Managed my third game of What a Cowboy this afternoon. Doug, Gord, Mark and Peter dropped by for an afternoon of gaming. This time Arthur set the table up for us, building a nice little Western town. With the way these rules work, I made sure that was lots of scatter terrain to provide cover for the characters.
We played the Highway Robbery scenario, with the attackers required to inspect 4 locations to find the treasure. The blue tokens marked the locations to be searched. Here we see Gord's rifle-armed greenhorn sneaking up to ambush Mark's sheriff.
Peter's very short shootist uses the white house as cover as he watches the approaching bandits.
Gord's second bandit moves up to the barn.
Peter's short shootist moves back to avoid being flanked.
By these two, as it happens!
Gord's ponchoed bandit pins Peter's ex-German officer behind the wagon.
My greenhorn rushed the short fellow and bashed him with fisticuffs, before finding himself facing both the short one and his one-armed friend.
Meanwhile Gord's bandit managed to take out Peter's German.
Doug's character Morgan takes a long-range potshot at the one-armed lawman.
My greenhorn finally finishes shortie.
Ultimately the attackers managed to find the hidden treasure after searching all four locations, after taking out three of the defenders, the fourth exercising discretion and hightailing it out of town.
It was a fun game, but a bit unbalanced with 3 on 2. I didn't put much planning into the scenario - I should have upgunned the defenders a bit. Also missed the chance to use Bonanza chips and Desperado cards. Lessons learned for next game!
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