WIP: Gaslands Idris

Hi All,

Happy Halloween, here’s a quick look at my WIP Idris for Gaslands. The Corvette is a performance vehicle with the WRX and Focus representing buggy’s.There is still mesh to put over open windows and some general embellishing but they’re playable and what you see is what you get which is important to me for reduced confusion on the table.

List:
Performance Car
Oil Slick Dropper
Nitro Booster
Trick Driving
Hot Start

Buggy
Nitro Booster
Front Ram

Buggy
Nitro Booster
Side Flamethrower

This will be the first of at least three teams, this is the race team, I’ll do a combat team, and a Slime team to let out my inner bogan, I’m really hoping I can find some early 90’s station wagons to use for Slime.

Keep on Gaming
HDB Out

New-b Perspective: Gaslands, The First Game

Hi All,

The Lineup

I've had the chance to play my first game of Gaslands, and I'm definitely hooked. I couldn't play with a couple of random vehicles, so I converted and painted two teams to run against each other. We had Pink Piggy and The Frog up against Max Steel and Iron Mike. These were a lot more fun to put together than I thought they would and despite being made from the cheapest cars I could get my hands on they ended up looking not too bad.

Ready to Race

We decided to leave out the more complex rules and run a death race around a figure 8 track, which worked well to keep the front runners mixing it up with the car in the tail, this really helped to keep the game interesting and mad sure all of the cars had an impact in the race. From the start we were mixing it up, there were multiple collisions within the first couple of rounds of play and these really set the scene for most of the race, the Slip Away rule the Performance Cars have really handed me the game with The Frog ramming Iron Mike on the second activation allowing me to pull away from the pack and Pink Piggy's final activation being a desperate attempt to take a rather shot to bits Iron Mike out of the game with a ram that ended up catapulting him across the line to victory after a very lucky evade test that left him with only a single hull point left at the end of the game.

The Collision

At the other end of the pack was Max Steel who was hit by Pink Piggy early in the game then hit Piggy back, lost control and flipped all before passing the First Gate. Much to everyone's amusement Max managed to cross the First Gate as the other three cars crossed the Third and were on an intersecting path with Max, which lead to a shootout and a not so effective attempt to get into Piggy and he Frogs way and keep them from harassing Iron Mike.

All in all I had a blast, It's a pity the third player we had lined up was unable to make it it would have been a lot of fun having an extra player, and I can only imagine the carnage that would have been present with a couple of extra cars in the pack at the turn into the first Gate. My opponent caught the Gaslands bug as well as as soon as he got home he pulled out his buckets of cars his parents still had from when he was a kid and started scheming his revenge.

The Run Away

The Finish Line

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HDB Out

  

New-b Perspective: Gaslands

Hi All,

I've recently been introduced to a game called Gaslands by Osprey Publishing. I'm going to use it a spring board to setup a series about picking up a new game and looking at through the lens no experience with the system at all, I'm calling it The New-b Perspective.

Now onto the game, Gaslands is all about vehicular combat in a dystopian present. In a very brief summery the story goes; The Space Race wasn't abandoned which lead to the colonization of Mars, who then attacked earth left it a ruined wasteland and took over governance of the planet. It's now 2018 and it's hell on earth, the biggest thing on TV is Gaslands a series of Vehicular Combat races that the winner gets to leave the living hell of Earth and move to the perfect vision of civilization on Mars.

But the really cool part is that you use Matchbox Cars that you glue guns and armour plates to, that you then push around the table making brooooom and pew pew noises.

As I mentioned above the game is designed with the idea of using matchbox scale vehicles to build off, convert and paint for use on the tabletop. They have a guide included to scale up and down the templates if you would prefer to use more of a Micro Machine, or up to 28mm Scale.

Even here in Australia getting into the game is very affordable, you can pick up the print rule book on Amazon for a little over A$30, you can download and print the templates, it uses D6's that almost everyone has laying around and I picked up 6 Cars for $3 from a discount store. If like me you have  40k and Infinity weapons laying around you can be up and playing for less than A$40. In saying that getting hold of a set of Shift dice will make the Gear (movement) phase a lot more streamlined than rolling against a table. I've seen shift dice on ebay for around US$12 for 8 of them so they don't add much to the starting expense

Test Machine 1. Note to self next time get granny grating that's a different colour to the cutting mat

At the time of writing this I haven't had the chance to play yet. A couple of us should have cars ready to play shortly, and I'm planing to have a second team ready to use to try and rope in a third player, it looks like the kind of game that would be an absolute blast with multiple players.

Keep on Gaming
HDB Out

Links
Gaslands Download Page

Gaslands Rulebook - Affiliate Link
Gaslands Tokens - Affiliate Link
Gaslands Templates - Affiliate Link

Getting Started with the Cypher System - For Free

Hey all,

Monte Cook Games has recently released a free product called Cypher Shorts. It's a product designed to get you up and running a game with little to no prep time needed for the Game Master and only a short time needed to make the streamlined characters for the players. There's enough variety in what can be built to be able to drop your players into any setting you choose. Pickup and play super hero games for the win.

Another great item the up for free is the Cypher System Rule Primer, which includes the basic rules for playing the Cypher System. Between these two products you have quick character generation, scenario generation, and the rules you need to play. Oh and before I forget a one shot scenario to play!

You can get hold of these awesome products from the Monte Cook Games Webstore by following these convenient links I've got right here Cypher Shorts, and the Cypher System Rules Primer.

It's a product I intend to use for impromptu one shots when I don't have enough players show up for our regular game and there are two people staring across the table saying "Well now what?". If you've been looking for something different to play give it a shot you may get as hooked as I am.

Keep on Gaming
HDB Out

Well umm..... Hello

I've been modeling, painting, and playing with toy soldiers since 1998. Over the years I've painted miniatures and played games primarily from Games Workshop's stable, but I've also tackled some great miniatures and games like Infinity and Warmachine.  These days I'm also branching out and finding a lot of great games from smaller companies like Pulp City by Pulp Monsters Frostgrave by Osprey Publishing, and This is not a Test by Worlds End Publishing.

I also run and play in a variety of Tabletop RPG's. Cypher System, D&D 5e, and which ever 40k rpg by previously Fantasy Flight Games now Cubical 7 Entertainment takes our fancy at the time. I'm also a member of Monte Cook Games Asset Team and am keen to pass on my enthusiasm regarding the games from the MCG Factory of Awesome.

I'm also building a home brew SciFi world for my players to destroy. It centers around the disasters in the aftermath of corporate greed with a handful of running and gunning, a sprinkle of tung in cheep humour, a healthy dash of bad puns and annoying robots. So basically borderlands for the table top. As of writing this we're one session away from finishing a short run campaign seeing if what I'm planing works and setting up the PC's as some of the major NPC's for future campaigns. 

You may even see me pop up on twitch from time to time with Borderlands being my current time sink. 

I hope to see you around.

Keep on Gaming,
HDB Out