Western Legends FAQ
613 questions players ask · Updated Nov 10, 2026 · Full rulebook
SetupExpansion
- How many players can play Western Legends?
- Can I play a two-player game with only the base Man in Black cards?
- Who takes the first player token at setup if players are tied for most Wanted, or nobody is Wanted?
- Do the Marshal or Wanted points a character starts with give rewards during setup?
- What values are on the fight cards?
- Do the new Ante Up goal cards change how the base-game goals work?
- What is the setup order for Ante Up event cards, player minis, the Sheriff and bandit minis?
- Which frontier spaces get the frontier tokens at setup?
- How many event cards do you draw at setup with Ante Up?
- Do you need the Ante Up board to use its expansion items and story cards?
- Which miniature can be the Sheriff at setup, and how is it marked?
- Where does the wound tracker go on the player mat?
- Are all item cards put in the store at setup, or only some?
- How many copies of each item go into the store at setup, and does the player count change it?
- Do acquisition effects trigger for items a character starts the game with?
- If my character starts on a space with a bandit hideout, must I fight the bandit first?
- Where does the pocket watch (end-of-game marker) go during setup?
- Do I pick my starting location before looking at story and goal cards during setup?
- Does the first player token change hands during the game?
- Are all Blood Money items placed in the Traveling Trader stand at setup, and can items be doubled up in its slots?
- Does each store stand need at least one weapon and one mount at setup?
- Does the Revolver count as a weapon for Trading Post setup, and can promo items be bought at either store?
- Can the General Store or Trading Post start with more than one weapon or mount?
CharactersExpansion
- Does Wyatt Earp's extra action trigger when a story card kills a bandit?
- Does Wyatt Earp's extra action apply every turn, or only once?
- Can Wyatt Earp start the game in a bandit hideout that another player already occupies?
- Can you use a character's legendary ability on the turn you reach 5 LP?
- If Billy the Kid's target has a full wallet, can they give him $10 instead of a poker card?
- When Billy the Kid's power makes the other player surrender money or a card, who chooses the option?
- Can Billy the Kid use his ability after moving and then playing Sprint?
- When Annie Oakley's ability makes a player discard a poker card or gain a wound, who chooses the effect?
- Can Annie Oakley's opponent take a wound if they already have the maximum?
- Does Annie Oakley's fight ability apply when she is the one targeted by a fight?
- When does Pearl Hart's ability to draw a poker card and move 2 spaces trigger?
- Can Dave Rudabaugh's end-of-move extra space and a Quarter Horse extra space both apply to one move action?
- When does Jesse James win ties, and does that include fights against NPCs like the Man in Black?
- Does Jesse James's ability stack with the Upgraded Revolver to reduce a fight card's value by two?
- Does Bloody Knife draw a poker card when he heals in the mesa?
- Do character abilities that affect NPC fights, such as Judge Roy Bean's or Belle Starr's, apply to fights created by story cards?
- Does Bat Masterson's free movement count as a Move action?
- Does each use of Allan Pinkerton's ability cost an action?
- Does Pinkerton's ability reach characters on diagonal spaces?
- Can Doc Holliday hold more than five cards at the end of his turn once he has unlocked his ability?
- Does Lottie Deno's story point apply to Bonus effects used outside a poker game?
- Do you need a weapon to take part in a fight?
- Does Poker Alice pay the ante and draw a card when she starts a poker game with her ability?
- Do upgraded items' Legendary Points count toward unlocking a character's Legendary Ability?
- Can Butch Cassidy steal from a player he arrests before that player's own losses are applied?
Playing the GameExpansion
- Do goals like delivering four gold nuggets to the bank have to be done in one action?
- Does completing a goal card cost an action, and when must you announce it?
- How many legendary tokens do you draw and keep as you complete more goals?
- Do legendary tokens gained from other effects count when you draw for a completed goal?
- Can you look at your own face-down legendary tokens earned from goal cards?
- How many cattle tokens can a character hold, and is there a fixed slot for them?
- How much can a player win in a poker hand against the dealer?
- What does 'refill your hand' mean?
- Can you play Saddle Up! in a town to travel to a second location?
- Can you repeat the same action several times in one turn, such as robbing the bank?
- Is the train station, or railroad space, one space that spans the rail tracks?
- Are spaces on either side of the board's faded lines adjacent?
- Which decks have discard piles, and where do other used cards go?
- Can players trade or give items and gold to each other?
- How does a rail station action work?
- Can you move directly between Dixon Creek and the two spaces on its right-hand border?
- How do the frontier space numbers on Buzzard Gulch relate to the frontier tokens?
- Does a goal to win a fight outside town count a fight against a bandit or outlaw?
- Do cattle tokens on Ranch spaces count as tokens for event placement?
GeneralExpansion
- Can longhorn tokens and outlaw tokens share a space?
- When Man in Black attacks me, do I gain anything for beating him?
- Can Western Legends be played solo?
- What are the event tokens from Wild Bunch of Extras, and how do they work?
- Which expansion added the Event deck and the Legendary Items deck?
- How do Deed cards' move actions work, and can they reach any destination?
- Do you need Ante Up to play Blood Money?
- Can you discard a Provisions card for its bonus and also use it to complete a goal?
- When a train heist gives you a cattle token of your choice, can you pick from any ranch, and do you see its back first?
- If a result tells you to discard a poker card, or lose money or a nugget, and you have none, is it ignored?
- What is the distance between the ranches on the map?
- Is there a cap on the Legendary Point track, or do you keep counting past its end?
Phases of Play
- How many fight cards does the bank guard draw in a Heist?
- Can a player rob the bank more than once in one turn?
- Can you fight the same player more than once in one turn?
- Who wins a tie in a fight between two players?
- Who wins a tie against a bandit, the Sheriff or the bank guard?
- In the Duel example on page 8, does the upgraded shotgun turn Annie's King into a Queen, and who wins the tie?
- Does a bandit fight or a cattle delivery count as part of your Move action?
- Can you play Sprint or Wallop after your move ends on a space, such as delivering cattle or picking up a gold nugget?
- Can the extra space from Dave Rudabaugh or the Quarter Horse be used to drop off cattle or pick up a gold nugget?
- Can you move diagonally between two spaces that meet at a corner?
- How many movement points does it cost to reach a location such as the General Store or Sheriff's Office?
- Does taking a location action end your movement, so you can move again afterward?
- If another player is on a mining space, can you move there and use the same action?
- After losing a fight against another player, does your character move, and does that fight trigger again on later turns?
- Are unused movement points lost when you take another Move action?
- How many actions do you get in a turn, and do Action cards add more?
- Can you move onto a rail station and then pay $10 to keep moving by rail?
- When travelling by rail, must the trip start at a rail station, and do you keep moving after you arrive?
- Does Travel by Rail count as a Move action?
- If a rail trip ends on an outlaw token, does the outlaw stop the move you would otherwise continue?
- Does the train miniature's location affect Travel by Rail?
- Can you take a Work action at the moving Train location?
- Can you take a Work action on any space, or only at a location?
- Can you play poker from any space that the Saloon building touches?
- In poker, can you play only one card if you hold two or more poker cards?
- Can a player fold in a poker hand to keep their cards?
- When do the poker cards played in a hand go to the discard pile?
- At the start of your turn, can you draw a poker card before choosing your income option?
- At the start of your turn, do you carry out all three steps, including choosing a weapon and mount?
- What are start-of-turn and start-of-fight effects, and which cards trigger them?
- When do you discard down to your hand size?
- If the Doctor heals me while I already have a full hand, do I still draw a poker card?
- What happens if the targeted player declines a fight?
- What happens if I have no poker cards and am attacked?
- Can you fight a player who has no poker cards?
- If a Shootout starts a new fight and I have no poker cards left, what happens?
- In a fight, who plays reactions first, and can a player who passed react later?
- How many reaction cards can be played in one fight, and can the same reaction be repeated?
- Outside a fight, how many reaction cards can a player play in response to one triggering event?
- Can you play a fight reaction card after you have already taken another action?
- If you play Stick 'Em Up as your fight card, can you still play another Stick 'Em Up as a reaction?
- Can a player play Vendetta before the Declaration step of a fight?
- In a fight, do poker card effects resolve before fight card effects?
- Does Quickdraw cancel an NPC's fight card before the NPC can cancel the fight?
- Do a fight card's effects still apply if you win or lose the fight?
- Do reaction, bonus and item effects stack, such as Stick 'Em Up plus an upgraded Revolver?
- Who chooses the effects of fight cards 7, 9 and Ace?
- What do the NPC fight cards do when a fight is resolved?
- Where do fight cards go after a fight, and is the NPC fight deck shuffled?
- Does Shootout cancel the NPC fight card's effect, and does the NPC redraw its fight cards?
- If a card cancels a fight and starts a new one, what happens to the cards in play?
- When a card cancels a fight and starts a new one, is the decision made before reactions are played?
- Can Quickdraw or Bulletproof cancel the wound from the 6 fight card?
- How many cattle tokens can a player carry at once?
- Can you take a second cattle token by robbing a player when you already hold one?
- What does the Cowherd's extra cattle token do on an Acquire action at a Ranch?
- Can you look at the reward on a cattle token you are carrying before you deliver it?
- What reward does a cattle token give when delivered?
- Does acquiring a cattle token cost an action?
- Does delivering cattle or longhorn tokens cost an extra action?
- Can you deliver several cattle or longhorn tokens in one drop-off?
- Do you have to end your move on the Rail Station or an opposing Ranch to deliver cattle?
- Can you deliver a story-card cattle token on your next turn by moving out of and back into the Rail Station?
- Can you rustle a cattle token back to the ranch it was picked up from?
- Can a Wanted player wrangle cattle?
- When you deliver cattle to a space that holds a bandit or outlaw token, is the token resolved first?
- Can I discard a longhorn token to get rid of its movement penalty?
- How many gold nuggets can one prospecting action gain?
- What are the faces of the prospecting dice?
- What happens when a prospecting die shows $10 with a reroll symbol?
- Can you prospect while already holding the maximum of four gold nuggets?
- Can you stay at a mine and take all three actions there prospecting for gold?
- Do you need an action to pick up gold nuggets that a card places on the board?
- When depositing gold at the bank, do you get $20 and 1 LP for each nugget?
- Does selling several gold nuggets at the bank take only one action?
- Where do gold nuggets go after you deliver them to the bank?
- Is the $120 money limit enforced at all times, or only at the end of a turn?
- When you rob a player and the stolen money or nuggets exceed what you can carry, what happens to the excess?
- When a reward offers $20, 2 cards, or $10 plus 1 card, can you take them all?
- Can a Wanted player deposit gold at the bank in the same turn after robbing it?
- Does buying items at the General Store cost an action for each item, or is visiting the store the action?
- Can you own more than one copy of an item such as Whiskey or a Miner's Map?
- Can you overwrite an item when your three non-weapon, non-mount slots are full?
- If you own several mounts or weapons, which one is active during your turn?
- How many poker cards must you discard to uncover a Frontier space?
- Does winning a game of Faro give Legendary Points or only Gambler Points?
- Can you roll the risk die when you have nothing to lose?
- Can an event, bandit or unique event token be placed on a space that already holds a player or another token?
- If two effects trigger on the same move, who chooses the order they resolve in?
- Can you complete a goal during another player's turn, such as by winning a poker hand?
- Does an end-of-turn draw from a token such as the Preacher trigger on other players' turns?
- Does using a card as an action count as a discard toward a Discard goal?
- Does the Man in Black take a turn after each player, or once per round?
- When the Man in Black fights with NPC fight cards, does the card's effect still apply?
- If the Man in Black tries to rob you and you win the fight, do you lose anything?
- When the Man in Black wins a duel, does he get 2 LP?
- Does fighting a bandit cost an action, and can you start a fight with your last action?
- Can a player hold more than three Legendary tokens?
- Can you activate a location at the start of your next turn if you ended your last turn there without using it?
- Is there a rule for a three-player duel?
- Who gets the reward when a fight against another player is won?
- What happens to the loser of an Arrest, Duel or Rob?
- Does an Arrest count as a fight for card effects that refer to fights?
Story Cards
- Does The Man in Black ever place a disc on a Story card?
- How does the Infamy story card move the Sheriff?
- When several players are involved in a story card fight, how do the fights run?
- Do story card fights count as bandit fights for rewards and Quickdraw?
- Does fighting the Pinkertons count as robbing a bank for rewards?
- What is the basic result for losing a fight against the Snake story card?
- How many story discs can you add in one turn, and can you do it on another player's turn?
- Can one player place both of their story discs on the same story card, and do they get its reward twice?
- When you complete a story card, can you move your other story disc from a second card onto it?
- Can a player contribute to the same Legendary story card more than once in a turn?
- Do non-contributing players gain a story card's rewards, such as 'players with no wounds gain 1 LP'?
- If a story card's reward places a disc that completes another story card, does that card resolve this turn?
- If a story card needs points gained on your turn, must you place the disc right when you gain them?
- Which LP count toward a story card's 'gain 2 LP in one action' requirement?
- What happens to bandits when the Gallows story card resolves?
- Which bandit spawns occur on the Legendary Story Cards?
- When a story card resolves, is it replaced, and is the next one revealed?
- Do you need to refresh a Story card when the top cards have the same trigger?
- How do you set up and use the Story cards?
- Must the Sheriff move when a story card tells you to move it?
- Can you play Manhunt to gain 1 Legendary point when no player is Wanted?
- Can you add a poker card's bonus after gaining an item from a Spoils story card?
- When Dumb Luck is triggered, does the triggering player gain both a miscellaneous item and a Legendary Item?
- Does a Legendary item that gives a story point combine with Dime Western when you buy it after contributing?
- Are the rewards on the back of story cards public information?
- If you are at the cattle limit, do you still gain a cattle token from a story card reward?
- If the Man in Black attacks you and you win, what do you gain?
- When the Man in Black duels a player, which duel rules apply?
- When the Man in Black robs a player, does he take cattle or longhorn tokens?
- On the True Grit story card, do the discard or wound fall on contributing or non-contributing players?
- Must you place a disc on a story card when you meet its requirement?
- Does buying Life points at the Cabaret count toward a story card's spend-$80 requirement?
- Does the Outfit ability replace the requirement to be in town for a goal that needs $80 spent?
- When a Rumors card lets you place a story disc on a story card space, must you still meet that space's requirement, such as picking up a map token?
- Must you end a move action on a space to pick up gold nuggets that a card places there?
- Does a Legendary story card condition, such as discarding a poker card, need an action?
- How do Legendary Items enter play before Ante Up or Blood Money is added?
Marshal/Wanted Points
- How many Wanted points does a successful bank robbery give?
- After a Wanted player is arrested, do they start over with zero Wanted points?
- What does a Sheriff arrest take from a Wanted player compared with a Marshal arrest?
- Do you need Marshal points to arrest a Wanted player?
- If a Marshal's arrest attempt fails, does the targeted player get a reward?
- Must a Marshal who robs another player become Wanted and give up Marshal points?
- If a Marshal's robbery attempt fails, do they keep their Marshal points and gain no Wanted point?
- If you are arrested, do you keep the Wanted points you gained that turn or in the same fight?
- When you gain several Marshal or Wanted points from one action, do you get the benefit of every space you pass?
- If I start the game on the Wanted or Marshal track, do I get the rewards for the squares I start past?
- Can a Wanted player ever switch to the Marshal track, for example through a story card reward or a choice of points?
- Can a Wanted player who was arrested later start working on the Marshal track?
- Can a Marshal player become Wanted, and can they go back to being a Marshal?
- Can a player have markers on both the Wanted and Marshal tracks at once?
- Can a Wanted player move onto or through a Marshal player's space, and does that start a fight?
- Are there limits on what a Wanted player can do in one turn, such as depositing gold and then robbing the bank?
- Can a Wanted player who has been arrested and sent to the Sheriff's Office be arrested again?
- If you gain your tenth Marshal or Wanted point, can you use Reputation to get 2 LP?
- Does a Wanted player with a Gang who is arrested draw three poker cards?
- When you turn in several cattle tokens at once, do you get one Marshal or Wanted point per token?
- When a Marshal arrests a Wanted player, does the Marshal use poker cards or fight cards?
- Do Event tokens on the track trigger for every player who enters the space?
- How does Tiburcio Vasquez's legendary action move the cube between the Marshal and Wanted tracks?
- Can the 7 poker card's reputation effect still be played to gain a Legendary point when the Marshal track is maxed?
- If a Marshal player is arrested by a Trap or Pinkerton Car train encounter, what do they lose?
- Can a Wanted player fight a bandit, and do they gain Marshal points from it?
- Are the 3 points for the most Wanted player always awarded?
Bandits/SheriffExpansion
- How often does The Man in Black take a turn in a 2-player game?
- Is The Man in Black an NPC or a player for rules purposes?
- Does The Man in Black win ties in a fight?
- If a player beats The Man in Black in a Duel or Rob on his turn, do they get the usual reward?
- Does The Man in Black gain 2 LP when he wins a Duel on his own turn?
- What do the bandit icons on Man in Black cards do?
- Does The Man in Black gain 1 LP when he moves onto an empty Bandit Hideout?
- If The Man in Black is diverted to a bandit location with no bandit there, do his LP bonus and the player penalty apply?
- Is the Man in Black deck reshuffled after each draw?
- Does the Sheriff move when no player is Wanted?
- If the Sheriff is not active, do you still gain the point from a card that tells you to move him?
- Must the player moving the Sheriff move him toward a Wanted player?
- Can the Sheriff move back and forth between spaces during his movement?
- Can the Sheriff move through a Mesa?
- Can Snake Oil move the Sheriff onto a Wanted player?
- Does the Sheriff attempt an arrest when he moves onto a Wanted player's space?
- Can a Wanted player move into or stop in the Sheriff's space?
- Does becoming Wanted in the Sheriff's space trigger an arrest?
- Must a Wanted player discard a poker card when the Sheriff enters their space, before any arrest fight?
- Who plays the NPC side in a fight against a bandit or the Sheriff?
- In a Sheriff fight triggered by another player's move, who is the active player, and who may play reactions?
- Can a Wanted player decline a Sheriff arrest instead of playing a poker card?
- What does a successful Sheriff arrest cost the Wanted player?
- Who is allowed to make an arrest?
- Can the Sheriff arrest the same Wanted player more than once in one turn?
- Where does the Sheriff go after an arrest attempt, win or lose?
- If a Wanted player is in the Sheriff's Office when the Sheriff arrives there, is the player arrested?
- When a Marshal or the Sheriff arrests a player, does the Sheriff also go to the Sheriff's Office?
- If the Sheriff plays an Ace and wins an arrest fight, does the Wanted player keep a Wanted point?
- Can the Sheriff fight bandits, or move into a bandit's space?
- Must a player fight the Sheriff when moving into his space?
- When are fight cards used instead of poker cards?
- Can a bandit spawn on a space that already has a bandit, a player or the Sheriff?
- Do bandits move around the board?
- Do bandits attack a neutral or Wanted player who enters their space?
- Does entering a bandit's space end your movement?
- Does entering a bandit's space cost an extra action to start the fight?
- After entering a bandit's space, can I use Sprint or leftover movement to keep moving?
- Can you play Stick 'Em Up after a Sprint moves you into a bandit space?
- Can you move into a bandit's space and fight it with no poker cards in hand?
- Can you decline a fight against a bandit?
- Must you fight a bandit or an animal token like the Grizzly Bear when you enter its space?
- Do fight card penalties still apply when you win a fight against a bandit or NPC?
- When defeating a bandit, can you take a Marshal point instead of a Legendary point?
- On Bandit cards that say the player may not gain Marshal points, can you still choose the Marshal point?
- When a Bandit card gives an extra Marshal Point for defeating the bandit, is it applied before or after the normal reward?
- On a Bandit card, who is 'you' and who is 'the other player'?
- Is a bandit removed after a fight, and does a bandit in your space at turn start force a fight?
- On the Ace fight card, who chooses which point the other player gets?
- When a Queen played in a gunfight against a bandit meets a 10 fight card, which effect applies?
- After a #10 card forces a second fight, is a poker card drawn for it part of the hand you fight with?
- If you lose a fight while holding a Gang card, must you discard the Gang card?
- Can you claim Manhunt's 1 Legendary point when there are no Wanted players?
- Can Sprint be played to extend a Manhunt move of the Sheriff?
- When a Bandit event card makes an unplayed fight card resolve after the fight, does the Marshal point from the win still count?
- How do you leave jail after being arrested?
- When a Shoot Out cancels a fight and starts a new one against an NPC, does the NPC draw a full new hand?
- Can the Sheriff cross mountain passes or move between rail stations, and how many points does that cost?
- Do the Ante Up Man in Black cards replace the original Man in Black cards?
- What are Outlaw tokens, and how do they differ from bandits?
- Are Ante Up NPC tokens placed face up or face down?
- Can an outlaw camp spawn on a cattle ranch, and can cattle be delivered to an outlaw token?
- Do outlaw fights happen before you can rustle cattle at an outlaw camp?
- Does the six-bandit limit apply to outlaws spawned by an event?
- Do abilities that mention bandits also apply to outlaws and other Ante Up NPC tokens?
- Can bandits or event tokens be placed on a space that already holds a token?
- On the Buzzard Gulch board, where do the Sheriff and an arrested player go?
- Do train heist cards add their own wound on top of the normal wound for losing a fight?
- With Fistful of Extras, do you use the extra bandit figures alongside the base bandit figures?
- Do you need to sticker six bandit figures to use the Bandit cards?
- Who reads and applies the Bandit card effects in Fistful of Extras?
- Do Fistful of Extras bandit card rewards replace or add to the default Marshal or Legendary point reward?
- Does Fight card 9 cancel the Marshal point reward from a defeated Bandit card?
- Does a bandit card with only thematic text still trigger a bandit fight?
- Does a Bandit card that takes a non-upgraded Mount affect a Mount you are not riding?
Item CardsExpansion
- Can you buy or upgrade an item at a store that doesn't stock it?
- Can a Wanted player use the Marshal's Badge?
- Does the Rifle's look-at-two-cards ability work against bandits and NPCs?
- When does the Rifle's look-at-two-cards effect happen in a fight?
- Can the Rifle be used when another player starts a fight with you?
- How many Marshal points does the Peacekeeper give when you deliver two cattle tokens?
- Which Peacekeeper text is correct, the French or the English version?
- What happens to gold nuggets when you switch your active mount from a Mule to a Mustang?
- Can you discard several poker cards with the Quarter Horse to move several extra spaces?
- How does Miner's Map's reroll work, and does it add an extra die?
- Is Miner's Map discarded after use, and how often can it reroll?
- If a rerolled gold result comes up gold again, do you get one nugget or two?
- Can you use the same weapon or item more than once in a turn?
- Does the Workhorse give one Marshal or Wanted point per cattle token delivered?
- Can one Acquire Cattle action at a ranch give you two cattle tokens with a Workhorse?
- Can you deliver two cattle tokens at once when rustling or wrangling with a Workhorse?
- How many cattle tokens can a player hold, and what happens if you give up the Workhorse?
- If you must give up a cattle token while holding two, which one do you lose?
- What does a standard, non-upgraded Revolver do?
- Can you discard an item to make room for a Legendary Item you gain?
- Can you discard a miscellaneous item you no longer want?
- Can you buy a Legendary Item?
- Where do Legendary Items go during setup?
- When you gain a Legendary Item, do you choose one or draw at random?
- Can you upgrade items such as Whiskey, Provisions or a Miner's Map?
- If you buy a Whiskey, can you save its healing effect until you are wounded later?
- Can you use a Whiskey bottle after you move onto a space with another player?
- Does a player with the 10 Gallon Hat earn LP for winning poker when not the active player?
- Does the 10 Gallon Hat work in Faro?
- If Marshal's Badge cancels an arrest, can you play the poker card drawn from it in the second arrest?
- Can you discard Marshal's Badge during an arrest to gain 1 LP and draw a poker card without cancelling the arrest?
- When acquiring or upgrading a weapon or mount, does it matter which copy you pick?
- Can you gain a Cattle token in the middle of a move when you move into a Ranch space with the Lasso?
- Do Lasso and Workhorse both give a cattle token when you move into a Ranch?
- Do delivered cattle tokens stay on your mat until the end of the game, and how many points is the Lasso worth?
- How many item cards can a player carry, not counting the mount and weapon?
- With the Treasure Map, if you do not roll a nugget on the prospecting die, do you still get the money result?
- Does the Fiddle legendary item give a second roll of the risk die?
- Does the Strongbox item protect all of your money or only what is on it?
- Can Treasure Map let you pick any Legendary Item, including ones from the full Legendary deck?
- When a goal says to discard a Provisions or poker card, do you also get that card's effect?
- How do I tell which expansion each item card comes from?
- Does a mount's bonus apply when it is not your active mount?
- Does Provisions' draw-a-poker-card effect apply when you get it through a story card?
- Does the Burro's extra hand size still apply when you have wounds?
- When an effect says gain a Legendary Item, do you pick from the three revealed at the Traveling Trader?
- Can you carry multiple copies of the same miscellaneous item with Saddle Bags, and do the copies stack?
- Does an Outlaw token that gives a reward for each fight you win give one Legendary Item per fight?
- Can you immediately equip a weapon or mount gained at no cost from a story card?
- Does purchasing or upgrading an Outfit card use one action or two?
- When a story card says to draw a miscellaneous item, can you pick the one you want?
- Does Sprint increase the movement of a mule or horse, and does a mule travel with the mustang you ride?
- Can you use Sprint after a bandit fight or after a cattle delivery in the same move?
- Does the Instincts card's bonus activate when you use it as an action to draw 3 poker cards?
- Can any player use the Martial Badge when an arrest is contested?
- Where do discarded Legendary Items go?
- Does the one-space limit on the Bullwhip reaction apply to both the gold nugget and the Longhorn options?
- Can the Bullwhip let you take a gold nugget or Longhorn every turn?
- Can the Saddle Up card move you from any space to any town?
- When the Severance upgrade flips, does it replace your card from the poker deck or the fight deck?
- Are Legendary items like the Tomahawk or Thunder placed in item slots or weapon slots?
- Can you upgrade a double-sided item card, and how?
- Can you use the ability of an upgraded Derringer that is not your active weapon?
- Can you have both an active weapon and an active mount at the start of your turn?
- How does the weapon or mount stack work, and when can you change your active one?
- Can you own more than one weapon or mount, and which one is used?
- Where do Legendary Items go, and do they count against the miscellaneous item limit?
- What happens to an upgraded Quarter Horse when you use its ability, and can it be upgraded again?
- If a Wanted player is attacked by the Sheriff on another turn, do they use the weapon chosen on their last turn?
- Can you buy Saddlebags when all three item slots are full?
- Can you buy and upgrade several items in one General Store action?
- What do Promotional Items in the Ante Up rulebook refer to?
- How do Holster discards work when both players hold a Holster?
- How do you get a Gang or Posse card?
- Does buying a second Gazette trigger its event again?
- Can you use the Bedroll item's action more than once in the same turn?
- What does Refill Your Hand mean on the Bedroll item?
- Can you shop at the General Store or the Trading Post when playing the Outfit poker card?
- Can you fight without a weapon?
- Can you discard an item card just to get rid of it?
Poker CardsExpansion
- Is the poker flop revealed before players pick their two hand cards?
- How does a poker game play out in Western Legends?
- Can players raise bets in poker?
- How many poker cards must you play in a hand, and can you fold instead?
- If no one else joins my poker hand, who is the dealer?
- If other players join my poker hand, does the Saloon still add its $50?
- If the dealer wins a poker hand, do the losing players draw a poker card?
- Can the dealer use poker card abilities such as Cheat?
- How are poker ties broken, and how is the pot split?
- When two poker hands are the same type, do kickers decide the winner?
- Which poker hand ranks higher, five of a kind or a royal flush?
- Can an Ace count as high or low in a poker straight?
- Are Aces high or low in a fight, and can an Ace be lowered?
- Can a poker card's fight value be lowered below 2, or does a 2 wrap around to an Ace?
- How many times can you start a poker game in one turn?
- In a poker showdown, does the hand a player claims or the cards on the table decide the winner?
- Can a four-card poker hand form a straight, flush, full house or five of a kind?
- When you win poker, can you take a Gambler Point instead of a Legendary Point?
- If you win a poker hand against the dealer as the only player, do you gain 1 LP?
- Do you need to win a bet in Faro to earn a Gambler Point?
- Does a win at Faro count as a poker win for effects that refer to poker, such as the 10 Gallon Hat?
- In what order do players join a poker or Faro game in the same town?
- Which cards make up the All In poker deck when you use all the expansions?
- Can you search or look through the discard pile of poker cards?
- After a poker hand, are the cards played in it discarded?
- When a card says to replace a flop card with one from your hand, does the flop card go to your hand?
- When a poker card is used for its reaction ability, is it discarded or returned to hand?
- Must you hold a 'gain 1 LP after gaining a Marshal point' reaction card when the Marshal point is gained?
- Can you play more than one Reaction in response to the same action or trigger?
- Can you play two Ruthless cards against one fight trigger?
- Can you play Sprint after another player's Move action, or after a Saddle Up action?
- Can you play Reputation when your Marshal or Wanted gain is converted to Legendary Points because the track is full?
- Can you play Reputation after gaining a Wanted or Marshal point, later in the turn?
- Which reaction cards can be played on another player's turn?
- Does playing a Reaction card such as Reputation cost an action?
- What is the difference between Action, Bonus and Reaction card abilities?
- Does Stick 'Em Up! lower the opponent's or NPC's card value by 2 in a fight?
- Can a player play fight reactions when their character is not in the fight, or while controlling an NPC?
- When a Jack and an 8 are played against each other in a fight between players, which card resolves first?
- When a poker card like the Queen (Quick Draw) or Jack is played against a 10 fight card that starts a new fight, which effect resolves first?
- Does the Queen (Quick Draw) cancel a fight card's wound that cannot be cancelled?
- What does the Shootout card do, and does Annie Oakley's start-of-fight ability trigger again?
- If a non-active player plays Shootout's bonus, what happens, and who wins ties?
- What does the Bulletproof bonus do, including its lose 1 wound part?
- When a fight card and a poker card conflict, which one wins, and does Bulletproof still heal when a bandit card cancels the fight?
- Does the Jack poker card cancel the wound from a 4 fight card?
- Can a Cheat card change a poker card's suit as well as its value?
- If a Cheat card is revealed on the flop, can every player use it as any card?
- Can a Cheat card match a value already in play, such as making five of a kind?
- Can a Joker copy the value of a card you are playing in your poker hand?
- When does a Joker choose the card it stands for, and is the copied card revealed?
- What is a Joker worth when you have no other card in hand to copy?
- How is a Joker valued when it is played for the dealer?
- Does Instincts still draw a card when it is discarded to complete a goal?
- Does a card's discard bonus trigger when you play that card, and what counts as a discard?
- Does Fool's Gold count as a gold nugget when prospecting, discarded or robbed?
- Do you take the action of a poker card revealed during a fight?
- If you start your turn with 3 actions and play the Determination poker card as an action, do you then have 4 actions?
- When a Wallop reaction hits Doc Holliday, does his wound draw resolve before the duel starts?
- If an action grants Marshal or Wanted points but that track is full, can poker card 7's reaction still trigger?
- How is a High Roller challenge resolved, including the ante and rewards?
- Can a Marshal play Ruthless to become Wanted and still make the arrest?
- Does Quick Draw work against the Train guard?
- What does the Outfit poker card let you do?
WoundsExpansion
- If you already have 3 wounds, can you choose to take a wound instead of losing a poker card?
- If you already have 3 wounds, do wound-triggered effects like Doc Holliday's still happen?
- When a player is wounded, must they discard down to their hand limit immediately?
- If you reach the maximum number of wounds in the middle of a fight, does the fight end or change its outcome?
- Do you still take the standard wound for losing a fight when an asset or card also gives wounds?
- When you lose a fight, do you always gain a wound and draw a poker card, even when a card adds its own penalty?
- If you decline a duel or robbery, do you still take a wound and draw a poker card?
- If you lose an arrest fight, do you take the wounds twice, once for the fight and again for the arrest?
- If a Bandit card gives you a wound and you then lose the fight, do you take two wounds?
- If you have no poker cards and another player attacks you, do you automatically lose the fight?
- Does healing from a Story card or another source draw poker cards, as the Doctor's Office does?
- When you heal all your wounds, do you discard every Injury card?
- What happens when you gain wounds past the maximum of three: are you eliminated, or do the extra wounds count?
- Does gaining a wound always also give you a poker card?
- Does Bulletproof cancel the wounds from Claim Jumper's reward when both are in the same fight?
End of Game
- How is the final score calculated after the game ends?
- Are Legendary Points from upgraded items scored only at the end of the game?
- At the end of the game, are Legendary Points held off the track added to the points already on the LP track?
- If scores pass 30 in the end-game round, how do you keep track?
- After a player triggers the end of the game, does play continue for one more round?
- Does the First Player token move to a different player as the most Wanted player changes?
- If there is a tie for most Wanted points at the end of the game, who gains the Wanted LP?
- Are Legendary tokens revealed when gained, or kept face down until the end?
- How many LP do you score for owning all three saloon deeds at the end of the game?
Variants
- How many Legendary tokens do you keep as you complete more goals in the Goal Card Variant?
- Are Legendary tokens kept secret until the end of the game?
- What happens if the Man in Black robs or fights me and I have no poker cards?
- When you fight the Man in Black, whose poker card is reduced by 1?
- If the Man in Black attacks me and I win, do I get the 2 LP duel reward?
- Where does the Man in Black go if two players are tied for the most LP?
- How many fight cards does the Man in Black draw when he fights the player with the most LP?
- When playing poker against the Man in Black, which cards can you use?
- How often does the Man in Black take a turn in a two-player game?
- Can you play with the Man in Black when there are three or more players?
- Must you use the Man in Black in a two-player game?
- After the Man in Black defeats a bandit, do comma-separated LP and penalty effects apply only when a bandit is on that location?
- Does a fight against a bandit count for a goal that says to win a fight outside of town?
- Does a fight against a gang or NPC from a Story card count as a town fight for a goal card?
- Can you discard Provisions to complete a goal and also use its action to draw a card and lose a wound?
- Can you discard any poker card to complete a goal that says to discard a poker card?
- Does completing a goal use up one of your actions?
- How are character goal cards handed out at setup?
- Is a completed goal card discarded, and can the same goal be completed again?
Western Legends: Ante UpExpansion
- How many Legendary tokens do you keep when completing goals in Ante Up?
- When you gain Legendary tokens, can you return tokens from among all of your tokens?
- How many fight cards does the bank guard draw in a bank robbery in Ante Up?
- In Ante Up's High Roller challenge, who wins ties, and do you still get the standard poker rewards?
- Are the spaces on the top train board part of the Bandit Hideouts, and can you rob the train from there?
- How does Poker Alice's once-per-turn poker ability work?
- Where does the Sheriff start, and does a rail or mountain-pass move count as one space?
- If the Sheriff is defeated on the Buzzard Gulch board, where does he go?
- How does Tiburico Vasquez move his cube between the Marshal and Wanted tracks?
- Does the Quickdraw poker card protect against an Outlaw?
- Where can a Longhorn token be delivered for its reward?
- Can you deliver all your cattle and longhorns at once without spending extra actions?
- When Vendetta says to draw a poker card, does the wounded opponent also draw?
- Can you carry cattle and longhorns at the same time, and do longhorns count toward the cattle limit?
- How do longhorn tokens affect your movement?
- What reward do you get for delivering a Longhorn?
- If a card gives you a longhorn, can you refuse it?
- Do you wrangle or rustle a longhorn token to get its reward?
- When does an end-of-turn draw from a token such as the Preacher resolve, before or after the hand-size check?
- Can an item stocked at the Trading Post be bought or upgraded at the General Store?
- Do you get a Gambler point for each card you win in Faro?
- Can you place two bets on the same Faro card?
- Who starts the bidding in Faro, and who places the last bet?
- Does the Sheriff start on the board in Ante Up setup, and what if an event moves him before he is placed?
- Is Ante Up's setup compatible with the first printing of the rulebook?
- Is the number of Legendary tokens capped at 3, even with the Gambler track?
- Can you pursue the Gambler track alongside your other legendary goal tracks?
- Which items count as promotional items for stocking the stores?
- Can Ol' Flippy move onto the other rail station if a mini or token is already there?
- Do you encounter Ol' Flippy when you travel by rail through his rail station or leave it?
- Can a bandit spawn on a space that holds an event token?
- Can gold nuggets be placed next to a player, bandit or other token?
- Do Deed tokens make a space occupied, so that event tokens cannot be placed there?
- Can an event token or bandit be placed in an occupied space?
- Can you attempt the train heist more than once in a turn?
- If a bandit is in the camp where the train stops, do you fight it and still need an action to heist the train?
- Does the Frontier token's 'gain one upgraded mount' upgrade the mount you already have?
- Can you buy Legendary items at the Trading Post or General Store?
- When a train card gives a cattle of your choice, do you pick the individual token or the ranch?
- Can you play with only some Ante Up modules, such as the train rules?
- When gambling at a saloon with a High Roller token, must you play High Roller?
- If you win the first fight against an outlaw token that says fight again, do you still get its reward?
- Does the Vigilante title's LP stack with the normal reward when you defeat a bandit or outlaw?
- Can Saddle Up move you into Buzzard Gulch from the main map?
- Do you gain a Marshal or Wanted point for defeating an Outlaw or Claim Jumper token?
- In a High Roller action, when do you draw poker cards?
- Do events trigger each time someone passes a fifth-spot token on a track, or only the first time?
- Can you use Actions granted on another player's turn (for example by a Quarter Horse)?
- Are the Gang and Posse abilities optional, and do they discard when you take wounds?
- How often does Seth Bullock's card draw 2 poker cards for defeating bandits?
- When can a Man in Black card's instruction to resolve two events not be followed?
- What does the number of different items in the initial Trading Post setup refer to?
- Are Legendary items drawn at random when you gain one?
- Can you play Ante Up without The Good, the Bad and the Handsome and Fistful of Extras?
- How many Legendary tokens do you gain for each Gambler point above 7 on the Gambler track?
- Where do Train Heist event cards go after they are resolved: discard pile or bottom of the deck?
- How much of Ante Up works without its expansion board?
- Can you play Vendetta in addition to your attack card at the start of a fight?
- Do the new 0 and 4 Legendary tokens go into the main token pool?
- What are the 0 and 4 LP tokens for?
Western Legends: Blood MoneyExpansion
- Can the Risk Die's Move 1 be used to deliver cattle or to wrangle or rustle?
- Can Bloody Knife end his movement on a mesa using the Risk Die?
- If you already have an injury card and gain more wounds, do you discard a poker card for each wound gained, even if you partly healed?
- Can you mix the original story cards with the Blood Money Legendary story system?
- What icon marks the Traveling Trader?
- After the Faro jackpot, do losing bets pay out to the supply?
- Can you take a Repair action if you have no poker cards to discard?
- Can the Outfit card be used to buy from the Traveling Trader?
- When a scoring cube enters an event marker space, does resolving the event count as triggering it?
- Do you have to lose all wounds before discarding an injury card, and does paying the doctor to heal count?
- How much do Legendary items cost at the Traveling Trader, and when does the trader move?
- Does placing a story disc give you Story Points?
- Can Al Swearengen discard a poker card to use a deed without spending an action?
- How are the numbered Legendary Story cards set up?
- Are the Deed cards shuffled at setup, and are all of them available from the start?
- What is the Legendary item deck blocker card in Blood Money for?
- How many reactions can a player use in one turn outside fights and gambling?
- How many weapons and mounts can a player own at once?
- Can you drop off cattle at a ranch that has a ruin token?
- Do you shuffle the Fight card deck after every fight and after Faro?
- In High Stakes poker, when do you choose your poker cards, and who gets the reward?
- Does meeting a story card requirement, such as discarding a card at a location, use up one of your actions?
- When a Legendary story card such as the Englishman sends you to play poker, do you still get the normal poker rewards?
- Can you draw more than one poker card in a turn while you have the Busted Hand injury?
- Do ruined deeds still count toward scoring the other deeds you own at final scoring?
- How does the Sheriff move when you use the Legendary story cards?
- If you complete an objective whose disc space is already taken on a story card, do you still gain the story point?
Western Legends: Fistful of ExtrasExpansion
Western Legends: Wild Bunch of ExtrasExpansion
- Do the Wild Bunch Sheriff cards change how a Wanted player is arrested after a fight?
- Must the Hangman Sheriff card's Sheriff enter a bandit or outlaw space to earn the 1 LP?
- When can YB Rowdy use his ability during the action phase?
- Does the Outfit action let you buy or upgrade at both the Trading Post and the General Store?
- Can the NPC Sheriff take an action printed on a Sheriff card, such as The Captain?
- Does Johnny Ringo's end-of-fight wound stack with the fight's own wound, and can it be prevented?
- Does the Shootist title's 1 LP for beating a player stack with the normal fight rewards, including when I defend?
- If an event says to play poker at no cost, do I still follow the normal dealer, pot and points rules?
- Are the Posse and Gang card abilities optional?
- Does the train miniature block placing an event token, and do unique events follow the normal placement rule?
- Can you use the Wild Bunch of Extras Man in Black cards without Ante Up?
- Do the Fame (title) cards apply to each player or to just one?
- When a Hangman Sheriff moves into a space with a bandit, claim jumper or outlaw, what gets removed?
- How do you place the unique event tokens from Wild Bunch alongside the standard Ante Up event tokens?
- Do the Wild Bunch characters start with any Ante Up items?
- Does the Cowherd title card's extra cattle look give you 1 LP per cattle token or per wrangle action?