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1975 Ranked #12,394

Boot Hill

Miniatures skirmish game has players portray individual Wild West characters in gunfights, brawls, and campaign action. Its personal scale shifts attention from commanding armies to the risks and stories of each figure.

American West Miniatures Grid Movement Measurement Movement

Players

2

Play time

90-180 min

Age

?+

Complexity

2.23/5

Rating

6.55

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.1/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.1/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

From the cover of the rulebook: Rules for "Wild West" gunfights and campaigns with miniature figures on a man-to-man scale. From the foreword in the rulebook: These rules are aimed at enjoyment on a plane unusual to wargaming, the individual and personal.

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From the cover of the rulebook: Rules for "Wild West" gunfights and campaigns with miniature figures on a man-to-man scale. From the foreword in the rulebook: These rules are aimed at enjoyment on a plane unusual to wargaming, the individual and personal. Rather than commanding hordes of troops players typically have but a single figure, their "character". With these figures the players recreate the individual gunfights, saloon brawls, and Wild West action as has come down to us from the pages of history - and the celluloid of Hollywood Westerns.

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Play and group

Players
2
Best with
2
Play time
90–180 min
Complexity
2.2/5
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Credits

Designers

2
Brian Blume Gary Gygax

Publishers

1
Tactical Studies Rules (TSR)

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