Ran five Wild West games using Fistful of Lead Reloaded rules at this year's Little Wars at Westin Lombard Yorktown Center. All five sold out and everyone apparently had a lot of fun.
Games 1-3 were all "The Way The West Was Run," which involved 9 players with a pair of independent factions each, usually two heroes and four outlaws. Idea was to earn bounty chips by knocking off other players' heroes and outlaws before they took you out. You could also earn chips by gambling, identifying famous Western movie quotes and identifying theme songs from spaghetti westerns.
And while nine-player free for all games are usually the kiss of death at a convention, these ones went pretty well as everyone was appropriately blood-thirsty and the steady attrition sped the game up fairly quick.
Games 4-5 were "Deadwood Apocalypse." These were more team oriented, with three Deadwood factions fighting against three Hearst factions, with two independent groups from the Bella Union and Chez Amis that had the option of allying with either group.
Deadwood narrowly won the first game by 1 point after Gem Theater (there's an interior shot of the Gem below) owner Al Swearingen cut a throat on the last turn. In the second game, Hearst was ahead by four points until Cy Tolliver double crossed him on the last turn, bum-rushing the bedroom where he was holed up while his cronies were busy taking out Alma Garrett over at the bank.
Wish I had additional photos to show, but I was so busy running the games I neglected to take more. Though my friend JZ took a short video, which gives a good overview of the town setup. You can watch it on youtube at:
youtu.be/ZyvwahqttCA
