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Sudan

 Here are posts linked to games set in The Sudan during the 1880s.

Sharp Practice in the Sudan

A Sharp Practice Sudan Game Report 

The British for Sudan

Deployment points, Mahdist casualties and a camel train

Leader bases, sabots and game markers

Basing Mahdist Ansars

Wounded leader markers

Mahdist and British Cavalry

Making rocky outcrops

Making a desert terrain mat

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