Lions of Sabi Sands

[Mapokser]

The excuses for the Kambula's defeats reminds me of the excuses for NK/Nhenha during the clashes with PCM.

They'd say "they got caught separately, let's see 2v2", or "they went to Londolozi deep into PCM territory, they're not fleeing", or "prime 6yo NK is not ready, but in a few months..." or even " Nhenha is trying to recruit his other sons because NK is not reliable".

When the easiest answer was the correct one, PCM were stronger and that was it.

Here we've seen countless times how the Kambulas are no match for strong duos and lose to them easily, PCM and Gijima beat them multiple times without them offering any resistance, and now the Mantimahles did the same.

Kambulas have no trouble with nomads, lone territorial males or even weak dominant duos like the BDM, but once they face a duo that charges at them, they break ranks, that's just how it is, they are not as formidable as you could expect from lions of that age and with such numbers, and I say this without any bias because I love them, some of my favorite lions due to their lineage and the fact I followed them for a long time, but truth is that they are not formidable.

Of course there's nothing inherently wrong with not being the strongest, biggest, bravest, most aggressive, etc, but I just hope that once they have cubs they'll be able to defend them and the territory from any duos which I suppose it's a reasonable expectation to have from a 4 lion coalition. Reply