Zulus using Black Powder

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ochoin
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Zulus using Black Powder

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Over the years, we've used several rule sets for fighting the Zulu wars. Generally, these have not been entirely successful for the level of play we prefer - larger games. After successfully adopting Black Powder for our big Sudan show game, we decided to return to Zululand for a big battle.

Yesterday saw a "what-if" where Rorke's Drift had fallen & the Zulus decided to invade Natal. The British-Colonial forces were to stop them - simple!
Twenty Zulu units & 4 brigades of B-Cs meant a rather large battle.

BP rose to the challenge. We'd given the rules a "colonial" tweak based on last year's Sudan games & the BP Zulu War supplement. About 3 hours of even combat before the Zulus, bowed & bloody, retired. It could have easily gone the other way.

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Re: Zulus using Black Powder

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From the title, I thought, "Well, it's good they've moved on from cocaine, at least!"
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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