The time was around the Faschoda Crisis - the universe must have been someone's else ...Bernhard had invested major parts of his income in traditional northern german jungle terrain after being completely charmed by Matrose Grimm's splendid stuff ..., so he set up a nice game featuring hordes of african warriors, shy and restrained british troops, treacherous arabian slavers and ruffians, belgian - sorry - french colonial troops and - last but not least - a Predator. Yes, that's true, and most of the time he was on stealth mode. The Predator, not Bernhard, who played him. So we could tell us lucky ones, `cause when he was visible on the table, he was in killing mode ... A real nice game with short but playable and fast skirmish rules by Bernhard himself and Grimm's impressive terrain features - we had lots of fun and a good time as usual.
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African warriors advancing - these fantastic miniatures were painted by Bernhard's wife! No, I've asked already, she would NOT do it again!
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Aerial view of the situation around mid-game: belgians (or was is french?) advancing from the south, british leaving to the east, africans moving in from the north, arabians following up (not visible here).
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The proud warriors follow their hero, who's death would burst their moral to even higher numbers, but he was constantly refusing to die, killing british and arabian troops even in the most hilarious and perilous situations!
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"Stop it, I heard something. Whithers, go on patrol immediately, the other remain steady around me!"
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Only 20 firearmed troops against one Predator? That's called a fungame! Fom the Predator`s point of view ...
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Last stand of the belgians and their french fries on top of the pyramid: after all the Predator spared them (and killed hundreds of my african warriors, arrgh), they repulsed the arabian slavers and were overall winners of the game!
