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THE AFRIBORIAN HERALD: THE CAMPAIGN GAZETTE.
The Afriborian Campaign is situated in an imaginary world that resembles our own planet and its history (roughly 1874-1914), but events that took place in our world might be set at different dates or in different places in the Afriborian world, thus making any resemblance between Afriboria and real history, -people, -events and -places purely a matter of imagination.

The "AFRIBORIAN HERALD" is the campaign gazette of the Afriborian wargame/roleplaying campaign and reports on the events on the Dark Continent.
The rules used for this engagement are "Afriboria - Miniature battles in a colonial setting".

***** THE AFRIBORIAN HERALD **** issue 6
 ****** THE EYES AND EARS OF THE DARK CONTINENT ******
"THE FOUR FEATHERS".
"Breaking all the rules"

When he received the news of the battle of El Tap, Lord Alan Hamilton (Supreme Commander of British forces in Afriboria) lost his nerve. "Bloody incompetent French!" he exclaimed when he learned that the Dahnists had escaped with their prisoners, seeking protection in the Rif Mountains. He knew this meant a full scale campaign against the Arab tribes of the Rif in order to free the "Four Feathers". No small matter: the French were constantly at war with the "Devils' Own" (as these tribes are called), but his own "Army of the Nile" relied heavily on their irregular cavalry, so there is no way he could send his Egyptian troops out there. This would set the whole Lower Nile region aflame. On the other hand, the Dahnists could not go unpunished, having broken all the imperialist' rules by capturing the ladies (and some heavy artillery, not to forget...) and damaging a capital ship in the course of the action. Whatever his feelings for the French, an international relief force had to be sent against the agressors, damn the consequences! Fortunately, the two other countries involved (Germany & Belgium) had each just sent a small contingent to Cairo for the celebrations of her Majesty's birthday next week and a number of his own Indistan units had also arrived for the same purpose. Since Indistan was far away, he could afford to deploy the sepoys without risking the Devil's Own tribes invading the Lower Nile. Both the Belgian askari and the German aircraft would have to go to the Rif as well to free their compatriots. The whole mission would be a delicate one and Lord Hamilton decided to lead the British contingent himself, using the alias of "Colonel F. Earsome". None of the Indistani troops knew him, so they couldn't give away the game. Besides, the exercise and some time away from the palace (in scarlet uniform!) would do him good...


Following their retreat from El Tap, the remnants of the Dahnist' raiding party - stearing clear of the French town of Suez - took their prisoners eastwards towards the Rif Mountains, home of the Arab tribes known as the "Devil's Own", seeking protection amongst fellow Muslims.

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The allied fleet ("Martell", "Empress of Indistan", "Stingray" and the Belgian schooner "Belle Hélène") anchored in the bay of El Tap.
Lord Hamilton (sorry,... Colonel Earsome!) leading a sepoy unit ashore in splendid red & blue, mounted on his trusted steed Darq Ali.

Lord Hamilton's contingent provides the allies with some cavalry: two units of Bengal lancers.
The German contingent, although small in numbers (Freiherr von Falschhofen, his triplane and groundcrew), might come in handy.
The Belgian contingent, commanded by Eduard Geudens, consists of an askari unit and a unit of naval personnel from the schooner "Belle Hélène".
To counter the Dahnist' heavy artillery (the gun taken from the El Tap battery), the British have brought with them some very heavy ordnance indeed...

The allies had done everything in their power to land the expeditionary force at El Tap as soon as possible, but this operation still took more than a week and there was no way to hide the landings from the Arabs.
In times of war, the tribes of the Rif are placed under the overall command of a warlord, the Amir Abdullah Bourkan ("the Volcano") Lord of the Rif and protector of the Faith, nicknamed "Dow" ("Devil's Own Warlord") by the European troops.

(Left): "Dow", the amir Abdullah Bourkan, Lord of the Rif and protector of the Faith, wielding his mighty scimitar.
(Right): in the valleys of the Rif, the warriors of the tribes are gathering to meet the infidel...

TO BE CONTINUED...