Appropriate crew for swivel guns?

[NickNascati]

All,
      I am assembling buildings and forces for the American Revolution in the South using TFLs "This Land Divided" as a base. Two of the scenarios included therein include swivel guns mounted in blockhouses.  From everyhting I have read, I would not expect more than 1 or 2 men to serve as crew for these guns. Yet the scenarios assign 4 to each.  This causes some significant crowding in the blockhouse!  What do all of you think about appropriate crew?

[Malamute]

There are crew figures in some of the pirate ranges for swivel guns. I guess with a bit of green stuff they could be converted. I can think of foundry, Brigade games and Dixon that might be suitable.

Rereading your post again I am not usre if my answer above is what you are looking for? I agree with you about only having two crew for a swivel gun, as Svennn says it might be a scenario idea to keep your figures occupied?

[Svennn]

Do the rules actually require 4 crew to operate the guns? or is it perhaps a scenario thing whereby ensuring they remain operative longer in the game by accounting for casualties losses?

4 seems excessive to me, thats a cannon crew. I am no expert, never given it any thought before now in fact, but all the models I recall only have 2 crew maximum as do jingals etc.

[Silent Invader]

In my own rules I effectively allocate two crew, or one crew but it taking twice as long to reload etc. 

Given the F&IW use of swivel guns in the prow of bateax and whale boats, I find it difficult to see how 4 pairs of hands could find the space to be of use.

In the movie The Mission there is a scene involving a swivel gun in the prow of a narrow (canoe-like) boat and it is operated by one person.

[Skrapwelder]

I would make a guess that two of the four crew were powder monkeys or some other kind of service crew position that might not necessarily be behind the gun but still working towards maintaining its functionality.

[NickNascati]

Guys,
        Thanks for all the input.  My inclination is to go with no more than two guys per gun.  The scenarios call for two guns in the corners of a blockhouse. With four man crews, that takes up a lot of space!