You play the White government of Rhodesia, besieged by a Black guerrilla army, using your potent armed forces to hold it back while you try to persuade your colonialist voters to compromise and move to a system of Black majority rule. T he White Tribe is a unique SOLITAIRE game with military and political aspects. It’s not a detailed historical simulation, but is designed as a fun, challenging game that illustrates the general strategic course of the conflict and highlights important historical themes. Players should be aware that they are a tiny country fighting a war in a world beyond their control. The game focuses on domestic and international politics as much as it does on the military conflict itself. The player plays the forces of the White minority government (and its Portuguese and South African allies) against the “ZANU” and “ZAPU” guerrilla forces which eventually won the war with Chinese and Soviet aid. Ben Madison, it is the second game in Ben Madison’s Cold War Trilogy series. Published by White Dog Games and designed by R. THE WHITE TRIBE is a strategic solitaire (one player) game on the 1966-1980 civil war in the African nation of Rhodesia (today called Zimbabwe). It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.” – ZAPU founder Joshua Nkomo “ The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late.
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