The Peasant Rebellion thread turned into a thread about dudes fighting from wagons. Let's expand upon the topic of dudes fighting from wagons and devote a whole thread to it.
In fantasy games I also find myself fighting from wagon, stage coach, or carriage a lot. A Ravenloft adventure I lead was known as the "Coachmen". Do other adventures find themselves in this same position and have you invested in a swivel cannon yet?
This started as a pirate thread, from discussions about the black flag it became a peasant rebellion thread, now it is a wagon thread.
Here are some other classy pics of dudes fighting from wagons.
Ayden Rogers
My big question is, were the roads finally good enough in Europe for to pull this kind of shit? Because It feels like people would've gotten away with these shenanigans a lot earlier then they did.
Sure the guns are nice but the whole platform puts you on the same level as a knight. It just feels like the kind of thing people should have been doing for 1000 years before fire arms.
I'm not going to go nuts and say this would have had an effect on Roman Legions or anything. But it sure feels like a bunch of battle wagons and a mix of bows and crossbows would have put a kink in Feudalism.
Totally know the Syrians were pulling this kind of stuff but we don't have a lot in the historical record to tell us about it. Which gets back to my earlier statement; ROADS.
Adam Reyes
When I'm thinking about his tactic, it feels like the kind of thing Merchants would have developed first. Is there any evidence to point to this? It just seems like a merchant caravan would be a lot safer with one of these tagging along.
Wyatt Butler
Fuedalism was dominated by castles, which were better fortresses than wagon fortresses by merit of being actual fortresses.
Lucas Cox
As the guy who accidentally turned the peasant revolt thread into a discussion about Hussite wagon forts, allow me to make it up to you by making your wagon thread about Italian military tricycles.
Asher Carter
Just kidding here's a Sumerian war wagon.
Gabriel Morris
I had a player make a kingdom based on Scots and Hussites who defended the known world from hordes of monsters. They were betrayed by the closest kingdom (another player) and became a horde of roving mercenaries looking for a home. Though they were never a dominant power in the world, they were instrumental in most of the greatest wars. Their pikes, matchlocks, cannons, and wagons eventually set the standard for every player army that couldn't afford magic.
It works well for anyone who needs to move a lot of stuff by land with a ton of people. Migrating "barbarians" made wagon laggers, migrating Americans circle their wagons for defense, and I could definitely see high-tier merchants using the tactic. The thing is that you need a lot of wagons to make it work. The merchants don't even need to make a huge number of cannon wagons, just enough to augment their normal ones. They can just modify their normal carts to have better-armored sides and make sure that there are places for ranged and polearm troops to stand on top.
