Dead Man's Hand AAR "There's Gold In that Thar Town!" or "Trouble Out West"...

In September we played a game of Dead Mans Hand, there were three gangs heading into the Town, they could gain or lose Victory Points by killing others Gang’s Characters or Townsfolk and there was also loot to be 'recovered'! Okay so basically there was Gold "In that thar Town!" but who would get it?

The Ex Confederate Cavalry (George)

The Outlaws (Dave)

Or the Ranchers (Pete)

The Town...

The AAR

Well the action ran quick and hot!

The Outlaws and Ranchers were soon at each other and casualties started to mount as a fast and furious firefight erupted!

Taking advantage of the other two gangs preoccupation with each other the Ex Rebel Cavalrymen skulked through the town seeking fortune! They ran into a couple of armed locals whom they quickly dispatched!

With the Outlaws and Ranchers now spent forces the Ex Rebs took control of the Town’s Main Street where they were in a position to ransack the Town un opposed!

A win to the Ex Reb Cavalrymen, well done George!

Some Pictures

The Ranchers (five figures in the foreground) enter town and find the Wells Fargo building full of Outlaws, the shooting’ begins!

The Ex Confederate Cavalrymen carefully entered the Town keeping clear of said shootin’…

The Ranchers and Outlaws get up close but still find it hard to hit anything 😲!

Finally with so much lead in the air the first bullets find targets…

Meanwhile the Cavalrymen gun down a Townsperson out front of the Haberdashery! They then continue to make their way down Main Street…

The Ex Confederates view of the Town’s Main Street, Ranchers and Outlaws can be seen in the distance! The farm folk were in the process of putting the bad guys to flight, we were down to just the badly battered Ranchers and the fresh Cavalrymen (play onimous sounding music 😉).

An overview of the Town, all the buildings except the ones in the top right with the small corral are scratch built…

The final act, a Cavalryman known as Slim Jim takes aim at a Rancher from the Banks roof and fires, his aim is true and another Rancher eats dirt and the rest decide to leave the Town pronto!

Afterwards Stuff

Using the players points accumulation at the end of the game the Ranchers and Outlaws both had higher totals than the Ex Rebs but given they could the recover anything they wanted from the Bank etc they were the winners on the night!