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On Thursday UPS dropped off a nice package, I had some backlog of funds and used them to pick up a few items to boost up my scenery as well as my French and German armies!
The order
4Ground Thunder Boxes
Sarissa Chateau
Box says it all....
Belgian AT Team (for my French)
R40 Tank
Howing Cow
Medium Mortar - French
Light Artillery - French (The crew was for my other guns, the gun will go to the Germans as I am lacking some lighter guns).
French Squad
French Command Blister with a few extra men.
French Insignia
French Numbers and Names
French Card Markings
The ole standard German symbol.
Not part of the Warlord shipment was my S15 Portee Truck by Mad Bob arrived the same day!
Horch Heavy Car
Panzerwerfer 42!
Scwinnwagon!
233 8-Rad with light howitzer
Order was missing a few items: small V bar for the 233, a transfer sheet of red numbers and my wrecked Hanomag. Nothing major....been playing the past few days getting things done!
Picked up this wagon from Sarissa at a good deal. Took me a few hours off and on to assemble it today and I opted to quickly wash it with a chestnut ink wash. It is a little reddish in tint but that is how the color of the wood was...I could dust it up later and I may.
I just finished off a few old west figures a few weeks back and they have been sitting on my painting desk ready to go into the case for storage. So, while I was cleaning up, I managed to snap few pictures. I think most are Foundry or Crusader.
My cards arrived in the mail for the new and developing game Shoot'N'Skedaddle! My first steps into this game was to research and watch to see how it developed and I have found this to be a well thought out game that could perhaps be one of the top shelf Old West miniature games.
Opening my box revealed the cards: 36 Lawmen:
3 Blank
3 Objectives A-B-C
5 Campaign
5 Activate 1 or 2 miniatures (extra actions)
20 "Action" cards that you can use in the game
36 Outlaw:
Same card breakdown as Lawmen with variations on name and twists on rules.
40 Characters
5 Outlaw Cards: Thief, Bandit, Thug, Bushwacker, Bad Man
5 Lawmen Cards Judge, Texas Ranger, US Marshal, Sheriff, Deputy
3 Cowboys
2 Soiled Doves
2 Soldiers
3 Hired Guns
5 Towns Person(s)
(single cards hereafter) Shootist, The Drifter, Coolie, Trail Boss, Priest, Prize Fighter, Prospector, Pony Express Rider, Pinkerton, Mountain Man, Indian Scout, Bounty Hunter, Doc, Crazy and Business Tycoon.
72 card Weapon Deck
3 Derringer
2 Pair of Derringers
6 Heavy Sixguns
4 Pair of Sixguns
4 Pair of Heavy Sixguns
4 Carbines
2 Sabre and Heavy Sixgun
1 Cannon
1 Gatling Gun
4 Disguise
5 Knifes
2 Mares Leg (short repeater)
7 Sixguns
4 Sawed Off Shotguns
5 Shotguns
2 Buffalo Guns
5 Leaver Action Reapers
2 Muzzle Loading Rifles
2 Muzzle Loading Pistols
4 Lassos
3 Sticks of Dynamite
As you can see there is a great deal of variety and options to the game as well as an open opportunity to expand the game beyond.
I suggest that anyone that loves the Old West should give this game a try!
Forrest at Knuckleduster just dropped a fantastic new blister of figures depicting Frontier Justice! The set has a Sheriff, Undertaker, Prisoner, Judge, Doctor and Hangman! Goes great with the Tri-City Laser Cut Gallows he sells also. Check out his other great Old West Figures he makes!
First, I want to thank everyone that entered and I am going to compile the list of links and a few others to a secondary page and post it later on as a great reference point for Old West Materials and inspiration.
I gave everyone a number and hit the random number generator and the winners are!
Rebel Miniatures Blister: Colgar6
Knuckleduster $16 Voucher: Rob_Jedi
Knuckleduster $16 Voucher 2: WhiskeyRat
Knuckleduster $16 Voucher 3: quix42
Tri-City Laser Building: Black Smoke
Please contact me at patrickballinger(at)yahoo.com if you are a winner and please label the header that you are a contest winner so I don't delete your or if it ends up in the SPAM box I can save it before deleting it. Just identify who you are and I'll get you setup with your prizes!
Congrats to the winners and maybe next time to those that didn't win this time around!
Voucher codes will be forwarded (via email) (Forrest set the amount to cover the cost of one blister and to help with shipping or can be applied to a bigger purchase like one of the new Tri-City Laser buildings) and the MDF building and blister will be mailed (so in your case please provide me your mailing address to ship your winnings). If items are left unclaimed for 2 weeks, I will redraw a new winner from the list of those that didn't win the first time around.
Congrats to the winners! Keep an eye out as I will no doubt be throwing out some other random contests in the future!
Also, a huge thanks to (and in no specific order):
Knuckleduster Miniatures
Tri-City Laser Buildings (ready to purchase at Knuckleduster Miniatures website!)
Rebel Miniatures
Well, it is a new year and a fresh start! So, time for the Old West for the New Year: Gamers Gold Giveaway and Contest! I had hoped to do this a few months back around the blog birthday in October as well as hitting a landmark posting!
Alas, things do not go as planned between the holidays and my mother went back into the hospital late November to have a tumor removed from the brain about the size of a small grapefruit. It has been a rough couple of weeks and a suck ass holiday season for me. I hate myself for being behind on projects including this giveaway that many kind people donated to. Still, the new year gave me a cool contest name excuse in any case!
I do want to give a huge thanks to:
Tri-City Laser Buildings (Check out Knuckleduster as their official retailer)
Knuckleduster (A maker of reasonable priced old west figs of great quality)
Rebel Miniatures (they make a little of everything!)
Check out their links that are on my blog as thanks!
I know, shut the hell up and tell you guys how to win some loot! So here are the rules!
Be a follower to the blog and post up here you would like to enter the contest for the drawing. I will be giving away 3 $16 vouchers for Knuckleduster (that is enough for a free blister and shipping to most places or a nice discount on a larger item like a Tri-City Laser building) and a blister of Cowboys from Rebel Miniatures. That is 4 chances to win something! I will draw winners on February 1st!
To win this nugget of a price: a Tri-City hotel you simply have to post up (with your entry to the drawing) a link to an Old West Article that you want to feature. The winner will be selected on February 1st!
This can be from your blog or any other site.
This can include rules/miniature/terrain reviews, how to paint, how to build or a game report of an Old West Game but not limited to (these are examples).
The key is it has to be something Old West to be a legal entry. Anything goes and Aces are wild! So dig up that gold for gamers!
The goal here is to promote anything cool for the Old West that others may not have seen before and expose people to new blogs that feature Old West material. Simply, I want to build up the Old West gaming community! I will collect the links and post them on a secondary page as some cool featured links for Old West gaming. Enjoy and good luck!
Ryan and I had our second game of Blackwater Gulch the last
night with a bit more knowledge now of the rules and fixed a few errors with
our list we piled our gangs out for round 2!
I brought a strong list of kit specialists:
1) Leader with Doctor, a pair of Level 6 Colt Pistols and a
Level 5 Winchester Rifle. His stats were: STR 3, QUI 6, STAR 6, INT 5, RC 6 and
MC 1. He had Duck and Cover, Quick Draw, Deadeye, Hearty and Really Tough.
2) Gunslinger with a pair of Colt Pistols (Level 6), STR 2,
QUI 6, STAR 3, INT 4, RC 6, MC 1. She had the skills of Duck and Cover, Run and
Gun, Quick Draw and Deadeye.
3) Wrassler (Hired gun, so got another 100 point character).
STR 4, QUI 6, STAR 6, INT 4, RC 1, MC 6. He had a pair of swords (level 6) and
the following skills: Duelist, Charge, Run and Gun and Really Tough.
4) Henchman with 1’s and 2’s for most stats but a STA 4 and
RC 6. Had a Lv 5 Winchester Repeater with Deadeye and Hearty skills.
5) Henchman with 1’s and 2’s with a QUI 4 and RC 6. Had Run
and Gun and Deadeye with a Level 6 Remington Long Barrel Shotgun on a horse.
6) Henchman with 1’s and 2’s for most starts but the same
QUI and RC as #5 and the same skills and a Level 5 Winchester Repeater.
Ryan had a Tong gang (didn’t get his sheet) but had about 7
in total including a Doc, Wrassler (leader), not sure if he had any other
professionals (I think there was one more). He had dynamite, throwing knifes, a
pick, swords and other goodies among his gang. No real ranged weapons and had a
kit design for close combat.
We rolled the deployment and got trapped and cornered. We
figured a straight up fight was best to still learn the rules. He won the dice
off and picked the center, deploying in the town street ready to use the
buildings as cover. I deployed near the edge of my corner on the line ready to
deploy to how he would move.
We rolled off and I got first move and it was game on. I
downed his strong guy with a pick axe with my leader firing at long range. This
set the tone for the game. I moved my leader and two other rifles along the
edge of town to shoot down the street and my shotgun mounted granny along with
the gunslinger and wrassler (martial artist) swung around behind the buildings.
Ryan tried to rush one guy down the street using cover but
was quickly shot down but the gunslinger slipping around the corner. As we got
to the third turn Granny rode out and blasted her shotgun at his leader putting
a wound on him. Then he promptly kicked granny’s ass right off the horse. Then
we had the Bruce Lee fight fest between my Tong (hired gun) vs his Tong (gang
leader) with my dual sword guy downing him. The gunslinger slipped around again
and shot both his tong with sword and then the next turn his doctor hidden
around the corner in another alley. His dynamite guy runs out of cover when I
had two riflemen right next to one another and he promptly rolls a 3 for
distance with 2 dice (d6 for throwing and another d6 for the strength skill), a
roll of 6-7 would have been bad for me! BOOM! Well, I moved a rifleman around
and shot him down quickly to remove another major threat. The last Tong engaged
my swordsman hired gun and bailed out once the rest of the gang was down. Only
granny was sucking dirt by the end of the game if I recall right.
Thoughts about the game:
Ryan had me worried with a hand to hand beast gang if he
could get in quickly I was finished. My only hope was to try to keep one step
ahead and go with my split gang concept. Leader + 2 henchmen with rifles
supports a fire lane. The leader had a pair of pistols if anything got close.
The other group would use mass firepower (gunslinger), the shotgun (moving at 8”
on horseback) and the Tong hired gun (well sword) to deal with up close
encounters and short range fighting.
I think if Ryan had went into the buildings and used a bit
more blocking LOS scenery I would have been into trouble. A few aggressive moves
made it easy for me to exploit some easy targets. He had some bad luck with the
dice including the dynamite toss that could have been painful to me.
Here is a few pictures from the game courtesy of Ryan:
The town after we setup.
Towards the end of the game as my riflemen was advancing down the main street.
Mary Sue Ellen the Gunslinger catches a Tong off guard.
My hired gun (Tong swordsman) downs the Tong Gang Leader
Town shot towards the end of the game.
Another town shot.
My gang....
My Gang the Outlaws called the Misfits
(left to right) Henchmen (rifle), Henchmen (long shotgun), Hired Gun (Tong with swords), gang leader with rifle (guns under his coat), Gunslinger with two colts, Henchman (rifle)
Tong Gang
(left to right) Doc, Leader and the rest of the gang. Not sure who the last professional was.
Well, just 8 more posts away from hitting the magic 100th post! And of course there will be a contest Old West style! Details are still in the works and already three companies have stepped up to bat offering some goodies to give out! Keep your eye right here for more details.
I just got my shipment the other day from FRP games with a pack of Old Glory Cowboy Wars Tong and a blister of the Secrets of the Third Reich Russian Snipers to work into my Post Apocalyptic models I am building up! I will throw out some quick reviews on both to let people know what to expect from these two companies as I am a first time buyer of both brands.
On Thursday I am taking back out my gang v2 for another round of Blackwater Gulch against Ryan's revamped gang. Should be blood and violent this time around now that we have learned a great deal from the rules. Speaking of rules, they are free to download if you want to try them!
Click on over on my other blog link and help me pick a Blood Bowl Team! I have a great deal of time still, but I will have to order and paint them as well as get a few games in before I consider heading back to Alabama to take on the Rocket City Rumble Blood Bowl game, simply a great group of BB players and the first event I attended was simply amazing as I had a blast. What better than eating pizza, drinking beer and beating the crap out of another team on the pitch????
Well, I am going to prep my gang tomorrow for the big showdown at Anthem Games tomorrow with my gang called the Misfits with an outlaw theme. My vision was a bunch of oddball types working together to make a fast buck.
Here is the Gang:
Robert Andrew (Leader and former Prospector)
Robert Andrew was once a prospector with great ambitions of striking it rich until the bank manager called in all of Robert's debt markers forcing him to have to sign over the mine and the lands around because he was unable to pay. It was just a short time later that the railroad purchased his land to expand their rail line for a tidy sum making the bank manager rich and Robert even more bitter. Taking charge of his life Robert collected the rest of his belongings and invested in a good pistol and rifle and has determined that he is going to take back what is rightly his.
Mary Sue Ellen (Gunslinger)
Mary Sue Ellen was a just married blushing bride that had set off on an adventure with her new husband David Ellen traveling to Colorado to meet up with some of his cousins that had moved out west and had started up their own ranches making money in the cattle industry. The young couple was robbed about halfway to their destination in a twist of fate that left her husband shot to death after trying to defend his wife from the lewd advances of the bandits. Mary Sue was raped, beaten and left for dead next to the burning wagon after it was looted. Something in Mary Sue would not let her die, not yet at least. She awoke and crawled to a stream and drank some of the cold water and washed her wounds. With great effort she started to dig a grave for her husband and collected what she could salvage from the wagon and started to walk.
The first town she arrived at showed her great hospitality after she told them of her plight and even got her a job as a cook at a restaurant and managed to save up enough money to buy a horse, a few changes of clothing and a pair of pistols that she taught herself how to shoot. She then set off after the three men finding each one and killing them in brutal ways. She shot the first one in a bathtub at a hotel, the second she shot from his horse as he was leaving town and went over shooting him again in the head and crotch. The last got her into the worst trouble as she walked into the barber shop and slit the last man's throat with a straight razor.
As she fled out of town, Robert Andrew saw a lady in distress and figured the mob that was chasing her was just a bit much for one lady. Taking his rifle he evened the odds allowing Mary Sue to escape. She later circled around and confronted Robert Andrew that simply responded to her why; "Because I want you to join me...I have plans ya see to rob banks...". Mary Sue joined Robert as his second and head on down the trail.
Samuel "Ox" Guthrie (Wrassler)
Big, dumb and strong is what you would say when you describe Sam as he is known by the others. Robert found him working at a General Store loading wagons for room and board as his manager dumped Samuel after he lost a major fight a few weeks ago taking all of Samuel's earnings. Sam may not be bright, but he knew a better deal when he heard it and had no ambition to continue loading wagons for the rest of his life and agreed to join Robert's gang.
Jim Freeman (Henchman)
Jim was born in Alabama as a slave but was freed shortly after the Civil war and struck out west with the money that the gov'ment had given him to make his fortune working on the rail lines. When he got out west he found the work to be in competition and almost as bad as slavery. When he mouthed off to one of the foremen they hauled off Jim to hang him from a tree as there was plenty of "boys like him" around to do the work. Mary Sue and Robert came upon the scene and quickly dispatched the other men in a few rapid quick shots and asked Jim to join them.
"Derby" Danny Bogs (Henchman)
Danny was the typical Irish immigrant to the United States that struck out west to find his place. He always enjoyed the pulp fiction western novels that he picked up for a nickle at the stores and fancied himself to be a gunfighter of name one day. After having enough working as a ranch hand he took his savings buying a derby hat and a six gun he set out to do just that, Robert met the brash Danny at a local saloon and he agreed to join the gang as his way to enter the outlaw world.
Pablo "Dirty" Sanchez (Henchman)
Pablo met Robert Andrew in the streets of some backwater border town after he had beaten some grifter that tried to cheat him at cards. Not taking the insult very well Pablo set the gringo on fire with a bottle of tequila and watched him run off down the street as he shot at his feet. As the local sheriff was about to arrest Pablo in his drunken stupor, Robert was able to whisk him away and the grateful Pablo agreed to join the gang.
"Penny Pinching" Pete Malloy (Henchman)
Pete is the newest member to join the gang and little is known about his story except that when Robert fond him he had a penny to his name and had sold his only shirt to buy a shot of whiskey and a cold bit of leftover meat, yet he had a well maintained and expensive rifle on hand. Despite the fact that Pete is wearing second hand clothing that does not fit and his red underwear top has become a trademark of shorts of perhaps the most frugal member of the gang.
