Apologies for reviving an older post, but so far there haven’t been any developments that would make this topic out of date and there is some additional information to back up this concept.
Chanskopa was a sport that spread across the entire continent. We used similar tactics to use fire to herd bison around the prairie with flaming balls of dung thrown from chanskopa sticks, iirc.
“Chanskopa” is the Lakota word for Lacrosse. Using this instead of the completely ahistorical “captured mortar” would be a much cooler and more thematic method of giving the Lakota + Hauds siege units.
I don’t want to revive that dead post, but I will back this up - Chanskopa was a sport that spread across the entire continent. We used similar tactics to use fire to herd bison around the prairie with flaming balls of dung thrown from chanskopa sticks, iirc.
“Chanskopa” is the Lakota word for Lacrosse. Using this instead of the completely ahistorical “captured mortar” would be a much cooler and more thematic method of giving the Lakota + Hauds siege units.
This backs up my argument that the L…
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