Following on from last week’s account of how he assembled the forces and battlefield, Richard Caldwell relates how his re-enactment of the Battle of Rorke’s Drift played out: Extra Rules Since there were so many Zulus involved, (about 4000) it is easy for the Zulu players to overrun the Brits by sheer weight of numbers. To…
Jim Graham and Neil Smith, writers of the new Zulu! book for Black Powder, present historical background and scenario ideas for use with your Black Powder Zulu forces: So you have a Zulu army for 1879 and have played all the scenarios in the Zulu supplement. What else can you do with your force? After…
On the evening of the 5th December 2013, a number of the warehouse team retired to Warlord Games co-founder John Stallard’s Games Room for an evening of Black Powder gaming on the edge of Zululand, to put the new ‘Zulu’ supplement to the test. Richard Dando reports… Prelude to Battle Before first light on a…
‘Chelmsford’s terrible revenge.’ The Anglo-Zulu War (January-July 1879) has become defined by the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift, both covered admirably by research, publications and even movies. What is less well known is the conclusion to this conflict, when Great Britain moved its war machine into full effect against the Zulu. Lord Chelmsford had always…
The Warlord Games studio has been painting up some of the different British regiments that fought in the invasion of Zululand in 1879. Last week we showed off the 60th Rifles Regiment and the The 91st Highlanders Regiment (with their stunning tartan trousers!). Our final regiment is the Royal Marines, with their distinctive blue unifoms,…
Warlord Games metal caster Richard Nunley explains how he came to make this great scene: ‘I did this vignette for a friend of mine. He had watched the film Zulu! and felt very patriotic. He asked me if we did any models for this period so I showed him some pictures of the models and…
Alan Mander tells us how he painted this amazing battle set for us – over to you, Alan… Alan: Before I get started I wanted to say that the colours specified in this guide are the colours that I used when painting the terrain for Warlord, they could be substituted for similar colours should you…
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