Native and Zanzibar figures are mine, British figures belong to Steve Hardy. The Native Village is an old Games Workshop piece from years ago....an Orc Village, but it looks entirely suitable for this!!!
The British Surveying Party have been repeatedly attacked by natives in the area, and are determined to end it once and for all by burning the native village to the ground. The natives, however, have anticipated this attack and have sent word (and payment) to a force of Zanzibar Mercenaries who are on their way…
As usual, it is an ImagiNation scenario, so not really rooted in reality...!!!
The British aggressors, and the African Natives deploy on table, the Zanzibar Mercenaries are diced for individually every turn, so come on in dribs and drabs.
The attacker must set fire to all the native village buildings, or force the defenders to head for the hills in order to win. The defenders must prevent this from happening by making the attackers head for the hills.
The natives deploy to repel the British invaders...
The British line up....camel corps on their left flank...
The natives manouver into position....
The British advance...
The Zanzibar mercenaries arrive....will they help, or will they just enslave the survivors...
Native casualties are heavy...
...but they manage to get close to the British positions...
The camel corps find themselves surrounded, and are almost wiped out...
The British take stock...
...as the Mercenaries redeploy...
The British start taking casualties
...as the natives hold their position!
Meanwhile, the native King is attacked by the last surviving member of the Camel Corps
Casualties on both sides are heavy, and they both break in the same turn....a well fought draw, but the Natives survive to fight another day....if they are not enslaved first......!
Another excellent game - the rules proving they are highly suitable to this sort of small to medium scale skirmish game. We had 1000 points per side, and the game was very well balanced.
Next week, back to the Old West........
Great looking game, nice report!
ReplyDeleteIt was a close run thing for sure!
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