A Town Called Despair
2024 • 2-4 Players • Age 10+
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 10 and up. You can play with 2 to 4 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Three Dimensional Movement, Action / Event, Area Movement, Card Play Conflict Resolution, Dice Rolling, Finale Ending, Hexagon Grid, Line of Sight, Measurement Movement, Multi-Use Cards, Player Elimination, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game, Three Dimensional Movement, Turn Order: Random und Variable Set-up...
Game Data
- Average time to play
- 90 Minutes
- Minimum age
- 10+
- Number of players
- 2 - 4
- Publisher
- Gray Orc Games, Gray Orc Games, Gray Orc Games
- Designers
- Larry Grayson, Larry Grayson, Larry Grayson
- Artists
- William V. Black
- Mechanics
- Three Dimensional Movement, Action / Event, Area Movement, Card Play Conflict Resolution, Dice Rolling, Finale Ending, Hexagon Grid, Line of Sight, Measurement Movement, Multi-Use Cards, Player Elimination, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game, Three Dimensional Movement, Turn Order: Random, Variable Set-up
A Town Called Despair is a Wild West miniature game set in a small town in the late 1800's. The game comes with six multi-level buildings, wagons, cacti, barrels, crates, gallows, etc. to set up your town on a 3' x 3' neoprene playmat. Miniatures can be placed inside buildings with detailed floor plans and move up/down levels, even onto the roofs.
From 2-4 players construct outlaw gangs armed with a variety of pistols, shotguns, and rifles, name their characters, and assign random skills. After deploying on the edge of town, each player is dealt a hand of 5 cards that are used to determine turn initiative, outdraw opponents in a gun fight, and engage in brawls. Each player takes up to three actions on their turn moving, aiming, shooting, reloading, recovering, or healing.
Hitting and wounding opponents is determined by dice rolls with customized dice and players keep track of their gang members' wounds and rounds expended on specially designed cards.
Gold coins are awarded for wounding and killing opponents, carrying money bags to the edge of town, or completing objectives.
Each game normally ends with a bloody showdown on main street, with gold awarded to the last man standing. The player that has collected the most gold wins the game.
—description from the designer
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