Auckland Wargaming Club

The era of Queen Victoria and Colonial Expansion - this period also saw numerous 'European' Wars such as the Crimea, Franco-Austrian, Austro-Prussian, Franco-Prussian, the American Civil War, Spanish-American War, Second Boer War, in addition to the extensive Colonial Wars (such as the Indian Mutiny, Anglo-Zulu War, Mahdists in the Sudan, North-West Frontier, Boxer Rebellion, etc). The period finishes with the Balkan Wars & World War I when the true power of modern artillery and machine guns appeared and battlefield tactics took a few years to catch up, and the subsequent Russian Civil War and similar conflicts post the 'Great War'...