| Mark RedLinePS | 22 Jun 2016 10:35 a.m. PST |
Are their any scenarios available, historical or fictional. I'll probably be using TSATF rules or Field of Battle. I lack suitable imagination and need some ideas!
Thanks,
Mark |
| Sir Walter Rlyeh | 22 Jun 2016 10:56 a.m. PST |
Like the Defense of Duffer's Drift? |
 ColCampbell  | 22 Jun 2016 11:31 a.m. PST |
|
| Lt Col Pedant | 22 Jun 2016 11:39 a.m. PST |
Try looking at the sorties of the Pretoria garrison during the First Boer/Transvaal War. |
| Ferd45231 | 22 Jun 2016 2:56 p.m. PST |
I second Duffer's Drift. H |
| rmaker | 22 Jun 2016 2:59 p.m. PST |
The Official History and the Times History of the War in South Africa (both multi-volume works) have lots of goodies. The German Staff history is not so fruitful. |
| Durban Gamer | 23 Jun 2016 6:06 a.m. PST |
So many varied small actions, especially in the late war. I read the Afrikaans sources, but I believe there is a book on the late/guerilla phase, in English. Also, SA Journal of Military History available free on the net, has some excellent accounts. |
| EssPee | 23 Jun 2016 8:25 a.m. PST |
@Durban Gamer- can you remember the title of the English book at all? MTIA |
| Ceterman | 23 Jun 2016 8:52 a.m. PST |
If you keep scrolling on ColCampbell's link, you can buy just the Boer Scenarios separate. As well as all of the "Enemies" of the Queen. Pathans, Zulu's etc. Recommended. I have the Zulu & Pathans. I need to get the Boers. These have just been re-released as separate Scenarios, I suppose. I have not seen them available for a long time!
Peter
I used one of the Zulu scenarios for our Brom Memorial game seen here:
TMP link |
| Nick Stern | 15 Jul 2016 5:15 p.m. PST |
IMHO, skirmishes are the way to go with the 2nd Boer War. How about Duivelskloof (Devil's Chasm) for a small skirmish game? It's the action in the film Breaker Morant where Capt. Hunt is killed. You need only 10 Bushveldt Carbineers and 6 Boers and a Boer homestead. There's a great Guerrilla Raid scenario in Wargames Illustrated #87. I've run it a couple of times and it's a real nail biter. A Boer Commando makes a sneak attack on a British supply depot on a rail line. There's a randomized chance that a British cavalry patrol or armoured train may appear to aid the depot detachment. If you send me a PM with your email address I'll send you a scan. |
scratchbuilds another Victorian flying machine.