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"Out west of town is a area of dense brush, broken hills and cacti, simply known as the Badlands. The Badlands are inhabited by rattlesnakes, scorpions, renegade Indians and one Sagebrush Sam.
Sam is a bit off his rocker, as you might expect for someone living in such an awful place. But Old Sagebrush might just  be in possession of a map to a mysterious cave full of lost Conquistador gold!
The hard part will be finding him."

RECRUITS AAR

We had another successful weekend at RECRUITS, both as a vendor and as a GM.

I ran two Fistful of Lead Wild West games Friday night. Both times El Guano escaped with Baby Faced Fenster in tow, but each was a nail biter to the end.

Then, Saturday morning were two Fistful of Lead games for the Viva Revolucion! supplement, the Battle of Casas Grande. The first battle the Federal garrison was overrun, but the second game they managed to hold out.

The final game Saturday evening was a Fistful of Lead game used as Pulp SciFi game starring Dash Dixon, hero of the Spaceways. This was another place test of arts for an upcoming title, possibly a Kickstarter. Dash had to get a captured Imperial robot across the crowded backwater spaceport to his waiting ship. There robot had half of Emperor Xorg-Khan's plans for his latest terror weapon: the Murder Moon! The other half of the plans were stored on another robot wandering around the spaceport.
I included a joker in the deck to give some random events. The first one activated the Spaceport Security to be used by the player playing the joker.
The second Joker randomly moved all the wandering Robots, while third Joker played gave the player the use of Vanz Glortho, intergalactic villain.
In the end, the Robot Legion nabbed the robot from Dash, who was knocked out early on. Don't worry folks, it was only a flesh wound.
Just by coincidence, there was another GM running a Fistful of Lead Magnificent Seven game. Wish I'd have taken a picture. It looked great.

But the highlight, as usual, was the great looking and fun game hosted by Cluck Amok. His 54mm French and Indian War game using Fistful of Lead: Horse & Musket through a lot of sales our way. I was busy hosting my own games but there was a lot of hoops and hollers coming from the table.
Thanks to everyone who played, and the great folks at RECRUITS.

RECRUITS!

This weekend you can find not one, but 2 Fistful of Lead games going on during this great convention, RECRUITS. One will be run by Yours, Truly, and one by friend of the show, Cluck Amok, running his amazing French and Indian War scenario, based on my upcoming supplement for said period.
I waxed poetic many times about what an awesome convention RECRUITS is. Aimed at bringing new blood to what is and old man's hobby, RECRUITs seems to bring the best out in gamers. I usually have 14 to 60 year olds playing at my tables. The con itself is cheap, $5 for the whole weekend and free for students and military. But that doesn't mean its cheap on games. Its a good size for a regional convention. People bring their best. Lots of vendors, great games, and cheap but good grub. You won't be disappointed.
Come by the Wiley Games booth and say "hello", and hopefully buy some stuff.

Maneuvers Con: After Action Report

We had the great pleasure of attending the Maneuvers Wargaming convention in Tulsa Oklahoma last weekend. It was their first year, and only our second con as a vendor, but it's off to a good start. There was a wide variety of periods and genres, including a Fistful of Lead game featuring zombies, buffalo men and centaur natives. The hotel and the hosts were very accommodating and every game I ran had a great attitude.

Wiley Games sets up

Now to the games:

Friday night, after a four hour drive, we put on Casas Grande from the new Mexican Revolution supplement to Fistful of Lead. The Maderista rebels had to take the town before the poorly defended Federales could be reinforced. Despite the Federales getting a machine gun and artillery support, the rebels took the town, flipping history around.
The Boy was in charge of the reinforcements. He was brutally savaged the second he appeared.
This would become a theme...
Saturday morning we ran a Fistful of Lead: Horse and Musket game, "Hessians without no Aggression". Rebels had to grab a  poorly guarded wagonload of powder before the Hessian mercenaries could be reinforced. It was an interesting game, as the we had a real Hessian playing the Hessian jaegers, who were armed with slower, but longer range rifles.

The players quickly learned (the hard way) not to pop off all your guns in one turn. You spend the next whole turn reloading while your opponent moves around with impunity.
The rebels, tried, but just couldn't get to the powder in time. Once again, the Boy showing up on turn 4 with the British Light infantry, was cut to pieces by Colonial troops.

Saturday afternoon was the latest Fistful of Lead scenario from the 99¢ Mostly Monthly Scenario "Gold and Gunfire". We had a great group of guys, and the scenario needed up as a stand off when Baby Face Fenster, one of the objectives, ran off after a failed Recovery check.
I was going to pack up before the evening game, due to lack of people signing up. But i guess I wasn't the only GM with that problem. I need up putting a game of populated by all the nameless GMs. Once again, a great game, and once again Fenster bought it.

Blood Alley outside the jail

A great time, and we walked away with "Best Terrain" Award! Special thanks to my wife and kids who lugged boxes, sat at the vendor table for hours, and put up with all us Gaming Geeks.

We'll be back next year.