Mad Dogs with Guns Save Santa?
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About the Project
A friend of mine organized a Christmas themed game of Mad Dogs with Guns. Much hilarity ensued.
Related Game: Mad Dogs With Guns
Related Company: Osprey Games
Related Genre: Pulp
This Project is Active
Treachery
Seeing their opportunity, the elves and Jack Frost move in to take Santa for themselves!
With a cry of “For the ELF!” an elf runs forward throwing an explosive snowball!
He completely whiffs and dies in an explosion of glitter from the cops.
But the treachery is doubled because now Jack Frost decides to grab Santa himself! All the cops rush forward and began pumping him full of lead! 
Now the cops, gangsters and sole surviving elf gang up on Jack Frost! Lt McClain is in the top right of this photo. Meanwhile, a lone gangster concentrates fire on Santa …
Vowing no one will have Santa, a single gangster takes aim and Santa explodes into a massive glitter bomb. We’re all getting lumps of coal this year.
But next year …
Santa will be rocking a Tommy Gun.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! May your holidays be filled with love, laughter and games!
The players. The guy in the red t-shirt is Mr. Thorpe and organized the game. The guy in the super cool hat is the author. I’ll Hans Gruber him!
A gangster finds the Christmas spirit and hauls him to the roof to await extraction. Seeing Santa on the roof, the gangsters send in a roadster to extract their prize!
But the elves have a trick up their stripped sleeves and summon a frost giant and suddenly, Jack Frost appears!
The gangster driving the roadster floors it but Frost runs up and tries to pull the driver through the window! The driver floors it and …
… loses control, narrowly misses the cops in the road, hits a park bench, crashes into a newsstand sending newspapers flying! One gangster is thrown through the windshield and killed outright, one dies in a hail of gunfire and one thinks about fighting but surrenders and is cuffed.
Seeing his ride crash, the gangster on the roof threatens to Hans Gruber the Christmas spirit. The cops and elves hesitate as they ask, who’s Hans Gruber? After a few seconds of indecision, they rush the building! The gangster yeats Santa off the roof and now a dawning realization of what to Hans Gruber someone actually means.
Fortunately, Santa lays his finger beside his nose and gently floats down to safely land in the street.
Seeing no profit in this, the gangster on the roof tries to make his getaway by jumping down on the roof of the building next door. He clears the gap, lands in the roof and breaks his leg. He then hobbles over to the roof edge and throws himself into a snow bank on the ground. He makes a quick snow angel then hobbles off into the night.
He’s definitely on the naughty list.
Finding the Christmas Spirit
I’m pretty sure someone found the Christmas spirits and used it to spike the punch as that’s the only logical reason all the photos are catywampus!
A gangster exits a building unable to find the Christmas spirit and walks into a hail of BAR fire from Sgt Powell. 
Civilians gaze in wonder at the scene before them. 
One of the gangs molls tries to walk past a police barricade but is recognized and she runs off behind the newsstand. The cops give chase but unfortunately the cop that recognized her is nicknamed Gimpy. Apparently this happened in Australia. 
Firefight!
Sgt Powell on the roof of the precinct lays down a withering fire with his BAR. 
Cops and elves guard the front entrance to the precinct. 
A lone elf ambushes some gangsters with his marshmallow firing pop gun. Marshmallow coated lead! Roll Call
Detective Lieutenant John McClain snapped shut the cylinder of his revolver with a quick flick of his wrist, holstered the weapon and strode into the roll call room.
“All right ladies, settle down and listen up. Old Saint Nick is right here in our very own home town. His sleigh is grounded due to weather conditions. Supposedly a relief reindeer is on the way to help guide his sleigh tonight but in the meantime, he’s our responsibility. Words gotten out and a couple of the local hoodlums are attempting to steal the Christmas spirit so our job is to protect him. That’s the bad news.”
McClain looked around and saw the glum resolve on the faces of his fellow cops. He smiled.
“Now here’s the good news. We’ve got friends from ELF, the Elf Liberation Front. They’re going to join us and bring in some, special help.”
McClain turned and gestured to the elves at the back of the room, “Isn’t that right?” The elves just smiled and jingled their bells.
“The perps probably think we’re going to castle up and defend the precinct knowing we’ve got Nick inside. So, we’re gonna let them think that and put up a very visible presence but hide Nick nearby so if they do find him, we can bring down the firepower. Everyone clear? Good, take up your positions and let’s give them a good caroling.”
As the squad checked weapons and started to head out, McClain pulled aside Sgt. Al Powel, “Get on the roof with your BAR and cover the whole plaza.”
Powel nodded, and patted his BAR, “With pleasure.”
”But one more thing, keep an eye on the elves. I don’t trust them.”
The precinct is in the lower right. Santa is in the building with the Coke sign on the roof in the upper leftThe basics
William Thorpe organized a Christmas themed game of Mad Dogs with Guns. The game is a 1930s era cops and robbers game. Intended to be a campaign style game the rules are easy enough to make a great participation game. This game took place at Gigabytes Cafe in Marietta, Georgia, USA.
The rules are from Osprey and uses a card activation mechanic. Combat and skill checks use multiple D6 with the number of dice varying by weapon type.
The terrain is mostly 4Ground MDF that is sadly out of print.
The teams consisted of multiple cops and elves versus multiple gangsters. The cops and elves got one secret briefing and then the elves got their own secret briefing. The gangsters got one secret briefing.
The game has a rule where it resets the game if the second joker in the deck of cards is drawn. When that happens, a Christmas trivia game starts and everyone who answers a question correctly gets a free re-roll of the dice. The re-roll markers were Hershey Kisses so you could eat your re-roll too.
