UMGAWALAND HISTORY 18th Century 1748 - Sir Humphrey Luxury-Yacht (late of Cholmondeley, Cheshire, England) of the East India Trading Company landed in Botungo Bay and established a trading outpost. Initial commodities for trade were bananas, coconuts, sugar and spices. 1750 - Because of population expansion at the EITC Botungo Bay trading post, a charter was granted to found a city and the name was changed to New Cholmondeley (in honour of Sir Humphrey's birth place). 1799 - The first coffee crop was planted, which would eventually lead to greater wealth generated in the colony. 19th Century 1808 - During the Napoleonic Wars, French privateers sought to wreak havoc on maritime trade along the eastern coast of Imagiafrica. One French ship, the "Blaireau en Colère", ran aground just south of New Cholmondeley. The crew was captured by the local militia. The French sailors must have enjoyed their captivity, describing it as "rather pleasant". Many stayed,
We had our version of Little Wars yesterday.
ReplyDeleteMike Fly Gołdyn (and Cameron Dickson) created a game based on the movie "The Wild Geese". For this we used Wars of Insurgency rules with a few homegrown modifications - mostly to the Officer and NCO Wild Geese, to make them more 'survivable/invincible'.
We played 2 games, over the course of the day.
As it was a mostly public participation styled game, we needed members of the gaming public ..... to participate.
Due to a variety of time constraint factors, most beyond our control, the actual game had not been run since its conception.
Therefore, game 1 turned into the real, playtest game, with the 'public participants' being provided by the helpers.
Game 1 was short, sharp and bloody!
The Wild Geese were decimated, almost at every stage. The Simbas did most of the damage "down by the river".
Game 2 had some REAL public participants.
This time the Wild Geese made it past the river, through Kimbali, the abandoned village and onto the airstrip.
Along the way, Alan Faulkner (the Wild Geese leader) was killed.
It all came down to who could get on the Dakota and away.
As you would expect, the Simbas through everything they could at the Wild Geese and there were many casualties on both sides - much frantic dice rolling!!
At the end of the game A number of the Wild Geese, President Limbani (totally uninjured!) and a couple of village women (don't ask??) were on the plane as it flew out.
Game over, victory to the Wild Geese.