Saturday morning I ran a GASLIGHT Game.
INDIANS AND DINOSAURS VS. THE STEAM-POWERED 6 AND 7/8'S CAVALRY
On one side were the Indians, valiantly trying to defend their home against the white men who wanted their land and dinosaurs.
INDIANS AND DINOSAURS VS. THE STEAM-POWERED 6 AND 7/8'S CAVALRY
On one side were the Indians, valiantly trying to defend their home against the white men who wanted their land and dinosaurs.
On the other where the brave men of the 6 and 7/8's Cavalry, lead by the gallant (if a little headstrong) Colonel Armaggedon P. Fluster (no, the P. doesn't stand for Prettyboy).
The Indians advanced in a broad front with a Horned One (with guiding Indians) spaced evenly across the battlefield. Lt. Johnson advanced quickly to seize the waterhole (the whole point of this battle) as regular cavalry and Mechanical Cavalry advanced behind him.
But where was the pride of the Cavalry, the USLS Vicksburg? Broken down at the back as usual. It spent half the game trying to restart, failing, succeeding, then failing a sustain, and so forth. It's absence through much of the battle cost the Cavalry dearly in the end.
Lt. Johnson bravely faced a third of the Indian forces. Using his machine pistol, with help from the Mechanical Cavalry he shotup one band of Braves. Could he survive the Horned One and the other band?
Meanwhile, on the Cavalry right. Colonel Fluster and the Steam-Cycles took the hill, while a unit of cavalry deployed dismounted beside it.
Lt. Johnson kept dropping savages with his gatling pistol, unconcerned about the other approaching band and Horned One. On the very left a squad of Cavalry and a band of Indians clashed in mounted combat. Oh the terrible slaughter on both sides! The Mechnical Cavalry managed to score one wound on the Red Horned One.
On the right Colonel Fluster and Chief Rides Like the Wind engaged in one on one combat, while the charge by an Indian band fell short of the squad of dismounted troopers.
Lt. Johnson drove off one band of Indians and, thanks to losing a guiding Indian from Johnson's deadly aim, the white Horned One wandered off. On the very left the clash of the Indians and Cavalry left the Indians holding the field while the Cavalry fled in disgrace.
The red Horned One and it's guiding Indians smashed the Mechanical Cavalry, with the last trooper being attacked by Medicine Man Buffalo Skull (in the center). The victorious Indians on the very left charged the troopers in the middle. Johnson was cut off and facing two bands. Did he flinch? Never! Coolly he ignored the arrows falling all around him and gunned down two of the band nearest him (I've never seen so many misses and saves in a GASLIGHT game for one character). The white Horned One meandered around out of control.
Finally, the Landship Vicksburg advanced.
On the right the band of Indians was drivden off by accurate fire from the Troopers. Chief Rides Like the Wind, after an epic battle, felled Colonel Fluster, and was then gunned down by the Sergeant leading the Troopers. The yellow Horned One's charge fell just short on the now immobile Steam-Cycles, who luckily dropped two of the guiding Indians (on a 1-6 shots from extras hit the dino, 7-10 they hit the Indians guiding it).
It promptly failed it's control roll, I mean was driven off by the massive fire of the gatlings, and wandered away from the hill, out of control.
The Indians that had charged the Troopers in the center fled, but where replaced by the red Horned One and it's Indians.
Despite a valiant attack by an un-named Trooper that wounded the red Horned One before he died, it crashed through to attack the Landship. Gatling rounds bounced off it's thick hide, as it smashed into it (doing 3 damage to it's Start, just what it needed).
In desperation, Medicine Man Buffalo Skull charged Lt. Johnson, and in one mighty blow cut him down. Johnson would earn a posthumous Medal of Honor and his single-handed successful fight against over-whelming odds made a story told over and over again around Indian campfires.
The red Horned One destroyed the gatling on the Landship, which promptly fled. While advancing towards the Steam Cycles it was dropped by a lucky shot from their gatlings (third and last wound). The remnants of the Indian bands gathered around Medicin Man Buffalo Skull at the waterhole. Leaderless and battered the surviving Cavalry forces withdrew.
It was a good game. The high point was Lt. Johnson's stand. He lived a charmed life dodging or saving from everything two bands of Indians could throw at him, while dropping Indians with his gatling pistol. The low point was the Landship commanders bad die rolling. At two cards of a turn it still couldn't move forward until the very last, when it did little but get pounded on by a Dino. Oh well, that's GASLIGHT for you.
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