GASLANDS: AL FRESCO EDITION (although Gaslands: Rally might have sounded better)
It’s a lovely day, always annoying when you’re a gamer, but I thought it would be a good opportunity to try my newly-acquired Gaslands outside. I know it’s more of a miniatures game than a board game, but although I don’t normally play minis games, something about driving you cars and saying ‘brrrrrMmm’ massively appealed to me.
I started running the kids through a very basic version, which they enjoyed greatly, until I told them to go away and let daddy play with his cars properly.
Despite the fairly simple set up, carnage ensued almost immediately with a massive pile-up at embarrassingly low speed, which led to a lot of scratched paintwork. Nobody cares in the apocalypse, fortunately.
Leaving the carnage of pile-up behind him, the blue car sped off to the finish line, misjudged the turn … and flipped his way over the line to earn a concussed first place and a new driver slot opening up. This time I printed off and laminated the reference card, which made play much smoother, and made me happy because laminating.
Gaslands has also given me a way to get over my dice OCD - normally I can’t bear to roll dice unless they’re all the same time and ideally similar colours or at least in an appropriate palette. I’ve decided that in the apocalypse, the one thing everyone agrees on is that matching dice are sooooo pre-collapse and therefore in Gaslands I’ve made a point to make sure every die is a misfit.