Description

Stagecoach travel was a dangerous business in the American West. Roads were rocky, rutted, and sometimes impassable. Bandits were a constant threat. Black Bart was an English-born outlaw noted for the poetic messages he left behind after two of his robberies. Black Bart the Poet, considered a gentleman bandit with a reputation for style and sophistication, was one of the most notorious stagecoach robbers to operate in and around Northern California and southern Oregon during the 1870s and 1880s.

In the begging of the game, players choose their role secretly: Law enforcement officers or Outlaws.
The Bells Cargo & CO. ´s stagecoaches will intend to reach a destination city by going through different paths. Some paths are good for robberies, others offer good protection.
The Stagecoaches carry, in addition to passengers, monetary value and a treasure box containing either gold, documents or correspondence.
Each set of these 3 cards (stagecoach, path and City) form 3 different columns in the centre of the table.
Players are going to play, under each column, characters with diferent abilities and action cards to protect or robber stagecoaches depending the objective according the role player choose to play.
When the fifth character is placed below a stagecoach, all players may play one extra action card to affect characters positions. This is the confrontation phase, at the end of that phase, the card that remains on top of the column (right below the stagecoach card) is the winner of that confrontation.
The game ends when all stagecoach confrontations are resolved.
Each player counts all value obtained in the confrontations whether it has been stolen or delivered to the destination city (according player role).
The player with the most monetary value wins the game.

—description from the designer

Card game illustrated by João Quintela Martins using some resources from vectorstock.com and friendlystock.com