Update: TMWWBK versus Black Powder for Zulu Wars (25/10)

[syrinx0]

Beautiful looking game as usual; terrain and figures.   
Looking forward to the next installment.

[Kamandi]

Have you published the cards Eric? It would save me making up my own....

[Eric the Shed]

Pm me with your email and I'll send you them

[fastolfrus]

The cards look jolly useful.
Could I join the queue?

[Eric the Shed]

Just pm me with your email address

These are proving very popular

[LCpl McDoom]

Those cards look really useful for multi-player games 

Most impressed, and even more motivated to get my own MWWBK gaming underway. Many thanks.

[Stern Rake Studio]

Awesome pictures, figures and terrain!

[LordSpode1879]

Splendid figures and those cards are fantastic!

[Eric the Shed]

Second Zulu War battle was fought on Monday using the Men Who Would Be Kings ruleset - 100 points of Brits versus 150 points of Zulus

Lots of pictures on the blog and a critique of the ruleset

http://shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/encounter-in-veldt-tmwwbk-engagement.html





interested to hear other peoples thoughts on this ruleset

[Codsticker]

Great AAR and review. I haven't bought the rules yet but I am familiar with Lion Rampant. I am a little suprised that activations all require the same roll- one of the things I really liked about the LR system was the differing rolls, which gave the units character. As the system is really designed for smaller actions it looks like you guys did a great job tailoring it for a larger battle.

[Eric the Shed]

So far emailed out 20 sets of cards so far...they are obviously popular

[Argonor]

Excellent battle, and nice with the thoughts on the rules!

[vodkafan]

 Eric I really enjoyed following your battle, and your examination of the rules was even more interesting. Your proposed amendments and tweaks sounded sensible and well thought out. I can hardly wait till you refight this with Black Powder and compare the two. Lots of cutting edge gaming going on in that shed....

[Eric the Shed]

Thank you gentlemen for your kind comments. I can confirm the same engagement will be fought using Black Powder on Monday. I'll put synopsis of how the rules differed and of course how the battle fared later on in the week.

I am currently building the Rourkes Drift models from 4 Ground so in the next couple of weeks I'll be posting up these and my thoughts on how we can fight this great battle in the shed

[SteveBurt]

We've used Black Powder for Zulu War stuff.
While it was an entertaining game, it felt nothing like a Zulu War game and had lots of individual units whizzing round the table like fireworks.
TMWWBK is a big skirmish game, not a battle game, hence the lack of flank/rear rules and so on.

The best rules for massed battles we've used are Victorian Steel and Battles for Empire (the latter is sort of based on Fire & Fury)