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Miniatures Adventure => Old West => Topic started by: nozza_uk on January 05, 2024, 03:00:20 PM
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Had our first game of 2024 last night. Decided to go back to the Old West and runthrough the scenarios in the 'For a Fistful More: Scenarios for Fistful of Lead' scenario book. Picking the first scenario 'The Waterin' Hole' as the basis for the game. Hopefully kickstarting a bit of a campaign.
Whilst on a manhunt for the 'Bad Hombres' gang, Marshal Bill and his posse have stopped for some rest and a much needed meal. What the Marshal doesn't know is that the 'Bad Hombres' led by Ricardo are about to spring an ambush in the canyon.
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If you want to know how the game went, then there's an AAR on the blog https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/01/ambush-at-canyon-fistful-of-lead-game.html (https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/01/ambush-at-canyon-fistful-of-lead-game.html).
Needless to say, there will be a sequel, but not before we rerun this scenario with a Star Wars vibe.
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Good scifi is just westerns in space.
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Nice game report. Love the composition of the first photo here.
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Doc: "Dang it, Deputy. You've been drinkin' again. Here, drink this coffee".
Deputy: "Thanks. I feel much better now".
BANG
Deputy: "Argh"
Oh well, that's how it goes. Lovely report...sounds like it's time for the Marshall, or maybe Ricardo, or maybe both, to seek their revenge...
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Doc: "Dang it, Deputy. You've been drinkin' again. Here, drink this coffee".
Deputy: "Thanks. I feel much better now".
BANG
Deputy: "Argh"
That's pretty much the conversation on the night. Sure you weren't eavesdropping? lol
Oh well, that's how it goes. Lovely report...sounds like it's time for the Marshall, or maybe Ricardo, or maybe both, to seek their revenge...
Revenge is planned for the next chapter!
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That's pretty much the conversation on the night. Sure you weren't eavesdropping? lol
Revenge is planned for the next chapter!
Nah - just a matter of "Great minds think alike" ;) ...and looking forward to see on whom who gets revenge...
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Good stuff
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Another scenario from the 'For a Fistful More: Scenarios for Fistful of Lead' scenario book. This time a variation of the 2nd scenario - "Jack's out back".
Marshal Bill and his posse take on Ricardo and 'The Bad Hombres' again.
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Who wins?
https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/01/hes-out-back-fistful-of-lead-game.html (https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/01/hes-out-back-fistful-of-lead-game.html)
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Only FFofL can do this!
I've had an epic this very afternoon, could have gone either way, right down to the end.
:-*
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Managed to get another game of A Fistful of Lead in last night. This time the "Massacre at Briar's Bend" scenario from 'For a Fistful More: Scenarios for Fistful of Lead'. No Marshal Bill and his Posse this time, as for this scenario, it was Native American Braves versus the US Cavalry.
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If you want to know how the game went, then there's an AAR on the blog: https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/03/massacre-at-briars-bend-fustful-of-lead.html (https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/03/massacre-at-briars-bend-fustful-of-lead.html)
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Great looking set up Noz, and a very entertaining AAR!
We've chosen the same scenario for the next encounter of Captain Brittle's C Troop, with the Hostiles led by The Great Lame Beaver.
:o
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Great looking set up Noz, and a very entertaining AAR!
We've chosen the same scenario for the next encounter of Captain Brittle's C Troop, with the Hostiles led by The Great Lame Beaver.
:o
I hope you have as much fun as we did.
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2 good games. Glad to see Ricardo will face justice! But too bad for those "long knives"...
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Great to see some ffol action!
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Love your tables and paintjobs. Nice man
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Another scenario from 'For a Fistful More: Scenarios for Fistful of Lead' with the first of a three part linked scenario. Miners at a gold mine have gone on strike and the mine owners have dispatched some armed thugs to retake the mine. First time we have tried a four way battle.
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Find out who wins at https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/04/strike-at-three-runs-fustful-of-lead.html (https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/04/strike-at-three-runs-fustful-of-lead.html).
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Wow. Too bad for the miners. Great report though...
We used FFoL for my Matewan games (Coal miners vs. gun thugs in West Virginia in 1920). The coal miners are 4-0 against the gun thugs, although a couple fight were close....
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Another scenario from 'For a Fistful More: Scenarios for Fistful of Lead' with the second of a three part linked scenario. At the end of the previous game, the 'Bad Hombres' had got away with the gold. All they needed to do now was get the gold safely away to their hideout. Unfortunately, the Natives, the Miners and now Marshal Bill and his posse are after the gold.
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Find out who wins - https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/05/a-wagon-load-of-trouble-fistful-of-lead.html (https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/05/a-wagon-load-of-trouble-fistful-of-lead.html)
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Very nice. It was nice to see the wagon returned to its rightful owner! :D
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The last part of our 'Miners' trilogy.
Having rescued the gold in the last game, the Miners have holed up at a hideout for the night. They're not safe as the other three gangs are still after the gold.
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As always, the AAR is on the blog - https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/05/holding-on-to-whats-yours-fistful-of.html (https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/05/holding-on-to-whats-yours-fistful-of.html)
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You can always rely on a distant trumpet putting an end to proceedings!
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Wow. Too bad for the miners. Great report though...
We used FFoL for my Matewan games (Coal miners vs. gun thugs in West Virginia in 1920). The coal miners are 4-0 against the gun thugs, although a couple fight were close....
Have to ask... have you watched the movie?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/)
Don't even remember it being in theaters. If you watch it, you'll get a good story, some great characters, and some memorable lines. (Sid Hatfield: I've met Mr. Felts. I wouldn't piss on him if his heart was on fire)
The law in town Sheriff (IIRC) Sid Hatfield (David Strathairn) is from the Hatfield family known for their ongoing dust up with the McCoy family. James Earl Jones is always a favorite, and this was the first time I saw Mary McDonnell in a film.
A little slow in parts, but I liked it.
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Fun game report - but why is the posse (supposedly on the side of the law) running at the arrival of the cavalry? Perhaps their 'law' is a bit shady and suspect? ;)
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https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/matewan-massacre.htm (https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/matewan-massacre.htm)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/forgotten-matewan-massacre-was-epicenter-20th-century-mine-wars-180963026/ (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/forgotten-matewan-massacre-was-epicenter-20th-century-mine-wars-180963026/)
https://wvminewars.org/news/battleofmatewantrial (https://wvminewars.org/news/battleofmatewantrial)
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-battle-of-blair-mountain.htm
A few short reads on the subject that should answer your question.
And a bit longer one in a book review which looks at the darker side of things back then
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250329337?tag=macsupaduinstalpa-20
https://wvminewars.org/news/battleofmatewantrial
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Fun game report - but why is the posse (supposedly on the side of the law) running at the arrival of the cavalry? Perhaps their 'law' is a bit shady and suspect? ;)
We had it that they were trying to recover the gold for the mineowners, so was the gold stolen by the miners or were they entitled to it? ;)
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Have to ask... have you watched the movie?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/)
Don't even remember it being in theaters. If you watch it, you'll get a good story, some great characters, and some memorable lines. (Sid Hatfield: I've met Mr. Felts. I wouldn't piss on him if his heart was on fire)
The law in town Sheriff (IIRC) Sid Hatfield (David Strathairn) is from the Hatfield family known for their ongoing dust up with the McCoy family. James Earl Jones is always a favorite, and this was the first time I saw Mary McDonnell in a film.
A little slow in parts, but I liked it.
Yep! I bought my copy at the Coal Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, where my wife and I visited last year to do some research...you can still see the bullet holes in a few of the downtown buildings...
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Another scenario from 'For a Fistful More: Scenarios for Fistful of Lead' scenario book. This time, two gangs decide to have a 'High Noon' style shoot out in the street.
Marshal Bill and his posse against Ricardo and the 'Bad Hombres'.
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As always, the full AAR is on the blog - https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/06/this-town-aint-big-enough-for-both-of.html (https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/06/this-town-aint-big-enough-for-both-of.html).
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I enjoyed your report. I felt sorry for Carlos, laying there getting shot again and again...same thing happened to my bossman in our last FFoL game. Looks like you need to paint up a new gang!
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That was interesting. Chalk one up for Law and Order...or whatever pases for it on the Old West...
We had something similar to what happened to Carlos happen in one of our games of game of FFoL. It involved outlaws and Indians attacking a farmstead. Toward the end of the gunfight (which the farmsteaders ultimately won, kind of...), the farmstead family partiarch spent 3 or 4 turns following a wounded Indian around the cabin, calmly reloading his trusty buffalo gun and firing at the Indian as the Indian slowly failed recovery rolls and crawled away, before Ol' Pa finally killed the poor bugger...
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Another scenario from 'For a Fistful More: Scenarios for Fistful of Lead' scenario book. Marshal Pete and his trusty Deputies (Riley and Hank) have arrived in a sleepy cattle town, only to find that it's under the thumb of a wealthy cattleman and his corrupt sheriff.
The Marshal has called out the cattleman, who has sent 5 of his thugs to deal with the Marshal.
Who wins? Find out here - https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-showdown-fistful-of-lead-game.html (https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-showdown-fistful-of-lead-game.html)
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I’m glad you played a second game of the scenario. I’ve had people say a scenario sucked because it was one sided. But if they just played it again, they might get completely different results.
Of the multiple times we playtested this particular one, surprisingly the the smaller force won more times than not.
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For the first game, the Marshal player decided to go with a 'shoot first' approach and paid the price very quickly.
For the second game, I took over the Marshal and went for a 'cover first' approach and the strategy paid dividends. The Thugs had to split up and got slowly taken out.
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That's the magic of FFofL, it cannot be predicted!
I once had a squad of elite Fallshcirmjager wiped out by a motley bunch of Home Guard blokes. Only wounding one of the old duffers all fight. Dad's Army were commanded by a lady playing her first game!
Another time Tuco and hid kid brother, gleefully gunned down Marshal Twerpe, Dolores Trollope threw herself across his corpse. Drew the Marshal's six shooter, and dispatched both bandits with shots through the melon, in one move.
Only FFofL can do this!
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A. Good report, that last one. The bit about replying it with a different result was spot on.
B. "Scenarios That Suck" are really rare. One-sided? Yep! But I'll play those in a heartbeat, and usually as the "weaker" side, just for the challenge. And I agree with Harry. The Fistful of Lead family of games is great, and very versatile! As you can tell if you've read my various threads here, we play FFoL with a certain regularity....
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CapnJim, Battles and Brews is next weekend the 19th and 30th. If you’re not headed to Historicon (where there’s quite few FfoL games) come on down. I have bourbon and a guest room!
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I’m glad you played a second game of the scenario.
Most of these Western scenarios we replay afterwards in a Star Wars setting, usually with different results.
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CapnJim, Battles and Brews is next weekend the 19th and 30th. If you’re not headed to Historicon (where there’s quite few FfoL games) come on down. I have bourbon and a guest room!
I was giving that invitation active consideration, until my wife reminded me that we have to go to a graduation party that weekend....thanks, but sorry, Jaye... :'(
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Back after the summer break. Searching for the Fabled Treasure of Possum Gus, another scenario from 'For a Fistful More: Scenarios for Fistful of Lead'. Also, gave me a chance to get my newly painted "Other Seven" figures on the table.
https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-fabled-treasure-of-possum-gus.html (https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-fabled-treasure-of-possum-gus.html)
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Great stuff, really enjoyed the AAR.
:)
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Good job, and all that. Well done!
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Back after another break - isn't it annoying when work gets in the way! lol
We had a go at playing the Black River Blues scenario from For a Fistful More: Scenarios for Fistful of Lead'.
A somewhat bloody affair with some questionable decisions made by myself.
https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/10/black-river-blues-fistful-of-lead-game.html (https://nozzawargaming.blogspot.com/2024/10/black-river-blues-fistful-of-lead-game.html)
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Wow! Marshal Bill's gang took they guy back, and they still hold their hostage? That's a win, in any book!