With the impossibility of staging an ECW game this year at our annual local Train & Hobby show, we finally settled on the Sudan. Oh, well, the weather will be nicer.
I decided to run through a solo game using Black Powder for the first time. This was a "throw what you got on the table & play" sort of game – no subtilty. Just try out the gaming mechanisms.
The Anglo-Egyptians ended up narrowly winning.And the game went fairly smoothly & quickly.
Essentially, the A-Es had to travel from their camp & their riverine transport to the other end of the table.
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In this game, the Nile steamers were just 'eye-candy' but they can have "bite" being heavily armed & crewed.
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Dismounted Camel Corps, ready for action:
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The column;
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NB plenty of Scotsmen. "You can have too many Scotsmen" is a logical fallacy.
The Mahdi, himself:
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Always using the terrain:
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Haddendowah 'goodness':
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And it's always time for a photo opportunity:
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I still have things to do – figures on the painting desk, limber horses etc. And this represents half of the figures we'll be tabling when my pals add their forces.
All metal & plastic 20mm & 1/72 figures. Terrain, township, boats etc all scratch-built.
