Thursday, November 30, 2006
Warhammer Historicals Legends of the Old West: Showdown
Miniatures Games, On The Shelves
I just got my copy of Warhammer Historicals’ Legends of the Old West: Showdown and after flipping through it, wanted to offer a few impressions.
The primary thing you’ll notice is that it’s thin—both physically, and in content. There just isn’t much there.
The first two pages introduce a couple of new weapons: the lever action shotgun, whip, sword and several Chinese martial arts weapons. The next four are dedicated to a new posse—the Tong, plus stats for “The Man With No Name”, and the “Masked Avenger” (the Lone Ranger and Zorro, for example).
After that, there are three brief scenarios, a Dodge City campaign, a page of new special equipment rules, and a page with four prestige skills.
There is also some modeling advice and gorgeous pictures.
But what I bought the book for—and what I had big hopes for—were the new period settings. The book promises settings for the Wild Bunch, Prohibition, Gangs of New York, The American War of Independence, The French and Indian War, The Civil War, Naponeonic Wars, War of 1812, and Maximilian Adventure.
Unfortunately, those are pretty disappointing, too. The period information mostly consists of a large paragraph of elementary school history explaining the setting, and a couple of paragraphs of vague information on how to adapt the rules to the period. The adaptations consist mostly of telling you which of the other three rules books you should look to for rules ideas, and suggesting a couple of posse or individual profiles to look to for a starting point.
There’s nothing here that I hadn’t already figured out myself.
I’ll take a closer look at it when I use the rules to run French and Indian War and Boxer Rebellion games in a couple of weeks, but for now I rate this as a waste of money.
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