For a Few Dollars More - A Western Legends: A Fistful of Extras Board Game Expansion Review

Let's start with the miniatures- Six new minis are included....

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I so wanted to like this game. I look at my overburdened shelf of movies and can pick out multiple examples of the Western genre, above and beyond the Man With No Name (who actually has a name in all three films) trilogy. But when I sat down to a game of it at U-Con a few years back, it just fell flat. It seemed like some characters were kind of locked into their respective role, ability-wise, but there were obvious other routes to take that were simply much more profitable, so I felt gimped within a couple turns. And, just like Merchants & Marauders, the risk level for being a bandit/pirate/bad guy was so much higher than simply being a merchant/cattle trader/card player that you'd avoid it barring a very few, specific circumstances.

I hear ya. That's why (unless someone insists on "following the rules") I just let everyone pick a character they want to play. My last game was a five player long game (Long game is too long at five but they wanted to try it). I took a White Hat route, Piper focused on mining, Quentin went full outlaw and Adam wanted to gamble. I ended up arresting Quentin four times and sicced the sheriff on him for a fifth arrest. I finished up in third with Piper in a tight second and Q winning by a single LP. Adam was a distant forth but he still had a blast just running around and trying everything in the game.
I can see how a game of WL could spin out badly but I don't think we have ever had a awful game.