"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!
 

[Harry Faversham]

Just read Wooden Leg's account of the Custer fight. Three times he mentions the soldiers 'going crazy and shooting one another'. Stating that most of 'em were dead, before the Indians got to them. Then again, most of his mates state, that the 'Big Soldier Chief' was Custer, they recognised him from his flowing blond locks. This is crap, as the Boy General, had his hair cut short for the campaign.
Still makes grim reading, indeed.
 

[FifteensAway]

Indeed, the description of the discovery of the bodies at Last Stand Hill bloated and black from lying mostly naked in the sun, and horribly mutilated, is one of the most grim descriptions I've ever read - though not specific from Wooden Leg.  There are even a few photographs of the mutilation.  Horrific.  War is brutality at its worst, or can be.

When do we get to see B troop in its glory?

[AKULA]

When do we get to see B troop in its glory?

B Troop? ... We need to see EVERYTHING laid out ... of course he might need to take the photo suspended from a gantry above the table to fit them all in 

[Harry Faversham]

"Never mind, you can forestall any negative remarks by saying you carved them yourself from bits of coal."

[FifteensAway]

Well, now, nice spread.  And, I think - maybe, you might, almost, have enough for a game.  Or three. 

[AKULA]

"Never mind, you can forestall any negative remarks by saying you carved them yourself from bits of coal."

 

I'm guessing those are the Britannia ones?  I expect they will take more casualties from small arms fire due to their larger target area.

Still...quantity has a quality of its own.

[Harry Faversham]

That's 'em, dreadful ain't they? Another eight War Party's and job's a good 'un.
I'm aiming for 'Pony Wars' games, or maybe 'Custer'e Last Stand' in 1to1 scale!
And yes, these Redskins will ride, fight and die... Hollywood style!
 

[AKULA]

That's 'em, dreadful ain't they? Another eight War Party's and job's a good 'un.
I'm aiming for 'Pony Wars' games, or maybe 'Custer'e Last Stand' in 1to1 scale!
And yes, these Redskins will ride, fight and die... Hollywood style!
 

As you know, i'm not a fan of those sculpts, but honestly its the overall look, which en masse will be stunning, given the scale of your project... if you were planning a skirmish game with a dozen figures a side, i'd suggest go for different minis...but you've got those as well