Pyrate Captain | 11 Jan 2024 4:34 p.m. PST |
I just watched an old cinema masterpiece of the same name. Cavalry, militia, women's temperance movement, liquor salesmen, striking teamsters, and of course Indians, all converging near the Platte River to acquire (or destroy) wagon loads of the elixir. The scenarios are endless. Anyone else enjoy the story and cast as much as me? I love log forts on a treeless desert. Indeed, I do. |
robert piepenbrink ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 11 Jan 2024 5:23 p.m. PST |
It's a great movie. On to the north fork of the South Platte River! Let's all move out while maintaining detached contact! |
Pyrate Captain | 11 Jan 2024 5:26 p.m. PST |
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Wackmole9 | 11 Jan 2024 5:38 p.m. PST |
best line is tim hutton Capt. Paul Slater: Protect both rears simultaneously! |
Shagnasty ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 11 Jan 2024 7:05 p.m. PST |
I haven't seen it in awhile but have fond memories of the fun. |
Grattan54 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 11 Jan 2024 8:20 p.m. PST |
Great film and the book is good too. |
HMS Exeter | 11 Jan 2024 8:48 p.m. PST |
"I am a taxpayer, and a good Republican…" |
Pyrate Captain | 11 Jan 2024 10:24 p.m. PST |
Martin Landau was great too. A role he played well. At the forefront without lines. I loved his expression as he danced hunched over behind Lee Remick. I always had a crush on her. |
Grelber ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 11 Jan 2024 11:43 p.m. PST |
A fun show and I think it would make a good game in that you have several quite different factions, each with their own goals and capabilities. Grelber |
robert piepenbrink ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 12 Jan 2024 8:54 a.m. PST |
You can see The Battle of Whiskey Flats as a convention game: train, striking teamsters, Denver Citizen's Militia, Temperance Marchers, and three elements each of cavalry and Indians. That includes pretty much the full range of Western figures except for gunslingers and Mexican bandits, so if you hold a "Magnificent 7" game on the next table over… |
Pyrate Captain | 12 Jan 2024 1:41 p.m. PST |
Then, add the dust storm. |
35thOVI ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 12 Jan 2024 2:45 p.m. PST |
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Pyrate Captain | 12 Jan 2024 4:32 p.m. PST |
Quicksand. The game has got to include quicksand. |
Henry Martini | 12 Jan 2024 6:03 p.m. PST |
Pyrate Captain – You might want to check out the You Tube video of the 1978 debut single from Australian independent band the Go-Betweens: 'I Love Lee Remick'. |
Pyrate Captain | 12 Jan 2024 6:19 p.m. PST |
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robert piepenbrink ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 13 Jan 2024 6:03 a.m. PST |
"Quicksand. The game has got to include quicksand." Whiskey Flats is the Friday game. Pyrate. Quicksand Bottom is Saturday, where the adjacent table is The Train Robbers--John Wayne, Ann Margaret and four friends vs all the outlaws you have miniatures for. |