Due to my ongoing mobility problems, I was unable to the to ‘The Other Partizan’ last weekend. Luckily for me, my old friend and fellow blogger David Crook did go … and was able to take some photographs of the League of Gentlemen Anti Alchemists’ anti-slavery game.
I understand that the driving force behind the game was Chris Hardman, who – along with Eric’s son William, David Crook, Neil Fox, and myself – took part in Eric Knowles’ Madasahatta Campaign, and it was great to see that he used it as a setting for this wargame.
Eric's original Madasahatta map. Click on the image to enlarge it.
A recently re-drawn and coloured version of the Madasahatta map. Click on the image to enlarge it.
The Royal Navy action against the slavers took place forty years before the Madasahatta Campaign took place, and featured some typical Knowlesian characters:
Royal Navy Landing Force
- Major Boote-Necke (Royal Marines)
- Sergeant Wilson (Royal Marines)
- Captain Povey (Royal Navy)
- Lieutenant Phillips (Royal Navy)
- CPO Pertwee (Royal Navy)
- Lieutenant Strange-Wayze (Royal Marine Artilery)
- Major Bloodnok (Zanzibarian Army)
Zanzibarian Slavers
- Mustafa Leikh
- Shufti Khush
- Ali Oop
- Abdul the Terrible
- Bungdit Dhin
- Randhi Bhugah
- Omar Bhang
Please note that the photographs featured above are © David Crook and Chris Hardman.
Hello there Bob,
ReplyDeleteIt was great to see Madasahatta featuring at a show for sure! Chris and the Gang did a fantastic job and the list of characters certainly added to the experience.
Brilliantly executed!
All the best,
DC
David Crook,
DeleteChris and company put on a tremendous game … and using Madasahatta as the basis was inspired, as were the choice of character names. (I always loved THE NAVY LARK and THE GOON SHOW, and the use of names from those shows really made me laugh.)
Thanks for letting me use your photographs. They really helped improve and enhance my blog post.
All the best,
Bob
Bob -
ReplyDeleteOne can imagine one Hercules Gryptpipe-Thynne accompanying the Royal Navy landing Force - Count James Moriarty carrying his bags of course - as supernumeraries, with some nefarious scheme of their own. Selling firewater, or other mind-altering substances, to the natives, no doubt.
Paul Jackson's and my Darkest Aithiops was supposed to be more or less contemporaneous with the developments on Madashatta, possibly in some way influencing and being influenced by them. The Zanzibarian Slavers sound uncommon like the Corsairs of the Coast to me!
It is a pity the COVID thing bolloxed the whole project. Paul and I have never managed to get back into it...
Cheers,
Ion
Archduke Piccolo (Ion),
DeleteThe ultra smooth operator Gryptpipe-Thynne and his villainous sidekick Moriarty would make excellent additions to any such game! However, Gunner Neddie Seagoon and his fellow soldiers Privates Bluebottle and Eccles would have been more than a minor liability to have on your side!
I do hope that at some point you can jumpstart your Darkest Aithiops campaign. I really enjoyed reading your battle reports.
All the best,
Bob
That's a fantastic looking game and sounds like it was a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteMaudlin Jack Tar,
DeleteI only wish that I’d been able to be there!
All the best,
Bob