Flag Tag

We played Gaslands last night. What started off as a scheduled two-player game so June could try out a new build and use her new terrain turned into a five-player game. The scenario we rolled was Flag Tag, in which each team has a flag in their own area of the arena and where you score points for running over other teams' flags. The first team to score three points wins.

Here's the arena we set up, showing June's new terrain pieces. To the left you can see Declan's two-car Idris team. Left bottom is my two-vehicle Verney team. Mid right is June's new Mishkin vehicle. Mid-right is Craig's Scarlett vehicle. Hidden behind a piece of terrain top-centre is Caesar's three Mishkin buggies.

Away we go! I was running Bulls on Parade (a truck with a grabber arm) and Snakecharmer (a bike with satnav). The orange counter you can see is one of the flags. You can see Declan's team heading for the gate here, and one of Caesar's buggies coming the other way.

Declan deftly swerved to pick up Caesar's flag. When a flag is collected it is replaced at the start of the next gear phase.

I ran close to some wrecked vehicles to pick up Declan's flag. You can see my bike in action here as well.

Thunder McCar - June's Mishkin performance car. It has a electric-arc projector on the back, a weapon we'd not used before.

Craig's Scarlett desperados took out one of Caesar's buggies.

Thunder McCar took out another with it's rear mounted electrical weapon. The shot bounced onto my truck doing a massive 12 points of damage to it. Fortunately I had armour and survived but was left with one hit!

Vehicles in action!

Bulls On Parade grabbed Declan's Black Dog and threw it around a bit. Destroyed it too. My bike picked up Caesar's flag.

At this stage we had a few vehicles destroyed or badly damaged, and one drop-out (Craig had to leave early). Everyone had picked up two flags. I know I didn't document all of the collections, but they'd happened.

Anyway, June was after Caesar's purple flag. So was I. But it was Declan's respawned Black Dog that zoomed in from nowhere to collect it for the win.

An entertaining scenario all round. Not depicted was the sheer number of mines and caltrops being dropped by various teams. Made for a tricky time navigating the arena.