Wednesday 15 May 2019

There will be an awful row about this.......A Zulu Victory

We played our first proper game of Ospreys "the Men Who Would Be Kings " last night at Sheffield Wargames Society . I Umpired whilst Ian took the part of the British and John over saw the Zulu Impi  , we used the Run to the Hills scenarios ,with afew amendments for the AZW not in the main rule book . Ian had 3 British Regular units one with the sharpshooter trait and 2 NNC units ,Johns Impi consisted of 3 married and 3 unmarried regiments .Things got off to a bad start for the Brits with each unit rolling for thier leadership trait which consisted of Drunkards ,Brutal and Ugly leaders ,the Zulus faired a lot better .Surprisingly the first kills of the game came from a unit of NNC taking out 3 Zulus ,after that things went down hill quickly for the British with a lot of bad dice rolls and the Zulus making good use of the go to ground rule to get close to the red coats. The game only lasted 6 turns before the Zulus over ran the galent forces of Queen Victoria ,one unit of NNC fled the field but everyone else died to a man ,The Redcoats made a valient last stand and actually destroyed one regiment of Zulus before dying in a  good traditional victorian way . Overall we liked the rules we made a couple of adjustments on the night but good fun .Figures a mix of Warlord ,Perry,wargames factory and Empress mat by urbanmatz .
some poor officers on parade

The Zulu leaders showed their metal 


loking down the table towards the Britsh start point 


The NNC cause some minor problems for the  Zulus 

Ian and John get ready for some fisticuffs , on the table thankfully

Fittingly dressed to be the umpire


The slaughter begins 

Zulus used the go to Ground Rule very well

no time to write letters home 

all looks lost 


The last surviving Redcoats but not for long 

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