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Cover: l11e Battle ofNyellim Hills on the table top. The Sudanese Bazingers are from Aus­tralia's Castaway Arts and painted by their designer Geny. The Senegalese T u-ai II ems are fium Reviresco, painted by lan Croxall. Some their French officers are from FOlmdly's explorer range. Foundry also make the Sudanese waniors with the central Sudanic arched topped shield. 111e French NCO's (in blue) are from Old Glory's French Ma!ines fom1 the Boxer Rebellion range- the 8cm mOlmtain gw1 is from the Spanish Amelican War Old Glory range. The rest of the native waniors come from a mixture of Foundly Afiican musketmen and Dixon's Dal1omey musketmen range- all painted by Ian Croxall. Photo by William Keyser

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of the major I-IMGS cons- they are Willy Wonka's chocolate factory for Minia­ture garners. Your local cons support the hobby in your area and is a great way to introduce newcomers to the hobby. You should support them all you can. And back to my old 5a\\ ..... let the younger kids play! 9-12 year olds are as capa­ble of playing in our games in a mature manner as are most of the adults that are in it. Their eagerness and awe will give your gaming new life!

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TH E C O U RIER

The Batt le of Nyellim Hills

Hnri Bretonnet \\aS an adventurer, an explorer and a soldier. In ul) 1899, he and his small force were the vanguard reconnais­ance for the military expedition of Emile Gentil. Gentil was

navigating his steamer, the Leon Blot, down the Shari River towards Lake Chad in Central A !'rica. He had steamed from Brazzaville up the Ri' cr Congo and then its tributary the Ubangi. Aller dismantling the boat, it "as manhandled across the watershed to the Shari River that fed e\entually into Lake Chad.

Lake Chad was a supposed rendezvous point of three great mis­sions across Africa into the interior. This was France's part in the Europcans' land grab kno"n as the Great Scramble. The Forreau-Lamy mission was to cross the Algerian Sahara and approach fi·om the north. The Voulet Chanoine Mission was to move eastwards fi·om Senegal across the vast expanses of the upper Niger.

l3retonnet had entered the Sultanate of Baginni whose exiled Sultan Gaorang II had allied himself to the French mission. Bagirmi had been invaded and conquered by a great ~'arlord and slaver Rabih Fadl Allal1. Rabih \\aS a\~are of the corning French mission and saw it as a threat to his power base.

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The Rise and Fall of the Empire of Rabih FadlAllah

Miniature Wargames in the Central Sudan, 1874-1911

Ian Croxall

Part One: A Leader Emerges

Bretonnet advanced as far as Kuno, a Bagirmian to'' n on the banks of the Shari, and was infonned of Rabih's approaching arn1y. He was concerned that his small force would not be able to defend Kuno so he had pulled back south 15 ki lometers to rocky high ground that rose out of the otherwise Oat fea­tureless terrain. Bretonnet 's reconnaissance had accurate!) gauged the strength of Rabih ·s slave arm) at 13.000 warriors but was confi­dent in letters dispatched prior to the impend­ing banle that he ~.,ould be able to hold out.

Brctonnet prepared a defensive position near the summit of one of the several small rock) outcrops known as the Nycllim hills. He was less than 500 kilometers south of Lake Chad, in territory technical!) ceded to Germany at the Berlin Conference. Two kilo­meters west of the Shari River, such carto­graphic declarations had litt le meaning a<; no Germans were here. His force consisted of four officers, three mountain guns and +t Senegalese and Congolese tirailleurs. lie ''as also supported by 500 troOps of the Bagirmian Army under direct command of Sultan Gaorang.

A master of defensive actions, Rabih "as going on the ofTensive and advanced to Nyellim hi lls with 13 of his 29 companies known a<; '"Banners". These quasi-regular for­

mations were the core of his ann) and were supported by 10,000 aux­iliaries armed "ith spear and bow. Of the 29 banner companies "hose troops ''ere tenncd bazingers, some 2,700 '"ere armed. About 900 of these had breach loading rifles. mostly Remingtons. the rest a mix of flintlock smooth bore and percussion riOed muskets. A further 1.500 of the bazinger'S were mounted.

Nyellim hills consist of two principal summits north and south of each ot~cr with a narro" defile separating the two. Gaorang·s camp was burlt at tJ1e eastern base of the rear (southerly) summiL and Bretonnet's defensive position was formed at the north end of the for­ward summit.

Lieutenant Ourand-Autier was positioned in the camp"' ith one of the mountain guns and 10 tirai lfeurs along with the bulk of the Baginni force. Bretonnct, Lieutenant Braun and marcchal de logis Mar1in (quar-

lao Croxall is famous for his grat Colonial website at bttp;/lwww.warflag.com/ and his free flags that one can download from bis site and print in full color on a borne printer. Ian's nags cover just about every period and the site is highly recommended.

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