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Tango0122 Dec 2016 12:16 p.m. PST

"There are some of us (maybe more than are willing to admit) that remember issue #132 of Wargames Illustrated, which gave us a set of ‘Darkest Africa' skirmish rules from the pen of Chris Peers, along with an accompanying set of figures from Wargames Foundry, and skirmish games in the African bush were the ‘in thing' ….

…which probably simply goes to show that all things are cyclical, and any ‘non-mainstream' wargaming period will once again become fashionable at some point in the future.

18 years later, and Studio Tomahawk – the game design studio behind Saga and Muskets & Tomahawks – released a new skirmish game set in 19th Century Central Africa – that game being Congo. At the time, Africa was described by the western press as an unexplored, wild and dangerous land. This is the setting for this game…"
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