BMC Miniatures: Golgotha's Colonial

Herewith, some Boers, by Strelets, see: http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=951

See: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=126461.15

These are the original set by Strelets. Strelets have been busy, having added a number of new Boer sets, I will be adding these to my collection, see:

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/PeriodList.aspx?period=37.

Also http://www.strelets-r.com/Pages/Index.aspx

For the inspiration I used for the flag - see the "Unity" Steyn flag here:

https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/za%5Eboer.html#:~:text=The%20Combined%20Republican%20Flag%20of,vyfkleur%22%20%2D%205%20colours).&text=This%20flag%20was%20probably%20displayed,Used%20around%201899%2D1901.

For the windmill seen in some of these pictures see:

https://frictionbmcminiatures.blogspot.com/2020/05/golgothas-terrain-wind-mill.html

See Majuba: Heuwel van Duiwe (1968) movie, with potential inspiration for First Anglo Boer War battles including Majuba Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCDJSVmxHkg

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345613/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bronkhorstspruit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Majuba_Hill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_South_Africa

My eldest son is related to Petrus Jacobus Joubert (20 January 1831 - 28 March 1900), better known as Piet Joubert, was Commandant-General of the South African Republic from 1880 to 1900. He also served as Vice-President to Paul Kruger from 1881 - 1883. He served in First Boer War, Second Boer War, and the Malaboch War. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Joubert#:~:text=Petrus%20Jacobus%20Joubert%20(20%20January,War%2C%20and%20the%20Malaboch%20War

Consequently, for most games my eldest will be playing the Boers and as my Great Grandfather fought in Second Anglo Boer War on the side of the British, I will be playing the British. We already had one game using some of the Boers against Zulus using Osprey’s The Men Who Would Be Kings, which provided a surprisingly enjoyable game. I lost as the Zulus as the Boers managed in the nick of time to laager their wagons into a defensive position. This was my first game using these rules and will certainly be using them again. I am often surprised and disappointed that one does not see more Boer War gaming. The Guerrilla phase of the war in particular offers a number of suitable skirmish scenarios which could be played out. See:

https://ospreypublishing.com/store/osprey-games/osprey-wargames/the-men-who-would-be-kings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Boer_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War#Third_phase:_Guerrilla_war_(September_1900_%E2%80%93_May_1902)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_fort

One Russian volunteer, Yevgeny Augustus, wrote that the Transvaal had become "a paradise for adventurers and rogues of all kinds" as thousands of men from all over the world, many of them disreputable, arrived in the Transvaal to fight in the war. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer_foreign_volunteers