Greetings from scotland!

[Danyo]

Hello everyone,
Love the site and a long time lerker!

Quick history, I've been a warhammer fantasy player for as long as I care to remember, but, it's far too expensive and takes up too much room. Plus I've personally loved the pendraken miniatures! They look fantastic and such a wide range of basically every historical battles/armies so decided 10mm and pendraken is the way forward for me!

The main war/era that stands out to me is the Zulu wars, especially the first invasion and the battle of isandlwana. I find the story very heroic how the British made it a fight to the last man, defending their generals until the Zulus finally overwhelmed them. Plus for added effect, there was a eclipse of the sun mid battle!

So to mark this I've decided to make an army of British to the same order of battle they had!

Sorry for the long post guys haha

Cheers

[GordonY]

Hi mate, where in the hell are you? I'm in Dundee iffen that's a bit close, got a few more 10mm afficionadoes around here, Forfar/Brechin/Arbroath/Kirriemuir. 

[Danyo]

Aberdeen pal, not too far away then!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Hello there!

[fsn]

Hello. Do not fret about long posts. Some people round here write essays about the strangest things!

Enjoy the forum, and welcome.

Not a Zulu wars fan myself, but I can see the attraction. I fill my c19 fetish with the ACW. There's a simplicity about the war I find appealing.

[Maenoferren]

What ho from Shetland

[Leon]

Hi Danyo, welcome to the Forum!  Will we be seeing you at the Skelp show next weekend?

[Ithoriel]

Hi Danyo,

a welcome from the Deep South ... or Edinburgh as it is also known

Great crowd of friendly and well-informed lunati ... forum members here. Enjoy your stay.

Also, by the standards of this place, that's by no means a long post!!

Mike

[WeeWars]

Hi Danyo

Hope you saw the programme on BBC 4 the other night on Africa/Zulus with the battle sites.

Cheers frae Auld Reekie, Michael

[Danyo]

Leon sadly no, I did look into going as it sounds good but I work Saturdays or have rugby matches to play, even then due to work I rarely get to do that. Can't get the time off. Next year though!

And yeah, now that I said sorry for the long post I just remember some of the novels I've read on here haha

And Michael I missed it! Have it recorded on sky though.

[Ace of Spades]

Welcome from the continent too! Love Scotland, hope to visit it again soon...
By the way; I like the way how you put 'the British made it a fight to the last man' about Isandlwana; I tend to think it were the Zulu's that made it a fight to the last man... 
Cheers!
Rob

[Steve J]

Welcome on board.

[Techno]

Hi there Danyo !
Cheers - Phil.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

More damned foreigners  I expostulate - must write to the Mail and Express.


Otherwise welcome

Annoyed Birkenhead.

[fsn]

Leon,

When Scotland becomes an independent country, will you still be able to provide Pendraken goodliness North of the border?  

Imagine, no elves in Edinburgh, a grenadier-less Glasgow, Perth with no panzers! It doesn't bear thinking about!   I really need to know, because once my daughter has finished uni, I'm planning to return to Scotland, and I'm going nowhere near it if I can't get my Pendraken fix.

Perhaps I could set myself up as a border runner - sneaking through the minefields to imbue Ithoriel with his infantry, dashing through the dogs to get Danyo his dragoons, and then sneaking past the Shetland navy in a darkened Folboat to the Independent Republic of Zetland to provide minesweepers to Maenoferren. I would become a folk hero, known to Scottish gamers only by the cryptic name of "Centurion", a shadowy figure who can "get you what you want - Pendraken-wise" and whose exploits would be heralded in the Herald and mauled in the Mail.  

I'm off to buy a dark cloak with a hood of mystery!