Battles For Empire Free Colonial Scenario Book

Hotz Art Works offers a free scenario book for Colonial conflicts. It’s designed for Battles for Empire II, but any clever gamer is more than capable of converting these to their favorite system. In the book:

  • Imperial Attack: The Battle of Tamai, Sudan, 1884
  • Native Assault: The Battle of Khambula, Zulu War, 1879
  • Native Ambush: The Battle of Ahmed Kheyl, Afghanistan, 1880
  • Native Ambush: The Battle of Intombe, Zulu War, 1879
  • Imperial fighting withdrawal: Fictional battle, Sudan, 1883
  • Imperial raid: The Battle of the Rosebud, Plains War, 1876
  • River Crossing: The Battle Of Nyzane, Zulu War, 1879
  • Siege: Rorke’s Drift
  • Gunboat Assault: Opening The Yangtze, Fictional, Boxer Rebellion, 1900
  • Native Assault: The Battle of Isandlwana, Zulu War, 1879

Boxer Rebellion Game In 25/28mm

Here’s a photo video collage of a Boxer Rebellion game I ran a couple of years ago. The figures are all Old Glory. All figures and terrain were painted/made by yours truly.

Indian Hill Fort

Kalavantinicha Durg

Just a bit of awe inspiring eye candy

Darkest Africa Articles From Foundry

Wargames Foundry is offering online reprints of the classic Darkest Africa articles from Wargames Illustrated. I love seeing Foundry make a move back toward its gamer roots. The new management is to be congratulated.

The Darkest Africa articles include two rules sets and numerous background pieces.

Colonial Film Site

Colonial Film

holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online. You can search or browse for films by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350 of the most important films in the catalogue are presented with extensive critical notes written by our academic research team.

The Colonial Film project united universities (Birkbeck and University College London) and archives (British Film Institute, Imperial War Museum and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum) to create a new catalogue of films relating to the British Empire. The ambition of this website is to allow both colonizers and colonized to understand better the truths of Empire.