Wargamers Guide to the Zulu War
Dan Mersey
Pen and Sword
Reviewed by John Stallard
Dan Mersey
Pen and Sword
Reviewed by John Stallard
- Anglo-Zulu War 1879 in 20mm - The Zulu army at Isandlwana. After finding the Anglo-Zulu Wargaming group on FB I decided to rebase my Zulu army according to Battles for Empire 2 rules which allows the big basing I prefer.
- The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom.Following the Constitution Act, 1867 for the federation in Canada, by Lord Carnarvon, it was thought that similar political effort, coupled with military campaigns, might succeed with the African kingdoms, tribal areas and Boer republics in South Africa. In 1874, Sir Bartle Frere was sent to South Africa as.
- The following rules are a set of simple fast play rules to get you started.
At the recent LITTLE WARS REVISITED day run in Woking, Surrey, Anthony Morton staged a Zulu War battle using some wonderful 54mm figures and THE PORTABLE WARGAME rules. I'm not sure about the outcome of the battle as I have only got the photographs to go by, but it looked like a hard-fought affair, and yet again proved how attractive wargaming. The Zulu War: Ian Knight: The Zulu War 1879: Lt Col F.E.Whitton: The Zulu War a pictorial history: Michael Barthorp: the Zulu war journal: col henry hartford: The Zulu War Then and Now: Ian Castle &Ian Knight: The Zulu War through contempory eyes: The Zulus: Ian Knight & Angus McBride: There will be an awful row at home about this: Ian Knight.
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This is a 113 page soft back book that retails at £13. If you don’t wish to read further, it does exactly what it says on the tin, and is recommended.
Mersey is a well-known wargames writer and has been published before. He knows what wargamers want and in this book he delivers it in spades.
He sets the political scene clearly without a fuss or over complicating the story, this a wargamers guide not a thesis. The chapter ‘armies. organization and equipment, is of great use.
In particular, if you are a bit new to the period. Strangely enough one one my mates has just invested hugely into the Zulu war and it would have save me a good few phone call and emails if he had this most useful book. It lists the Zulu armies carefully including their regimental and company strengths and provides the colonial player a chance to field all manner of other units rather than the 24th Warwickshires. Thus you will be informed that the amaKwenke regiment carried black shields, the uVe black red and white, whilst the 57th foot had yellow facings the 58th black and the Marines a dark blue uniform. All useful stuff to know.
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All the key battles are considered and suggestions for how to play them out given which seemed well thought out and include a few ‘what if’s’ which make a game so much more tempting in my opinion.
Malwarebytes for mac os x 10.6.8 free download. There are some nice colour photographs in there but not one map, perhaps my only moan , as trying to understand Isandlwana without a map is a nightmare, let alone with one!
The book is topped and tailed with a list of wargames rules he thinks worth looking at(remember this is NOT a set of rules) and a good bibliography for those who want to study more of this tragic but epic war.
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With some maps in it I would have scored it 10/10, without the maps still an excellent 9/10. If you fancy the period, buy this book.