To be honest, it's not a second edition. When DitDC was in print we added a number of things online for the game:
New army lists.
A few errata that Chis make, not a lot.
A selection of rule additions like wild animals, witch-doctors, designed to be added if players fancied.
When the last print run sold out, I said to Chris, 'I'd like the next reprint to be a completely different book. The first edition had no photographs in, no diagrams, no background information, I'd like to add that sort of thing.' Chris was happy to go with that. He has written some substantial history to be included in the book about what was happening in Africa 1870-1899, a 'Who's Who' and a complete new Hunting Skirmish game, all included in the extra 130 pages the new edition has.
One complaint we had received from some players of DitDC was the structure of the book, they found it hard to reference back, find rules etc. This new edition has been re-organised by experienced rules writers to over come these problems, without losing Chris' narrative style. There's also a contents and index to help.
Photograph wise, we have used extensive pictures of miniatures to illustrate troop types, basing styles, game play and 4 sample armies.
There are illustrations and photographs as well.
All in all, it's a very different book. But the game remains the same, so there's no compulsion to buy the new one chaps, you just keep sticky taping your old editions together! LOL.
Whether you buy the new edition or not, please take up the game again and get involved in the conversations with new players, whether it's here or on our Facebook group.
Nick
PS No plans to go digital initially, but bear with us.
