"Rorke's Drift in SF" Topic
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| wballard | 20 Jun 2010 9:07 a.m. PST |
How many authors have used the Rorke's Drift battle (the basis of the movie Zulu) in SF settings? I've seen it Tanya Huff's "Valor's Choice:, Stirling's :On the Oceans of Eternity" and I think in John Ringo's "March Upcountry" (a bit of a stretch compared to the first two). Any others? |
| Privateer4hire | 20 Jun 2010 1:46 p.m. PST |
In a boardgame setting, Outpost Gamma (now OOP) is pretty close. Don't recall any other sci-fi similar tales, though. link |
| Black Cavalier | 20 Jun 2010 3:08 p.m. PST |
A friend did a fantasy race version called Orks Drift. The defenders were dwarves & the attackers orks. One of the defenders had the brilliant idea of coming up with the Not Tall Native contingent (hobbits). |
Dropzonetoe  | 20 Jun 2010 3:12 p.m. PST |
GW had a battle report right around 3rd ed came out I think where they spoofed it with guard vs orks. |
| darthfozzywig | 20 Jun 2010 3:55 p.m. PST |
Actually there was a WFB 2nd boxed scenario set called "Bloodbath at Ork's Drift." This was around the time of the excellent parody set "McDeath." Funny stuff. |
| Custer7thcav | 20 Jun 2010 4:16 p.m. PST |
Wasn't the Starship troopers battle sequence at outpost ZULU somewhate reminiscent of the the roarkes drift situation? |
| Koushu | 20 Jun 2010 5:19 p.m. PST |
There was also Star Wars Empire #16-18 (comic) which revolved around a group of Imperial Stormtroopers on some backwater planet that fought off wave after wave of primative aliens. Very Rorke's Drift. Fun read too! |
| Koushu | 20 Jun 2010 5:26 p.m. PST |
Oh, also Ringo's "March Upcountry" is more a copy of Xenophon March from ancient Greece then it is Rorke's Drift. Great read, both the scifi and the history. Ringo's book is part of a trilogy I think, but only read the first book. |
| Agent Smith | 21 Jun 2010 10:51 a.m. PST |
1st Edition 40K "Rogue Trader" had a scenario called the "Battle for the Farm" which was a little like Rourkes Drift. Except that there wasn`t thousand`s of `em (Orks that is?)they may have won then. AS |
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