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Post by castiglione on Apr 19, 2010 22:24:33 GMT -6
Has anyone ever played AH's Gunslinger?
I recently got my hands on a copy and it looks very interesting. If Boothill qualifies as an RPG, Gunslinger is almost there. While Boothill had rules for gambling and cheating, Gunslinger had a sort of "alignment" system (really just a way of defining what made your character "tick") which governed how he scored points in the game.
The way combat was resolved was very interesting with actions being plotted out using cards.
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Post by makofan on Apr 20, 2010 6:56:02 GMT -6
You too can fight a 10-second gunfight in 2 hours!
Gunslinger has a legendary reputation, but my friends and I found it slow, fiddly and unsatisfying. To give an idea, we liked Boot Hill because of its speed, but we weren't afraid of complexity (we played Squad Leader and Third Reich).
I have twice sold this game now, and you get a good price for it on e-Bay.
Many people love it, so the next step is to find somebody here who played it and liked it, so you can find out what they liked about it. I hated the whole turn mechanic, and drawing cards for shooting.
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Post by castiglione on Apr 20, 2010 9:19:35 GMT -6
LOL. I've heard the 10 second gunfight in 2 hours complaint before but just about other games.
I haven't actually played the game but it seems interesting to me and so far the rules seem pretty straightforward. I'm sure once I actually get down to play, some things may hit me in the face like a Babe Ruth swinging a shovel but right now, it seems interesting.
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Post by makofan on Apr 20, 2010 12:16:19 GMT -6
My opinion is firmly in the minority - and I usually like Richard Hamblen designs, so it is probably just some weird peculiarity of mine
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Post by Mike on Sept 12, 2015 22:21:37 GMT -6
I loved this game. The campaign elements were amazing and the rules themselves were delivered in stages so a basic game could be over pretty quickly.
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Post by Finarvyn on Sept 13, 2015 5:40:48 GMT -6
I missed this thread the first time around.  I have twice sold this game now, and you get a good price for it on e-Bay. I have had the same experience. I owned it once in the 1970's and used the mapboard as a town for Boot Hill, but never got around to playing it the right way so I sold it. Then, a decade or so later, I bought another copy at high expense on e-bay and repeated the performance. I love the map (and I think I found somewhere a place where you could download and print a PDF of the map) but could never get into the mechanics so I sold it again. What makes the map so cool? I'm not sure. It's a blend of rectangular buildings and hexes, and I love hexes. Something about the whole way it's designed with boardwalks instead of sidewalks -- I just love the look of the thing. Here's a picture of a cyber version map (has counters on it) but you can see the style of the map in the background. 
If I recall correctly, Outdoor Survival provided my larger-scale area map for my main Boot Hill campaign. (The OS map was my go-to for a lot of campaigns!  ) |
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Post by battlebrotherbob on Sept 14, 2015 16:41:47 GMT -6
Funnily enough my copy should be here on Thursday. I've heard more good than bad, so I bit. I'll try and get it to the table and report back.
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Post by ffilz on Sept 30, 2015 21:59:39 GMT -6
I've owned this, if I recall, we played the first scenario, and never played again. I held onto it forever thinking to use it for Boot Hill, and finally got rid of it in my big game purge around when I got married.
I thought the campaign aspects were intriguing, and thought a lot about expanding it to an RPG, but it was just too finicky a system.
Frank
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Post by skars on Oct 20, 2015 15:58:33 GMT -6
I may have been the anomaly but I have two copies of gunslinger and personally believe there has yet to be a successor to reach the same level of detail and theme in a boardgame or even rpg offering. The game might seem a bit fiddly compared to newfangled eurogames but overall it wasn't that tough. We usually break it out once or twice a year to run through a few scenarios.
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Post by Finarvyn on Oct 21, 2015 4:43:21 GMT -6
Skars, I'm glad to hear more folks embrace this game because it certainly looked pretty darned cool each time I owned it. I'll confess that I never actually played the game. It just seemed convoluted and I could never convince anyone to give it a shot, but it sounds like I may have missed out on cathing the coolness factor that was there. Who knows, perhaps if I buy it a third time that will be the charm.  |
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Post by battlebrotherbob on Oct 29, 2015 12:34:30 GMT -6
I got my copy, and looking to try it out. LMK
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