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Old 09-11-2012, 09:09 PM
Matt Wiser Matt Wiser is offline
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You might want to take a look at the War in Africa-with its implications for anyone trying a Lions of Twilight sourcebook based on Frank Frey's data for that unpublished module. The war in Togo was quick: only three weeks; Cameroon (or Kamerun) lasted until 1916, when the Germans slipped across the border into a Spanish colony (today's Equatorial Guinea). The South African invasion of German SW Africa (Namibia) went until 1915, and the campaign to subdue German East Africa lasted the longest-until after the Armistice, with the British and South Africans chasing Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck all over the place from 1916-18. (the first two years were marked by British failures at Tanga and Jassin, and Lettow-Vorbeck mounting a successful guerilla campaign against the British in their own territory (today's Kenya). And one British officer who fought there said it was like fighting in a zoo-with the local wildlife on occasion being more dangerous than the enemy!
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