Jonas and I played another game of Zulu War. He and I are probably the only two people in Jylland interested in the period and we don’t adhere strictly to history in our games.

In fact most of our games start with a little ritual in which Jonas asks ‘can I has a steam tank? Can I has steam gorillas’ and so on (I suppose I better get used to it if I intend to play some games with my kids too… only they’ll be wanting dragons and lasers). I’m sure it underlines that even though we are both interested in the same period our views are still different. I actually think the conflict offers a lot of adventure on its own.

But anyway! We arranged a bit of greenery around a road and the basic scenario was simple enough:
[i]The Zulu Nation had besieged a mission station and the British were on their way to relieve it. Parts of the British force came into contact with elements of the Zulu army and so it began.[/i]

Rules wise we used Triumph & Tragedy. I think this set is well suited to the period and the amount of figures we use. I would probably skip a lot of the micro handling (weapons, close combat distances and the like) to make it a bit more fluid the next time I field 96 Zulus.

We had roughly 800 pts a side. I had 6 units:

Little Big Horn: 20 Veterans
The Blend-In Horns: 15 trained
The Bland Horns: 15 trained
The Young Ones: 16 trained
The Other Young Ones: 16 trained
The Shooty Hornies: 10 raw w. rifles

Apart from the Shooty Hornies all had throwing spears.

Scenario wise, the British simple had to cross the table and free the way station on their way to the mission… never mind the 96 Zulu warriors!