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
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. :D
Aberdeen pal, not too far away then!
Hello there!
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.
What ho from Shetland :D
Hi Danyo, welcome to the Forum! Will we be seeing you at the Skelp show next weekend?
8)
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
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
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.
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
Welcome on board.
Hi there Danyo !
Cheers - Phil.
More damned foreigners I expostulate - must write to the Mail and Express.
Otherwise welcome
Annoyed Birkenhead.
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. 8->
I'm off to buy a dark cloak with a hood of mystery!
Quote from: Ace of Spades on 10 October 2013, 06:44:23 AM
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... ;)
Suppose that's true, but the British could have easily retreated...the zulu didn't completely surround them if what I've learnt is true haha.
Thanks for the welcome everyone!
Quote from: Danyo on 10 October 2013, 08:04:14 AM
Suppose that's true, but the British could have easily retreated...the zulu didn't completely surround them if what I've learnt is true haha.
In that case it wasn't the wisest of decisions ever made and I don't think I would have defended such generals to the last :D
Cheers!
Rob
Silly people...just shows the dedication.
In saying that a few did fall back which then lead to the battle of Rorke's Drift.
Quote from: Danyo on 09 October 2013, 09:38:28 PM
Aberdeen pal, not too far away then!
Edinburgh here and welcome. Leave sanity at the front door as we say... 8-} 8-}
welcome aboard :D
Welcome Danyo :)
Fit like? Frae Banchory.
Quote from: SV52 on 28 October 2013, 08:56:25 PM
Fit like? Frae Banchory.
Furry boots country SV :-)
Aberdeen, The area of our country where they had to take the escaped Polar bear into the Inversneckie cafe to get a bowl of soup to warm it up. (So sayeth Billy Connolly)
Falkirk here, with a fair few Pendraken armies.
Hi there. Welcome from the other end of the country. I hadn't realised how many Jocks we had aboard. :D
Och, I'm a Hay mysel' the noo.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 29 October 2013, 10:10:45 AM
Och, I'm a Hay mysel' the noo.
Yes, I'd noticed that. Doesn't one of your ancestors turn up in an army-list in your renaissance rules?
Didn't realise there so many scots here as well! Haha.
Good to see.
And thanks for all the welcomes, great bunch of guys (so far) mwahaha
Furry boots haha love it!
My girlfriends from Banchory, love it there. So much more quiet and peaceful than the city. Plus the people are nicer!
Quote from: Hertsblue on 30 October 2013, 10:06:12 AM
Yes, I'd noticed that. Doesn't one of your ancestors turn up in an army-list in your renaissance rules?
Yep (well, 17th century; the renaissance was history by then). Though our real-life performance is less than stellar: we intrigued on behalf of Mary Stuart, we backed Charles I, one of us was responsible for the fact that the Jacobites hadn't eaten for three days at Culloden, and one deserted to the Boers at Mafikeng (the correct name, btw) and suggested using British captives as a human shield for a big attack (to their credit, the Boers refused).
And if about two thousand people die of eating contaminated haggis, I'll be hereditary Lord Constable of Scotland. Which, come to think of it, probably means an annual income of two shillings, and the duty to supply twenty knights and fifty sergeants for forty days a year if the Queen demand it.
Quote from: Danyo on 30 October 2013, 10:44:08 AM
Furry boots haha love it!
My girlfriends from Banchory, love it there. So much more quiet and peaceful than the city. Plus the people are nicer!
Of course they are 8-}
Welcome to "the one true scale" Danyo ;)
Quote from: fsn on 10 October 2013, 07:52:02 AM
Leon,
When Scotland becomes an independent country, will you still be able to provide Pendraken goodliness North of the border? :-\
Yes but I think Leon should start charging export fee of 300%
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 06 November 2013, 07:43:22 PM
Yes but I think Leon should start charging export fee of 300%
Plus a £20 handling charge from NoLonger Royal Mail.
Samon has to balance the budget somehow.
IanS ;)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 07 November 2013, 08:55:37 AM
Plus a £20 handling charge from NoLonger Royal Mail.
Samon has to balance the budget somehow.
IanS ;)
Am I missing something or is the English government not selling off the Royal Mail? The First Minister's name is Salmond BTW. It is better to say nothing and be thought a cretin than to do so and prove it ;)
Apologies Leon, getting political, so saying no more.