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Goat people & Contiental Army...didn't have that on my bingo card for 2025

Racerguy180 wrote:
Goat people & Contiental Army...didn't have that on my bingo card for 2025

Most people don’t know there were no goat people in the Americas until Europeans brought them over.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

Racerguy180 wrote:
Goat people & Contiental Army...didn't have that on my bingo card for 2025

Most people don’t know there were no goat people in the Americas until Europeans brought them over.

Damn Europeans and their Goat people!!! No wonder the Colonials rose up...

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

Racerguy180 wrote:
Goat people & Contiental Army...didn't have that on my bingo card for 2025

Most people don’t know there were no goat people in the Americas until Europeans brought them over.

Take your exault and get out of here!

(Actually don't get out of here, that was genuinely funny)

Goatman is no laughing matter.

I imagine a lot of other people had the same question I did when they saw this.

https://www.nps.gov/mima/patriotsofcolor.htm

And the answer is yes, there were Black Minutemen.

Learn something every day.

Aww minutemen would be a great base for some variant wild west guys if they didn't wear those pilgrim loafers

Okay, but IS there a game system where you can play as minutemen fighting beastmen in the forests of the new world, or is it one of those "you can make any number of generic rulesets work for that theme" sort of things?

I'm not sure I'd feel good about re-skinning actual human natives as beastmen, so an inherent fantasy element would be a must.

You could check out Witchfinder General - Days of Revelation, which are 17th Century Folklore Historical Wargame Rules. Set in England, no reason it couldn't be ported to the Americas.

That's the only one that comes to mind right off-hand. Maybe use Silver Bayonet (Naploeonic, but could probably be adapted).

I do have one concern with the new range. I notice that the dates are listed as 1775-2025. While I appreciate the implication that the "Age of Reason" definitely extends no further than the current year, I'm not sure it's accurate to say that it includes everything up to that point, either.

I think historians are still debating exactly which year we finally left Reason behind.

Hatemonger wrote:
I do have one concern with the new range. I notice that the dates are listed as 1775-2025. While I appreciate the implication that the "Age of Reason" definitely extends no further than the current year, I'm not sure it's accurate to say that it includes everything up to that point, either.

I think historians are still debating exactly which year we finally left Reason behind.

That's not the range dates.

That's the 250th anniversary of the battle of bunker hill.

also lexington and concord, earlier this year in April when we previewed these sets.

Oh no!

Not only did I have to teach about the Spaniards exploration and exploitation of the Americas, which was a perfect excuse to get students building Conquistadores and Aztecs and rolling dice for skirmish games, but now I have a perfect excuse to have them build Red Coats and Minutemen? What ever shall I do?

Going to need to look into some sort of grant process or money from the state to have them buy a bunch of models in bulk so we can have some proper war games.

I'm honestly going to be talking to my administrators about doing something at a bigger scale than just me ordering a box or two for each side.

WGA should set up some educator programs!