Wargaming the Exploration and Colonisation of Tropical Africa by European powers from 1850 until 1918.


Sunday 18 July 2010

Congo Bowmen




I am trying to finish some figures that have been sitting around half painted for far too long so here is a group of archers from the Congo who would make good allies or opponents to the Azande.

I'm pretty sure that the Azande themselves didn't use bows (using their kpinga throwing knives instead) and, if they did it would have been early in the Darkest Africa period on as they took to the musket early; using it for an ambush based type of warfare.