DisasterWargamer ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 12:56 p.m. PST |
There have been a few early on that got me into Colonial Gaming Books I read as a teen Washing of the Spears by Donald Morris Lives of a Bengal Lancer by Francis Yeats Brown Films Lawrence of Arabia Gunga Din 55 Days At Peking Many others since those early days |
alan in canberra | 24 Oct 2023 1:48 p.m. PST |
Book Washing of the Spears Movie Khartoum |
Flashman14 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 2:29 p.m. PST |
Zulu Zulu Dawn March or Die |
Wackmole9 | 24 Oct 2023 2:32 p.m. PST |
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Saber6 ![Workbencher Fezian](boards/icons/workbencher.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 3:34 p.m. PST |
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Glengarry5 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 3:40 p.m. PST |
Book Washing of the Spears Movie Zulu |
DisasterWargamer ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 3:52 p.m. PST |
Later on – Beau Geste began a fascination with the French Foreign Legion |
Shagnasty ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 3:59 p.m. PST |
Books-- Kim, Washing of the Spears ( Had a great dinner with the author some years later) Movies-- Gunga Din, Zulu |
Col Durnford ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 4:29 p.m. PST |
As others have said "Zulu" and "Washing of the Spears". The next two greatest influences were Ral Partha colonials and TSATF. |
robert piepenbrink ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 4:32 p.m. PST |
Zulu and The Wind and the Lion. But it's a peripheral period for me. |
Richard Brooks ![Sponsoring Member of TMP Sponsoring Member of TMP](boards/icons/sponsor.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 4:36 p.m. PST |
Movies: Gunga Din, Four Feathers, Beau Geste, Charge of the Light Brigade, King of the Khyber Rifles, Bonnie Scotland and Wee Willie Winkie |
Herkybird ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 4:42 p.m. PST |
North West Frontier…and I suppose Zulu. |
Doctor X ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 4:43 p.m. PST |
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Deucey ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 4:57 p.m. PST |
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KimRYoung ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 5:02 p.m. PST |
Zulu Khartoum 1939 Four Feathers. Kim |
Rich Bliss | 24 Oct 2023 5:16 p.m. PST |
Washing of the Spears. And Farwell's Victoria's Little Wars. |
khanscom | 24 Oct 2023 6:42 p.m. PST |
Washing of the Spears War for a Persian Lady |
miniMo ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 7:54 p.m. PST |
Sleepy Hollow (1999) Got me into doing gothic horror set in the French & Indian War. (Sleepy Hollow was cursed and haunted long before the Hessian lost his head in the Rev War.) |
advocate ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 24 Oct 2023 10:42 p.m. PST |
Zulu. I saw Khartoum when it came out, but haven't even dabbled in the Sudan, for no reason I can think of. |
Martin Rapier | 25 Oct 2023 12:04 a.m. PST |
Zulu, Northwest Frontier and The Four Feathers. |
Dn Jackson ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 25 Oct 2023 12:57 a.m. PST |
Zulu, Wind and the Lion, 55 Days at Peking. |
mildbill | 25 Oct 2023 6:44 a.m. PST |
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Silurian | 25 Oct 2023 6:49 a.m. PST |
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Frederick ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 25 Oct 2023 6:58 a.m. PST |
Zulu and 55 Days at Peking for movies For books, the Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling |
ColCampbell ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 25 Oct 2023 7:38 a.m. PST |
Knowing Larry Brom and playing TSATF with the Jackson Gamers at his house was my impetus. Jim |
Arjuna | 25 Oct 2023 7:54 a.m. PST |
None, it was the Praetorian Guard regiments of Astra Militarum, but the first colonial films that reinforced this for me were The Man Who Would Be King, Zulu, the movie, Lawrence of Arabia, and the television series Shaka Zulu. However, my colonial gaming is ninety percent VSF/steampunk. |
Shark Six Three Zero | 25 Oct 2023 8:28 a.m. PST |
All Movies: 1939 Four Feathers 55 days at Peking Zulu Zulu Dawn Khartoum |
DyeHard | 25 Oct 2023 8:38 a.m. PST |
While I saw "Lawrence of Arabia" in the theater as a small child, and I am sure that have a profound effect, I would have to say: The Wind and the Lion (1975) This was the film that assured that Colonials would be something of a life long project. |
79thPA ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 25 Oct 2023 9:38 a.m. PST |
Nothing, really. Minifigs and Ral Partha had minis, and TSATF was out, so there were figures and rules available at the same time. It could just as easily been something else, but the Colonial stars aligned. |
The Virtual Armchair General ![Sponsoring Member of TMP Sponsoring Member of TMP](boards/icons/sponsor.gif) | 25 Oct 2023 10:11 a.m. PST |
Gunga Din and Zulu--the first on TV, the second upon initial release. Indeed, I hardly have known any wargamer (whatever his/her primary interest in the hobby) who didn't see and be inspired by "Zulu" Also was "inspired" by seeing when them when new such as "Khartoum" and "55 Days At Peking." By the time "The Wind And the Lion" and "Zulu Dawn" were released, I was already hooked. TVAG |
Grelber ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 25 Oct 2023 10:20 a.m. PST |
You folks are making me feel so old, because I remember the television series Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers. To this day, I prefer my adventurous Brits in khaki, rather than red. Grelber |
Flashman14 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 25 Oct 2023 10:52 a.m. PST |
Yup, the rule set TSATF played a role too! |
oldjarhead | 25 Oct 2023 1:20 p.m. PST |
Kipling, TSATF, books bt Byron Farwell and of course Zulu |
Old Contemptible ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 25 Oct 2023 3:59 p.m. PST |
"The Man Who Would Be King", "Zulu", and "Beau Geste" movies. |
robert piepenbrink ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 25 Oct 2023 6:07 p.m. PST |
I remember Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers too, Grelber. I look for it on DVD from time to time, but no luck yet. Bound to be some scenarios in there somewhere. |
ZULUPAUL ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 26 Oct 2023 2:58 a.m. PST |
Movie Zulu (guess that may be obvious) Khartoum 55 Days at Peking |
Nick Stern ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 26 Oct 2023 3:30 p.m. PST |
I saw 55 Days at Peking at age 11, then Zulu at age 12. I remember reading Washing of Spears, looking for a description of the cattle getting out of the kraal and ending the Zulu assault. I saw Khartoum on my 14th birthday on the big screen at an almost empty matinee. But I didn't start playing colonial wargames until my mid-thirties. |
Dave Crowell | 27 Oct 2023 2:50 p.m. PST |
The Washing of the Spears |
CFeicht | 29 Oct 2023 7:13 a.m. PST |
The Four Feathers (1939) greatly enhanced by witnessing a TSATF game at Historicon in the mid 90's. |
Murvihill | 30 Oct 2023 4:46 a.m. PST |
While I always enjoyed those movies and books, I started painting colonial troops after playing TSATF after playing a game at a friend's house (Boxers). Inspiring game, he had the city wall and everything. |
Mad Guru | 30 Oct 2023 4:59 p.m. PST |
It's a long list on both counts… but if I had to boil it down to one written and one cinematic source: --Reading Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King" --Seeing John Milius's "The Wind And The Lion" Honorable Mention goes to "Young Winston" which I saw in the theater in 1972 despite being only 7 at the time and which packs three different colonial campaigns -- NWF, Sudan, 2nd Boer War -- into one movie. |