"'Flint and Feather' Kickstarter live" Topic

The campaign for 'Flint and Feather' has started. This is Bob Murch of Pulp Figures labour of love, in cooperation with Lee Van Schaik as 'Crucible Crush'. The rules are by the Pulp Action Library team of Roderick Robertson and, ahem, me.

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This is not one of those 'we need to make a million dollars' Kickstarters. There are no blockbuster movies or comic books about the conflict between the Hurons and Iroquois. It's an unusual topic aimed at a discerning audience.

Bob's made the models, and will make some more. The rules are written and playtested, but we'd like others to give them their input. We want to produce a genuinely nice book, with cards and tokens. Plus a longhouse for Bob's garden.

Already signed up at the Great Warrior level! Shouldn't this be a Hobby News item rather than just buried as a post? You should be as loud about it as possible >;-)

I'm sure a proper announcement is coming. I just wanted to mention it now.

Excellent sculpts! 'Hope it goes well.

Cheers, RC.

The sculpts are very nice. I was surprised to see the gunstock clubs since the majority of scholars believe this is a post contact weapon.

I love the Indians Bob Murch sculpted for RAFM back in the previous century. Too bad they are so tiny in comparison with more "modern" sculpts.

Might have to get in on this….

Since I got the figures that were available to purchase at Histoicon last year I will wait until the others are available to get and then buy them.

Signed up for the Great Warrior level too. I am looking forward to these figures.

My opinion here, JJ…

In pre-state societies, where no one compelled anyone else to fight, men always fought basically for social prestige, i.e., 'honor'. Social prestige pays off for men, mainly, in mating opportunities – in can get girls. True, we may get only one wife at a time, but we have to be worthy of her, her mother, aunts and sisters all have to approve of us, or we're not getting any.

Now, 'honor' might come from making insane displays of courage and defeating opponents in hand-to-hand contests of speed and strength. Or, then again, it might come from being so evilly crafty as to never give an opponent a fair chance.

My understanding is that once it became clear that a one-ounce lead ball could kill the mightiest hero, the balance shifted away from brave displays and toward deadly cunning.

But, as late as the 1760s, some Rangers reported a crazy, *big* Indian jumping in among them and wreaking havoc with his warclub. They shot him right down. Of course.

Does anyone know if these figures would be suitable for the period 1000 – 1100 ?

I have several answers to that question.

On the one hand, I think the F&F figures would be reasonable to use for Great Lakes Iroquoians c. 1000 AD.

But. If you're thinking of using them for Newfoundland Skraelings, Newfoundland is a good 800 miles from Lake Ontario. Best evidence from archaeology and from the sagas is that those Skraelings were probably Dorset culture Arctic people, the culture that preceded the modern Innuit, or possibly proto-Beothuk Indians. They might have looked some different from Iroquois, might have worn arctic-style parka, trousers and mukluks rather than breechclout, leggings and moccasins.

On the third hand, who's going to stop you? The F&F figures are at least as plausible as some of the sculpts I've seen specifically labelled as Skraelings.

Great links JJ, thank you.