ashmie wrote:I have the Osprey book on Rorkes Drift. It has how to wargame that scenario in the back of the book written by the Perry twins. I'll pick it up when I visit England this Summer. The Zulu player gets an infinite amount of models. The actual history is a lot less heroic than the film. They try and paint it as a success by the British when in actual fact it was one lucky battle in a failing war. The whole thing was really a massacre of the Zulu people.
All the same maybe another project to think about.
The British government never actually wanted to go to war with the Zulu nation. However, the local colonial governor hated them and so did everything he could to antagonise them and sent reports back home talking up how dangerous they were. Eventually the government
had to intervene and send troops to Africa to deal with this 'menace.' And once they arrived they didn't actually achieve very much to begin with. Not a proud period in British history and a conflict that could have been easily prevented, but it makes for an interesting scenario. The vast hordes of Zulus against the small, but well equipped and well trained British redcoats. Still, despite a few defeats at the beginning, the British Empire was triumphant and the local governor was reassigned to a desk job in cape town.
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Now I feel an overwhelming need to watch this movie again.
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I just watched Zulu again. Awesome movie!!
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