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"Fill Yore Hand ..." with Gunslinger, the game of western gunfights. In Gunslinger, you play the part of a western character who is caught in a sudden gunfight, and you face the split-second decisions and incidents of the showdown as bullets start to fly.
Gunslinger is based on a quick and easy game system that recreates the split-second nature of gunplay. Each turn the players secretly play cards to define exactly what they will do during the next two seconds in the game. Then they step through these actions on the playing map, resolving each shot in the split-second when it takes place. Gunslinger resolves combat quickly and easily. The attacker draws a result card that shows exactly where the shot hits, which combines with his/her weapon to determine the damage inflicted. This recreates the critical differences between weapons: Winchesters, Shotguns, Buffalo rifles, Colt's "Peacemaker", Smith & Wesson's breakopen guns and Remington's Derringer are a few of the guns in the game.
Gunslinger includes eight two-sided boards (a total of sixteen map faces) portraying town and countryside terrain at a scale of six feet per hex. These boards can be assembled in varying ways to create a vast number of different maps that are used in the gunfights. The terrain includes gullies, hills, trees, watering troughs, wells, hitching posts and the interiors of buildings.
Gunslinger presents 26 different gunfights and several hundred variations, including both historical gunfights and made-up situations. Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and John Wesley Hardin are just a few of the real gunslingers of history who appear in re-creations of the gunfights that made them famous. Indian raids, barroom brawls and poker games are just a few of the hypothetical situations.
Component List(From box back, augmented with detail from Wayne's Books page)
Rules
8x two-sided mapboards
Result card deck (108)
Pad of personal history sheets
Countersheet
60 round (people)
112 medium square (objects)
96 small square (tactical)
9 large (horses)
Action Cards (130)
7x standard sets of 12 each
4x B1
7x B2
7x B3
5x B4
5x B5
5x B6
5x B7
4x B8
4x B9
"Second Floor" player-aid cards x4
- A lot of fun
- More enjoyable than the Pyromancer
- Was eliminated from the tournament
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bounty Hunter — Inflicts bounty and deals undefendable damage.
- Deadeye — Inflicts knock down and deals damage.
- Evasive — Allows the player to dodge an attack.
- Fan the Hammer — Used with a large straight to deal unpreventable damage.
- Hot Streak — Allows dealing damage or preventing damage based on a dice roll comparison.
- Revolver — Used offensively.
- Showdown — Target opponent rolls dice against the player; if the player rolls higher, they deal damage, otherwise they take damage.
- Taking Cover — Mentioned as an alternative to Showdown.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- i almost thought that was all success i was like what the [ __ ]
- you gotta be [ __ ] kidding me
- what a [ __ ] idiot
- oh my god
- that [ __ ] is so infuriating like last game i roll like five times don't get a single time and it's like oh one time yep i'll block all that damage
- i hate myself
- i [ __ ] ate this oh that's a large straight anyway
- you [ __ ] [ __ ]
- because why the [ __ ] wouldn't you
- i'll gain two cp my way to cheat