Cover art for Gunslinger

Gunslinger

1982 · BGG
Avg rating
7.16
Bayes rating
6.02
Weight
3.29 (Medium Heavy)
Players
2-7
Playtime
1 hr 30 min
Ratings count
1,083

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Description

"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




Mechanics

Action Queue Grid Movement Hexagon Grid Line of Sight Modular Board Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game Simulation Simultaneous Action Selection Three Dimensional Movement Variable Player Powers Variable Set-up

Themes

American West Fighting

Publishers

The Avalon Hill Game Co

Designers

Richard Hamblen