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i fought my first zulu wars battle last night with two of my mates playing as the british . i played the zulus ! we used the very wonderful black powder rules written by the famous rick preistly . the britishs objective was to rescue the remnants of british soldiers who had surived their original armies demise at the hand of the attacking zulu horde . they had holed up in a vacant boar farm house . the brits had a gataling gun and a 7 pound cannon to boot as well as some units of the famous 80th foot ! so quicly the brits were off to the rescue . the zulus charged in trying to flank the brits with the left and right horns . sneaky skirmishers had sneaken in the night before and lie and waited for the brave rescuers to come . and they did, and the zulus sprang foward eager to wash their spears with blood . through valor and bravery the brits fought valintly and were able to hold off the hoards of natives . the last thing the brits did was set the farm house on fire and retired with the men they were sent to rescue . great game ! lots of laughs playing black powder is always a great time . i really suggest any one interested in the hoarse and musket period to give it a try enjoy the pics !

That looks great.
What company produced the Zulu miniatures you were using?

Good stuff, looks like lots of fun. Haven't done Zulu's for a long time, might have to have a game soon.

i used for the zulus the wargames factory ones . do they look great ?.....no but i did 300 of them very cheaply . for the brits i used some empress minatures there beautiful some perry brothers brits from there sudan range and used some wargames factory plastic . onceagain the war games factory don't look the best but when there painted they look fine ! but good news folks warlord games just showed there 3 ups for a box of amazing plastic british and 2 boxs of plastic zulus that are coming out and they look awesome !! theyll be coming out this fall to go along with their black powder rules . very cool time to game in !!

Looks pretty awesome, cool to see lesser used war periods on this site. I agree the WGF stuff is only good to an extent to bulk out numbers. Warlord should provide some better minis I hope

I've only recently started flames of war, and only started this forum recently, and to see ranges of historic miniatures like these is really cool! Being a brit myself the Zulus and the likes seem a good gaming opportunity. maybe when i've done a couple of flames of war miniatures i'll have to surf about. Great paint work and looks a lot of fun!

Great looking battlefield and minis

The Zulu wars will defiantly be seeing an increase in popularity this year with the combined Warlord and Empress range on its way. Warlords web site also mentions plastic Natal native contingent as well. Which could be a useful set for making all kinds of European adventures and explorers for Darkest Africa Skirmish games.