, several varieties of roses, honeysuckle, hawthorn, and currant and gooseberry bushes.
I've read a good amount on the retreat and the last stand at Gandamak (aka; Jugduluk), from first-person sources like Lady Sale, and Lt. Vincent Eyre of the Bengal Artillery, to more recent histories like "The Fierce Pawns" (aka: "Signal Catastrophe") by Patrick R. Macrory, and "Beyond the Khyber Pass" by John H. Waller, but as FifteensAway says, as I recall there's not much mention of trees in the various writings re: the last stand, other than, "...a barrier made from prickly oak erected by the Gilzyes to block their (the British) progress."
On the other hand, if you start your game back in Kabul, you could and should have a decent number of deciduous and a few scattered pine trees scattered throughout the city. Obviously the retreat occurred close to 200 years ago, but I think these photos of 21st Century Kabul still have value as reference:
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Well, Peter, your question combined with FifteensAway's answer (which rightly or wrongly I took as being a reference to myself!) inspired me to do some more digging, which kind of paid off...
Here are 2 contemporary illustrations, both labelled "Jugduluk," dating from the early days of the British invasion, prior to the retreat and last stand, and both picturing the locale in warmer seasons...
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The second one just above is titled "The Grove and Valley of Jugdulluk," by James Rattray. You can see that the first one, titled "Jugdulluk" by James Atkinson, also includes a grove of trees on the left. The trees in both pictures appear to pretty clearly be deciduous, perhaps even the same "prickly oak" that will later be mentioned being turned into an obstacle to block further retreat by the British during the last stand a few years after the above artwork was done.
No pressure, but speaking for myself, that would be enough for me to include a grove of appropriately harsh-looking dark and leafless deciduous trees dusted with snow somewhere on my Gandamak/Jugdulluk table.
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Thanks for the detailed information Mad Guru.
I was secretly hoping to use my coniferous trees
For the time being I will also do this, even if it is geographically incorrect
Some more pictures from my Afghan Warriors.
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I was, indeed, referencing Mad Guru but posting at some unholy hour when the brain was in latency mode and I could not recall his LAF nom de plume (do we have such a phrase for internet names? nom de keyboard? lol)
And, as expected, he was forthcoming with good information.
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Zulu game - tonight
I already wrote here that we play with secretly drawn tasks and fog markers.
Tasks:
Zulu:
1 - Destroy 30 Britons
2 - Capture the cannon and own it for 1 turn
3 - A character (General, one of the Heros) must enter the British mountain range and a
Stay there for a long time
British:
1 - Destroy 40 Zulus
2 - Capture the cattle train and own it for 1 turn
3 - A character (General, Hero or the Reporter) must enter the Zulu mountain range and a
Stay there for a long time
Starting points:
Britons - complete side opposite Oskarberg
Zulu - complete side of Oskarberg
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The game progress report will be posted tomorrow
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the troops
British Artillery, 3 units, Natal Native Horse and Mounted Imperial Infantry, plus Chelmsford, Durnford
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Zulu troops: General, 2 heroes and a medicine man , cattle train, 8 archers, 4 x 20 warriors
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The bases with the animals represent our new fog markers. The marker with the cotton was not really to our liking.
Let's see if we also pay attention to the new fog markers during the game and don't overlook them
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Peter, beautiful Afghan tribesmen!
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Peter, beautiful Afghan tribesmen!
That confused me at first! But then I scrolled up past the Zulus…
Liking the setup for the Zulu war battle. Feel the Zulus killing 30 Brits is a bit tougher than the Brits killing 40 Zulus, not least from just the number of targets available for each side.
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The game is played.
But we stopped before the end and counted it as a draw.
The Zulu were tasked with eliminating 30 Britons.
The British had to conquer the cattle train.
After nine rounds the Zulu had lost well over 40 (a shame, the task would have been better).
British losses were around 15.
If we had continued playing, then these would have increased significantly, because three Zulu units were about to engage in close combat. Probably the British would have (I mean - got bogged down, because I was relatively sure that Birger would have to capture my artillery - I was about to splurge on it and flee - yes, I was so easily wrong).
On the other side I was within attacking range of the cattle train with Durnford and the Imperial Mounted Infantry.
Now to the pictures:
The British after deployment
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The Zulu after the march
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The Razorback smoke marker already looks fun?
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The cannon fired
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The Zulu scouts move into position
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Direct hit with the cannon (16 Spression Markers, but only 5 casualties)
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Finally, the four large Zulu units decide to act as one
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Battered Zulu unit about to engage in close combat
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The fierce hand-to-hand combat between a large Zulu unit and Durnford's mtd. In the heat of the moment I unfortunately didn't take any native photos. Only Durnford was left.
After the game we realized we had made some mistakes in the Durnford melee.
That's what happens when you don't play for ages after the changed rules and you're as forgetful as Birger and I are. (We're both already over the top (over 60)
We then canceled due to the advanced time.
Maybe we should have set up across the field, but I really wanted to test the changed artillery rules.
I really liked them - not too hard, but not too limp either.
Birger will be printing the Sudan maps in the next few days
The next thing will then take place in Sudan
I hope you liked it a little?
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Loving it! 👍
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Great stuff, I really like your big units of Zulu’s on the sabot bases
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What do you think of our fog markers (razorbacks, cheetahs, giraffes, water buffalo, antelopes and meerkats)?
Before we only had a base with cotton wool
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As in fog of war? They are cool, and work well as hidden movement markers, and gives me an idea to use the various animal bases I have.
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Sometime in the near future we will make another Colonial game. That will take place in Sudan.
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:D
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Lovely! Fantastic looking game! I especially love that last Sudan picture!
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my water hole
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Looks great so far. Looking forward to your next battle report...
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I made some very nice trees for my Africa landscapes, or for Congo.
I bought a small pot of plastic growth from the supermarket last week for €2.99.
If only I had taken two.
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A piece of wire, a washer as a stand, some Pattex assembly glue to make a stem out of the wire and then paint everything.
Here the result.
They're useful, aren't they?
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Nice 👍. Trees in Africa are endless source of fun there are several quite unique and iconic ones but they are almost impossible to find commercially (or when you do they cost a lot of money) so playing with cheap plastic plants to get something that doesn't look like model train trees is the way to go.
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Background:
Baker tries to get from Trinikat to Tokar to support the city surrounded by Mahdists.
Game 1:
It is played with 1000 points. Each faction must field a commander and two characters.
Deployment:
The British start in the middle of the long end of the board (point D).
The Ansar start with their three smoke tokens placed somewhere on edge B or C
and move 1 unit from B or C onto the field each turn.
From the third round, this unit can only be moved by E or F.
Task of the British:
1) Try to move two or more units in the area of A off the field.
2) Try to kill at least 30 enemies
3) The game ends after the 7th round. Try to resist with at least 3 units on plate B/C. The units must still have at least half the initial strength.
Tasks of the Ansar:
1) Try to kill at least 30 enemies.
2) Kill at least 3 characters (commander/hero/standard/trumpeter).
3) The game ends after the 7th round. You win if there are no more than 10 enemies on plate B/C at the end of round 7.
The winner of the game gets 100 points to his army for the second game.
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I drew number 1 as a task. So I had to leave the field with two or more units in the area of point A.
The Egyptian troops entered the playing field. In the foreground my cavalry. A breakthrough would be most likely with them.
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The infantry were in the middle and my smoke tokens were on the outside. They were also revealed very quickly - there was nothing underneath
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The Ansar are on the hills
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Sometimes I'm quite confident and charged with my cavalry in the direction of the hill - what should happen (except maybe I'm shot at there - oh dear)
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The Ansar post their ranged weapons and larger troops on the table, saving their cavalry for later when they can enter the table at E and F
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Now I've been shot at and the guys have also hit - oje-oje
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But the infantry are still (still) all there
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Unfortunately, I took the photo too late here. In fact, the Ansar cavalry came from the side and tore my two cavalry units to shreds
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Now the crazies are climbing up to my elevated position as well. Well, they're just savages, and my Egyptian infantry is trained, in formation, etc.
Fucking confidence - the guys flattened me - so I have to retire.
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Why is he attacking my infantry with his damned cavalry now? That wasn't planned at all. They've done enough damage already
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After that the debacle got so bad that I didn't take any more pictures - the camel troops were still laughing this morning. My plan was bad... and ill-considered. Well, then to the second act (in a few weeks)
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I hope it was a little fun.
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Inspirational! Especially the Sudan terrain, which I am working on for myself just now. Thank you!
Cheers
JJ
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Oh well. Maybe next time for you...
Those bloody buggers can be pesky, can't they? :D
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Pesky buggers indeed...
Spiffing as always...Do keep 'em coming...
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The projekt is going on
here first impressions
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my new Congo terrain
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AWESOME!
Mark
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This is rather apt. I've owned a copy of Congo since it came out, but have never actually played it.
If all goes well I'm having my first game on Sunday. Thanks for the reminder that I need to get a few things ready. :)
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I don't need 2 drummers, but a standard bearer and many Askari
I only have the two drummers from the blister shown below.
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A knife work, three heads from the plastic Perry Sudan packet,
three rifles (possibly a bit too newer - I don't know that much) - done
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Fred, do you recognize your miniatures?
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Looks great the Elephant, the feathered head dressed natives, everything.
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Looks great the Elephant, the feathered head dressed natives, everything.
And a hearty +1 to that!
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My new Lanciers.
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Well, those chaps look like they know their business.... :D
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just perfect !
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Impressive and well-stage scene! Cheers!
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Nice Masai headdresses. I don't recall the Masai fighting naked waist down - is that historically accurate? And source of Masai figures?
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I don't recall the Masai fighting naked waist down - is that historically accurate?
Illustrations and descriptions from the time say so. It was pretty common in that region to have your lad out during a battle whether you were Masai or not, and modern photos of Masai engaged in traditional ceremonies also often contain images not safe for work. Those fellas aren't exactly shy, shrinking violets. :)
The figures are Copplestone-sculpted Foundry ones, from the original range that started the whole Darkest Africa craze (not sure we can call it a craze any more, as it seems to still be pretty popular after all these years).
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Thanks for the information, Plynkes. Your input is always appreciated.