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Personal logo ochoin Supporting Member of TMP22 Nov 2024 7:56 p.m. PST

Our annual Show game is in 2 weeks – it's late this year.
Today, we had a final planning meeting and a scratch game to consolidate rule changes.
We're using Black Powder & the scratch game was a rough & cut-down version of Abu Klea.
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Some rule mods include forbidding a triple move & shoot in the same phase (too "gamey") and allowing bespoke Dervish skirmish units to "go to Ground" (where they can't easily be shot at) & then able to rise & shoot at any suitable target.

The key to the Sudan is a contest against Anglo-Egyptian firepower & the ferocity of Mahdist hand-to-hand combat.
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This trial game emphasised the waste of cavalry charging undamaged infantry:
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And we've also tweaked the command rules with adding an ADC (& a +1 ) if attached to a brigade commander.
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The Show game will use many, many more figures & have a riverine aspect as well as a desert one with 2 Arab dhows confronting the 2 imperial steamers.

I'll post photos of the event in a fortnight.

bobspruster Supporting Member of TMP23 Nov 2024 3:44 a.m. PST

Excellent! Recognized many figures! 😊

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