bargainbindm  | 20 Nov 2025 9:51 a.m. PST |
Greetings All! I'm on a quest to find something similar to the Colonial Campaign series books that would provide a few scenarios to use for the Afghan War. I have yet to stumble onto anything of use. Does anyone have any recommendations? |
| bargainbindm | 20 Nov 2025 9:51 a.m. PST |
Greetings All! I'm on a quest to find something similar to the Colonial Campaign series books that would provide a few scenarios to use for the Afghan War. I have yet to stumble onto anything of use. Does anyone have any recommendations? |
| bargainbindm | 20 Nov 2025 9:51 a.m. PST |
Greetings All! I'm on a quest to find something similar to the Colonial Campaign series books that would provide a few scenarios to use for the Afghan War. I have yet to stumble onto anything of use. Does anyone have any recommendations? |
| bargainbindm | 20 Nov 2025 9:51 a.m. PST |
Greetings All! I'm on a quest to find something similar to the Colonial Campaign series books that would provide a few scenarios to use for the Afghan War. I have yet to stumble onto anything of use. Does anyone have any recommendations? |
| MajorB | 20 Nov 2025 11:51 a.m. PST |
There's quite an echo in here! |
| bargainbindm | 20 Nov 2025 11:59 a.m. PST |
uh huh……when I saw my laptop lopping for a few minutes till it loaded should have been a dead giveaway that something was awry! |
| DisasterWargamer | 20 Nov 2025 12:31 p.m. PST |
Wargames Vault has a set of 3 scenarios with rules – Part of the Victoria Battles Series link "…Ambush on the Road to Murakand an introductory fictional encounter, Action at Landakai 18 August 1897, and the Battle of Rambat Pass 4 December 1878. The rules support both small and large scale battles using a flexible unit scale. Figures can be mounted individually or on multifigure stands. Unit sizes range from 6 to 12 figures…." Mad Dogs & Englishmen have 3 books with close to a hundred scenarios for the NW Frontier – by Partizan Press
Links for On Military Matters The Bozdari Expedition 1857 to the Mohmand Expeditions 1879-80
link The Marri Expedition 1880 to the Buner Field Expedition 1898
link The Mahdsud-Waziri Blockade 1900-1902 to Mazrak Zadran's Invasion of India 1944-45
link |
| robert piepenbrink | 20 Nov 2025 3:10 p.m. PST |
Ask around. Sergeants 3--on whom be peace--published a thick set of one-sheet scenarios for TSATF, and if I remember correctly Afghanistan got its share. |
| bargainbindm | 20 Nov 2025 3:42 p.m. PST |
yeah, Robert, I'm still kicking myself for not getting that TSATF scenario book years ago. Disaster, thanks for the scoop on the books from Partizan. I saw the scenarios on the Vault, and I may just download those and see what we have. |
 John the OFM | 20 Nov 2025 3:51 p.m. PST |
Google Maiwand. Treat Afghan regulars as equivalent to TSATF Egyptians, if that's what you're playing. Same if you're playing 800 Fighting Englishmen. |
| Sydney Gamer | 20 Nov 2025 6:21 p.m. PST |
Jon Sutherland has just produced a very comprehensive series of scenario books for India, including plenty vs the Afghans. Available at Caliver Books. You may have to search under 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen'. I am finding them to be extremely useful. |
| Mad Guru | 22 Nov 2025 3:43 a.m. PST |
bargainbindm, If you search on my blog you can find detailed scenarios & army lists for Maiwand (1880), Charasiab (1879), and Kandahar/Baba Wali (1880), as well as an alternate history scenario featuring an Afghan attack on Ali Masjid while a British column simultaneously attempts to relieve it. There's also a scenario for the little known smaller battle of Kam Dakka (1879), where 2 companies of Indian infantry hunkered down in a local cemetery to fight a desperate "last stand" type action against 1,200 Mohmands who crossed the Kabul River to attack them. I'm slammed with work at the moment plus it's 2:35am or else I'd post specific links to specific blog-posts, but the search function works pretty well, or you can just put my blog name and the battle name into Google & that should probably work. Okay, it was fast & easy for me to find these two… Here's a link to my scenario for the Battle of Kandahar AKA Baba Wali, the largest action of the war, as well as the last major one: link …And here's my scenario for Kam Dakka: link The Kam Dakka game came about as part of an ongoing campaign chronicled over on the Lead Adventure Forum, the story of which also features in that blogpost -- BUT it was still a refight of a real (though little known) battle from the Second Afghan war, with army lists based as closely as possible on the forces present at the real fight. |
| bargainbindm | 24 Nov 2025 9:09 a.m. PST |
Ethan, I'm feeling rather stupid that I didn't think to take a look at your site first. By the way, this is Dave Mack, the "Mad Cougher" from the Cameron game at the con three years ago! I'm going to do a dive into your content over the holiday weekend. Thanks for chiming in! |
