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A brief game description |
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A Western battle between a workers force and gunmen. the action takes place in Jubilee county. The rail workers are "grading" the land. they have fallen back 5 miles to occupy an area of rail buildings and finished rail. The gunmen are Jubilee county militia tasked with shutting down the railroad as it crosses Indian land . The railway will enrage the Indians , who in turn will scourge the county? |
The pre- These pictures are juts quick "snaps" to give an idea of what is happening. In Western the player's command is called a "force". The titles "beetroot ", "faction " or "hermit" are not used because they are all wrong descriptions of these forces. the force is split into "groups". Each group has a leader. the force is led by a single commander with his own attributes. |
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The worker force In Western the workers force must be predominantly raw, short shooters. They have limited mounted capability. Five groups. 4. A group of mounted average quality short shooters. Pro- other figures on the far left are the reinforcement group , overall commander and some empty horses. |
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The Gunmen force In western, the gunmen force must all pay for horses. In addition they are all long shooters. Four groups. 1. Far right . Veteran gunmen with long shooters. Superb troops. 3. 4th group (left) are raw quality militia with long shooters. Rail company scouts formed into a fighting group. |
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Here is the game table. The scenery has been set up by the two players following the set up method. The table is 5x3 feet for 15mm games. The table is divided into a 6 inch grid but the spots delineating the grid are not visible here. There are very rough hills, buildings and a wood all visible here. The rail track has been deployed between rows. The smaller markers indicate "partial" cover in squares.This picture was taken before deployment started. |
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A view from another direction. |
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The Game The workers deployed in various areas of the table as they had been forced back by the gunmen's arrival. the Gunmen cam on at the table edges. The gunmen soon needed to dismounted, as all the vulnerable worker groups withdrew into cover. The buildings in the centre distance was the sight of several bloody assaults by gunmen groups. The casualties taken by the gunmen in assaulting were terrible. Workers made use of dynamite in those assaults. Although the workers were penned into the two distinct sets of buildings they could not be budged. the gunmen extended the game, in order to achieve success but not enough was achieved. At the game end the workers gained many more victory points. These points were gained by achieving the victory conditions they had chosen (each force may secretly choose its main victory criteria) and holding buildings. The gunmen has set themselves the aims of killing the worker commander and beating the worker units down with casualties to "teach them a lesson". They failed in both aims. The game lasted 2 hours. Out of an initial force of 34 base the gunmen had 10 killed (ouch!). This game could have been fought in 25mm , using a 7" grid. Parts figures= Peter Pig 15mm |
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