@@watchingbrief7072 that's great to hear. It's a brilliant system that is easy to learn but still complex enough to be a lot of fun. It's getting an updated rulebook at some point this year but the core mechanics will all be the same, it's an older game that needs a bit of streamlining and polishing is all.

That sounds really cool

You posted this same comment yesterday, I replied so you delete it and just repost it? If you want to comment why don't you want to be responded to?

Thanks man. I plan on getting a box when they're released here in Australia, keep an eye out for a review.

Thanks Jim. Exams are over so I'll be uploading a lot more now.

This is one of my biggest hates of insurgent lovers. "Dumb British they fought in lines while we were guerillas they're so dumb for having rules" "How dare the British stop following the rules" If you make the cornerstone of your strategy hiding behind women skirts and living off local farms how else is the enemy supposed to deal with you? There's a reason wars are fought the way they are. If people don't respect the neutrality of civilians by hiding behind them that creates horrific situations. That doesn't justify internment camps but if your farm is being used to supply guerillas then it's got to be taken out of action. What's your solution to that problem? You defeat an enemy, you take his entire country, all the major cities and strategic points and he refuses to stop fighting. What's the solution to that and don't say "just quit" because that just makes any war ever impossible to win. Not all British Commanders were in favour of the camp system and strongly protested against it

​@@AnotherHistorianWargamerNo Boer fighter "hid behind women's skirts". In fact they left their women and children alone behind on their farms where they were not only abused and raped by the imperial troops, but also by black Africans in the employ of the British.

​@@PhansiKhongoloza They used the civilian farms as supply bases, a military use. This is exactly my point, you break all the rules then clutch your pearls that the other side does the same. Civilians are protected during war as non-combatants, once a guerilla force makes civilians critical to their operations they cease to be uninvolved in the war. Once the Boer Commando's threw the rules out by oathbreaking (not all but a lot) and dragging the civilians into the war they lost any right to complain. Should the British have just died en masse and lost the war? Gone home once the Boers violated the rules of war? Again my point is "Dumb British they fought in lines while we were guerillas they're so dumb for having rules" "How dare the British stop following the rules"

@@AnotherHistorianWargamer Now imagine this took place in Australia? Picture Australia as being a sovereign country which suddenly discovered huge reserves of gold, diamonds and other natural resources. The British now covert those resources. So along with their empire, they invade Australia. They take your major towns (as you don't have a conventional standing army. Your population numbers a few hundred thousand) what would you do? As Australians.....

@@AnotherHistorianWargamer How did the Boers "drag the civilians into the war"???? You invaded their country!!! What were the civilian population supposed to do? Vanish?

The war most certainly did not end in 1901. Major commanders were still very much active until March 1902 and the war did not end until May 1902. De le Rey and Kemp were still fighting in 1902. The war ended on May 31st 1902 with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging. Elandsfontein was indeed a big victory in the First Boer War but this video is about the Siege at Elands River in the Second Boer War which was a British Victory.

The older edition holds up pretty well. I'd recommend it if your club wanted to get into French Indian War stuff but, as my local group of friends have found out, a game like Sharp Practice is a lot more convenient if you want to bounce around the Black Powder era without finding a whole bunch of rule sets.

@@AnotherHistorianWargamer Yeah, tried it briefly when I was writing my first American Revolution series (I think just when you were also writing your first FIW series). WAAAAAY back. Great game, but didn't really work for what I had in mind, wound up retrofitting TSR Battlesystem 2nd Ed. As you say aptly, not really a go-to for historical scenarios.

The Hornblower character is probably based on one of four or five French Royalist Officers who lead the Quiberon Expedition but the men I named in the video wouldn't have been one of them. Cathelineau, Rochejaquelein, de Lescure, Bonchamps and d'Elbée were all dead before the expedition landed. By the time of the landings the Vendee uprising was basically over.

@@AnotherHistorianWargamer Ah, makes sense. "Vive Le Roi!" could have been made up for any royalist character I suppose.

Thanks, mate. I always appreciate a comment over a like anyway so even if it doesn't work it's all good.

​@AnotherHistorianWargamer Have you read Stephen Pearson's "Achtung Schweinhund!"? It's very informative about all things military hobbies - wargames, military modelling, re-enactment, book reading, etc. It's one of the funniest books I've ever read.

That'd be awesome! I just started following this game recently, so I hope they find the success they need to expand further!

Is that why Britain with 450 000 troops couldn't stop 48 000 Boers ordinary farmers , really ?