ZULU WARS!

 

 

BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE HEROIC VICTORIAN FIGHTING FORCE THAT DEFENDED THE EMPIRE FROM THE ZULU AGGRESSORS OF THE 19TH CENTURY, THEIR HEROISM, THEIR PLUCK AND ADVENTUROUS SPIRIT.

Herein will be contained dispatches, reports from the field, photographs, memoirs, casualty lists, honours and all manner of accounting of the great war.

Send submissions and correspondence to malcolm_mccallum@hotmail.com

 

HEROES OF THE EMPIRE

HERO & RANK Promotion Date TRAITS HISTORY  IMAGE PLAYER
Captain Harry Spiffer Feb 12, 1879 Flamboyant   Malcolm
          Bruce
          Dale
          David
          Nathan
           

 

OUR VICTORIAN FIGHTING FORCES

FORMATION LEADERS IMAGES REGIMENTAL HISTORY PLAYER
14th (Fernwood) Foot
 (apple green facing)
3rd Company

10 trained infantry w rifle and bayonet

2nd-Lieutenant McFitzwilliamson II   Jan 1879 - in depot training and being outfitted. Anticipate deployment March 4th Malcolm
14th (Fernwood) Foot
(apple green facing)
3rd Company

9 trained infantry w rifle and bayonet

Sergeant Major Eversfield Jan 1879 - in depot training and being outfitted. Anticipate deployment March 4th. February 1879, completed training and equipment. Malcolm
Quartermaster Wagon Sergeant Unsavory   Not Yet Procured Malcolm
        Bruce
        Bruce
        Bruce
        Dale
        Dale
        Dale
        Nathan
        Nathan
        Nathan
        David
        David
        David
         

 

CAMPAIGN HISTORY

EVENTS

DATE
Malcolm completes his first section of British infantry and Captain Harry Spiffer

Feb 12, 2012
Malcolm gets his first of four impis done. These are unmarried.

25% of a Zulu force faced off against 25% of a British force.

Jan 27, 2012
It is determined that the campaign will be conducted by the rules of war laid down in the manual of arms: Triumph and Tragedy . All players may have up to three colonial units (two capable and 1 non-combat or incompetent) and for each unit that they field, they are expected to provide at least 30 Zulus for opposition. Infantry and cavalry units for the Colonial Powers are 6-10 figures. Zulu impis range from 12-20. Figures are individually mounted but some form of movement tray can be used. As well, each colonial force is entitled to one Hero figure. 

More information will follow, but players should provide cards for each of their unit with the stats on them. Also, they should have a personal set of cards for the 10 turn options (move, move & fire, charge etc - more info to follow). These cards do not need to be in any regular size as they are not mixed with others.

Jan 8th, 2012
Anticipated start date for the wars. March 4th, 2012