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Death to white thieves. Their scalps will decorate our belts. 
Scrat555
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Who says the belt has to have a metal part?Humlenerd said:Too bad you'll have to buy them from us since you can't make metalNightHawkreal said:Death to white thieves. Their scalps will decorate our belts.
Sincerely -Humlenerd, the blacksmith who only sells weapons and armor to good pious colonists.
Who needs your new-fangled metal when scalps are such a great belt-making material all by themselves?
Decoration, but the Colonists and Native Americans alike would use them as bounties. The Europeans would set bounties for Native scalps, and the Natives would have bounties for European scalps.Aldric said:
In addition to the metal there are bones and tendons.
SAF_Biffa
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The norm was scalps but early on there were examples of heads being asked for by the Europeans though bringing back just the scalps became the norm probably because a human head is 10% of the bodies weight and the travel distances for raids were often huge.
This is a good reference.
The Unkindest Cut, or Who Invented Scalping by James Axtellg: William C. Sturtevant
This is a good reference.
The Unkindest Cut, or Who Invented Scalping by James Axtellg: William C. Sturtevant
I believe the Mohawks made a sport of collecting scalps, it defined who was manliest.
Skallagrim
Squire
Was giving examples of models. Colonists wouldn't use sabers, and they wouldn't use Native weapons. That leaves bayonets on the guns, which wouldn't make sense for non-militia.DarthTaco said:Both of those weapons are waaaay off the time period. The bayonet looks World War 2, and the Bowie Knife wasn't in use until about 70 years later.Skallagrim said:Was hoping for Bayonet swords
Or knives
Maybe to balance it, allow Bayonets to block, and knives to be really fast + deal pretty good damage
Otherwise, keep up the good work! Oh, and add pistols
SAF_Biffa
Recruit
Short swords like Hangars and even the Cutlass, Sabres weren't actually that fashionable at the time and like many heavier swords were often discarded because they were a liability in close quarters woodland fighting, especially if you weren't mounted.
Wear a sword and run through a thick wood, it's a nightmare, fine for town based units and battlefields.
The French standard pattern sword (the one that looks like a cheap poker) were also only retained for parade ground and garrison use, it's actually awful to fight with, everyone prefered the tomahawk and if you didn't like the indian patterns then a typical European utility Axe did just as well.
The lighter you were the better, a sword only really has one use whereas the hawk/axe could be used for so many more jobs, if you didnt want to take both then the choice was easy.
Bayonet's were also sometimes considered bulky especially for woodland fighting, if you had the choice unlike the militias and regulars then you'd normally go for a tomahawk/axe and knives, lots of knives. Interestingly the first bayonets were issued very early on in this theatre (plug bayonets) I think it was because the British Army had learned in places like Tangiers that musket only infantry were vunerable when loading from the sudden rush (by light horse) and of course here we had very fast moving light infantry - Indians.
Wear a sword and run through a thick wood, it's a nightmare, fine for town based units and battlefields.
The French standard pattern sword (the one that looks like a cheap poker) were also only retained for parade ground and garrison use, it's actually awful to fight with, everyone prefered the tomahawk and if you didn't like the indian patterns then a typical European utility Axe did just as well.
The lighter you were the better, a sword only really has one use whereas the hawk/axe could be used for so many more jobs, if you didnt want to take both then the choice was easy.
Bayonet's were also sometimes considered bulky especially for woodland fighting, if you had the choice unlike the militias and regulars then you'd normally go for a tomahawk/axe and knives, lots of knives. Interestingly the first bayonets were issued very early on in this theatre (plug bayonets) I think it was because the British Army had learned in places like Tangiers that musket only infantry were vunerable when loading from the sudden rush (by light horse) and of course here we had very fast moving light infantry - Indians.
Just give them neutral knives with homemade handles.
Freighttrain4
Veteran
Just a suggestion for the map, maybe a small Indian village in or near a large mountain range-like area. To make more surpirses along the way and a possible stronghold for Natives or trapped colonials.
So a map with a definitive Native American advantage?
Freighttrain4
Veteran
DarthTaco said:
No, it's giving the excitement if you are being chased and can't fight and it's a sort of last strong hold. Anyone remember Cochinay in Red Dead Redemption, it's be like that except more primitive, more like rocks and make shift covers. it's a shelter for the weak. not the natives.
