I am not a great believer in an experience system which allows for constant improvement. If you wish to allow your characters to improve, do it with caution, maybe adding a new skill every once in a while, especially after attempting something heroic in a game. I am not going to to add an improvement system to Blaze of Glory, that is not to say you shouldn't, it just doesn't suit my style of game, I'm not interested in creating an Ubercowboy.

I'm not dead, I'm getting better!

If you wish to decide what happened to the people who were shot during the action you could use the following :

For each figure that went Out Of Action roll once on the following table. For figures that were wounded, but not OOA roll a d6 on a 1-3 they recover fully, on a 4-6 they went OOA roll on the table below.

Serious Injuries

D6 Roll                Details

        1         Full Recovery (tis but a scratch)

                   2          Flesh Wound (Reduce stats in next game by d3)

                   3          Light Wound (Reduce stats by d3 permanently)

                     4          Heavy Wound (Reduce stats by d6 permanently)

5           Dead (Say no more, sorry!)

  6           Dead ( As above, tough really)

You can of course add other elements to this chart, do what feels right. Badguys who get shot and left in town by their comrades are most likely to be caught and put in jail or worse lynched. Both of these possibilities lend themselves to some good rescue scenario ideas