I don't know if this meets the guidelines but here goes:

We dug out SUN NEVER SETS (which in turn can be used to access 
FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION and FIRST AFHAN WAR) by Joe Miranda. Typical 
Joe game - fundamentally simple system that gets its effect by 
encouraging you to take risks. In this case its combat system 
resembles the engagement of armies over distance. First the rockets 
and artillery fire (casualties are taken), then the rifles/muskets, 
then it's hand-to-hand. In each of the three categories the side 
with the initiative goes first (leaders can affect this). So as my 
impis swept towards the hated redbacks the blighters were knocking 
spots off me, but things changed when we got amongst them with the 
assegais.

Kiling British units is a good VP harvest, but only zulu veteran 
impis count. So I was soon well up the VP chart but at the cost of 
having my army suffered dramatic casualties. The British clearly 
wanted to operate in one big stack (since this could "do an Ulundi" 
and lay down a wall of fire through which I could not go) but so did 
I, and if I moved at maximum speed I could hang on their flanks and 
close as my move was greater. Of course being a Joe game one could 
not depend on that because

(a) You dice for movement and can freeze (Sir Evelyn Wood never 
seemed to get an order) or force marcch.

(b) You dice for supply if foraging and if you score a one there can 
be a lot of demoralised chaps when the other side close. OR the 
Brits need to build up supply and then bring in more.

The optional rules did introduce the concept of evasion (just the 
possession of more cavalry) which seemed unlikely - a British army 
with loads of oxen couldn't evade an old lady with a zimmer frame.

The walk-through (we play our games as a first walk-through where we 
try odd stuff to see if it worked before trying to do it properly) 
was interesting enough but I think the fitting of the system to so 
many campaigns (from Algeria to Zululand) may have missed the few 
final tweaks. It did however feel very colonial - everything a risk, 
followed by the occasional hiccup from which you sometimes survived.

My favourite moment was Chelmsford marching to Ulundi and then 
contemplating marching all the way back. Next time my impis enter 
Natal...

Charles Vasey