Andy joined us this week and wanted to play Deadlands: the Battle for Slaughter Gulch again. So we did. Mike played the mad scientists, Andy played the shamans, Owen player the rangers, Ben played the hucksters, and I played the agency. I still think this game favors the gangs that have spells & gadgets (shamans, hucksters, and mad scientists), it seems this gives them an extra avenue to get victory points that the rangers and the agency doesn’t have. But then I don’t think I played the agency very and I know Owen was having the worse night ever with his rangers. Speaking of Owen, never in all my years of gaming have I seen such a run of incredible bad luck. (I hope he made it home ok.) If he needed a 2 or better on d6, he’d roll a 1. If he needed to perform a certain action, his ranger would get shot before he could act. It was painful to watch.
In the end, Mike and Andy blew the rest of us away, nearly doubling the points of the rest of us. Andy squeaked by Mike by a point or two to win.