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Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:38 am It's hard to find sources that will give you a view from the Zulu side of the boma.

Actually, the two books by Mike Snook (How can man die better and Like ravening wolves) utilise Zulu accounts - not least for the last stages of Isandlwhana as there were no British survivors to write it up.

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:38 am
I would be very interested to hear how it goes, will it be written up somewhere?

Currently on a spreadsheet and in my head. Unlikely to see publication

I plan to use ‘Zulu’ as my historical research. What more does a man need?

levied troop wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:45 am The 2019 Lard Special had an article on pushing SP into the late Victorian era - although I’m guessing you’re all over that already Jeremy?

I’d forgotten that one John, cheers!

Jeremy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 9:03 am I plan to use ‘Zulu’ as my historical research. What more does a man need?

Zulu dawn as well, to give a little depth. Harry Flashman's account of the campaign is insightful.

Surely coincidentally I was clearing out some old papers this morning and came across this pictorial view of Zulu military thinking:

And incidentally providing a view of colonial Empire Military thinking that gave rise to some major disasters of British arms.

ok - here's a thing.. I slapped some paint and LBMS transfers on some figures (still to get detail work to fix up eyes etc.) which were supposed to be Gripping Beast Arthurian peasants, only the LBMS shield designs are too small. I persevered, but now I am wondering whether to leave them as is, or try to paint in some kind of rim or something.. Thoughts anyone?

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 9:07 pm And incidentally providing a view of colonial Empire Military thinking that gave rise to some major disasters of British arms.

Hmmm, no, not really - in fact, ironically that's just as much a cliche as the cartoon. The vast majority of disasters came from being severely outnumbered on the outbreak of war (eg Maiwand), usually despite officers "on the spot" having identified a problem well in advance but not being listened to by civil servants/diplomats who often had a different agenda. Another cause was a local commander being disliked by a newspaper correspondent (eg Redvers Buller in the Boer War) who simply wrote negative descriptions of everything the commander did, irrespective of the outcome. The rest tended to come from a new man being put in overall command who mis-applied lessons learned in previous campaigns; the AZW debacle is a case in point, where officers (including Chelmsford) who had experience of the Cape Frontier Wars assumed the Zulus would fight in a similar way to the Xhosa, ie using hit-and-run tactics, whereas the Zulus were much more aggressive.

Having temporarily run out of Dwarves (a Shortage of Dwarves is I believe the technical term...) I have some assorted magic users, a mountain lion, and a demon in progress...