Hard West

Character toughts

Szenario: Hard times

Overview

Don't

• Homestead: Build tunnel after phase 1, it's not worth it
• Excavation company: Master technique for deeper gold, it's not worth it
• Well: Spent coin before clean Mexican town. Father will leave party and fight will be harder.
• Church: Healing wounds. Wounds are converted into Scars with decent bonus after some time. Having Scars is good, avoid healing.

Mining

• Prospectors Camp: Buy master techniques for placer gold rinsing (+75%) for $300
• Hydraulic mining: Buy hydro jet, use it on all digging sizes
• Gold mining office: Buy master techniques of hard rock gold mining (+75%) for $600

On second playthrough

• Fortune trader: Buy weapons and talismans with high aim bonus

Phase 1

Defend your homestead against raiding outlaws.

1. Neighbours' house
2. Collapsed Mine: Do deep until end, gain:
   • Bloody Shirt
   • Wound
   • Relic
3. Prospectors Camp: Buy master technique for placer gold rinsing (+75%) for $300
4. Meadows: Search herb yourself
5. Ugly Ditch: Collect all gold
6. Ford's Shaft: Collect all gold
7. Trade Outpost: Buy 2 Healing Herb
8. Mexican Town:
   • Cheech joins party
9. Crossroads: Take the deal, gain:
   • Damnation
   • 2 Cards
10. Orchard: Grab the stash an ran, gain:
    • Nail Bomb
    • Wound
11. Homestead: Defend homestead, gain
    • 2 Cards
    • Sawed off Cobra
    • Western Rifle
    • Florence joins party
12. Do not build tunnel!

Phase 2

Kill the Mexican crimelord

1. Forest Entrance: Follow rabbit
2. Watermill: Bring twin to sheriff
3. Excavation Field: Collect deeper and hard rock gold
4. Dalton's Site: Collect deeper and hard rock gold
5. Florence leaves party, kept by Mexican crimelord after 4 mining operationsa
6. Town: Pay for information, inquire special mining tools, hire mine, gain:
   • new map locations
   • Pat Douglas joins party
7. Mexican town: Rescue Florence, gain:
   • 2 Cards
   • Florence joins party
   • Warrens wounds converted into scars

Phase 3

1. Slave fugitive: Agree to shelter slave
2. Shady joint: Ask around, provide news for Mexican town, gain:
   • New locations
   • Optional quest
   • Buy:
     • Loaded Dice
     • Elephant Rifle
   • Sell:
     • Deadly Derringer
     • Bloody shirt
3. Fortune teller: Buy
   • Dexterity Elixier
   • Bone amulett
4. Crevice: Use Dexterity Elixier
5. Begin mining run
6. Mexican town, clear town from outlaws, gain:
   • 3 Cards
   • Snake leather boots

Phase 4

1. Well: Spent coin:
   • Father will leave party
2. Fortune teller: Let her tell the fortune
3. Shady joint: Recruit old miner
   • Old Ike joins party
4. Curch: Ask for exorcism
5. Homestead: Final encounter

Szenario

Phase 1

• In Saloon: Goto windows, shoot nearby enemies, get killed very fast
• Ressurected: Use telegraph to call more enemies, use Six-Shooter, hide in corner / cover in small house between central crossroads and telegraph, kill all enemies from there

Phase 2

1. Pinkterton grave: Dig for valueables, gain:
   • 25 Gold
   • -9 Luck
2. Gin Mill: Take glass item, gain:
   • Ocular talisman
3. Elixir Trader: Buy 2x Bottle of liquor
4. Gunsmith Shoppe: Ask for Gin Mill
5. Indian Camp:
   • Sit by fire and share Bottle of liquor, gain:
     • New location: Indian totem
   • Ask for Murray, gain:
     • New location: Poaching grounds
6. Poaching grounds: Set an ambush, gain:
   • New locations: Cannibal farm, Water tower
   • Brandon Scott joins party
7. Elexir trader: Ask for Cannibal farm, gain:
   • Poison vial
   • Warren gets poisoned
8. Water tower: Use Poison vial
9. Indian camp: Sit by fire and share Bottle of liquor, gain:
   • New location: Hermit's hut
10. Cannibal farm: Attack
    • Eat flesh
    • Rescue murray
    • After fight: Kill everyone
11. Hope: Iron stomach, loot husks, gain:
    • Volcano pistol
    • 3x Bottle of liquor
    • 50 Gold
    • Rattling lungs
    • New locations
12. Kraimer's Inn: Stab thug, gain:
    • New locations
    • Location of masked man
13. Pastures: Kill horses and hang cowboys
14. Graves
    • TODO
15. Excavation Site: Blow up entire mine, gain:
    • Wound
16. Homestead: Burn down everythin, gain:
    • Wound
17. Hermit's Hut: Shoot the old boy, take his loot, gain:
    • 100 Gold
18. Old Sawmill: take saw
19. Big Tree: Cut tree, gain:
    • Bone amulett
    • 25 Gold
20. Indian totem: Sacrifice Murray
    • Scrawney kid joins party