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Wild West Skirmish rules

By Steve Burt

1. Scales

Ground scale is 1cm:1 metre (1:100)

Each turn is 2 seconds

2. Movement

3. Ranges

4. Actions

You will need a deck of cards with one card per character, plus a STOP card and an EVENT card. Each player also gets 4 ‘initiative points’

When a characterÂ’s card comes up, he may take two actions from the list below.

When the STOP card comes up, the turn ends.

At any time, players may spend initiative points to give characters extra single actions:

1 point for a gunslinger, 2 for a desperado/lawman, 4 for a cowboy

If two players want to spend points at once, dice & add character factors

If the EVENT card comes up, draw a random event card.

Single Actions are:

WALK FIRE AIM DRAWHOLSTER UNJAM

CRAWL TROT STAND LIE PUNCH KICK

Double actions are

RUN SPRINT CANTER GALLOP

GRAPPLE

OTHER

If a FIRE action is not combined with an AIM, it counts as a

Snapshot (with attendant penalties). Up to 3 AIM actions may precede a

shot, improving its accuracy, but they must be consecutive actions.

5. Difficult actions

These include sprinting or galloping. Running or cantering in bad going. Vaulting walls, etc.

Roll and add characterÂ’s rating (d10)

On a 1-3 he/she has fallen over /off horse

Characters falling off a horse are stunned, others not.

6. Firing

The basic rolls to hit (on a 10-sided dice) are as follows:

The dice roll is modified by adding the shooting skill of the shooter :

-1 for non-combatants, 0 for cowboys, 1 for lawmen/desperadoes, 2 for gunslingers

Then apply the following modifiers:

Note that visibility percentages apply to targets who run across gaps

and the like. Soft cover only counts as half the normal visibility

penalty - e.g. a man behind a waist-high hedge counts 75% visible, not

50%.

You must expose at least head and shoulders to fire, unless firing

out of loopholes.

Rolls of higher than 10 may be made by rolling 10 followed by:

11 - 6-0

12 - 8-0

13 - 9-0

14+ 0

A 1 indicates a jammed weapon: roll to unjam as an action:

1 = permanently jammed

4-6 OK

2,3 try again

8. Hits

When a bullet hits, roll for effect depending on calibre:

Each character can take 4 hits. A Light wound is 1 hit, serious 2, critical 3

Rolls 1 d6. If less than or equal to number of hits, he falls over stunned

Roll > number of wounds to try and get up each move

Each wound deducts 1 from shooting and reduces max move

9. Hand to hand

Punches and kicks don't cause real damage, but you should roll for

shock effect as normal. A successful grapple means that the target has

been overpowered and can be disarmed or disabled.