The Battle for Ruapekapeka Pa (‘The Bat’s Nest’) was the last engagement of Hone Heki’s War.
DBA Example
When I started my New Zealand Wars project in the 1990s I was intending to use my DBA New Zealand Wars variant. At a Ratio of approximately 50 men or 1-3 guns to an element to an element the two armies would be:
DBA Orders of Battle
- European wargames army
- 9 Regulars (58th)
- 3 (Elite) Regular (Flank companies of 99th)
- 5 (Elite) Regulars (Naval Brigade)
- 1 Settler (Volunteer Pioneers)
- 4 Artillery (with Naval Brigade crew)
- 6 Maori
- Maori wargames army
- 8-9 Maori
- 1 Artillery