Good Day to Die supplement ramble

[Conquistador]

Well, my copy of War on the Plains arrived recently to supplement my Good Day to Die rules plus War in the Forest supplement.   

For those who may (or may not) have/play these rules, I was wondering what Amerindian nations/tribes are your favorites (and maybe why) from the lists?

War in the Forest

North-Eastern Algonquian Tribes (somebody to ally with the French versus the late arrivals (British) and Five Nations. ) I like underdogs sometimes… 

Shawnee – Resistance towards the Iroquois, "Mercs" for many other groups, Tecumseh. 

Cherokee – my father, Trail of Tears stories I have heard   

Seminole – Early on fight allied with the Spanish, war in the Everglades, friend from church is seminole tribal member 

Regular army – Remember that underdog thing? Except that the American Regulars are still an existing force… hmm. Oh well, sometimes you need to play the Grey Hats… 

War on the Plains

Crow – "20:1 odds versus traditional foes such as Sioux and Blackfoot, work with whites, and Lances!   

Utes – raid plains, California, and Mexico from Rocky Mountains – what's not to like?   

Plains Apache – Fought Spain/Mexico, USA, Comanche, Navaho – well, if you are going to pick a fight might as well as make it a good foe… Very business rather than glory style of fighting.      

Navaho – three centuries of success, pragmatic rather than heroic war style, and spears.   

Comanche – Lances, raids Utes, Apaches, Spain/Mexico, and Anglo-Texians, debit – tendency to "take their ball and go home" if things go wrong in so many scenarios (not defensive settings but when attackers.) But that is okay because that's how they historically fought. 

Gracias,

Glenn

[Bugsda]

Chiricahua Apache, cause they were the hardest and I read Broken Arrow in primary school.

Cheyenne, you can't get a cooler, more poetic sounding name.  
 

[Malamute]

Comanche.  Meanest badasses who gave the Texans a hard time and another vote for the Cheyenne.

[HerbyF]

I have to go with Apaches. Some of the toughest man for man fighters in the west. An extremely effective fighting force.

[Lowtardog]

Has to be Lakota Souix for me they are iconic

[Cory]

Hereabouts I have to go with Blackfoot as they beat me up if I don't.

In fact I introduced a local game group that was almost all native to 28mm Plains Wars and they came up with a new game system using bloody knuckles for combat resolution.

[Conquistador]

Hereabouts I have to go with Blackfoot as they beat me up if I don't.

In fact I introduced a local game group that was almost all native to 28mm Plains Wars and they came up with a new game system using bloody knuckles for combat resolution.

Joke?

Gracias,

Glenn

[Cory]

Nope. A very misguided attempt to make combat resolution about something more than luck.

[Conquistador]

They do realize that the symbol (miniature) is not the thing symbolised (player,) right??

Gracias,

Glenn

[Ignatieff]

Hard core! Tremendous!  That takes me back to the early days of Dungeons and Dragons in Greenock (c.1977, I was 17) when I was dangled from the balcony of a 13th story block of flats by a 'Dwarf' character who didnt like a decision I made as DM.  The same player had a brother, and the two of them regularly used to settle disputes on the Napoleonic battlefield by beating each other to a pulp!  Oh, happy days!