Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Horse and Musket Skirmish Game

Ran a game of Fistful of Lead Horse and Musket this month at our local club meeting.  Played the first scenario Fight for the Homestead using 15mm miniatures and half scale.   The terrain board was 2 feet square.  The scenario is 2 farmers with 4 colonial rangers in support being attacked by 9 Indians.


This is the initial setup with the 2 farmers in the farmhouse the rangers around the fence line and the Indians in the woods


The game runs by using a card deck to determine movement and handing out one card for each character being controlled by a player with Kings going first down to twos being the last to go and the Ace being a wild card.  In the first turn everyone was close enough for the shooting to begin with no much effect.   With the Indians starting to advance on the farmstead.



On the next turn there was a lot of reloading and the Indians decided to go into hand to hand combat but learned that the rangers were no easy pushover loosing the fight in the process.


Also the same ranger was able in the same turn using a special card to reload immediately and fire at another Indian.   Things look bad for the Indians with two out of the fight but the battle is just starting


The fighting got really intensive around the fence with the Indians getting the best of it wounding one of the rangers and in hand to hand taking out two of the rangers.


The farmers wife tried to turn the tide and came out of the building to attack one of the Indians but with no luck and was captured in melee by the Indian.   This lead to the end of the fight as the Indians broke down the door to the farmhouse and captured the other farmer and killed the last ranger.



A fun time was had by all and the game took only an hour or so to play.    Looking forward to the next scenario.   The figures and building are 15/18mm Blue Moon miniatures.     Gary