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Warlord Games is currently working on British Redcoats and Zulu tribesmen to allow people to replay the Anglo-Zulu war as depicted in the awesome movie, Zulu

Lieutenant Chard: The army doesn't like more than one disaster in a day.
Lieutenant Bromhead: Looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast.

Pte. Thomas Cole: Why is it us? Why us?
Colour Sergeant Bourne: Because we're here, lad. Nobody else. Just us.

Colour Sergeant Bourne: It's a miracle.
Lieutenant John Chard: If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle.
Colour Sergeant Bourne: And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind.

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.

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!!

Cool! Great soundtrack too. Actually I have it on cd so we will have to have that playing when we get around to this one.

Warlord are getting set to release their Zulu range. The previews for the painted models are up on their site.



And check out this terrain they're going to sell alongside it.



Urge to spend rising....

Cool! Nice scenery. You buy it and paint it and I'll play it.

ashmie wrote:Cool! Nice scenery. You buy it and paint it and I'll play it.

Thats very generous of you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODM1RJe4 ... re=related

We can use the Black Powder rules to play. I'd be up for painting some Zulu but after everything else I've got is finished. Maybe next year?

In the meantime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qydHIjL7iMg

ashmie wrote:We can use the Black Powder rules to play. I'd be up for painting some Zulu but after everything else I've got is finished. Maybe next year?

Does that mean I get the pleasure of painting up more British redcoats?

Next year may be possible. Until Golden Week I have a lot on my plate painting wise. After that I'll see how my finances and hobby schedule are looking. The models look aces but having already done a small Napoleonic force, I want to play Black Powder more before I start up a second (and non-compatible) army. If I enjoy BP, I'll want to expand my Nap army AND play Zulu though.

Looks like Warlord have the first wave up for preorder.
32 plastic zulus for 20 pounds. Thats enough for 1 warband of 8 stands of 4 miniatures, though that number can always be reduced depending on how big you want the units to look.
The Rorkes Drift set which includes a tonne of terrain as well as a set of plastic zulus and british infantry will set you back about 150 pounds, or the collectors edition which includes even more scenery (as well as cattle and representations of the main cast of the film) will run you 275 pounds.