Boer Deployment

The Boers don’t need a choice of strategy as such as their objective is to expel the British from Natal. To achieve this, they need to beat the soldiers of the Queen in battle or out manoeuvre them or both.

Once again, I’m using a D6 to determine the deployment of each command (the Orange Free State Boers are automatically deployed to hex 0105 and General Joubert to Ingogo).

1 = hex 0501
2 = hex 0503
3 = hex 1803
4 = Utrecht
5 = Wool’s Drift
6 = Ingogo

The deployment went like this:

Meyer’s Command – hex 1803

Kock’s Command - Ingogo
Botha’s Command – hex 0501

Quite a decent spread of troops. This means that the initial deployment for both sides is as below.

Next post will be the campaign rules.