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Happy New Year!
May your journies be safe and prosperous
Jan. 1, 2010
Thanks to everyone who supported us during the past year. We couldn't have done it without you! We're excited about the opportunities and new releases we've got planned for the upcoming year, which should be one of our most exciting, yet!
-- Mike Mitchell, Mike Murphy & Paul Mauer
Get Gutshot at MAG-Con
Join us Saturday for two-fisted action
Dec. 10, 2009 -- Kingwood, Texas
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Saddle up, parnders, it's time for a weekend of six-siders and six-shooters as the Hawgleg team hightails it to Kingwood for the first-ever MAG-Con charity gaming event.
The convention offers round-the-clock gaming from Friday 4 p.m. through Sunday 8 p.m., and focuses on miniatures, card games, and board games.
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"No other game convention offers you unlimited gaming beyond midnight. An ideal setting for die-hard night-owl gamers and open gaming. And it's all for a good cause. "Purple Pinkie" charity is a Rotary Club immunization mission to eradicate polio. Come play for a good cause," states the con's Website.
Gutshot co-creator Mike Mitchell will be running the popular "Last Man Standing" game.
"This adventure is an all-out gunfight with the spoils going to the last man alive," Mitchell said. "This is, by far, the most action-packed and popular game we run at conventions because it's so simple: 'If it moves, kill it before it kills you.'"
Mitchell expressed enthusiasm over the game, and the cause.
"This is a great cause and we're happy that we can offer our support to it."
Kingwood, Texas is North of Houston on Hwy 59 and is part of the Greater Houston Metro area.
Gutshot:
"Last Man Standing"
Sat., Dec. 12, 2009
3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
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Homewood Suites by Hilton Houston-Kingwood Parc-Airport Area
23320 Hwy. 59 North, Kingwood, Texas, United States 77339
Tel: 1-281-358-5566 For more info visit: www.mag-con.com
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Things I Learned from Watching Westerns
List 2
- Good guys wear white hats are good guys and bad guys wear black hats.
Unless of course it's a Spaghetti Western or modern, in which case anything goes.
- Pistols are deadly accurate at 150 yards, but can't hit a barn door at 5 yards.
This is particularly true if the bad guy's nameless goons are doing the shooting.
- Always wear a badge or carry a bible in an inside pocket, as they will stop bullets better than +1 armor.
This also works with watches and lockets, as long as they were given to you by a parent or sweetie.
- Only wrap the reins around a hitching rail once.
Yeah, yer horse won't wander off, especially if yuh kiss him goodnight on a regular basis.
- All laundry is done by chinese immigrants.
And they usually do a danged good job of it, too.
- Bad guys can only hit good guys in the arm or leg.
Unless you're a supporting character or have a brother to avenge you. If you've got a gunslinging brother, you're as good as dead.
- When you draw Aces and Eights in a poker hand, just fold and run (don't walk) away.
Them cards is just bad luck, especially if yuh got yer back to the door. C'mon Bill, what were yuh thinking?
- If a man doesn't have a gun but appears awfully confident when faced with a bad guy then the bad guy is about to be knifed.
Especially if he's got long sleeves or seems to be putting his hands too close to the back of his neck.
- Killing the Duke is not a good career move.
That is, of course, assuming you're dumb enough to even try it.
- A woman can fit an entire beauty salon in the back of a wagon.
Frontier women were resourceful-especially when it came to applying blush, eye shadow, lipstick, perfectly coiffed hair and nails on the open trail or out in the middle of nowhere.
- Even in the middle of the desert (or Monument Valley) you can always find plenty of trees to chop down to make a log cabin or a palisade around your fort.
And axes and saws, too, for that matter.
- Chuck wagons magically refill whiskey flasks every night.
That's why Cookie never seems to run out, now matter how many weeks the trail drive spends between towns.
- Colts should not be aimed (you´re sure to miss). Just shoot from the hip.
That always worked for the Duke... of course, you're not the Duke, are you, pilgrim?
- Forget water. Whiskey is the best way to slake your thirst.
A little rotgut is much more satisfying than a nice sip of cool water. Your horses, of course, prefer Beer.
- In a barfight, it´s impolite to throw someone on the floor. Drop him on a table instead to break his fall.
He'll thank yuh for it in the morning.
The saddle horn is made of the strongest stuff known to man.
You can tie a rope to it and easily yank out iron bars or solid timber buildings. - Percussion 'cap and ball' revolvers never existed.
The Colt .45 and Winchester '73 were manufactured, sold and in widespread use much earlier than historians would have us believe – probably from about the time of the Alamo or the Seminole war.
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I got me a head fulla learning over the years. From watching the Duke outdraw the badguys to watching them Maverick boys pull one outrageous con after another, I've surely been thoroughly schooled.
Of course, not everything I learned is exactly... shall we say, accurate? Here's another saddlebag fulla legends and lore picked up from a passel of Western movies and Oat Operas.
I want to extend a heap'o thanks and gratitude to muh buddies over at www.theminiaturespage.com for their assistance with this list. In particular, I wanna give a virtual tip o' the hat to these gents:
- FreddBloggs
- EagleSixFive
- vtsaogames
- Gamer With No Name
- Grelber
- buckTurgidson
- Farstar
- JammerMan
- ghostdog
- Pijlie
- arthur1815
- Mike Mitchell
11-1-2009
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