Tonight, after a long drawn out battle, Shannon won her first game of Doomtown.
Her deck, which she calls "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas", uses the Texas Rangers Outfit, and contains every female character that I have a card for. The deck idea sprang from Joe Fourhman's "Girls with Guns" deck - only the idea of this deck is to get out as many saloons and brothels as possible, and put the girls to work. With all the various bonuses to production and bullets, as it turns out the deck works rather well against other slow developing decks.
In this case, the Whores took on my Law Dogs Original Home, and specifically the Hanging Judge. While the Judge was taking out mostly my own dudes, the Whores were working their hearts out. After several "days", Shannon had amassed nearly 10 control points, and only a well timed Law Dogs shootout (with several non-cheatin reactions played) put both decks in a winning condition....so we played on.
More control points, more dudes, more shootouts only kept things exactly as they were. Finally, the Law Dogs played both the Jail and Courthouse, and started to gain victory points through the shootouts - but since the Dogs had so few dudes (thanks to the Judge) I couldn't capture enough of the Whores property to win. We played on some more.
The Dogs finally took on enough victory points to win the game by stealing some control from the Whores. But Shannon would have none of it. The final shootout was thanks to Judge Henry Warwick, who assembled a posse to ace one of the Whores. This would reduce the Whores in number enough for the Dogs to take control of Gomorra.
Posses were formed, and the shootout began. The presence of the Poison Women caused this to be a "Draws Only" shootout. The shootout involved some quick thinking on the Law Dogs part, having played "Ace in the Whole" to create a three-of-a-kind, which matched the Whores. This would have been enough. This was followed, however, with a "Double Dealing" card from the Whores, who then drew a Jack high hand to replace the Triple. The Dogs were history, and the Whores took contol of Gomorra.
For tonight anyway......
