The British Invasion of Tibet...

[Jim French]

I recently read The British Invasion of Tibet, 1903.  Colonel FE Younghusband of the Indian Army is sent to Tibet to settle a border dispute.  After a 6 month wait with the Tibetan monks--mainly the Lhasa big monastery monks and the Dalai Lama--obfuscating and obstructing every overture made, the British move north into Tibet.  They fight one battle against 2000 Tibetans armed mostly with swords and matchlocks, with a few Russian breechloaders at a town called Guru.  It was an interesting read and if you don't want to follow actual history, it would make for a good campaign.  The British had 2 7 pounder guns and some maxim machine guns.
Younghusband attributes the Tibetan stubbornness to the monks' wanting to maintain their priestly power over the population.

[Hammers]

I recently read The British Invasion of Tibet, 1903.  Colonel FE Younghusband of the Indian Army is sent to Tibet to settle a border dispute.  After a 6 month wait with the Tibetan monks--mainly the Lhasa big monastery monks and the Dalai Lama--obfuscating and obstructing every overture made, the British move north into Tibet.  They fight one battle against 2000 Tibetans armed mostly with swords and matchlocks, with a few Russian breechloaders at a town called Guru.  It was an interesting read and if you don't want to follow actual history, it would make for a good campaign.  The British had 2 7 pounder guns and some maxim machine guns.
Younghusband attributes the Tibetan stubbornness to the monks' wanting to maintain their priestly power over the population.

Ah, Younghusband... I've read a bit about him. What a nutter.

[Etranger]

Successful nutter though!

[Sangennaru]

who won, then?

[carlos marighela]

Bit one sided gaming wise I'd say. Matchlock musket meets Lee-Metford and Maxim gun.

[Bugsda]

Not our finest hour 

[Hammers]

Not our finest hour 

Having just seen the last episode of 'The Hour', neither was the Suez crisis.

Sorry, back to topic.

[carlos marighela]

Not off topic at all. I understand that successive managers of the England football team are wont to recite a mantra of 'well compared to the Suez crisis or Tibet......'

 

[Bugsda]

Obviously that was before the debacle that was the last world cup 

[OSHIROmodels]

Could make quite an interesting game and a fantastic excuse to make a dzhong/dhzong 

cheers

James

[AzSteven]

Obviously that was before the debacle that was the last world cup 

Ouch!

[Poliorketes]

Guys, please stay at least a little bit on topic.

[Jim French]

It would have to be heavily modified to be playable I think.  The area itself is way out back of the Beyond.

[area23]

If you like comics, I recommend the White Lama series, by Jodorowski and Bess.
http://www.humanoids.com/album/141
The story starts just with the invasion. The rest of the story is quite surreal and metaphysical, but I really like it.

Only a few manufacturers do make Tibetans though...

[Mapleleaf]

If interested I would recommend the Wikipedia article which to me is not bad and gives a good summary plus references.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_expedition_to_Tibet

From what I have read here and elsewhere the campaign would be very one sided with the Anglo Indian forces having a clear edge in weapon's technology.  You would have to fudge events to give the Tibetans any chance.

Also. IMHO, Younghusband a fascinating character in his own right,seems to have been fairly diplomatic during this episode. The military commander with the great name of Brigadier-General James Ronald Leslie Macdonald,seems to have been the one responsible for most of the bloodshed.

A great read that covers this and earlier events is Peter Hopkirk's:  The Great Game : On Secret Service in High Asia This book also covers  Afghan events . There was a paperback edition in 2006

Ted