Re: Low tech SG (was Re: A Humble Request)

You wrote: 

>I am thinking of breach loader rifles and no electronic 
communications. My >paper projections suggest that 3-12 man squads with 
breach loaders (fire >power 1, like hunting rifles, but I think I will 

I assume by that you mean something like the Martini-Henry or the US 
Springfield, in which case the impact could be substantial.

 would be fragile. The fire power would >drop rapidly with casualties 
to a d6 with 6 remaining figures.

And no support weapons.  

>Has anyone else tried such a scenario? How did it go? Any other ideas 
or >suggestions?

Primitive machine guns--Maxims?  Gatlings?  

Zulus with spears?

John M. Atkinson