Thursday 5 March 2015

Darkest Africa Rules Revival


There seems to be a bit of a Darkest Africa / Colonial Skirmish vibe in the pipeline of late, with the French Studio Tomahawk developing an In the Heart of Africa meets M+T mash-up (at a guess?), although I'm sure it's far less clunky than it sounds. The rules have the working title of Congo and look very promising, at least from the splendid photos of figures and terrain that are floating around on the web.

Not only that but Dan Mersey is working on a set of colonial skirmish rules for Osprey, with the slightly less mundane title of The Men who would be Kings, in a nod to the classic film and Kipling in particular. I am suitably enthused and unusually well-placed to make the most of this genre, with an entire African tribal army based up ready for painting and plenty of fantastic Copplestone colonial figures in the leadpile...

...not that I could produce anything like the photo above!
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7 comments:

  1. Chris6 March 2015 at 15:10

    That's pretty exciting. I've got a few sets of rules for Darkest Africa type games, but never got round to playing any of them. This might push me over the edge!

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  2. Jan Ferris6 March 2015 at 15:41

    Nice scene. I am always looks for a good fight. Thanks for the idea.

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  3. Mallius Vane6 March 2015 at 18:42

    Happy days! Very much looking forward to both of these rules!

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  4. Mike6 March 2015 at 19:37

    I am working on something Colonial in the near future... likely to be North African in nature. Very interested in the new rules on the horizon :)

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  5. legatus hedlius7 March 2015 at 13:04

    Yes I'm looking forward to both these too!

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  6. Spiderweb of History20 March 2015 at 23:18

    I'm looking forward to both those rulesets.

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