Capture The Flag

 Last night was one of our regular Gaslands nights at the Wollongong Wargamers and, as ever, we had a good turn-out for it with six players. We ended up with teh Capture The Flag scenario; each team had one vehicle carrying a flag, which is placed on the board if that vehicle is wrecked and which can be picked up. A team wins by having two flags on a single vehicle at one time.

I say 'teams'. Because we were paying at 30 Cans, only one team had more than one vehicle. Caesar was running two bikes, which is a risky strategy in any game.

Obviously with each person only having one vehicle we assumed the game would be short. After all, once an enemy vehicle was wrecked, releasing its flag, another player only had to pick it up with their vehicle to win.

We kept the arena fairly simple.

I didn't note down the details of the other teams, but I think we had Idris, Scarlett, Verney and the Warden represented. I went for a Mishkin vehicle with a turreted Death Ray. I fired it once.

Stuart managed a ram from the start ...

... and then started deploying RC bomb vehicles.

Graham had to run a gauntlet of dropped weapons. He went through the mines and escaped with nary a scratch.

Plenty of chaos. At this stage Caesar had lost one of his bikes and the other (the green trike) wasn't looking too well. My Mishkin technological terror had wiped out, and we'll not hear of it again.

Stuart's bombs were causing a lot of entertainment. The first had been shot just after launch and blew up. Stuart's vehicle was the only thing in range of the blast.

The second vehicle went up when Caesar ran over it with his bike. It wrecked the bike and damaged Stuart's vehicle some more.

Stuart took a decent amount of damage from his own bombs.

Caesar's vehicle wrecked and the flag was up for grabs. Graham rose to the challenge, deftly avoiding some caltrops.

Nothing could stop him now; to pick up the flag he had to collide with Caesar's wreck, but that wasn't going to do enough damage to stop him. We called the game at that point.

So we really did have a fast game, but an enjoyable one with plenty of dropped weapons and lots of Fun With Bombs.

Here's a few pictures from Caesar: