Tango01  | 05 Oct 2019 9:08 p.m. PST |
Superb!
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| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 05 Oct 2019 11:32 p.m. PST |
For we have the Maxim gun, and they have not. Was Kipling writing about these battles? I don't recall. I do recall wiping out the Mahdi's forces with my boat-mounted Maxim guns when I played a hex-map-and-counters version of this scenario a long time ago. |
| Mad Guru | 06 Oct 2019 2:59 a.m. PST |
That particular quote isn't Kipling, it's by the Anglo-French author, Hilaire Belloc: 'Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.' But Kipling did write about the Sudan. Two titles jump to mind: his novel, "The Light That Failed," and his poem,"Fuzzy Wuzzy," which begins with these other famous lines, at least among the colonial minded:
WE 'VE fought with many men acrost the seas,
An' some of 'em was brave an' some was not,
The Paythan an' the Zulu an' Burmese;
But the Fuzzy was the finest o' the lot. |
| Sydney Gamer | 06 Oct 2019 4:32 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 06 Oct 2019 3:53 p.m. PST |
Happy you like them my friend!. (smile) Amicalement
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| Henry Martini | 06 Oct 2019 4:06 p.m. PST |
Why are all the imperial figures based like skirmishers/irregulars? |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 07 Oct 2019 9:33 p.m. PST |
Thanks, Mad Guru! I had forgotten all about Belloc! |
| Mad Guru | 07 Oct 2019 11:05 p.m. PST |
You are most welcome, Oberlindes! Happy to be of service! |
| Col Durnford | 10 Oct 2019 8:29 a.m. PST |
Great looking table and figures. |
| von Schwartz | 10 Oct 2019 6:17 p.m. PST |
Wasn't Belloc the bad guy in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"? |
| Nick Pasha | 10 Oct 2019 7:30 p.m. PST |
name is spelled Belloq. Pronounced Bellosh by Sullah. Indy pronounces it Bellock. |
