I have gamed with a number of cowboy set rules, never really got into them and felt maybe its too much details, being skirmish for me it needs details but not overload it....the cards you are dealt with in the game make it fun, which is what we want,simple enough to remember rules, but getting the three cards, its like playing poker, you throw your card in when you want to....had a good dead eye shot at me by one player, i played my hostage card....so he shot the the lady with the pink bonnet....i ran off after that...good set of rules