Being a survey of the East African interior regions made in the year 1889 for the purposes of providing information to the intrepid traveler, together with gaming ideas and divers rules, for players of Space 1889 and other systems of role-playing and wargaming, by an Old Africa Hand.
Beyond the fast-shrinking realms of the Sultan of Zanzibar lie lands, as yet barely known to the European. Yet, though solid information is sorely lacking, the romance of Africa looms large in the Victorian imagination. Few places can inspire the collective mind of the British public than the vast, unexplored regions of swamp, Savannah and forest of the Dark Continent; there the great rivers known as the Nile and the Congo rise from mythic sources deep in exotic, undiscovered places. Ho ! for the Mountains of the Moon - - wherever they might turn out to be.
4 comments:
An outstanding find ..thanks.
I am especially impressed with the colonial African material on the desert column etc.
A good friend and I game some colonial games using a variant of Volley and Bayonet (we've had some interesting stouches between Brits and Mahdists).. this is really useful resource material.
Cheers
Robin
Robin Sutton said...
A good friend and I game some colonial games using a variant of Volley and Bayonet (we've had some interesting stouches between Brits and Mahdists)..
I have the core rules book for Volley and Bayonet, love to see the colonial variant!
Great read!
Robin Sutton said...
A good friend and I game some colonial games using a variant of Volley and Bayonet (we've had some interesting stouches between Brits and Mahdists)..
Brilliant! Hey Don Volley and
Bayonet is the tactical solution
to not having to remount all our troops! We need to look into this.
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