"It's your Troop now, Mr. Colehill."

[has.been]

IN the book, 'Count Belasarious' by Robert Graves,
the Goths are besieging Rome & the Byzantines are defending it.
For some time the Goths are hammering & sawing out of sight of the Byzantines.
Eventually several gargantuan siege towers emerge from the woods & are slowly dragged ,towards the walls of Rome, by teams of oxen.
When they come within the defenders' bow range, the Byzantines shoot the oxen. 

[AKULA]

Love the new additions

 

[Harry Faversham]

Imagine you are a peaceable Redskin camping along the Washita. One sunny morning Black Kettle rocks up and his Missus sets up their Tepee, wot could possibly go wrong!!!???

  

[FifteensAway]

"Washita!  Washita!" meaning, more or less, run for your live's, those murderous white soldiers are here.  So, nothing likely to go wrong to inspire such phraseology.  Just another peaceful day at the vil. 

Or maybe we can expect some more photos not quite so peaceable?!

[Harry Faversham]

Simulating the Cheyenne mindset/fighting practice, is going to be a tad more aggful, than I first thought!
I'm reading the story of Wooden Leg, a Cheyenne who fought Custer... he didn't reach the Happy Hunting Grounds till 1940!
Seems as, if an Indian got caught in a surprise fight, he'd run away. This wasn't cowardice, it's so he could put on his best clothes, warpaint and get his medicine. Once that was sorted, he'd fight like a demon...
how the fook do you factor all that mumbo-jumbo into a set of wargame rools. And when you have, wot Idiot's daft enough to lead 'em on the table!!!???
 

[FifteensAway]

On game day, you start with the assumption that they've already done the "run away and get ready" routine and are now ready for that "demon" mode.  Unless you are doing a surprise attack on a village in which case they dispense with the get ready and go immediately - or as close as possible - to 'protect my family' mode and fight like desperate demons.

As to getting folk to play, never been a problem that I've seen.  Gamers happily take on Lost Cause games to 'die with glory'.

[Harry Faversham]

Just finished B Troop, they're Brittania Miniatures, dire sculpts really...
but hell, they'll do!