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Author Topic: Australian Frontier Wars - 24FEB23 (update) - MANY New AFW books…  (Read 34649 times)

Offline Marine0846

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Re: Australian Frontier Wars - update 04JUN19 - Osprey Bushranger title
« Reply #135 on: June 10, 2019, 06:22:11 PM »
I have read all the posts,
what interesting history.
Great looking games.
Thanks for all the history.
You are the best, Happy Wanderer.
Semper Fi, Mac

Offline Happy Wanderer

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Re: Australian Frontier Wars - update 04JUN19 - Osprey Bushranger title
« Reply #136 on: June 10, 2019, 10:31:50 PM »
Thanks Marine0846,

...much appreciated 😊😊

I hope you’re a Wargames Illustrated reader as there will be a bit of Frontier Wars content in an upcoming theme issue ...ssshhh 😉
« Last Edit: June 11, 2019, 01:28:29 AM by Happy Wanderer »

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Re: Australian Frontier Wars - update 04JUN19 - Osprey Bushranger title
« Reply #137 on: June 11, 2019, 12:57:38 AM »
Mr. W., thanks for the additional info on the Osprey.  As a lapsed WI reader, let us know the issue when it is public and I might go pick it up if the local hobby store as extra.

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Re: Australian Frontier Wars - update 04JUN19 - Osprey Bushranger title
« Reply #138 on: June 11, 2019, 01:39:24 AM »
... no probs FifteensAway...shall do.

I’m planning on doing a bit of AFW content leading up to the WI articles - as well as providing some support material to go with it for the included battle scenario.

I’m not sure if that’s in the theme issue, (I hope so), but could be in the follow up month...it provides a complete AFW adaptation for use with Sharp Practice! for the included scenario and more. The scenario could be played with any low level game system but is aimed at SP.

HW

Offline Poiter50

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Re: Australian Frontier Wars - update 04JUN19 - Osprey Bushranger title
« Reply #139 on: June 11, 2019, 02:10:34 AM »
So I need to buy a bundle of Denisovans? I only have around a dozen indigenous fellows at the moment. ;)

... no probs FifteensAway...shall do.

I’m planning on doing a bit of AFW content leading up to the WI articles - as well as providing some support material to go with it for the included battle scenario.

I’m not sure if that’s in the theme issue, (I hope so), but could be in the follow up month...it provides a complete AFW adaptation for use with Sharp Practice! for the included scenario and more. The scenario could be played with any low level game system but is aimed at SP.

HW
Cheers,
Poiter50

Offline Happy Wanderer

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Re: Australian Frontier Wars - update 04JUN19 - Osprey Bushranger title
« Reply #140 on: June 11, 2019, 02:46:40 AM »
" I only have around a dozen indigenous fellows at the moment."


...well, as a spoiler, you'll need 48 tribal warriors for my SP scenario and 25 Brits. The Brits are a mixed group of civilians and regulars. Terrain is minimal. - mostly open bushland and a river along one edge.

...that's the 'battle' at 1 to 1 scale!

 :D


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Re: Australian Frontier Wars - update 04JUN19 - Osprey Bushranger title
« Reply #141 on: June 11, 2019, 02:56:09 AM »
 :) :) :)
" I only have around a dozen indigenous fellows at the moment."


...well, as a spoiler, you'll need 48 tribal warriors for my SP scenario and 25 Brits. The Brits are a mixed group of civilians and regulars. Terrain is minimal. - mostly open bushland and a river along one edge.

...that's the 'battle' at 1 to 1 scale!

 :D


Offline Happy Wanderer

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Re: Australian Frontier Wars - update 04JUN19 - Osprey Bushranger title
« Reply #142 on: September 19, 2019, 08:28:47 AM »
Gents,

Hot on the heals of this article some bloke wrote in Wargames Illustrated...







...is the release of a new book by good friend, Dr. Ray Kerkhove...never a more timely release!  :D

https://www.boolarongpress.com.au/product/the-battle-of-one-tree-hill-the-aboriginal-resistance-that-stunned-queensland/




The book goes into a detailed history of the fierce contest fought between the aboriginal resistance leader, Moppy and his son Multuggerah and the Darling Downs clans and their twin victory at One Tree Hill against the colonial forces of soldiers, armed settlers and police.

As far as frontier wars content goes this is top notch stuff, which includes all the details surrounding the struggle over the Darling Downs, not just the One Tree Hill engagement. So in this respect it provides very good information of all campaign activities by aboriginal forces and the armed response by the colonial authorities.

Highly recommended...if you’re interested in Australian (British) colonial history, this is a story untold...until now. Solid background reading to set games in if undertaking frontier wars clashes.

Cheers

HW



« Last Edit: September 20, 2019, 11:54:49 PM by Happy Wanderer »

Offline Poiter50

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Re: Australian Frontier Wars - 19SEP19 - New book!...The Battle of One Tree Hill
« Reply #143 on: September 21, 2019, 06:33:46 AM »
My issue of WI arrived yesterday, so that is my breakfast reading for the next week. Now I'm off to base some gum trees, wattle and bottlebrush trees/bushes.

Offline Happy Wanderer

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Re: Australian Frontier Wars - 19SEP19 - New book!...The Battle of One Tree Hill
« Reply #144 on: September 26, 2019, 06:12:52 AM »
Gents,

The second part of an article on the Australian Frontier Wars was published in the September 2019 edition of Wargames Illustrated. As supporting material for the article a scenario using Two Fat Lardies' Sharp Practice! rules was provided.

In this post I am making available a supplement to use for Sharp Practice! that covers Frontier Wars from 1788-1855. The rules are specific to SP but ideas could be adapted to other rules systems and are pertinent to the scale of game played.

I hope they are of some interest..check them out here.
https://wp.me/p1YrZG-1PO


Cheers

Happy Wanderer


« Last Edit: September 26, 2019, 06:16:31 AM by Happy Wanderer »

Offline Bullshott

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Re: Australian Frontier Wars - 26SEP19 - Sharp Practice! Army Lists available
« Reply #145 on: December 22, 2019, 11:25:47 PM »
I appear to have been sadly amiss and only discovered this thread this weekend. Keep up the good work. This is really inspiring.
Sir Henry Bullshott, Keeper of Ancient Knowledge

Offline Happy Wanderer

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Gents,

I happened upon a reenactment uniform manual,on a recent trip to Tasmania. It has good uniform coverage and other interesting notes within.

I’ve added a few pages on the (new) blog.

https://agrabbagofgames.blogspot.com/2022/03/british-regiments-in-van-diemans-land.html

Cheers




Offline carlos marighela

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Re: Australian Frontier Wars - 17MAR22 - Uniform guide
« Reply #147 on: March 17, 2022, 06:11:52 AM »
Hmm. I’d take that guide with a pinch of salt, it’s riddled with the most basic of errors.

The supposed depiction of the 48th Foot circa 1817 -1824 shows Napoleonic, short tailed jackets. The plate showing the 40th Foot circa 1825-1830 shows them in uniform styles that came in at least two decades after that period, etc, etc, etc. Indeed the only two plates that bear any resemblance to their purported subjects are on p28 and p53.

Em dezembro de '81
Botou os ingleses na roda
3 a 0 no Liverpool
Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
Só o Flamengo é campeão mundial
E agora seu povo
Pede o mundo de novo

Offline Happy Wanderer

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Re: Australian Frontier Wars - 17MAR22 - Uniform guide
« Reply #148 on: March 17, 2022, 06:54:56 AM »
Thanks Carlos

Still a good ‘general guide’ as to unit service dates  and ‘inspiration’. These are only a few plates so I wouldn’t trash the entire book unless you have a more thorough read. There’s 60 odd pages in there, these are only a few sample pages.

I would say that the 40th had yellow facing so that plate is incorrect in that regard. 40th regiment image and notes attached.

Off course, uniform details are all available on my blog so easy to cross reference there.

😉

https://agrabbagofgames.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/
« Last Edit: March 17, 2022, 11:34:55 AM by Happy Wanderer »

Offline Happy Wanderer

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Re: Australian Frontier Wars - 17MAR22 - Uniform guide
« Reply #149 on: July 27, 2022, 11:56:41 PM »
Gents,

Author Stephen Gapps has given us a look ‘over the ranges’ at the Bathurst War of 1822-24 on the open New South Wales plains in his new book.

Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance - The Bathurst War, 1822–1824


A quick review here.
https://www.busseltonmail.com.au/story/7583714/a-nuanced-account-resistance-war/?cs=14252


Read an article (p26) Stephen wrote for Military history mag as a primer….good mag too!
https://issuu.com/hardiegrant/docs/wartime_summer_2022

You can listen to his chat here as well.
https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/the-wiradjuri-war-of-resistance-as-it-happened-on-both-sides


All excellent Frontier Wars content.

Happy W

👍🏻

« Last Edit: July 29, 2022, 02:41:04 PM by Happy Wanderer »

 

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