Zulu Dawn.......

For our first game of the year we chose to commemorate the 140th anniversary of the battles of Rorke’s Drift and Isandlwana with a small skirmish game. Using In Her Majesty’s Name as the ruleset we had a small group of British infantry ambushed in camp with their objective of escaping the Zulu attack.

The set up for the game, British camp in the bottom, Zulus come on randomly from the corners with some arriving in ambush, the British objectives is to get across the river and away to the north. We have special rules for crossing the river which is no doubt infested with crocodiles.

The ambush is sprung.....

At the first sign of trouble the British contigent set off from the camp

But more Zulu warriors swarm in from all directions

Lord Cavendish has made it to the river but is pondering whether to risk wadding across 

Back in the camp hand to hand fighting has broken out and one of the Privates has been brutally killed

The British force includes a number of native contingent who valiantly attempt to hold the line but also fall to assegai thrusts

Several British are quickly surrounded

Cavendish trusts to luck and starts to wade the river as does one of the native contingent ! Worryingly there are Zulu on the far bank already

Another native is caught and killed

The inevitable happens and Cavendish is attacked by a crocodile, he is able to fend it off for one turn but is unable to escape

The native is less fortunate and meets a nasty fate

Another one goes down

Sergeant Bourne leaps into the river and bludgeons the croc with the butt of his shotgun and Cavendish is able to escape the river

At the Ford more troops are trying to cross the river but again a crocodile attacks

Some in the camp are still trying to escape 

But the surgeon is too late to get away and is surrounded

More fighting at the Ford

Now across the river Cavendish is assaulted, but he is able to escape

Sergeant Bourne is also attacked but is too strong and is able to get away.......

As the majority of the British get away the Zulu Warlord waves his weapon in anger and frustration

A fun game to start off the year 😀