winterbadger

An advertisment from the local "historical" game club. Can you spot all the errors? There are almost more errors than nouns.

> Game: Rourkes' Drift
> Period: Colonial
> GM: [deleted]
> Scale: 25mm
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> Rules: Brother Against Brother
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> Players: 6
>
> NOTE: This is the classic "last stand" of the Royal Welsh Fuslieers against a
> Zulu impi. It is the inspiration for the movie Zulu with Michael Kaine.

Answers (well, mine) behind here

"Rourkes'" should be "Rorke's"

There were no "Royal Welsh Fuslieers" at Rorke's Drift (though maybe there were some at Rourkes' Drift, along with all those Rourkes!); the garrison was mostly infantry from the 24th Foot, who were recruited in Wales and *later* designated as the South Wales Borderers. In 1879, they were the 2nd Warwickshire Regiment and no more than about one-quarter Welsh. Of the defenders at the drift, only about 10% were Welsh. The Royal Welch Fusiliers (and, yes, that's the traditional spelling of "Welsh" in the regiment's title) were not stationed in South Africa during this conflict.

The movie "Zulu" starred Michael Caine.

Extra points for niggling that the forces attacking Rorke's Drift actually comprised *four* regiments (what English speakers usually mean by "impi", though in Zulu the correct word is "ibutho"): the iNdluyengwe, uThulwana, iNdlondlo, and uDloko.