ĭexterity games tend to induce lots of laughter and groans in equal measure, some of the loudest moments in this game are heard in the archetypal cowboy duels included from Scenario 2. Buyer beware, watch out for indistinct grey cardboard cutouts that seem to serve no purpose, they're probably part of the game. When I was punching out the expansion material I almost threw out the horizontal piece along with the totem pole holder. That may have been down to my good ol' sausage fingers or distinct lack of flexibility as my Son, (8 yrs old) had no problems whatsoever in raining pointy death down on my poor posse. In my copy the bow (see above picture) would rarely stay in the meeple and flicking the arrow induced arthritic contortions to do so without sending the figure or scenery on the same trajectory as the arrow. In all my plays, however, we were battling chairs and sometimes literally falling over each other to get the proper angle for that crucial shot.Īside from not fitting back into their expansion box, I also found the bow and arrows from the Red Rock Tomahawk expansion to be very fiddly. a large table with lots of walk room all the way round and 10 players who didn’t need any advice then I could see higher player counts working well. It is a fantastic game and plays equally well from 2 players right up to 6 players but I have some reservations about playing with more than 6 as the time between turns for individuals would start to feel too long. The game designers, Jean-Yves Monpertuis and Gaëtan Beaujannot, state that this is a 2-10 players game and I have tried nearly all player counts. There is no room for 'rules-lawyering' in this game.

The scenario book contains a picture of where each component should be placed but the reality is you're playing this for fun, relax a little (I'm talking to myself here) and just set it up as quick as you can. The more of this I've played, the more relaxed I was for how precise the setup should be for the scenario. It's still quick when compared to many other games but you will be placing tokens and setting the environment up for up to 10 minutes prior to getting down to serious flicking. If anyone has managed to organise the two expansions in with the base game please let me know how in the comments below. This is really only nit-picking as the core audience for this game, families and casual gamers, will probably not have the same level of board game collection needs that are so prevalent in this hobby. Instead they provide a drawstring bag to store the components in. Even more egregious, to the overly pedantic board game collector, is once assembled the expansions components do not fit back into the boxes they came in.

I tried fitting both expansions into the base box - I wasn't successful, primarily as the Red Rock Tomahawk expansion comes with a native American team box and a mountain environment which is a 3d box-like structure. The expansions unfortunately come in quite flimsy fold-flat boxes that will not survive for long.

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