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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Happy Wanderer on January 24, 2020, 04:37:14 AM

Title: Egypt vs Abyssinia (Ethiopia), c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: Happy Wanderer on January 24, 2020, 04:37:14 AM

Gents,

We took out TMWWBK for a spin pitting the Egyptian Khedive's forces led by Pasha Dasha against his arch foe, Ethiopian warlord, Ras Veygus!

A good time had by all, especially for the Egyptian player!  ;)

FYI.

Cheers

https://wp.me/p1YrZG-1Qj

(https://agrabbagofgames.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/img_3874-1.jpeg?w=809&h=605)

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: jambo1 on January 24, 2020, 05:10:59 AM

Great looking game, nice to see something different, very nice looking armies. :)

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: FifteensAway on January 24, 2020, 05:35:48 AM

Oh, what a woeful yarn that deprived us all of the opportunity to yell "Viva, Ras Veygus!".  It will take some time to recover from my deep disappointment.   :'(




 lol

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: Happy Wanderer on January 24, 2020, 08:07:00 AM

"deprived us all of the opportunity to yell "Viva, Ras Veygus!"

 o_o o_o ;D

Oh no....it must be fixed...as all things can be in the digital world!... lol lol

...you really shouldn't encourage him...

 :D

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: FlyXwire on January 24, 2020, 02:22:36 PM

Your single-fig basing looks great on your mat and they coordinate so well with your scenics.

(have admired your varied games and their visuals for years)

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: Atheling on January 24, 2020, 04:01:33 PM

Fab looking game, I thoroughly enjoyed the read on your blog too  8)

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: joekano on January 24, 2020, 04:32:37 PM

Great looking setup and enjoyed the battle report!

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: DintheDin on January 24, 2020, 04:42:06 PM

Vivid AAR, beautiful minis and splendid terrain! Cheers!

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: ragbones on January 24, 2020, 05:17:54 PM

Wonderful looking game! I agree with jambo1, it’s terrific to see something different.  I’ve read a lot on Sudan in the 2nd half of the 19th century and your game was very evocative of much of the action that went on.  I hope you’ll entertain us with more adventures of Pasha Dasha and Ras Veygus. 

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: pops on January 24, 2020, 05:38:19 PM

Very cool idea!  Great figs and terrain.

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: Happy Wanderer on January 24, 2020, 07:25:38 PM

Thanks all round chaps,

Much appreciated. Expect more adventures from the Pasha I’m sure.

...Ras Vegas is plotting his revenge!

😉

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: OSHIROmodels on January 24, 2020, 07:26:54 PM

Brill  :)

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: juergen c. olk on January 24, 2020, 11:31:10 PM

beautiful work.

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: FierceKitty on January 25, 2020, 01:32:08 AM

Mine are called Abyssinians. Who's got it wrong?

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: Happy Wanderer on January 25, 2020, 01:48:02 AM

“ Mine are called Abyssinians. Who's got it wrong?”

...well both are used, but more properly, Abyssinian is probably ‘more’ correct.


...now that I think about it, I prefer Abyssinian also!

 :D ;)

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: FierceKitty on January 25, 2020, 02:01:14 AM

Has a bit of a Lovecraftian feel to it, what?

Title: Re: Egypt vs Ethiopia, c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: FifteensAway on January 25, 2020, 04:46:22 AM

Sharp left turn, or is it a speed breaking swerving, fishtailing?

For my pulpish adventure I think there will be The Abyss of Sin.  See what happens?  Po-tay, Po-tot, toe.

Title: Re: Egypt vs Abyssinia (Ethiopia), c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: Volleyfire! on January 26, 2020, 12:06:50 AM

Lovely looking game. I have had TMWWBK gathering dust for ages but haven't got round to reading it, never mind using it for a game. What make are the Abyssinian cavalry please?

Title: Re: Egypt vs Abyssinia (Ethiopia), c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: WuZhuiQiu on January 26, 2020, 01:35:35 AM

Great stuff!

Title: Re: Egypt vs Abyssinia (Ethiopia), c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: Smokeyrone on January 27, 2020, 09:29:06 PM

great stuff

Title: Re: Egypt vs Abyssinia (Ethiopia), c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: Happy Wanderer on January 29, 2020, 08:04:57 PM

Thanks again chaps  :-* :-*

“ What make are the Abyssinian cavalry please?”

Perry Arab horse. Lovely figures, though I confess, slightly rough castings. Once cleaned up they come up very well.

Here’s a close up of the in an early project.

https://agrabbagofgames.wordpress.com/?s=Almoravid+

 ;)

Title: Re: Egypt vs Abyssinia (Ethiopia), c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: italwars on January 29, 2020, 11:45:49 PM

In every possible Italian book of the time (certainly the largest sources for the period)including military and missionary sources the word Abissini is used....I remember that .even the waiters , mainly from Eritrea, that worked in my house during my youth said “Bissini” ..so the translation and consequently the therm Abyssinians is the right one in their very context of 19c. wars..I can add, for what I understood, that calling Ethiopians or Abissinians the whole population of the Menelik or after Negus big Empire would have been very irritating for the rest of the dominated and very proud people (Azebu Galla, Somalis, Afars..)not belonging to the Amhara cast. but for wargame purposes Abissinians is correct as the other people were so unreliable that the various Ras except some  Galla mercenaries horsemen preferred to employ only their own people

Title: Re: Egypt vs Abyssinia (Ethiopia), c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: Happy Wanderer on January 30, 2020, 12:19:48 AM

Thanks italwars  ;)

Like I said "Abyssinian is probably ‘more’ correct... I prefer Abyssinian also!"  :D ;)

PS Much like my much neglected Abyssinian War blog..I really must get back to that  at some point!

https://abyssiniancrisis.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/it-is-us-today-it-will-be-you-tomorrow/

(https://abyssiniancrisis.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/haile-selassie.jpeg?w=439&h=294)

Title: Re: Egypt vs Abyssinia (Ethiopia), c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: italwars on January 30, 2020, 12:35:06 AM

Both blogs are very nice ...and the painting of minis excellent...I noticed that u used 1935 Abyssinians for 19c battles ..I must confess that they are better than the true 18c . Abissinians produced by some other few manufactures ...what I can do now , after having seen yours? Maybe just send to retirement, sell or melt my over 200 castings depicting Adua Abissinians from Strategia Nuova, Falcon, Bicorne, Irregular ecc and buy those ones of your picts? :'( :'( :'( :'(

Title: Re: Egypt vs Abyssinia (Ethiopia), c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: italwars on January 30, 2020, 12:49:11 AM

Quote from: Happy Wanderer on January 30, 2020, 12:19:48 AM

PS Much like my much neglected Abyssinian War blog..I really must get back to that  at some point!

https://abyssiniancrisis.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/it-is-us-today-it-will-be-you-tomorrow/

(https://abyssiniancrisis.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/haile-selassie.jpeg?w=439&h=294)

Well you posted here and in your blog this iconic pict of the negus concluding his famous speech in Geneva with the caption” However, what if the League’s members had acted differently and along the way history turned on a few momentous decisions to change the course of the war?”
May I add that The League of the Nations was a notorious British influenced enclave but..what if after the secret meetings in Rome (more than just one) between Mussolini and Eden of which no public records files are still allowed to be seen and researched (personal experience)and no official picts had never been published the Royal Navy had nt been sent to simulate a token blockade of Suez Chanel with guns provided only with blank ammo and with sailors cheering the Italian naval convoy full of invading troops sent to Massawa? ;) ;) ;)

Title: Re: Egypt vs Abyssinia (Ethiopia), c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: Marine0846 on January 30, 2020, 02:56:35 PM

I love your battle reports.
This one is great.
My question to the Abyssinia general,
"What happened ?"
Would be interesting to play the battle across the table.
What would the result  be?

Title: Re: Egypt vs Abyssinia (Ethiopia), c.1875 - Battle of El Akerish
Post by: Happy Wanderer on January 31, 2020, 04:32:49 AM

"I love your battle reports."

 ;) :D

"My question to the Abyssinia general...What happened ?""

 o_o

...yeah, I asked the same thing...

...oh well, next time!!...though to be fair...it was a glorious charge for a moment or two before he got blown away...and then I did!  lol