Building the Old West

Brought out the town and introduced four new players to the game. This time the outlaws were facing off against the lawmen and trying to spring someone from the jail. Simultaneously the Cowboys and Pinkertons were questioning townsfolk trying to locate a specific woman.

The special rules for this scenario was that the lawmen can’t shoot until someone else starts shooting first but!, they can fisticuff at anytime. But once the shooting begins every building has its doors locked and have to be broken down to be entered. Worst, once entered a civilian takes a point blank potshot at the first person to enter the building.  However they never shoot at the lawmen.  After that, the civilian scampers off and anyone can freely enter that one building.  I used some armed civilians as markers and removed them once they fired their one shot.

The outlaws had a rough time starting with the poor unfortunate who tried to “wagon jack “ a farmer delivering goods to the market and got KOed for his troubles. They then closed range to the lawmen and once they opened fire, missed and lost three more gang members in the subsequent fire fight.

Meanwhile, the Cowboys and Pinkertons located Miss Belle surprisingly early. Every time they questioned a civilian they rolled a die and added the total number of civilians questioned to the die roll. Once they rolled the result was over ten, Miss Belle was placed on the board halfway between the vying forces. Because both sides were afraid of shooting Miss Belle by accident they decided to fist fight instead of using guns.  Themis eventually turned into an amazing fight in the center of town that eventually drew in eight of the ten combatants. Ultimately the Pinkertons won and returned Miss Belle to her father the evil railroad baron.

Because you always need more scatter terrain, and beer barrels are appropriate for a whole lot of games, I ordered some 3D printed beer barrels.  They’ll be used both as terrain and as objective markers for a scenario called the Great Beer Riot.

Because you always need more scatter terrain, and beer barrels are appropriate for a whole lot of games, I ordered some 3D printed beer barrels.  They’ll be used both as terrain and as objective markers for a scenario called the Great Beer Riot.

When Nebraska was admitted as a state in 1867, the US flag had 37 stars as seen here. This is a paper flag from Flags of War. I used a steel wire spear and cut it to size then painted it Army Painter Oak Brown and Vallejo Brass. I then glued the spear into place with some super glue. I then cut out the flag, covered the unprinted side with PVA glue, then wrapped it around the wire spear. I then wrapped the paper around a paint brush to get the curved effect. Once the glue dried I painted any edges that needed it with matching red or blue paint.

We played the This town ain’t big enough for the both of us! scenario. The leaders start in the middle of the street facing off against each other and are dealt three cards. They have to use these cards for the first three activations and the players arrange them in the order they like. The rest of the gang is dealt cards as normal.

Miniatures by Brigade Games.

These uniforms were pretty much standard until 1885.  These miniatures could also be used up to 1898 by not painting the yellow trim on the collars and changing the leg stripes to a darker yellow, almost orange color, for the later period.