Flag Tag

It was one of our regularly scheduled club Gaslands games last night and we had a turnout of six players for it. This time rather than split into two games we played one game but restricted the teams to 30 Cans (and used a slightly smaller play area as well)

We rolled Flag Tag, which involves running around trying to knock down other teams' flags, with the first player to do it three times winning.

The players were:

June - Thunder McCar (Mishkin) - Equipped with an arc-lightning projector.
Caesar - A car with rockets and a bike (Idris)
Graham - A single car with a ram, machine-gun and grenades (The Warden)
Stuart - A single truck (Bronko Billy) with a ram and RC car-bombs (Verney)
Declan - Two very fast buggies (Stay On These Roads and Blues Breaker) with light weapons (Idris)
Me - A single performance car (Shine On You Crazy Diamond) with another arc-lightning projector plus smoke and oil dispensers.

Here we are at the start, evenly spread around the edge of the arena.

Stuart June and I all headed off clockwise, shooting and dropping oil (in my case) as we went. June fired off her arc-lightning projector at Declan's buggies and reduced both of them to one hit each before they'd even moved!

Out of shot Graham had destroyed Caesar's bike with a burst from his machine-gun. 

Caesar and I closed in on Declan's start position and finished off both of his vehicles. Sorry Declan!

Not shown in nearly any of these pictures is the steady flag collection that was going on. There's One under June's car in this picture. Everyone except Declan and I was collecting flags. Declan wasn't because both of his vehicles were wrecks. I wasn't because I was driving alike a complete amateur and not going near any.

Stuart in all kinds of trouble with the edge of the arena. His constant colliding with things means that he never got to launch any of his RC car bombs (thank goodness).

My one attempt to pick up a flag by means of a spectacular slide failed, as neither the template nor the car overlapped it (it's tucked in by that pillar). I did collide with the wreck of one of Declan's buggies though.

I squirted some more oil in frustration.

Graham zoomed in on Stuart's truck.

As I recall the ensuing ram was less than effective thanks to some abysmal die-rolls.

Stuart pulled off a hairpin turn to counter-ram.

Whilst all this was going on two things happened. The first was that Declan got a vehicle back into play. The second was that June tried to pick up a third flag and collided with a pillar instead. This caused her to wreck - which meant that she then picked up the final flag she needed for victory.

(Disappointingly she didn't make for a perfect Gasland's win by exploding, but you can't have everything)

So June picked up three flags. I think Caesar and Graham had two each, Stuart had one and Declan and I didn't trouble the scorer at all. I did repair all of my hull damage, though, and had a full charge on my (unfired) arc-lightning projector.

A few pictures from Caesar: