Up Coming Book Will Add To Your Anglo-Zulu Wargames
February 9, 2017 by stvitusdancern
A Wargamer's Guide to The Anglo-Zulu War is a soon to be released book from Daniel Mersey and to be published by Pen and Sword Books. Since the guys over at BoW HQ had a terrific game of Rorke's Drift recently, I only thought it was appropriate to mention this book.
This book will dive into this time period and the actions that surrounded this conflict. There is a discussion on the makeup of the forces and battles and how to translate them to your game. There is even information on current ranges of miniatures and terrain that is available to bring your games to life.
This book is not a set of rules for playing a game, but a resource to help you choose the right set of rules for you based on the game you would like to play big battles like Isandlwana or skirmishes.
It will serve as a great reference for anyone looking to start in the Anglo-Zulu War as well. It will be available on March 30, 2017, and is up for pre-order now at Pen and Sword.
How big is your reference library?
Surprised to see this wasn’t written by either Ian Knight or Ian Castle but will have to look out for this at Salute. Really should be playing AZW since I had two relatives at Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift.
I will be picking this up. We used Daniel’s rules for the Rorke’s drift game so it will be interesting to see his take on translating those actions to the table top