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Title: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: scrivs on September 09, 2014, 10:04:39 PM: I have been meaning to have a crack at Dead Mans Hand for ages, I bought the rules when they were first released but what with all the other projects they were rather sidelined.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qNuV56s2tPc/VA9oI-Ad71I/AAAAAAAAM8Y/pUbkqMLONu0/s1600/DSCF9189.jpg)

However, that changed this weekend when I speed painted eleven assorted miscreants in between preparing for Partizan and suchlike.

More details on the Scrivsland blog (http://scrivsland.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/low-down-yellow-bellied-varmits.html)
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: Ray Earle on September 09, 2014, 10:12:16 PM: Nice work on those varmints. :D
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: Steve F on September 09, 2014, 10:13:09 PM: A toe in the Hand is worth … well, it's worth doing, by the look of it.
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: Thargor on September 09, 2014, 11:34:52 PM: That's a good looking gang of hombres you've got there.

I had my first game of DMH tonight, using somebody elses figures. What a great game. I'll definitely be getting hold of a set of rules. I have stacks of figures already with a couple of gangs ready to go and a few buildings, having got them for The Rules With No Name.
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: Mason on September 10, 2014, 01:37:05 AM: Great result!
:-*

There are a few figures there that I would like myself.
8)
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: Thargor on September 10, 2014, 06:04:53 AM: Mason - if it's the posse figures, I have an unopened blister of them that I'm willing to part with.
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: scrivs on September 10, 2014, 08:14:32 AM: Thanks chaps.

I have done a report of the initial games we played last night. Four in all in a three hour gaming session! Two of them were very quick and dirty!

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-the77O_ZtO4/VA_lsHoJf7I/AAAAAAAAM9M/LaZ9khzucBs/s1600/DSCF9198.jpg)

More images and commentary on Scrivsland (http://scrivsland.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/a-stranger-walks-into-town.html)
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: Ray Earle on September 10, 2014, 10:25:10 AM: Looking good. :D

It's a great game.
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: scrivs on March 02, 2015, 07:23:32 PM: It's been a while since I last painted anything for Dead Mans Hand, but this weekend I painted a mixed bag of Black Scorpion Tombstone figures.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vfhX3HWLmtc/VPOC_7K_8hI/AAAAAAAAONs/j1TvMELdWoA/s1600/DSCN0769.JPG)

Most of them good, a few bad and at least one of them down-right effing ugly.

More pictures on Scrivsland: http://scrivsland.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/black-scorpion-tombstone.html (http://scrivsland.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/black-scorpion-tombstone.html)
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: Digits on March 02, 2015, 07:27:23 PM: They look good. Kind of blue theme throughout.
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: Mason on March 02, 2015, 07:31:07 PM: Splendid.
8) 8)

Glad to see that you are still in love with the Old West.
:D
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: NickNascati on March 02, 2015, 08:47:44 PM: How is Dead Man's Hand compared to Shoot and Skeedadle, Fistful of Lead etc.?
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: hummus on March 02, 2015, 11:01:59 PM: I would like to know too
I love ffol's activation
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: Elbows on March 03, 2015, 03:14:57 AM: Nick, I'll try to pick up a copy of DMH at some point. From what I've seen on the interwebs DMH can be played on a smaller table, and much quicker than SnS.
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: obsidian3d on March 03, 2015, 04:46:46 PM: Those are some great looking western figures. Keep sharing!
Title: Re: Dipping the toe into Dead Mans Hand
Post by: scrivs on March 03, 2015, 05:45:08 PM: Thanks chaps. I've never played any of the alternates mentioned so could not comment on their comparison.