Play Cowboys and Indians in Gamecraft’s New Fort
October 5, 2012 by dracs
When your being chased by Injuns in the ol' Wil' West you sometimes need to find somewhere to wall up until help can arrive. Well this here Fort from Gamecraft Miniatures can provide just the safety you might be lookin' for.
Gamecraft have just released this 28mm Fort which, though styled for the Wild West, could easily be included in a variety of games, from fantasy to sci-fi. Especially if it's a sci-fi with space cowboys.
With artillery pieces looking to appear in Blackwater Gulch, this fort could be the perfect piece of kit to start running really cool siege battles, worthy of a classic old western.
How might you use this fort? Would you buy this or would you prefer to try and make one yourself?
It could be a good framework to start from, but the towers and gantries don’t look anything near stable or finished- and since a lot of historical minis are still made in good ole metal rather than fancy resin plastic, from a gaming point of view it’s not so hot. Also I’d rather it had no texture at all than horizontal boards, I’ve no idea how historically accurate it is, but I always think of western forts as being made of vertical posts or adobe.
What’s with the horizontal plank finish on the exterior? Not historically accurate. cazboab is right. And it couldn’t even pass for stone, given the length of the ‘planks’. This needs a rethink.