"darkest africa Zanzibaris" Topic
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| mark72 | 22 Feb 2009 11:45 a.m. PST |
I need some ideas if I could use my Zanzibaris and/or ruga ruga (Foundry DA) as something else. I`m looking for different time periods and different armies. Any suggestion is welcome. Thank you, Mark |
| Pictors Studio | 22 Feb 2009 12:06 p.m. PST |
The Zanzibarians could probably work for almost any period of rifle/later musket armed arabs. You might have them fighting the forces of the Mahdi in earlier parts of that conquest. You could have them in pulp games for sure. You might even be able to get away with using some of them as rural fighters in the Algerian War of Independence, although that might be a bit of a stretch. |
aecurtis  | 22 Feb 2009 1:22 p.m. PST |
As Scott says, the Zanzibaris would work for the Egyptian garrisons in the Sudan that were cut off by the Mahdists. Their weapons limit their usefulness for earlier periods, if you're picky. Allen |
| mark72 | 22 Feb 2009 1:46 p.m. PST |
Of course you are right, but do you think the ruga ruga are also limited for this short time period? All of them have muskets! And what else could they be if not ruga ruga? |
John Leahy  | 22 Feb 2009 7:30 p.m. PST |
Askari for expeditions. Native muskets and so on. Thanks, John |
| abdul666lw | 23 Feb 2009 12:51 a.m. PST |
Askaris / 'regional' mercenaries indeed (not dissimilar to the 'Greeks' enlisted by the US Marines for the Tripoli raid) for any expedition South of Sahara from the mid-18th C. on.
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| Dragon Gunner | 23 Feb 2009 4:14 p.m. PST |
Slaver armies of Darfur fighting against the French. |
| abdul666lw | 23 Feb 2009 11:55 p.m. PST |
As illustrations of 'alternate 18th C.' possibilities:
Imagine Catherin II sent General Pettygroff to Zululand… (From the newly conquered Pacific shore? Then during the Russo-Japanese war of 1905 the Russians sent their Baltic fleet to the Pacific – to be destroyed at Tsushima, after sinking British fisherboats 'mistaken in the fog for Japanese torpedo boats' ['1905-pattern Japanese torpedo boats off Dogger Bank in the North Sea'! No wonder the first mutiny was in the Navy…]: a Lace Wars Russian expedition to South Africa could equally be sent from the Baltic…)
In a similar vein a TMP member (Critter 1, I believe) endvisages a 'rogue Jacobite settlement', maybe not far from the Chefferie of Bongolesia?
After reading reviews of Stirling's 'Dominion of Draka' I toyed with the idea of Huguenot refugees link overwhelming the Dutchs in South Africa and finally founding the Republique de Bonne-Esperance: link
Indeed I feel that two wargaming subgenres 'normally' associated with Victorian times -'Colonial' and 'Steampunk / VSF'- can equally well be set by the mid-18th C. If you already have a 'tricorn' army you just have to build a Zulu, Sudanese, Guinean or Indo-Chinese force to start 'colonizing'.
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