"Old School Colonial Rules" Topic
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| Ragbones | 28 Jun 2019 10:03 a.m. PST |
Hal, if you see this, please forgive my posting it on the Old School Wargaming board.   While going through some old wargame files I came across copies of Hal Thinglum's rules for Isandhlwana and for Rorke's Drift. Great stuff! I also rediscovered Jack Scruby's rules for colonial wargames that were in volume 2 of Jack's The Soldier Factory News. I enjoy rediscovering the different paths I took on this hobby journey. |
| khanscom | 28 Jun 2019 12:43 p.m. PST |
Jack's Colonial Rules were always a lot of fun; I think you can still find them at the Historifigs site. I also remember a set for Rorke's Drift that was published in Lowry's Guidon (catalog supplement). Those were written by Gary Gygax and suggested using Airfix WWI German Infantry for the British and Tarzan natives for the Zulus. |
| HistoriFigs | 28 Jun 2019 1:32 p.m. PST |
Jack's rules from Soldier Factory News (1974):
link Designed with Scruby's N-gauge figures in mind Earlier rules for Zulu Warfare (Table Top Talk January 1965)
link We always played these with Scruby 25mm figures |
| Ragbones | 28 Jun 2019 2:17 p.m. PST |
I remember being enthralled by the movie Zulu when I was kid and using Airfix British Napoleonic Highlanders for the British and Airfix French Napoleonic infantry and the few Tarzan natives I had as the Zulus. I used a square, green, hard plastic piece that *may* have been from a Marx Flintstones play set as a redoubt. Those were the days. |
 Bobgnar  | 28 Jun 2019 3:16 p.m. PST |
Airfix magazine in the late 1960s had some articles on converting all sorts of airfix figures into Zulu war figures. German great war figures into British, Native Americans into Zulu. Cowboys into Boers. Something into 17th lancers, using a pin for a lance |
| Ed Mohrmann | 30 Jun 2019 6:33 a.m. PST |
The original Colonial rules (after Jack's) came in the
form of Lynn Bodin's Savage and Soldier magazine,
starting IIRC in 1965. I think Savage and Soldier has an on-line presence which
features many of the same aorts of articles Lynn
published back in the day, some by Howard Whitehouse.
Ah – found it: savageandsoldier.com I am not sure, but back issues of print versions of
Savage and Soldier might be available from Noble Knight
Games. Lynn had one publication, The Boxer Rebellion, through
Osprey which seems to be still available on Osprey's
website. This work was published in 1979 and is illo'd by Chris
Warner. |
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