Queen Victoria’s Little Wars

Darkest Africa, In the Heart of Africa, 28mm Anyone who reads this journal will know by now that Chris Peers’ rules produce fun, silly games. One of the strangest of his rule sets is In the Heart of Africa. It works a little like Contemptible Little Armies / Back of Beyond, only there’s a lot of

Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, In the Heart of Africa modified, 28mm This was a period we hadn’t played for a long time,  so Colin Jack and I decided to run an Indian Mutiny game. For some reason we didn’t have a suitably dusty table covering, so we made do with a game set in the

Darkest Africa, In the Heart of Africa, 28mm We decided that it was time to give our Darkest Africa toys an outing again. The original idea was for a ridiculously complicated multi-player game, but in the end we opted for a simple two sided scrap. this involved a border clash between a small force of

Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, In the Heart of Africa modified, 28mm Well, after weeks of painting my Indian Mutineers were finally able to take the field. We set up a large 8′ x 6′ table, with a beleaguered British compound at one end, and a town in the middle. A British relief column had to

Darkest Africa, In the Heart of Africa, 28mm Next came a “Darkest Africa” colonial game, using Chris Peers’ Heart of Africa rules. It pitted my German East Africa Company (an expanded version of my WW1 East German Schutztruppe) against the He He (played by Adrian Rennie). This was the first outing for both forcers, although