The latest Commonwealth preview heads somewhere much less familiar than Australia or Canada.
So, that alone gives it a different kind of appeal. East Africa Command is not built around one nation or one narrow theater. Instead, it pulls from Britain’s colonial possessions across Africa and turns that range into a distinct tabletop identity. This is a summary of Warlord’s article that you can find here.
Board control, brutal assaults, and strange specialist options give the East Africa Command real character
The article makes East Africa Command sound like one of the most unusual forces in the whole book. First, Pangas gives most of the army Tough Fighters, which immediately makes the faction feel nastier in hand-to-hand combat.
Meanwhile, Local Area Control and Scouts combine to improve Outflanking and open up a lot of Infiltrators, so the force looks built to crowd angles, pressure flanks, and get far too close far too quickly. Then the preview shifts into the specialist regional rules, and that is where the army gets even more interesting.
Desert Mounted Infantry adds extra mobility through camels, which is exactly the kind of odd but flavorful rule that makes a historical army stand out.
Meanwhile, Nigerian Chindits let players field ultra-elite light infantry with a stack of special rules, and the article is very clear that they will be expensive but dangerous. So, this is not a subtle “British but slightly different” sub-faction. Instead, it sounds like a force built around aggression, mobility, and awkward deployment pressure, with some genuinely strange tools other Commonwealth armies do not get.
The article also notes that Standard Commonwealth Units and upcoming plastic Chindits should deepen the range even further.
