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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Burgundavia on 05 March 2012, 05:23:57 AM

Title: Our first trip to Africa (Zulu Wars)
Post by: Burgundavia on 05 March 2012, 05:23:57 AM
Today marked our gaming club's first trip to Africa in recent memory, as we started what we plan to be a whole series of Zulu Wars battles. We are using mostly Warlord Games (and Empress) miniatures, which two Essex wagons, and the promise of some Wargames Factory Zulus in the near future. Our rules may have started as Triumph and Tragedy, but we departed pretty quickly from them as we went along. Rules were edited on the fly, as we sought to achieve a good "feel". One big change was we started out as i-go-you-go, then moved to one-zulu-one-british. We aren't satisified with the way it all worked out, but it was interesting.

Our biggest change was to make the Zulus completely AI-controlled, using a system of card arrival (ala Pony Wars) and diced orders (also ala Pony Wars). This worked out fairly well, but it needs some tweaks. Anyway, enough about the rules.

A quick teaser pic:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7042/6808640316_8ab7f9a3a1.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/coreyburger/6808640316/)
Completely engaged (http://www.flickr.com/photos/coreyburger/6808640316/) by burgundavia (http://www.flickr.com/people/coreyburger/), on Flickr

The full game breakdown can be seen on the Warbard post: Hordes of Zulus! (http://'http://www.warbard.ca/2012/03/04/hordes-of-zulus/")
Title: Re: Our first trip to Africa (Zulu Wars)
Post by: ZuluPaul on 06 March 2012, 12:11:38 AM
Hmmmmm  looks like the Zulus will get a few more cattle today!