Boxer Rebellion Battle of Yangtsun Scenario and AAR

The Din of Battle Blog has a nice scenario for a Boxer Rebellion Battle of Yangtsun, as well as an after-action report.

Bundok and Bayonet Colonial Rules

Bob Cordery’s Bundok and Bayonet free colonial wargames rules are available here. They are a clean, well-written set that use a card activation system. Two things I really like about these rules: 1) that you check morale before moving 2) a bucketsful of dice mechanism for combat.

Resistance In The Desert Site

Ian Croxall has created an amazingly comprehensive site on France’s colonial adventures in North Africa (Morocco) at the turn of the century. There are maps, period illustrations, descriptions of actions, overviews of the native tribes, orders of battle and painting guides.

Ian writes:

At the dawn of the 20th century, an influential party of colonialists was obsessed with carving a colonial empire out of the barren wastes of the North African desert for their personal glory in the name of France. This was achieved through political manipulation and subtle subterfuge on the part of a handful of ambitious army officers. This activity led to a series of small unit actions in North Africa culminating in a full-scale invasion of Morocco in 1907. These actions are eminently suitable for colonial skirmishing on the wargames table.

Tom Brown’s Africa Days

Veteran Gamer Bob Beattie has taken a popular 19th Century fictional character — Tom Brown, of Tom Brown’s Schooldays — and come up with a wonderful what-if game. What if Brown, all grown up, and disgraced in an accounting scandal ends up in Africa.

Bob calls this a “convergence role play game,” in which fictional and historical characters meet. Its the same sort of convergence that has been done in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the incredible Kim Newman novel Anno Dracula.

This page has a description and photos of Bob’s game.

Indian Mutiny Wargames Scenarios

These Indian Mutiny Wargames Scenarios are free, and designed for the Victorian Steel rules. The authors say, however, that they are easily adaptable to other rules systems.