Yesterday's playtests

[Colonel Kilgore]

Many thanks to Martin and Stewart for 3 very enjoyable Western playtest games yesterday.

3 quite different games but all with the same result: a crushing win for the defenders!

Game 1 saw a band of Mexicans defending against hordes of Apaches.

The initial set-up:



and some detail of the action:

[martin goddard]

Good photos Simon.
I think we had some good games. The rules are not done yet but the overall structure seems fine??
The mat is Stewart's  special western tiny mats.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Game 2 was Mexicans again: this time attacking Gunmen.

We decided to try out the railroad: this didn't have any direct impact on the game other than increasing the number of defence squares (buildings adjacent to the tracks) and removing the defenders' 8 pieces of partial cover. This gave a somewhat sparsely-populated table, but the

The game set-up:





and some detail of the ensuing action:





Which I hope give a feel for the way the rules are shaping up. As Martin says, the rules seem pretty mature already.

And as is hopefully clear from the photos, Stewart's mat is very nice too: the printed bushes help disguise the grid lines.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Game 3 was Army defending and Plains Indians attacking.

The set-up:



and some detail featuring Stewart's rather fine stagecoach as the "liability":



The Indians proved a bit cowardly (or rather badly-led...) and didn't pluck up the courage to sally out of the woods into the open to attack the village, meaning that the attackers scored very few points again.

[Stewart 46A]

Thanks for coming down Simon, glad you enjoyed the games. Great pictures.

[martin goddard]

Very good photos Simon. Very "modern" this photography thing. I think photos like this would look good in the rulebook. Maybe in a colour section dediucated to games in play with narrative???

May i link this to TMP for discussion?

[Colonel Kilgore]

Martin: please feel free to link to TMP - nothing secret here!

And if you wanted any of these pictures in hi-res for the PP website, I can email you the original files [they get downsized when I use Tinypic - the clue's in the name!].

Simon

[martin goddard]

Simon

Yes plaese, then i can build a database ready for the rules