15mm FAST PLAY (ZULU) COLONIAL RULES

inch EQUALS 6 YARDS or 1 inch equals 24 yards

6.25mm equals 540cm or 2.5cm equals 2160cm

Dice D4 D6 D8 D10 D12

British always go first turn. Alternative Movement turns

A Base can move, move or fire, or move and melee

Terrain is always placed by the invaded

2 Figures to a base Artillery need no bases

1 British/Boer/Irregular Inf/Cav/Camel/Art figure equals 10

1 Zulu/Native/Tribal Inf/Cav/Cam /Art figure equals 20

1 British Foot base width 18mm by 10mm depth

1 British Artillery base width 18mm by 10mm depth

1 British Cav/Camel base width 24mm by 20mm depth

1 British Dismounted Cav/Cam base width 24mm by 20mm depth

1 British Mounted Inf base width 30mm by 30mm depth

1 British Dismounted Inf base width 30mm by 30mm depth

1 British Command base as foot base 18mm by 10mm depth

1 British Command base as Cav/Cam base 24mm by 20mm depth

1 Boer/Irregular Inf base width 20mm by 15mm depth

1 Boer/Irregular/Native/Tribal Cav/Cam base width 30mm by 30mm depth

1 Boer/Irregular/Native/Tribal Dismounted Cav/Cam base width 30mm by

30mm depth

1 Zulu/Native/Tribal Inf base width 20mm by 15mm depth

1 Zulu/Native/Tribal Command inf base width 20mm by 15mm depth

1 Zulu/Native/Tribal Command cav/cam base width 30mm by 30mm depth

1 Artillery Horse/Mule/Oxen(2) Elephant(1) base width 25mm by 30mm depth

1 Limber base width 25mm by 60mm depth

1 Wagon/Cart width 25mm by 60mm depth

Field Artillery/Horse Artillery Guns always start with 2 Art Foot bases

Rockets/Machine Guns always have 1 Art Foot base

Wagons/Carts/Artillery Limbers always start with 2 Horse/Oxen/Mule bases

except Machine Guns/rockets when not limbered which always have 1

Horse/Oxen/Mule base

Heavy Artillery Guns always start with 2 art Foot bases

Heavy Artillery Gun limbers/Horse Artillery Gun Limbers always start with 4

Horse/Oxen/Mule bases

1 Elephant base is only required to pull Artillery Guns/Wagons/Carts

Organisation

4 British Foot bases to 1 Company . 1 Command base per Army.

8 British Foot Companies to a Battalion/Regiment

Allocation of strength

For All Foot Unit sizes throw 3xD10, each 1 dice point equals 1 base (but for

British try and put the bases into sets of 4. (1 Company)

Usually for the British in Zululand and the Boers in 1899 use 1 Unit allocation

For Cavalry Unit size throw 1xD10 each 1 dice point equals 1 base

If a low dice point is scored you can amalgamate Foot Units together up to 30

bases (mainly Boers Zulus Tribal)

If a low dice point is scored you can amalgamate Cav Units together up to 10

Light Artillery 1 Horse Artillery Base 1 light gun and 2 artillery foot base

Medium Artillery 2 Horse Artillery Bases 1 Medium gun and 2 artillery foot

bases

Heavy Artillery 4 Horse Artillery Bases 1 Heavy Gun and 4 artillery foot

bases

Horse Artillery 4 Horse Artillery Bases 1 Medium Gun and 2 artillery foot

bases

Throw 1 x D6 (If a 1 is thrown throw again)

2 to 1 3 to 1 4 to 1 5 to 1 6 to 1 for every 1 British Unit you can get

2,3 4 5 6 Zulus,etc............reverse it for Boers

Throw 1 x D4 to see how many Cavalry Units you get (not Zulu)

Throw 1 x D4 to see how many Artillery Units you get (not Zulu)

Throw again 1x D6 a score of 1 is light art , a 2 is medium art ,, a 3 is

heavy art, a 4 is Rocket art , a 5 is Horse art , a 6 is Machine gun

Throw 1xD4 to see how many British Units you get: mainly against

Tribal/Boers

Zulu impis approx men udhloko 2500 umcijo 2500 uve 3500

umbonambi 1500 undluyenewe 1000 imgobamakhosi 6000 umhlanga 1000

unokenke 2000 uthulwana 1500 umkhulutshane 500

MOVEMENT move

There is no deduction to a base when turning to flank or rear

When 2 or more bases are wheeling or changing formation then each base is

only permitted to move their maximum move distance.

1 British Foot/art base covers 5cm per turn

1 Boer/Irregular/Native/Tribal/art base covers 5cm per turn

1 Boer/Irregular Foot base covers 7.5cm per turn

1 Native/Tribal Foot base covers 7.5cm per turn

1 Zulu Foot base covers 10cm per turn

1 British Cav/Mounted Inf/Boer/Irregular/Tribal/Native Cav/Cam base cover

15cm per turn

1 British Cav/Mounted Inf/Boer/Irregular/Tribal/Native Cav/Cam base when

dismounted covers 7.5cm per turn

1 Wagon/Cart/Field Artillery pulled by 2 Horse/Mule/Oxen bases covers 5cm

per turn

1 Wagon/Cart/Field Artillery pulled by 1 Horse/Mule/Oxen base covers 2.5cm

per turn

1 Foot/Art base pulls/push Field Artillery at 2.5cm per turn

1 Elephant base pulling/loaded covers 5cm per turn

1 Loaded Oxen/Mule/Horse/Camel covers 5cm per turn

2 Horse Artillery bases pulling Artillery Gun covers 10cm per turn

1 Horse Artillery base pulling Artillery Gun covers 5cm per turn

1 Heavy Artillery base pulled by 4 Horse/Mule/Oxen bases covers 4cm

1 Heavy Artillery base pulled by 1 Horse/Mule/Oxen base covers 1cm

No deduction for foot base moving through Soft Cover

Foot base moving through Hard Cover do so at halve movement

Cavalry base moving through Soft Cover do so at halve movement

Cavalry base moving through Hard Cover do so at quarter movement

One Movement turn to dismount/mount Limber/Unlimber

1 Base can move in any direction in there permitted movement allocation.

No movement if base has enemy bases to front and rear

Soft Cover Broken ground/Fence/Walls/Donga/Wadi/Bush/Hills/Streams

Hard Cover Woods/Earthworks/Trenches/Rivers

Artillery Limbers cannot pass through

Rivers/Woods/Earthworks/Trenches/Donga/Wadi/Bush/Walls/Fences

Broken Ground/Bush/Hills/Streams Artillery Limbers do so at halve

movement per turn

FIRING cannot move and fire

Firing arc 22 degrees of base edges

Artillery Guns 45 degrees from gun barrel

Can fire each turn Cannot fire into melee

Heavy Artillery fire every 4th turn i.e turn1 fire turn 2 turn 3 turn 4 fire

Cannot fire at troops behind Hard Cover unless enemy fired last turn.

Line of sight only. All mounted troops must dismount to fire

Throw 1xD appropriate dice once per base for firing and saving .

A score of 2 or more on 1xD appropriate dice is a hit for All British/Boar

bases. A score of 4 or more on 1xD appropriate dice is a hit for Irregular,

Native, Tribal, and Zulu. You can have multiple hits on your 1xD appropriate

dice i.e A British base scores a 12 so that is 6 hits.

Open

British Foot/Cav base firing D12

Boer Foot/Cav base firing D12

Irregular Foot/Cav base firing D8

Tribal Foot/Cav base firing D6

Native/Zulu base firing D4

British Artillery Horse/Field base firing D10

British Rocket Artillery base firing D4

British Machine Gun base firing D12

Tribal/Native Field Artillery base firing D8

Tribal/Native Rocket Artillery base firing D4

Tribal/Native Machine Gun base firing D10

Heavy Artillery base firing D12

British Foot/Cav Command base firing D12

Boer Foot/Cav Command base firing D12

Zulu/Native/Tribal Command base firing D8

Irregular Foot/Cav Command base firing D10

Examples

1 British Foot Base is firing at a Zulu inf base in the open. You throw 1xD12

and get a 8. This is 4 hits.

A score of 4 or more on 1xD appropriate dice is a save

If behind soft cover a 3 or more is needed to save.

If behind Hard cover a 2 or more is needed to save

Ranges

12pdr & 15pdr sighted up to 625cm (6000yards)

5 inch howitzer sighted up to 625cm (6000yards)

Maxim Machine gun sighted up to 260cm (2500yards)

Mauser Rifle sighted up to 230cm (2200yards)

Revolver sighted up to 10cm (100yards)

Lee-enfield sighted up to 198cm (1900yards)

Cruesot 94pdr long tom sighted up to 1043cm (10000yards)

Krupps 75mm sighted up to 625cm (6000yards)

4.7inch Naval gun sighted up to 1043cm (10000yards)

7pdr sighted up to 323cm (3100yards)

9pdr sighted up to 365cm (3500yards)

9prd rocket sighted up to 135cm (1300yards)

24pdr rocket sighted up to 135cm (1300yards)

Gatling Gun sighted up to 125cm (1200yards)

45 Martini Henry sighted up to 135cm (1300yards)

Carbine sighted up to 168cm (1600yards)

1 Zulu Rifle Base per 10 Zulu inf bases excluding Command base.

MELEE can move and melee you cannot melee then move

Must be in base to base contact (always turn to face if not attacked in flank or

rear ) 1 base may have to throw up to 4 times if attack by 4 bases

Only those bases in base to base contact fight in melee

You can still melee if soft/hard cover is in between bases

Can only destroy defender base in attackers turn , if even scores defender

can continue melee in his turn or move away if not surrounded

The defender base cannot destroy attackers base if score is in favour of

defender

Throw 1xD per base attacker and defender

Base Open

British inf D8

British art D4

British Mounted Inf D8

British Dismounted inf D8

British Command inf/cav/cam D12

British Cav/cam D10

British Dismounted cav/cam D8

Boer Inf/Dismounted cav D8

Boer Cavalry D8

Boer art D4

Boer Command inf/cav D12

Irregular Foot D6

Irregular Cav/cam D8

Irregular Dismounted Cav/cam D6

Irregular Command inf/cav/cam D10

Irregular art D4

Native inf D4

Native Cav/Cam D6

Dismounted Native Cav/Cam D4

Native art D4

Native Command inf/cav/cam D10

Zulu Inf D8

Zulu Command inf D10

Tribal Inf D8

Tribal Cav/Cam D10

Dismounted Tribal Cav/Cam D8

Tribal art D4

Tribal Command Inf/Cav/Cam D12

Add to score per base

+1 if British inf base is in contact with another British inf base

+2 if British cav/cam base is in contact with another British cav/cam base

+1 if any base has moved more than half movement distance into melee

+1 if any base is defending soft cover

+2 if any base is defending hard cover

+1 if any base is attacking flank

+2 if any base is attacking rear

+2 if attacking base that is in Retreat

+1 if Zulu/Native/Tribal inf/cav/cam outnumber British 2 to 1 in bases

+2 if Zujlu/Native/Tribal inf/cav/cam outnumber British 3 to 1 in bases

+3 if Zulu/Native/Tribal inf/cav/cam outnumber British 4 to 1 in bases

A base is destroyed when there is a difference of 1 or more

Example of outnumbering British

A zulu unit of 8 bases (2 lines of 4 all in base to base contact) moves into

melee and contacts 4 British bases (1 line of 4 all in base to base

contact) You add up the totals and it is 8 for the Zulus and 4 for the

British so it is 2 to 1 for the Zulus So each Zulu base in contact (base

to base) with the British gets +1 per base in melee. For Outnumbering

all Zulu/Native/Tribal units must be in base to base contact to get the

addition.

MORALE

When any unit loses 50% of its total, each base throws 1xD appropriate dice

from the Melee table a score of 4 or more and the base continues as normal

next move . You must throw each and every move thereafter

You cannot surrender unless British versus Boer

Example A British Foot Unit of 8 bases has lost 50% In their move each 4

remaining bases throws 1xD8 Scores are 3 5 4 1. So 2 base retreat and 2

remain. Next move at the beginning the 2 remaining bases throw 1xD8 to see

if they do not retreat.

Who is the winner

For each Destroyed base add points value of Melee base together and the

winner is the one with the most points i.e British Inf Base Melee 1xD8 so

that would be 8 points.

RETREAT 1 full move in defenders or your own move

Double movement distance i.e British Foot base in retreat moves 10cm

ORGANISATIONS

8-10 British Foot Figures to a Platoon 80-100 British Foot Figures to a

Company 8 Companies to a Foot Regiment 800-1000

4-5 Foot Figures to a sub section

1 corporal per 22 figures

1 sergeant per 18 figures

1 officer per 28 figures ( use 1 officer as overall commander)

Each Company was commanded by a Captain, with 2 subalterns 1 colour

sergeant 4 sergeants 2 drummers about 100 rank and file (corporals and

privates)

Each Private had 2 pouches with 20 rounds each

A Battery was organised into 3 sections of 2 guns per section

It was Commanded by 1 Major 1 Captain 3 lieutenants 8 staff sergeants 72

gunners (102 draught horses) 1 Officer per 14 gunners

1 Artillery Piece and 4-5 to a sub section(15 actual figures usually) Art

Figures . Field 4 figures Heavy 4 figures If 1 gun in action attach 1 officer

if 2 guns in action it is still 1 officer You can attach Rocket or Gatling Gun to

a Gun Battery and you will still have 1 officer. You can attach a Rocket or

Gatling Gun to a Infantry Platoon and the Infantry officer is in charge.

1 Rocket Trough and 2 (included above usually) Art Figures

1 Gatling Gun and 2 (included from above usually) Art Figures

An Artillery Gun/Wagon/Cart is pulled by 4 Oxen/Art Horse/mule (1 elephant)

Cavalry Regiment had 4 squadrons each of 3-4 troops Each troop had

between 3-4 sections 72-134 actual men in a Squadron

A Cavalry Regiment had 31 Officers 43 Staff Sergeants 22 Artificers 549 rank

and file of which 15 were bandsmen

Imperial Mounted Infantry each squadron was 150 divided into 2 troops

5-6 British Mounted Inf/Cavalry to a section plus 1 Officer

Natal Native Horse had 200 men in 6 troops 8 men per section

Natal Native Foot Contingent 3 regiments 1 Battalion had 10 companies each

of 9 officers and 100 men 1 platoon of 1 officer and 10 men

Natal Mounted Police had 110 men in 1 squadron

1 squadron Of (total) Natal Carbineers ,Newcastle Mounted Rifles ,Buffalo

Border Guard

4 troops of Frontier Light Horse

2 troops of Bakers Horse

Others Cape Mounted Riflemen,Border Horse, Ferreiras Horse Schuttes

Corps,Kaffrarian Vanguard.

Naval Brigade started out with 200 men

Five troops Natal Hussars: Durban Alexandra Stager Victoria Mounted

Rifles each troop 40-50 figures each section 10 figures

Zulu were grouped into impis usually of about 1500 men

Boers, Maori usually fought in local commandos 60-300-1500 actual men