Hill 107: February 2026

Place-The African Jungle(Garvald Film Studios Backlot)

Dateline-Sometime in the 1890’s(About 7.30).

Tonight’s entertainment found us back in yonder times with a ripping yarn involving a lot of spear armed warriors against German Mausers.The spears came of second best which since Herr O’Brien was my opponent it gave me a great chance for revenge as this time he wasn’t armed with tanks and big guns just assegai spears,shields and some rubbish dice rolling. The game should have also involved Italians and Belgians but Oor Andrew was otherwise engaged workwise so El Presidente took charge of the rule checking as we hadn’t used Chris Peer’s Death In The Dark Continent rules for a long time.

My big gun sounding the off.

Looking confident.

Keeping the goodies to the rear.

Watching each other’s backs.

My objective was to get my bearers across the table to safety whilst Herr O’Brien’s objective was kill,kill,kill.This proved obvious for as soon as the whistle went he was charging into my proud warriors who just happened to be female archers who blunted the attack by firing a salvo of arrows into the approaching rabble doing away with a lot of them in the process.This didn’t stop the charge as Herr O’Brien’s Masai warriors continued their charge and massacred my girls to a girl.My Ngoni warriors immediately saw this and after taking stock charged in and sought revenge.They ended up bouncing off each other and withdrew slightly from each other to take stock.

Deadly ostriches-they once killed a Belgian officer in a previous game.

Rampaging Elephant.

My Igoni.

Backed up by the ladies.

This was to be the norm for the rest of the evening as my plan was to lure Herr O’Brien’s natives into the range of my rifles and use rifle and Maxim gun fire to stop him in his tracks as he didn’t have any missile weapons of any sort to reply with.Oh revenge was sweet.He didn’t help himself as he continuously rolled terrible dice rolls whereas my dice rolling for once couldn’t be faulted.

The girls inflicting damage on the Masai.

Well that’s dinner taken care off.

Reminds me of an old rugby song.

The lions definitely weren’t sleeping tonight.

My natives kept up their momentum and were proving to be the pawns I needed to stifle Herr O’Brien’s charges. I did have to reorganise my defences occasionally so that they faced the Masai charges and this my Junge did well as they were able to cause casualties with just about every salvo.

A giraffe ignoring the gunfire whilst chomping a tree.

A non participating rhino.

My girl’s dwindling the Masai.

Standing Tall.

Desperation was kicking in for Herr O’Brien as he threw everything at me for a last hurrah but German determination saw my colonists through to the end without a scratch and also the benefit of one remaining native unit. I am sure there will be plenty of volunteers to fill the ranks am Morgen.