Build A Woodland Indian Settlement With Warlord Games
January 31, 2016 by brennon
Warlord Games have added some more terrain to their collection that would be perfect for those of you playing out those French & Indian War fights based on our article series. You can also use these Indian Longhouses with their own Black Powder rules...
These are rather simple looking structures in terms of what you want to do with them hobby-wise but the actual building of these in real life looks like it would be very complicated. I could imagine these settled in and around some forests so that they almost blend in with the surroundings.
You will have access to both a large and a small version of the Longhouse too so you can mix and match a small village.
What do you think of these for your tabletop?
"You will have access to both a large and a small version of the Longhouse too so you can mix and match a small village..."
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Not a period I expect to play but those buildings look fantastic!
interesting – anyone know how long people like the first nations were using these? Interested in the Perry’s British Intervention Force for ACW, be nice to properly replicate the frontiers 🙂
They were still using them up to the Anglo American War of 1812, but they were going out of fashion, slowly, around that time, I believe, though you could have seen them well into the 1800’s, possibly.
I think Iroquois means People of the longhouses
I am presuming it was the farming tribes built these . I don’t know dates but presume they weren’t built as much as they were pushed westwards by colonial expansion
I would be surprised if there would be any in the main areas of the ACW conflict
Yes, and no, mate. Iroquios is the French name for them, there own word for their people I will not try to spell but means that.
Iroquois are actually not a thing. What we call Iroquois was actually a Confederation of Six Tribes called the Iroquois Confederacy, Haudenosaunee or the Iroquois Five (or Six) Nations. The major tribes (there were many smaller tribes) of American Indians making up the Iroquois Confederacy were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora (Which means Hemp Gatherers). By the ACW most of what we’d call the Forest or Northern American Indians had either been driven West or integrated (not always peacefully) into society. The major American Indian powers were what we’d call Plains or Desert Tribes which were more… Read more »
My thinking was that in any breakout of hostilities between Britain and the Union, the Great Lakes would yet again become a theatre of war – fair enough it’s the Perry’s indulging in a bit of alternate history but it’s only fair that I try and replicate as much historical fact as I can before it all gets too ludicrous 🙂
I did a quick look online and the native people built similar structures in the North West
I think Jefferson Davis in 1865 was thinking about trying to get to Mexico or Central America to try and continue the confederacy, which maybe brings the W.Indies into play.
There was an attempt to encourage the as was north western states to secede but it was swiftly interrupted – economically the entire Mississippi river course right the way up to the Canadian border was reliant river borne trade making the mercantile classes sympathetic to the confederacy. At one point there was even an attempted prison break from a POW camp in Chicago if I remember right but the Union, thanks to the help of the Pinkertons nipped it in the bud
I think these could do double duty as a fantasy settlement.
star wars Tusken raiders camp?
nice.