Well, here it is, the second edition. I would like to say it gets easier each time but l would be lying, and as my New Year resolution is not to lie about dice rolls, I must be honest from now on.

Hope you all enjoyed the first edition, I've had some favourable feedback and I think I have covered all suggestions in this issue.

Now, how many of you spotted the deliberate mistakes in Issue 1 -- I bet I spotted them before you (no prizes I'm afraid). Corrections as follows:

Companies A.C.F. formed a line along the foot of the spur some 200 yards from the camp's northern end and not 20 yards as stated. If it was 20 yards there would not have been a problem with ammunition flow as it could have been thrown to them from the camp.

Secondly, I stated by mistake that C.E.F. companies as withdrawing closer to the camp, it should of course have been the above A.C.F. companies. I hope this dears that up. Writing is like painting figures, no matter how careful you are in checking you have fully painted every bit of each figure, looking them over you always find after you have put away all the paints and cleaned your brushes that you've missed one ruddy bit!

Space . . . the Final Frontier! There is never enough of it. I wanted to include in this issue some text on the events after Ulundi, but this wlil now be included in Issue 3 as a separate bit.

Also I am looking through all the Zulu rules around and will do a review in Issue 3. Anyone out there who recommends any rules, please drop me a line stating what and why.

Credits

Charlotte, by far the better half, for all her help on the secretarial front.

Brother Peter, on the photography front, many thanks, and his Iong-suffering wife Judith, for the sustenance and encouragement.

Greenhill Books for their goodwill in givlng permission to use substantial parts from thelr books, and a personal thank-you to them for republishing otherwise forgotten works on the Zulu War.

The Red Soldier by Frank Emery for some further eyewitness accounts.

All Maps from the Zulu War by David Clammer whose handbook is extremely useful and covers the war In detail.

A personal thanks to David Watkins, he of the First Empire fame for many tips such as 'don't do it' and 'look what it's done to me'. Having checked out Dave's mag with a now knowledgeable eye for detail (says who?) It has to be a must for Napoleonic buffs and wargamers alike.

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