RE: Tech Levels and Quality was Re: DS3 design (long)

G'day,

> I'm with John in his assessment of  Isandhlwana everything that 
> could be done wrong was done. One need look no further 
> than a battle in the same campaign  Rorkes Drift. The Zulu had 
> the added benefit of captured rifles from Isandhlwana, yet were
> decisively defeated by a properly prepared defense and well
> disciplined fires with good interior battle lines.

>From the first hand accounts I've read of that one, one more Zulu
charge and it would be noted more as a glorious but futile defense. Mind
you I am quite taken with the idea of the largest edible defense works
ever ;)

Cheers

Beth