Author Topic: Isandlwana in 28mm (Read 6450 times)

sjwalker51 · « **on:** December 31, 2015, 09:04:01 AM »

Couple of photos of the early stages of our holiday game...

850 Zulus, 220 plucky Brits and others on a 12' x6' table using the forthcoming 'Men Who Would Be Kings' rules (which coped admirably with a much larger scale game than it is intended for).

Played to a successful (for the Zulus, despite very heavy casualties) conclusion in a leisurely 5 hours - the 24th went down fighting, Durnford escaped, much fun was had.

Jeff965 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 01, 2016, 09:47:24 AM »

Lovely looking game Simon, the Zulus look very intimidating out on the edge of the table ready to charge in. Lovely collection of figures must have been a pleasure to play with.

Deedles · « **Reply #2 on:** January 01, 2016, 10:51:03 AM »

Excellent!

Sparrow · « **Reply #3 on:** January 10, 2016, 06:43:27 PM »

Very nice indeed!

grant · « **Reply #4 on:** January 10, 2016, 06:51:11 PM »

Looks like a lovely massacre waiting to happen!

juergen c. olk · « **Reply #5 on:** January 10, 2016, 07:34:25 PM »

great looking table ,especially like the tents!

Atheling · « **Reply #6 on:** January 10, 2016, 08:53:01 PM »

Oh yeah!

EDIT: Forgot to add, there's something about epic scale Colonial games that is well, epic!

Perhaps it's the influence of the films Zulu etc?

Darrell.

sjwalker51 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 11, 2016, 10:00:11 PM »

Thanks all, one further view of the left horn approaching Durnford's command defending the donga. Apologies for all the tabletop clutter, the unit cards had all the key info on them, essential when most of us had never seen the rules before and the most experienced had only used them a couple of times - next time (and I'm sure there will be a 'next time') they won't really be needed, so the whole thing will look a bit more photogenic.

nevermore · « **Reply #8 on:** January 12, 2016, 07:31:12 PM »

Bamg on, really great effort in everything

Sunjester · « **Reply #9 on:** January 12, 2016, 07:34:07 PM »

Looks a great game. I can't wait for these rules to come out!

sjwalker51 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 12, 2016, 09:55:06 PM »

Must say I'm very impressed with the rules. The unit classification system allows you to represent so many different troop types accurately and with enough of a difference between them to make things interesting. Trouble is, it's now got me thinking about all the other 'small forces' (including FFL, German SW Africa etc) that are very manageable at this level.

We made a few minor tweaks to the rules for the specific scenario and they coped incredibly well with a game up scaled about 8x greater than its originally designed for: instead of 24pt starter forces (typically 40-50 Imperials and 90-100 natives), the forces in the game we played worked out at about 140 points of British troops taking on 260 points of Zulus.

Next step is to substitute stands of 3 or 4 15mm figures for each 28mm figure, maybe scale down the units slightly so a British Company would have 32 figures (8 stands) and a native unit would have 45-48 figures (12 stands), which should look good and play just the same...

gtz2101 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 14, 2016, 02:11:58 AM »

Looks great!

seldon · « **Reply #12 on:** January 14, 2016, 02:59:36 AM »

holy crap !!! really awesome !!

Atheling · « **Reply #13 on:** January 14, 2016, 08:18:15 AM »

Darrell.

Paul @ Empress Miniatures · « **Reply #14 on:** January 19, 2016, 12:02:46 PM »

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