On the way to rob the bank in Santa Cruz
Wild challenges Mortimer to a duel
Another success for Mortimer.
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What would the movie 'For a Few Dollars More' look like and how would the story go if the Storyboard was to be influenced and created based upon the results of a tabletop (war-) game where the scenario was based upon the original script??
The storyboard is directed by the ruleset 'Once Upon a Dice in the West' (3rd Edition) with some minor modifications. Being a classic spaghetti western I think the heroes needs another +1 'hero-point' for shooting and fighting H2H than just being a 'Gunfighter'. The main villain are just treated as a 'Gunfighter' though. Bad-Guys usually dies when being hit in the movies, except for the main character villain, so no wounds for 'bad guys' except for the main villain in this game. Besides I think the heroes should get to activate first in those scenes and scenarios from the movie where they actually acts first. It seems like the Good-Guys gets a lots of benefits in this game, but they are fewer and are facing a large number of outlaws. -Besides they usually does in these movies anyway.
Dinner Tabletop Movie Ranch and False Front Town (wifey was away this week)
The game are played and the Storyboard created through several chronological small key scenes and scenarios from the original movie, where the outcome in an earlier scene/scenario will influence the next.
By Morricone of course. Open this YT-clip in a new tab and let it play in the background on your PC for the right ambience, while reading about how I played 'For a Few Dollars More' key-scene by key-scene as long as possible and how it evolved...
Today it's exactly 80 years since Operation Overlord and the world's largest amphibious operation ever; The D-Day landings in Normandy 6th of June 1944, which gave the Allied forces a bridgehead onto the Nazi occupied continent. The 6th of June has also another meaning to me related to WW2 which I'll come back to a little later in this blogger-post.
Coffee in one vacuum-flask and hotdogs in the other |
Since it's exactly 80 years since the D-Day landings today and I'm at the seaside, I chose a 'D-Day-themed Scenario'; A US Ranger squad of 12, divided into 3 fireteams of 4, armed with a LMG and a Bazooka is ordered to neutralize a German gun emplacement on Omaha Beach. The single German gun they're assigned to is part of a larger battery, and is located in a fortified position. The German gun is manned and defended by a German squad of 10, divided into 3 fireteams of 3 and an officer and they have a LMG.
'Onkel Bertram' to the right. |
One of the YouTube-channels I follow is the UK based Budget Model Railways, which I find very inspiring as this father and son Enterprise has a creative and inspiring approach to model railway to find good and cheap solutions. They're also into 3D-printing, and it might seem like they're in some degree are also into military modelling and motorcycles as well. -All the things that I like, so what is it not to like about their YouTube-channel? If you haven't visited it yet, I highly recommend you to pay them a visit.
Lately they have focused on shunting- or switching puzzles like the 'Inglenook Sidings' in different scales and gauges. -A type of shunting puzzle that really appeals to me for some time, but I've never made my own even if it's very very simple (just 2 switches and some track). Recently they made an 'Inglenook Sidings' in O gauge (1:43,5/1:45/1:48) while claiming larger scale might work better for higher ages, and it could be an 'investment in your hobby' to start early. This really hit me; I'm mainly into H0/00/H0e/009 scale/gauges, but after going into something that should only be a limited adventure into G-scale, I find myself doing more G-scale-stuff now than any of my other scales and gauges. Due to I had to remove my Garden Railway I had some tracks in spare. Highly inspired by the YouTube-video from BMR, I also wanted to try out an large scale Inglenook Sidings shunting puzzle.
So, can an Inglenook Sidings shunting puzzle also be a 'Wargame'? Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comment-section below: