"cattle drive game" Topic

After watching the cattle drive in Centennial, and red river, I thought it would be a good topic for a game.. Maybe solo or multiple players against nature.

What I need to find are some cowboys mounted on horses carrying lassos or lariats, May be a pistol raised in the air. I only want mounted figures so don't point out west wind or foundry foot and mounted combos.

But please do point out other ranges that might work for this, in 28 mm.I got some 1/64 cattle, not Longhorns but there seems to be regular cattle in these drives too.

I'd like a chuckwagon too. The Cows I have are model railroad, so I thought I would get the same unmounted-unbridled horses for the Remuda.

Thanks much for the suggestions.

By the way, if there are any such games already miniature or board, please point me to them.

I know you said 28mm, but in the tradition of TMP I'll ignore what you've asked & answer another question. Mainly because I just bought these myself: link
Scroll down the page a bit. They're 54mm, but they are purpose built for what you're after, each figure has a set job for the drive.

Is there a blazing saddles bean & campfire set available?

What's the focus for the game? If you're doing the whole drive, is it map movement, or encounter tables, or something like B-17 Queen of the Skies, where you have threats pop up as you go?

What is the focus on-table? Is it the mechanics of making the herd go where you want it, is it dealing with terrain (like a river) or encounters (herd cutters, Indians, etc)?

I think it could be a lot of fun, please let us know how it goes!

Dixon has your mounted figures and your chuck wagon: link You could use the Mexican bandido figures for vaqueros and then do head-swaps on a couple more to make anglo cowpokes.

Six Gun Sound from Two Hour WarGames has a cattle drive campaign.

Thanks to all.
Those 54mm figs look great but they need too much space :(

The plan for this is a "Rolling Terrain " style game.
TMP link

The Dixon figures look useful. I have lots of Dixon dismounted ones, never had need for mounted in my town based wild west games. They have some longhorns too.

Do the cowboy figures come with different heads for the same catalog number? I like two kinds of chaps. In Red River all the cow punchers had a different style hat. I liked the conversion to lasso in one picture.

Had not noticed that Two Hour had cattle drive game. Can someone point me some discussion.

This idea is fully adaptable to colonial Australia. In fact, one of the scenario options in my frontier game Boomerang involves overlanders trying to get from one side of the table to the other with their flocks/herds whilst under attack. Additional rules could be concocted for other problems that could be factored into a campaign – but I'm wondering how you could make a worthwhile tabletop game out of a purely non-martial challenge.

Unfortunately, most of the discussion was on the old THW Yahoo Group that sort of blew up when Yahoo went to Neo. There's some 6GS discussion on the new forum, but not much about the Cowboy Campaign which includes cattle drives.

You can play the campaign as a Drifting Puncher, Trail Boss, or Rancher. There's encounters for the Round Up, Mavericking, Rustling, Buying Cattle, the Drive, & Ranching (includes the risk of losing everything to bankers!).

THW forum:

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Bobgnar – PM sent.

Hope you can make it work as a game. I tried a game of this once, even announced it was meant as a play test for some rules for a larger game, and at the end of the game I had some vociferous complaints about not being able to shoot at or kill anything. So, I suggest you had an element of violence to the game – perhaps the cowboys have to fight off rustlers. Though maybe that is understood from the scenes you mention in the OP. Just a cautionary thought as you move forward.

Strangely, a buffalo hunting game doesn't seem to get the same kind of complaints but, of course, there is killing involved and buffalo can be dangerous.

Hey, maybe heard up some dairy bulls – according to a veterinarian the most dangerous animal on the farm, by a very long stretch, is a dairy bull. : )