Overview

Doomtown: Reloaded is an expandable card game set in the Deadlands Weird West. Players control outfits vying for control of the town of Gomorra. Each card doubles as a poker card, and certain conflicts are resolved by drawing poker hands. The goal is to have more control points than your opponent’s influence at Sundown.

Components

• Outfit cards (one per player)
• Dude cards (characters with bullets, influence, and abilities)
• Deed cards (locations with control points and production)
• Goods and Spells cards (attachments for dudes)
• Action cards (played from hand for effects)
• Joker cards
• Ghost rock tokens (currency)
• Control point and influence markers

Setup

1. Each player selects an outfit card and places it as their home location.
2. Choose starting dudes whose combined cost does not exceed the outfit’s starting stash.
3. Place starting dudes at home (booted or unbooted as specified).
4. Shuffle remaining cards into your draw deck.
5. Draw a starting hand of 5 cards.
6. The town square is the unmarked location between each player’s street.

Turn Structure

Each turn has four phases:

1. Gamblin’ Phase

Each player antes 1 ghost rock. Players draw poker hands from their decks to determine who gets the pot and chooses to go first or second.

2. Upkeep Phase

• Collect production from your outfit and deeds you control.
• Pay upkeep costs on your cards.
• Unboot all your cards.
• Discard down to hand limit if needed.

3. High Noon Phase

Starting with the winner of Gamblin’, players alternate taking Noon plays:

• Shoppin’: Play a dude, deed, goods, or spell from your hand by paying its cost.
• Tradin’: Move goods between your dudes at the same location.
• Movin’: Move an unbooted dude to an adjacent location (boots them).
• Actin’: Use a Noon ability on one of your cards.
• Callin’ Out: Challenge an opposing dude at the same location to a Shootout.
• Pass: Choose not to act.

When both players pass consecutively, High Noon ends.

4. Nightfall (Sundown) Phase

• Check victory condition: if your control points exceed your opponent’s influence, you win.
• Discard unwanted cards from hand, then draw back to 5.

Actions

Shootouts

When a callout is accepted (or certain card effects trigger one):

1. Form posses at the location.
2. Resolution: Each player draws 5 cards from deck, uses their dudes’ bullets to determine hand rank.
3. Compare poker hands. Loser takes casualties equal to the hand rank difference.
4. Repeat rounds until one side is eliminated or flees.

Card Types

• Dudes: Have bullet rating (draw or stud), influence value, and upkeep cost.
• Deeds: Provide control points and ghost rock production. Placed on your street.
• Goods/Spells: Attach to dudes for bonuses.
• Actions: One-time effects played during appropriate phases.

Scoring / Victory Conditions

At Sundown, if the total control points you control (from deeds and other sources) exceed the total influence of your opponent’s dudes, you win.

Special Rules & Edge Cases

• Each card has a suit and value (like poker cards), used for shootout draws and other checks.
• Stud bullets let you redraw that many cards; draw bullets do not.
• Cheatin’ hands (duplicate values in a 5-card poker hand from non-Joker cards) can be punished by opponent’s Cheatin’ Resolution cards.
• Dudes can be wanted (bounty) which affects interactions with the Law Dogs outfit.
• Locations have adjacency rules: deeds on same street are adjacent; the town square connects all streets.
• Boot (turn sideways) a card to show it has been used this turn.

Player Reference

Phase Order	Gamblin’ > Upkeep > High Noon > Nightfall
Win Condition	Control Points > Opponent’s Influence at Sundown
Starting Hand	5 cards
Hand Size	5 cards (refill at Nightfall)

Poker Hands (low to high)
High Card
One Pair
Two Pair
Three of a Kind
Straight
Flush
Full House
Four of a Kind
Straight Flush
Five of a Kind
Dead Man’s Hand