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Offline von Lucky

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Re: Old West Fort
« Reply #15 on: September 27, 2013, 11:30:26 AM »
I'm having great flashbacks to the Playmobil one I had as a child.
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Offline richarDISNEY

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Re: Old West Fort
« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2013, 04:59:06 PM »
How about "Fort Itude"?
"What exactly is a 'Headpiece to the Staff of Ra'?"

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Offline romelll

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Re: Old West Fort
« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2013, 07:15:33 PM »
Fort Whosonfirst

Offline leadfool

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Re: Old West Fort
« Reply #18 on: September 30, 2013, 09:37:27 AM »
In the pacific Northwest there were forts built by American whiskey sellers to sell whiskey to trade whiskey for pelts with the local "Indians" aka Native
Americans or First Nation.  The sellers would trade and then hold up in the fort while the locals drank and got wild.  The forts had names like Fort Whoop-it-up. 
This conduct is part of what lead to the formation of the Northwestern Mounted Police in 1874.  In 1920 the organization was called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). 
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Offline Harry

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Re: Old West Fort
« Reply #19 on: September 30, 2013, 09:38:36 AM »
Thanks very much for the nice comments and all the suggestions.

Fort Cussin could be a worker.... Or Fort Dammit ... Fort Gadammit ... Fort Dagnabbit. :D

Lead fool "It looks like it started in a forest and after the builders cut down all the trees, it is in a open plain".

:D Well it took a lot of trees alright!!!

In fact the drawing I copied was in the forest but the existing game board I have is in the open plain.

So it requires a bit of suspension of disbelief for it to exist at all.

It depends on where your town is set.

Most Western forts did not have a stockade. The most notable ones what did were Fort Phil Kearney, Fort C. F. Smith (Fort Ransom), and Fort Reno, in the Powder River country. Of course, there's also the traditional Fort Apache.
My games are set in Hollywood Myth. :D

Any connection to history is purely coincidental.

I am thinking of going with 'Fort Provoking' after a discussion around Pony Wars started a bun fight on another forum about the morality of a wargames based in this period.

To me it is all toy soldiers .... furthermore a fantasy ... It is a representation of a Hollywood fantasy rather than this period in history. But it did cause a ruckus.
« Last Edit: September 30, 2013, 09:42:10 AM by Harry »

 

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