"Khartoum is the best!" Topic

You were asked – TMP link

Favorite 19th Century Sudanese Battle to Wargame?

18% said "Khartoum"
16% said "Abu-Klea"
6% said "I prefer not to replay historical battles"

I find this interesting as I think I've only seen one Khartoum game where it actually looked like Khartoum! Most of the battles have a walled city with gates and bastions, which while it looks great and probably fun to game (I have a 15mm walled city for Sudan games as well), bears little resemblance to the fortifications that surrounded the city during the actual siege.

Agree with above!

I think the problem there is that too many of us have seen the marvelous eponymous film, but not actually read the historical accounts.

Then again, a larger table with more difficult to represent fortifications features is required to do the thing properly.

Which actually argues for such Colonial games to be played in the smallest scales possible, though the vast majority of us are heavily invested in 15mm or 25/28mm figure collections, again encouraging the use of those non-existent walls.

TVAG

When you must choose between the truth and the legend, print the legend!

This is a small preview of the game that I will host at Historcon 2023 using 54mm figures

I sometimes wonder if the defenses at Khartoum could have been set up better to inflict massive casualties on the attackers (such as blockhouses covering interior streets used to channel the attackers.) Sure, it still would have fallen, but at a much more horrendous cost…