Rorke's Drift for 10mm

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

BIG IF and if he had won would it have happenedtat all? 

[Hertsblue]

Probably not, as the Zulus would have had their hands full. However, I agree that Chelmsford and his cohorts managed to make things as difficult as possible for themselves.

[FierceKitty]

They contributed a fair amount of misery to the future of my unhappy country too. There are other men from our history I'd particularly like to kick in the honeymoon department, but Chelmsford is definitely on the list. After Rhodes and Mandela, however.

[Hertsblue]

That's an interesting list, FK. I'm surprised at the inclusion of Mandela, though. I thought, from our distant perspective, that he was well on the way to beatification. 

[FierceKitty]

Don't get me started on the list of promises made and not kept, double standards, and sheer smug incompetence (which isn't really a plural, so I beg forgiveness for a rupture in structure).
Let's just say the world has a guilty conscience about SA and wants to believe in the great redeemer. Though why we can't make a hero of someone like Desmond Tutu, who's worth twenty Mandelas....

[matty]

Hi Alan - great to see you on the forum...this sounds great to me & I'd definitely buy this as a set if it gets made; the Zulu conflict was my first 'proper' foray into wargaming of my own accord, aged 10 or so - and I've been meaning to revisit it for years 

Would love to see this in production and would defiantly be buying have already started on building my zulu war british army

[adr]

Hi guys, sorry for delay replying since my initial message in October re Rorkes Drift Buildings.

Like your comments folks

We've been busy at Pendraken HQ castings and 4 shows in a row !! last being Pudsey.

I have finally made a fully painted MDF model for the Rorkes Drift buildings and also the enlarged Hospital model. ( together with bunk beds!!)

I will post some pics on the site and see what you all think. If you have the whole set then I am looking at £38 plus some postage? will split set if wanted.

You can check out my website for now - http://www.hokaheywargaming.co.uk  look at sales tab.

I will speak to Leon regarding the Zulu army pack configuration tomorrow at work.

Cheers folks -regards Alan

[O Dinas Powys]

Hi guys, sorry for delay replying since my initial message in October re Rorkes Drift Buildings.

Like your comments folks

We've been busy at Pendraken HQ castings and 4 shows in a row !! last being Pudsey.

I have finally made a fully painted MDF model for the Rorkes Drift buildings and also the enlarged Hospital model. ( together with bunk beds!!)

I will post some pics on the site and see what you all think. If you have the whole set then I am looking at £38 plus some postage? will split set if wanted.

You can check out my website for now - http://www.hokaheywargaming.co.uk  look at sales tab.

I will speak to Leon regarding the Zulu army pack configuration tomorrow at work.

Cheers folks -regards Alan

Hi Alan,

I'm interested in just the hospital for non Rorke's Drift reasons: looks like it might make a nice fantasy inn, manor house or similar!  What are its rough dimensions please, and how much will it cost on its own?

Cheers,

Meirion

[fred.]

I missed this before - I think you should give it its own topic with pictures etc

Having looked at the linked pictures, I'm not certain what you are selling. Is it a flat pack large MDF hospital, is this laser cut with joints to fit together, does it need gluing?

The whole RD base, is this the buildings, or the sand bags as well? Again what are these made of?

[Orcs]

They contributed a fair amount of misery to the future of my unhappy country too. There are other men from our history I'd particularly like to kick in the honeymoon department, but Chelmsford is definitely on the list. After Rhodes and Mandela, however.

Yes, we have conveniently forgotten that he was co-founder of the armed wing of the ANC, and as such as much a terrorist as members of other organisations, ( take your pick here - IRA Baeder Nmeinhof , Taliban/ Al quaeda)  The only difference between the two is if you believe in what they are fighting for.

One mans terorist is the next ones freedom fighter.   

[FierceKitty]

I find my view of him most influenced by the way he refused to meet the Dalai Lama because he was afraid of offending the Chinese we were trading with, after decades of calling on the rest of the world to do everything for SA, which never experienced a fraction of what the Tibetans have been exposed to (well, had, not have, given that there are virtually no Tibetans left by now).

Shall we mention his friendship with Gadaffi? His description of Wouter Basson (employed in apartheid years to research toxins that would affect blacks but not whites) as a "national asset"? His promise to halve his own salary on becoming president (= 15% pay rise and freeze teachers' and nurses' salaries)? The pledging of two years of the GNP to buy a fleet we didn't need? The denial that AIDS was a disease at all (it's just malnutrition, apparently)? The insistence on being friends with dictatorships across the world? The ANC torture camps? The merging of the ANC with the National Party, which had been responsible for apartheid in the first place?

I'm no defender of the old days, but I'm hard put to it to see any improvement in my dear country. Only changes are that life expectancy has dropped by fifteen years and a minority is now subject to racist discrimination.


OK, we legalised gay marriage and abolished capital punishment. I wonder if the great and good Madiba had any hand in those...?

[Serotonin]

Hmm this has got me interested- watching Zulu with my 2 obsessed Uncles every Christmas from the age of 6 (1 now sadly deprated) means that this always captures the imagination. I did consider doing it at 28mm using Black Powder and bought myself the character figures from Empress Minis of the film cast, but doing  ahuge battle would be costly, so 10mm looks much more tempting. I foresee a new project shaping itself in my mind.

[Luddite]

Zulu. 

Historically inaccurate in almost evey way, yet still and absolute corker of a movie!

Doing it as a battle?

I think its best done as a skirmish/tactical game really since the point of decision is so small, and if you cram 4000 Zulus on the board 3900 of 'em at any one time will be pretty much bystanders! 

It'd make a cracking display in 10mm though.   


I'd love to see a remake of Zulu, done properly and sticking to the historical reality.  I always find the reality of these things far more thrilling than Hollywood.  Although perhaps not in this case...

'Front raaank!  FIRE!!!'

[crancko]

After receiving my order of  Brits and Zulus I started to build the compound myself as I wanted to create the compound playable with the right dimensions to keep proportions of the building and exterior bag walls.

Another thing to consider is the basing for the minis. I wanted to use a ruleset that recreates the conflict in a tactical way so I decided to base brits in bases for 1 figure and zulus a mix to be able to split the Iviyos as they take casualties and some individuals to manage when they climb the roofs, fighting within the rooms and Close combat when within the complex.

I created 10 indunas of 15 figs each and around 30 figs individually based. Each Iviyo will have an induna as leader. Indunas will take effect in morale as per the rules selected.
The compound is made from scratch and I have to say it is reall

Now on my to-do list is basing the whole bunch of figs applying sand to the bases... and play my first defense!   

Pics of the Rorke's compound:
Hospital Exterior:
Hospital Interior:
Warehouse Exterior:
Warehouse interior:
Sarge they are coming!:
Defending the cart:

Keep calm while aiming!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Superb! Really cool !