What to do with these...?

[Poiter50]

A big public THANK YOU to archangel1 for pointing me to WI issues 169-171, the last of which has a great article on LOTOW scenarios, very suited to small games. And thanks to Lance for the original articles in WI.
 

Found it! Christian, if you PM me your email address, I'll send you off a copy of Lance's WI article.  The Foundry version had the same text but was illustrated with additional photos of their painted figures.

Mike

[archangel1]

You're welcome.  My pleasure.

[Christian]

Yes, I must say, it was a terrific article! So thanks to those responsible

Hermit, those miniatures look really good It seems I missed out on the Christmas discount from Foundry...?  I'm going to pick up the Rocky Mountain Rendevous pack soon anyway...

As for ideas on how to use them...! Rival companies battling for hunting grounds, Indian raids, baggage train scenarios, add some bears or deer and you can even go hunting!

Can't wait to get started...

[Monk]

They aren't in the core LOTOW book, but there is a specific mountain-man posse in the Alamo book

They are in the LoTOW main book on page 99 as a "Free Trapper" hired gun.  In the book they are described specifically as mountain men. 

[Christian]

I've seen the Alamo book and you can field an entire gang too

I wonder though, how do their powder weapons mix historically with revolvers and shotguns and the like? The trappers were active from 1820-40 (according to Wiki)...

[v_lazy_dragon]

I seem to recall that they don't sweat the details too much - they only have access to Black-powder weapons & shotguns (as ML & BL shotguns are treated the same in the rules) when building a posse, but after that heros can aquire new (more modern) toys. I think the general idea is don't sweat the details, but I must admitt I'm not sure I'd be entirely happy facing down a 'modernly' armed posse (even though the older guns are cheaper...)

[HerbyF]

Yes they are covered in LOTOW. And although they saw their hayday in the earlier period there type of hard living loner carried through into the 1870s & 80s. Becoming scouts and guides, trying their hand at prospecting, buffaloe hunting, and still trapping. Although later changing their focus to the furrier trade. They are in the Alamo book for the time period & many of the men with Davey Crockett were mountain men. Often there coats were made from the same woolen trade blankets the fur companies traded to the natives for furs. Even the woolen coats would have been fringed to shed water faster. Besides their long arms, they would have carried a side arm and several kinds of knives or hatchets.

[Christian]

Excellent.

I think that with the 20% off everything from Foundry these big packs will be a good buy!

[Cory]

The local paper ran a collection of articles from Christmases past yesterday. One was an article from 1900 describing some old timers, still clinging to buckskins and beaver skin caps, coming in for their annual trip to town.

Guess those figs can be used for the whole old west period then.