Thursday, 13 March 2025

From MartinC: thank you Teemu (187 points)

This is my last post with Teemu as my minion. He has been great, generous, good at maths and full of Finnish history.  Cheers mare, have a banana.

My Zulu war force is nearing completion, me and Dave fought Isandlwana today to test the rules. The Zulus one but enough british survived to form a square.

A battalion of 3rd foot, the Buffs, with a company of Royal Engineers at the front

Newcastle mounted rifles, Alexandra mounted rifles, Natal Hussars

7 troops of Boers with their dynamic commander Redvers Buller

4 battalion commanders 

7 assorted heroes

6 7lb field guns



Rhino, for officers to run off and hunt

Same for loads of water buffalo 

Hopefully next week I will have finished the whole army

Scores on the doors

69 x 10mm foot = 69
21 x 10mm cavalry 63
6 artillery and crew = 36
19 animals = 19

TeemuL: Thank you very much, Martin! I don't think I've been called a "mare" before, I take it as a compliment. According to my dictionary, it means either a female horse, a sea in context of planets or a nightmare in British spoken language. I take it as the last one, coming from a British gentleman with British humour. I'll overlook all possibilities of typos. Anyway, that's a nice amount of Brits to fight the hordes of Zulu. Keep them coming, I heard Zulus are gathering!

13 comments:

  1. Let's go with autocorrect error for mate🤣🤣. There are many zulus and not enough bullets

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    1. Maybe paint a pile of bullets next week?

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    2. No he’s needs all the dead one wounded after todays can of whoop ass !

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  2. Excellent Zulu hunting force. The rhino & water buffalo are rather nice as well. Very tempting for hunting...

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  3. Love the wildlife Martin -- do the rule sets allow for the officers to suddenly abandon the field to chase the inedible (shades of the English archers at Patay!)

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    1. Cheers. Yes they do. Scouts are rubbish and if they spot wildlife when they report back an officer will join them to go hunting, and not return until he's bagged his prize, or if ambushed by zulus not return at all

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  4. Wonderful work Martin. Well done and happy hunting for the officers.

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