I will be giving a Herero War talk at the HMGS War College on Saturday at Fall In! 2022, and I will be running Herero War games on Friday and Saturday.
(NOTE: While the online PEL for Fall In is correct, there's a mistake in the printed program at Fall In regarding my 7 PM Saturday game. I'm running "S19:246: Osona: Armored Train vs Herero Rifles (German South West Africa, 1904)”, not "S19:129 Ambush at Gross-Barmen (German South West Africa, 1904)”, which was my 7 PM Saturday game from Historicon 2022.)
HMGS WAR COLLEGE LECTURE:
Trainwreck at Osona: Railroad Destruction in Herero Strategy and Tactics
Speaker: Roy Jones
Type of Talk: Historical
Period: Colonial
Location: Hopewell
Time: Saturday, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Description: "[With] the destruction of the railroad-bridge at Osona...the Hereros have opened hostilities": telegram to Berlin from German South West Africa, January 14, 1904. The rail line connecting the colonial capital Windhoek to the coast was vital for receiving German reinforcements and supplies during the Herero War. This talk focuses on the Herero strategy to paralyze German communications by cutting the rail line and on a detailed tactical look at Herero and German actions at the Battle of Osona. This talk is paired with the game "Osona: Armored Train vs Herero Rifles (German South West Africa, 1904)", which is being run on Friday and Saturday.
Bio: Dr. Roy Jones has been researching and writing books and essays on German colonialism in Africa for more than fifteen years, focusing on early twentieth-century conflicts: the Herero War of 1904 and the Nama Wars of 1904-08. In 2014, Dr. Jones and his co-author Eric Alvarado released "The Herero War", a historical scenario and rules book derived from original German sources: official histories, first-person accounts, and original maps. In 2015, Dr. Jones released the first essay to present and analyze German casualty rates – i.e., the percentage of the total force that was killed or wounded – for the individual Herero War battles. He is currently working on a follow-on rules and scenario book on the Nama Wars. Dr. Jones has won multiple 'Pour Encourager Les Autres' (PELA) Awards for his German colonial games. Roy Jones received his bachelor's degree in physics from Columbia University and his PhD in physics rom Rutgers University. Dr. Jones has more than twenty-five years of experience in the development and validation of high-fidelity physics-based models and advanced sensors and signal analysis for defense. He lives in Arlington, Virginia
HERERO GAMES
F19:167: Osona: Armored Train vs Herero Rifles (German South West Africa, 1904)
Historical Period: Colonial
Time: Friday, 7 PM; Length: 4 hrs
No. of Players: 6
GM: Roy Jones
Sponsor: Recreational Conflict
Scale: 25mm
Rules: The Sword and the Flame (Modified)
A German armored train, with soldiers and a machine gun, on a pleasure trip through scenic Hereroland. What could possibly go wrong? Except for sabotaged tracks, derailed cars, and Herero rifle fire peppering the Germans as they try to repair the damage. Will the Hereros capture the train? Will the Germans clear the track and escape? A Herero scenario by Tim Abbott, derived from the "The Herero War" scenario & rules book by Roy Jones & Eric Alvarado. For more, go to: www.hererowars.com. This game is paired with the HMGS War College lecture: Trainwreck at Osona: Railroad Destruction in Herero Strategy and Tactics.
S19:246: Osona: Armored Train vs Herero Rifles (German South West Africa, 1904)
Historical Period: Colonial
Time: Saturday, 7 PM; Length: 4 hrs
No. of Players: 6
GM: Roy Jones
Sponsor: Recreational Conflict
Scale: 25mm
Rules: The Sword and the Flame (Modified)
A German armored train, with soldiers and a machine gun, on a pleasure trip through scenic Hereroland. What could possibly go wrong? Except for sabotaged tracks, derailed cars, and Herero rifle fire peppering the Germans as they try to repair the damage. Will the Hereros capture the train? Will the Germans clear the track and escape? A Herero scenario by Tim Abbott, derived from the "The Herero War" scenario & rules book by Roy Jones & Eric Alvarado. For more, go to: www.hererowars.com. This game is paired with the HMGS War College lecture: Trainwreck at Osona: Railroad Destruction in Herero Strategy and Tactics.