I will be giving a Herero War talk at the HMGS War College on Saturday at Historicon 2023, and I will be running Herero War and Nama War games on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
HMGS WAR COLLEGE LECTURE:
Weapons of the Herero War (German South West Africa, 1904)
Speaker: Roy Jones
Type of Talk: Historical
Period: Colonial
Location: Montgomery House - 3rd Floor
Time: Saturday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Description: The 1904 war pitted rifle-armed Hereros, armed with Mauser 88s and expertly concealed via smokeless powder, against German infantry, machine guns, and cannon. The combat ranged in scale from big battles with thousands of Hereros against hundreds of Germans, with Mausers, Martini-Henrys, Maxims, Krupp guns, and autocannon spewing explosive shells, down to individual hand-to-hand combat pitting German rifle butt against Herero "kirri" war club. This talk focuses on the weapons of the Herero War.
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 from 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 WAR AND NAMA WAR GAMES
T19:246 : Camels in the Kalahari (German South West Africa, 1908)
Historical Period: Colonial
Time: Thursday, 7 PM; Length: 4 hrs
No. of Players: 6
GM: Roy Jones
Sponsor: Recreational Conflict
Scale: 25mm
Rules: The Sword and the Flame (Modified)
100 camels on the game table! The dry desert sands of the Kalahari protect Simon Kopper and his Nama forces from an assault by standard horse-mounted Schutztruppen. In order to get at Kopper in his desert fastness, the Germans form a special camel-mounted Expeditionskorps (expeditionary corps) under the command of Hauptmann Friedrich von Erckert. On March 16, 1908 at the Battle of Seatsub Simon Kopper and his Nama troops clash with Hauptmann von Erckert and his camel-mounted Schutztruppen. From the upcoming scenario book "The Nama Wars''. More at: https://www.hererowars.com/new-the-nama-wars-hendrik.html.
F19:247 : Camels in the Kalahari (German South-West Africa, 1908)
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)
100 camels on the game table! The dry desert sands of the Kalahari protect Simon Kopper and his Nama forces from an assault by standard horse-mounted Schutztruppen. In order to get at Kopper in his desert fastness, the Germans form a special camel-mounted Expeditionskorps (expeditionary corps) under the command of Hauptmann Friedrich von Erckert. On March 16, 1908 at the Battle of Seatsub Simon Kopper and his Nama troops clash with Hauptmann von Erckert and his camel-mounted Schutztruppen. From the upcoming scenario book "The Nama Wars". More at: https://www.hererowars.com/new-the-nama-wars-hendrik.html.
S19:248 : Owiumbo: Vengeance of the Hereros (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)
In the thick thorn bushes of Owiumbo, Hereros equipped with Mausers and smokeless powder have assembled a huge army. The Herero mission: ambush, outflank, and encircle the outnumbered German Main Field Force and then destroy it with close-range rifle fire! The German mission: push the German column forward, get in the Hereros' faces, and shut down the Herero reinforcement machine with bullet, cannon, and bayonet! From the scenario book "The Herero War". More at: https://www.hererowars.com.