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Inapatikana

Shaka: Kuinuka kwa Wazulu

Utawala mdogo, urithi wenye mgogoro, na mpinzani asiyesubiri.

A turn-based historical strategy campaign set between the Thukela and the Phongolo in the early nineteenth century. Manoeuvre in difficult country, feed what you raise, and hold what you take.

Jinsi unavyochezwa

  1. Panga

    Vilima humgharimu kikosi zamu nzima. Mito na misitu huwafaa waliokwisha kuwa humo.

  2. Andikisha na lisha

    Makazi hukupa watu na malighafi. Vikosi hula kila zamu, na jeshi usiloweza kulisha hudhoofika.

  3. Pigana

    Hasara hulingana na tofauti ya nguvu, hivyo ushindi finyu hukuacha dhaifu mno kushikilia ulichoteka.

  4. Shikilia

    Kampeni huisha Wandwandwe wanapovunjwa, au zamu kumi na sita zinapokwisha.

Vitu halisi

Mchezo huu unahusu mahali halisi na watu halisi. Hivi ni vitu walivyotengeneza, vilivyopigwa picha na makumbusho yanayovihifadhi — si michoro yetu.

Zoomorphic headrest

A carved Nguni headrest. Personal, portable and inherited, it is the kind of object that travelled with a household through exactly the upheavals this campaign is about.

No likeness of Shaka kaSenzangakhona survives that a historian would rely on. This campaign shows what the region made rather than inventing a face for him.

Zoomorphic headrest"Unobadula" · Mid–late 19th century · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 2018.356 · CC0. See it at the museum