Saddle Bum

The super fast and fun game that started the “bum” series. Saddle Bum is a miniatures game designed for fast and fun tournament play or small pick-up games (1-4 players). The goal here is not to simulate realism, but rather to allow you to play out cinematic battles in the Wild West Era using smart tactics and no small bit of luck.

We have experimented with several western scenarios and will be adding them soon. The optional rule for Fanning-the-Hammer is quite experimental. We’ll post an update after it has been tested better. Below are photos from some of our initial games. More terrain is on the paint table so future games should look much better.

A print copy of the rules, minis, terrain, etc. can be found here.

Rules:
Check out the free pdf copy of the Saddle Bum rules here.
Extra QRS & Pose Roster (8.5×11 paper, prints 2 copies on 1 sheet of paper, print 2-sided, flipped on the short edge) is here.
Game play tokens (8.5×11, 2 sets on 1 sheet of paper; we like to mark the backs so you never have an upside-down token) here.

Rules Revision History:
05-21-25
· Added Easy Going as simply the reverse of Rough Going. Traveling a long a road is easy going; count 1″ for every 2″ moved.
· Added an Opportunity Shooting action. A figure that picks 2 “Do Nothing” actions in a turn, may take an opportunity Shoot action later the same round on another figure’s turn.
· Solo rules changed match to those in David’s Davestown Gazette.
· Replaced Gunslinger with Bandito in the core rules & added David’s Davestown Gazette which contains the Gunslinger.

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