Hello from Surrey

[MediumAL]

Hi,
Looking to go into ww1 in East Africa, so keen to find out what others are doing in this conflict - rules, scenery, orbats etc. Knowing which figures to use for which troops would be very handy.
First real foray imto the 20th century - more of a pointy stick man really. Most figs are currently 15mm - biblical iis the biggest, but have reasonable collections in a number of other periods. Fair number of 28mm - TYW, Darkest Africa, odds and sods of other things. Dabbled in most things over the 40 years or so I've been splodging paint on figures.

Keen on modelling, more so than gaming to be honest, so interested in trying to turn out something in a new scale. Any gaming generally with the SAS club in Horsham. Not that SAS - although if you could win battles by eating pies we would be a force to be feared! Speedy painting tips would be handy, as I'm getting on a bit!

[Techno]

A very warm welcome to the forum, AL. 
Cheers - Phil

[Subedai]

Wotcha and welcome from the county to your right (looking at a map).

Block colours then a dark brown Magic Wash will get the little chaps on the table 'toot- suite' if you are in a hurry.

[Leman]

Welcome. WWI East Africa is a fascinating period, but not one I've gamed. However, the Too Fat Lardies' If The Lord Spares Us, written for WWI Middle East are easily adaptable to East Africa. In fact I use them for Belgium 1914, and some NZ gamers on this forum use them for the retreat from Mons.

[Steve J]

Welcome on board Al .

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

MORE B Suferners

Hi

IanS

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Welcome and hello!

[jambo1]

Welcome to one of the finest boards around, many learned folk on here that will help you out.

[Ithoriel]

Hi MediumAL,

nice to see another person introduce themselves on this friendly, helpful and knowledgeable forum.

Despite appearances to the contrary we are not complete lunatics ... several of us are still missing bits

MediumAL .... any relation to Wee-but-no'-as-wee-as-Wee-Hamish-Hamish?

[Leon]

Hi Al, welcome to the Forum!

[MediumAL]

Thanks for the welcome folks.

I'll take a look at the Too Fat Lardies set, and maybe Peter Pig's Square Bashing. Given the size of many of the actions, I'll be looking for something that copes with that. Maybe I'll vary the ruleset and the figure ratio depending on the size of the encounter. I have Contemptible Little Armies, but never used it, so I'll give that a read as well.

[paulr]

Welcome Al  

Welcome. WWI East Africa is a fascinating period, but not one I've gamed. However, the Too Fat Lardies' If The Lord Spares Us, written for WWI Middle East are easily adaptable to East Africa. In fact I use them for Belgium 1914, and some NZ gamers on this forum use them for the retreat from Mons.

We also us ITLSU for their intended Middle East theatre

Here are a couple of battle reports to give you a feel

http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,12600.msg173678.html#msg173678

http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,11289.0.html

There are others...

The TFL 2007 Summer Special http://toofatlardies.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=23 includes
  Things are a Bit 'Ard – A complete WWI East Africa supplement to ITLSU
  Tanga – Day 1 – The classic East Africa scenario, mad bees to the fore.

One of the "some NZ gamers"

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello and Welcome MediumAl

There's two sets of rules on the Free Wargame Wiki for WW1 East Africa:-

http://freewargamesrules.wikia.com/wiki/East_Africa_WWI

http://freewargamesrules.wikia.com/wiki/I_Wish_I_Was_In_France (Inspired by the Pendraken range  )

If you want to try your hand at modelling there's also http://freewargamesrules.wikia.com/wiki/Mimi_and_Toutou_Go_Forth which is naval battles on Lake Tanganyika 

As my Scot wife would say, it's hard to go past free  .

Also there is the adaptation of Chris Peers Heart of Africa called Heart of East Africa http://www.edinburghwargames.com/Heart%20of%20Africa/Heart%20of%20East%20Africa/In%20the%20Heart%20of%20East%20Africa%20Playsheet.doc Chris Peers also wrote the Contemptible Little Armies.

Cheers, let us know how you get on.

GrumpyOldMan

[fsn]

Wotcha, Al.

Interesting period to go for.

[Westmarcher]

A warm welcome from me, too, Al.   

You don't know a MediumBetty by any chance?