A couple of months ago I saw some battle report videos of Gaslands on Youtube and was pretty impressed. I ordered a copy of the rule book and started assembling and painting up some cars while I waited for the book to arrive. Once I got it I was hooked!
The game is fantastic. Set in a future apocalypse its a perfect fusion of Mad Max and a Reality TV Game Show. Simply put, each player puts together a team of cars to compete for the chance to win a ticket to Mars. With many unique factions, weapons, and abilities you can really customize your team. The Author is also actively working on supplemental material to expand and improve the game (so far these have been free by the way).
Missions are very diverse, from killing zombies on the track to last car running demolition derby to more traditional Death Race. No two games are alike, and no one build out strategy works for all scenarios. Winning or losing the game is fast paced, strategic, fun, and hilarious.
The first game I played was with by brother in law and we used the premade teams out of the book. He took Slime, who are crazy suicidal religious nuts, and I took Idris, who are obsessed with speed. Deathrace was the game type and you would think that I would have the advantage, having taken a speed centered team.
NOPE
The race track consisted of four gates roughly laying out a figure 8 track as below.
Gate 1 is the start line. Cars then race to each gate before moving on the the next. By gate 3 we each had one car left because my BIL suicide attached and blew up the rest of the cars. With his final car he blew up my last car and also himself. The race ended in a draw.
As I said before the game is fantastic and I highly recommend checking it out. Osprey Games is the publisher and Guerrilla Miniature Games youtube channel has quite a few battle report videos up to watch.
