Dress Rehearsals High Moon

For a long time I've want to take a look at one of the Two Hour Wargaming games & for different reason's I've gone with High Moon, having done nothing only paint models & work on building for what seem like forever I was itching to put some terrain down gab a couple of models & roll some dice.

For a table that was clear it seemed to have a lot of stuff on it :)

So on Saturday (this might be last Saturday or a few Saturdays ago depending on how fast I post this) I cleared off the gaming area & set about trying to master the rules, now I've got to admit I'm not the best in the world when it comes to learning rules from a book & even worst at trying to do so from a PDF.

To say Saturday didn't go well would be an understatement, the confusing seemed to come from a little demo that had for me what looked liked two groups jointed together to make one group with the rules stating that for an in sight test the leader takes it for the group if he has line of sight to the enemy, but low & behold as the demo goes on I find that both the groups are taking the test ?

So Sunday I thought to myself feck this for a game of cowboys, I always find the best way to learn rules is to start playing the game & look for answers as the questions come up, its also more enjoyable that way :)

I rolled on the terrain table got clear terrain & then rolled for each square, for a table that was made up on the clear chart it seemed to have a lot of stuff on it, but that said it does look like an interesting table to play on :) anyway as I would normally set a table up to suit what I wanted to do this is not a problem.

Guy in black is me & the PEF's has two in the center of the table & the third over by the well at the far corner. 

Right here we go now as I know some of you guys play THW pay attention as I'm going to be asking questions, I win the roll off & move into the building on my left.

I know it's doesn't look like it but believe me he's inside the building :)

When entering a building you need to see if there's anyone in it, now the rules didn't seem over clear on how you did this, so I went with what you do when you get line of sight on a PEF & rolled 2d6 I got one pass so took it that the building was empty.
Q 1 was this right ?

The PEF's move then win the roll off for turn to & move again.

My turn so I move fast rolling 2d6 & getting 2 passes, exiting the building & rounding the wall to draw line of sight on the PEF
Q 2 can you move fast when exiting & entering buildings ?

I resolve the PEF & it's a REP 3 cowboy with a pistol, I win the insight test.
Q 3 there's a friend or foe table should I have rolled on that or is it only for PEF's inside buildings ?

Firing twice with my pistol I get a 2 & a 4 which I add to my rep 5, the 7 is a straight up miss, the 9 is also a miss because I moved fast.

The cowboy takes a shot at test passes one and takes a rushed shot back at me missing with both, now I take a shot at test pass 2 & return fire, this time I hit with a 10 5+5REP = 10, but
Q 4 if I'd got an 9 result again would I still count as having moved fast & missed ?

I roll a 1 for damage so the cowboy has to duck back, which is move 6" to cover or if he can't go prone, so I look to see what counts as cover & find its just building & woods.
Q 5 that seems very odd as I would have thought the wall would have counted as cover had the cowboy jumped to the far-side of it ?

Anyhow I moved the cowboy into the woods, this brought a PEF into line of sight so I set about resolving it, I rolled on the how many table & its 1 of something, I then rolled on the what are they table & its a witch, so I go to the witch table where I find that witch's can often have cowboys of townsfolk with them but there's always at least one witch ? & there's a table to roll on 1 2 & 3 are not witch's but 4 is a REP 3 witch 5 a PER 4 one & 6 a REP 5 leader witch, as I'd only gotten 1 enemy on the how many is there table I decided to roll a d3 to see which kind of witch I got, which turned out to be a REP 5 leader.
Q 6 did I do right by just rolling a d3 to see what kind of witch I got ?

I don't know what happen with this picture

 Another insight test which the witch wins, now witch's have a power called blink that will allow them to disappear & reappear 6+d6 inch's behind you, as I was only an inch from the table edge I decide this couldn't work.
Like I said the witch won the insight test but witch's don't have guns but use magic powers instead, I go to the NCP casting table to find it says a witch can only cast when active, now remember this is still in my turn.
Q 7 is the witch active or does she only count as active in her turn ?

I decided she's not active so what else can she do ? looking it up I see that if you can't shot but are within 6" will rush into melee, she not within 6" but she is within range of my weapon so she ducks back behind the building bring the turn to an end.

You can just see the witch near the corner of the building

 The PEF's win the roll off 4-3, so the witch will go first, then the PEF maker, but the cowboy can't activate as he only REP 3

The witch moves around to the side of the building & draws line of sight on me so an insight test, which she wins & casts a damage spell, now as far as I can work it out once the spell is cast it an auto hit, so a damage roll is rolled & its a 6 obviously dead result.

I decided I try out the stat power rule & get 5 passes, sometimes its good to be able to roll one's :)

so I'm not dead nor am I out of the fight but I do have to duck back into the woods.

That's were I left it & have to say it enjoyed it & can see why people like the game & for playing solo it really ticks a lot of the box's for me.
Now tbh been mainly a solo gamer I don't get to hung up on rules as I'll just interpret then as I see fit to suits what is going on but I do like if I can to know how they work, I know you lot are not great at paying attention while looking at models ;) so to make things easier for you I'll re-post the questions below  :)

1) How do you check if there's anyone in the building, is it the same as resolving a PEF ?
2) Can you move fast when entering or exiting a building ?
3) There's a friend or foe table should I have rolled on that when resolving a PEF or is it only for PEF's inside buildings ?
4) If I've moved fast after the first time I've fired in a shot out do I still carry the the penalty, eg  if I'd got an 9 result again would I still count as having moved fast & missed ?
5) Is it only buildings & woods that count as cover ? or would the likes of a wall or a barrel count ?
6) If you've already rolled to find how many models the PEF was & rolled to see what it is & then have to go to another table do you just roll to get REP of what you've already got ?
7) Is a model only active on their turn.
8) This has to do with what I was talking about at the start & is part of what coasted the confusing, when you trigger an insight it says the side that triggered it can move it models an extra 2" for free, does this mean only the group that triggered it or all of the models on that side.
9) If the witch had failed to cast the spell would I have taken a shot at test.
10) In the woods I 'd come into line of sight with the cowboy who can't activate this turn & it's not my turn so would there still be an in sight test.

My thanks in advance for any help you can give me in answering the questions & as always my thanks for dropping :)