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The Defense of Rorke's Drift

3W (World Wide Wargames), 1991

The Defense of Rorke's Drift is a tabletop game published by 3W (World Wide Wargames) in 1991. It is played with 1 to 2 players, from age 12 and in about 60 to 600 minutes.

players
1–2
minutes
60–600
years
12+

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Publishers
3W (World Wide Wargames), Excalibre Games, Inc.
Designers
Peter Bertram, Eric Faust, Lew Fisher
Artwork
Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville
Year of release
1991

About the game

The Defense of Rorke's Drift is a board wargame published by World Wide Wargames (3W) in 1991 that simulates the Battle of Rorke's Drift, when forces of the Zulu Kingdom besieged a small outpost of British soldiers during the Anglo-Zulu War. A second game, The Boer War, was included in the box.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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