"Sudan – Gunboats and Dhows" Topic
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| NCC1717 | 13 Aug 2017 6:01 a.m. PST |
This weekend the local HMGS-South group played a Sudan game using The Sword and the Flame colonial rules (20th Anniversary Edition) and the Gunboats and Dhows rules. link
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| Alcibiades | 13 Aug 2017 9:41 a.m. PST |
Very nice report. Game looked like great fun. You mention a set of rules called Gunboats and Dhows. Are these available commercially? I've searched in the usual places but haven't come up with anything. |
| NCC1717 | 13 Aug 2017 10:05 a.m. PST |
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Nick Stern  | 13 Aug 2017 5:13 p.m. PST |
Looks like a fun game! Nice to see the Ral Partha Sudan figures which still make up the bulk of my collection. |
| Alcibiades | 13 Aug 2017 11:02 p.m. PST |
Cheers and thanks for the help. Kent |
| SgtGuinness | 19 Aug 2017 6:46 p.m. PST |
Looks like another fun battle with The Sword And The Flame, Last Stand Dan's boats, and his Gunboat & Dhow rules . I like Bill's gun positions and rifle pits as well. I've got Dan's boats and Bill's terrain also.
Cheers,
Sgt G
sgtguinness.blogspot.com |
| coolyork | 03 Sep 2017 10:28 a.m. PST |
Fun looking game ! Just curious though is there evidence the Sudanese built gun positions and rifle tenches ? Cheers |
| Mad Guru | 05 Sep 2017 5:05 p.m. PST |
Coolyork, Yes. Those riverbank entrenchments and fortlets are pretty accurate recreations based on period sketches & photos. |
| coolyork | 06 Sep 2017 2:16 p.m. PST |
Very cool ! Just now educating myself on the Sudan Campaigns . Thanks for the info Mad Guru. |
| SgtGuinness | 19 Sep 2017 5:38 a.m. PST |
@coolyork, the Mad Guru is correct. Those are very good representations of Dervish rifle pits and gun positions based on contemporary drawings and pictures of a couple of surviving round mud gun position forts. Most of the Dervish gun positions were various sizes of round low walked mud forts for guarding river banks at critical locations. Check out my blog for a couple of pics of a Dervish mud fort made by Bill at The Gamer's Garage. His email is on my blog if you want to contact him.
sgtguinness.blogspot.com
Cheers,
JB |
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