Anglo-Egyptian Sudan as a skirmish game?

[FifteensAway]

Obviously, any period can include skirmish level actions.  So, duh. 

But how practical is it and for Sudan, more importantly, samples of folks doing so, please?  Figuring to use Fistful of Lead for rules.

Thanks!

[SJWi]

As you say "why not".  I don't skirmish game it myself as my figures were multi-based many years ago for "Black Powder" but certainly you can buy all the figures you need from the Perrys, either in metal or plastic .  There is also plenty of background materiel available. If you are interested in the early period 1881-85 I heartily recommend Mike Snook's "Go Strong into the Desert".   

[Plynkes]

There was a game released a few years ago called 'Patrols in the Sudan' which was. as I recall, a solo skirmish game. Haven't played it myself but I remember reading good things about it.

So certainly,  at least some people find it a viable option.


Historically, the Nile Expedition doesn't offer all that much in the way of scenarios for skirmishing, but it wasn't the only campaign/theatre of that long conflict. Skirmishing around the construction of the Suakin-Berber Railway springs to mind and I'm sure others could be dreamt up with a bit of thought.

[FifteensAway]

I already have the figures (in 15/18 mm, a lot of Essex and Blue Moon newer range) - in excess - so part of the goal is to reduce how many figures I will paint.  And I have French Foreign Legion already multi-based.  So thinking of Sudan as more of a skirmish level, Fistful of Lead: Bigger Battles so can have units of as many as 10 figures each, just counting them closer to 1:1 rather than a stylized larger force.  Say up to five foot and maybe a mounted unit with a gun per player or something like that and add a leader for each force and maybe an overall commander.

I'm guessing the success of The Sword and the Flame and then Peter Gilder's collection displayed in magazines have had a tremendous influence on how most people approach the Sudan.  But that doesn't mean we can't take a different approach.

No reason we can't insert the fictional Green Nile into the Sudan with a branch near the Red Sea coast just over the headwater mountains of the branch.  And too remote for more than small forces.  That is where I am leaning.  No decisions yet.  May still fall back on multi-based figures - I just want to avoid doing both!