Rorke’s Drift! Box Set From Warlord Games
January 6, 2012 by darrell
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Darrell’s got his hands on the new big box from Warlord Games, Rorke’s Drift!
Join him as he explores the contents of this massive set and watch out for Andy getting involved when they both have a look at the scenery set featuring all of the key buildings from Rorke’s Drift!
Here’s a list of what’s in the box:
- Laser-cut wooden Hospital building with Teddy Bear Fur thatch.
- Laser-cut wooden Storehouse building with Teddy Bear Fur thatch.
- Resin Wagon Barricade
- Resin stone wall Kraal (4 x 6in sections)
- Resin biscuit box barricades (2 x 6in sections)
- Resin biscuit box/mealie-bag barricades (3 x 6in sections)
- Resin mealie-bag barricades (3 x 6in sections)
- 20 plastic multi-pose British Line Infantry
- 40 plastic multi-pose Married Zulus
- Metal mounted Zulu InDuna
- Metal Zulu in British jacket firing Martini-Henry rifle
- British characters: Lieutenant Chard (Royal Engineers), Lieutenant Bromhead, Colour Sergeant Bourne and Private Hook.
If you like your historical gaming and want to recreate the epic battles between the Zulus & English then this is a great set to kick off with. Perhaps you could even paint up your own Michael Caine!
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I think the idea with the teddy bear fur is you get a wide brush and comb it into straight lines, then varnish it or paint PVA on following the grain to give you a more random thatched texture to take a base coat and a dry-brushed highlight, it might seem a little involved, but when the alternative is layering bits of bristle etc it suddenly looks a lot easier. As for the loopholes in the walls, surely Darrell, you have to see the wisdom in the old tenant “Its better out than in”, not just for ventilation of unpleasant… Read more »
That box is Huge. Just an FYI but if you want to play this ‘realistically” you would need around 500 Zulus vs the 20 British infantry. 1:25 was the troop ratio. (Total British troops (who did not retreat before the battle started and actually fought) was around 150, Zulus at 3,000 – 4,000) The movie was fairly inaccurate as regard to who did what… Given that the Brits had just lost a much bigger battle against the Zulu’s – the Battle of Isandlwana, this was really just an aftermath skirmish. I would think the British like to recall the Rorke’s… Read more »
I think films where:
Zulu Dawn- the Battle of Isandlwana
Zulu- Rokes Drift
Impressive box set but then if your my age Zulu was the film of the mid sixties that really caught a young lads imagination and it still does it now. Got to agree with you a mini set of rules would be great idea to make it a stand alone game or a way of introduction into a full set of rules. I like the look of the laser cut buildings, I havn’t seen any in the flesh yet, only online. I hope to see more of it. I’m sure it wouldn’t be to difficult to design it so you… Read more »
Impressive box set, but not as impressive as it’s price. Is it a good idea to put multiple models on a base if your going to have room to room fighting?
one word awesome
Wow all that for that price? I would have thought that price for the terrain only. This is one of the best deals I’ve seen in a long time.
Every time you say Lieutenant the American way, Darrel, God kills a kitten.
Other than that….looks like good stuff!
How the heck to you guys get an ‘f’ sound out of ‘ieut’ ????
I assume we can blame the french
wiki says:
The word lieutenant derives from French; the lieu meaning “in place” as in a position (cf. in lieu of); and tenant meaning “holding” as in “holding a position”; thus a “lieutenant” is somebody who holds a position in the absence of his or her superior (compare the Latin locum tenens). Similar words in other languages include the Arabic mulāzim (Arabic: ملازم), meaning “holding a place”, and the Hebrew word segen (Hebrew: סגן), meaning “deputy” or “second to”.