ABOUT THE SERIES — Wargaming is a fascinating and absorbing hobby, and the wargamer is graced with a wide variety of scenarios and options. The purpose of this “Wargaming in History” series is to offer, in detail, hints, tips, and advice on specific periods and wars that are wargaming favourites. All the necessary information — campaigns, battles, weapons, tactics, etc. — is included and the books are illustrated with delightful diagrams, maps, complete with illustrations and photographs. Each book is written by an expert on the period, and the series is under the overall editorial control of Stuart Asquith, editor of Practical Wargamer. ABOUT THIS BOOK — It takes audacity and nerve for a wargamer to fight the Boer War — you either do extremely well and hardly lose a figure, or you get annihilated. See for yourself, as you play out the battles of these small armies of farmers who defied the might of the British Empire in a war that dragged on for years and cost 70,000 lives. Complete instructions, backed by scores of illustrations, teach you everything you need: the organizations, field tactics, uniforms, weapons, and campaigns, along with valuable tips on wargame figures and rules — plus three brilliant scenarios you can play out: Elandslaagte, a tense set-piece between Paardeburg, a mind-gripping map movement conflict; and Devil’s Claws, a violent, volatile skirmish action. Now you can relive this wretched war, fought in some of the planet’s most inhospitable territory — a war that created the situation which keeps South Africa in agony to this very day.

Herbert Edwin

Wargaming in history: The Second Anglo-Boer War