Tables of the Reconstruction

It wouldn't be the weekend before G&G if I wasn't feverishly painting models or scenery three days before our nineteenth get-together kicks off. 

This year we return to the Old West for a good ol' fashioned bank robbery scenario. The robbers start in the center of town and have to get off a table edge, while the lawmen come in from two other edges and try to stop them. 

I have a enough buildings for a very decent looking street, but nothing behind it on either side, and with 8 players and 16 models, big swathes of open ground will make the robber's job pretty much impossible.

So I am borrowing a few pieces and asked Jeff to print me a few more, which he did and brought them over Thursday night when he came to watch the hockey game. I primed them Friday, and started painting them Saturday afternoon. They are pretty rough, but done enough!

The troughs and outhouses will help break things up a little too, and the fences will make it a lot easier to do OK Corral-type scenarios to boot.

Totty and Earl and I did a run through of the bank robbery last weekend, and it felt good to get the rules back under us. Legends of the Old West (from the now defunct Warhammer Historical) is a fun, simple system that draws heavily on GW's Lord of the Rings game system.

But in the end, any excuse to push toy posses and outlaws around a miniature town will be taken.

As you can see though, even a wide thoroughfare resulted in significant bloodshed in very short order (at least one of which was a potentially innocent bystander shot by my ruthless marshall - or perhaps a collaborator undone by keen instincts? We'll have to wait for the inquest.

Don't be fooled by the bonnet - that's the ringleader!

At any rate, hopefully I will have more and better pictures of a bigger town (Fort Everett) next week following G&G XIX!