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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