More What a Cowboy!

Club night and Steve has kindly put on another gorgeous looking game of What a Cowboy. It’s a second warm up game ahead of the start of a campaign next month. Here’s a few pics before our gangs set to.

The “spades” gang was Simon, Mike and Rob whilst the “hearts” gang (and self-styled heroic good guys) were myself, Jordan and Ken. The objective was simple … shoot the other gang. Umpire Steve assures us that campaign games will have more complex objectives. I’m sure he’ll have a few surprises up his sleeve too.

Here’s a pic from a few turns in. Ken’s lads have camped on the shed roof whilst one of Jordan’s men swaggers towards the railroad halt, no doubt intending to tip his hat to the lady standing nearby. Some of the other figures in the pic are “civilians” and they can act in a variety of ways when the lead starts flyin’. Opposing them were Mike and Rob’s men and they were advancing quite cautiously thanks to their dreadful rolls on movement dice.

On the other side of the parked up locomotive my brave fellows (the very much larger than life Chester Tubbs and ever capable Billy-Bob Wrigley) dashed forward to get some good cover by the water tower and crates.

I was facing Simon’s men and they, like the rest of their gang, took their time to come forward.

Here was some exciting action! Both Mike and Jordan had bravely (or perhaps rashly) pushed one of their men forward to gain advantage. Jordan had a desperado card to play… he rolled great action dice … “Bonanza!” shouts Mike… “Bonanza!” came the reply from Jordan! But Mike won the quick draw and Jordan’s man got hurt real bad … down to 1 action dice.

However, some crafty subsequent play from Jordan saw his man withdraw and regain much of his composure.

Back across by the water tower and our men are trading shots but doing little real damage. Indeed Chester displayed considerable skills whilst dodging incoming shots!

Simon has brought his men up close. Too close in fact, as with almost the last shots of the game, Billy-Bob emptied his shotgun in to the chap with the top hat, blowing him all the way to Boot Hill.

Another very funny game of cowboys. Thanks again to Steve for organising and to everyone for making it such a laugh. Looking forward to the campaign 🤠