Arena of Death

We played our second game of Gaslands last week: the Arena of Death scenario, complete with automated machine gun turrets. Since there were four of us playing, I had to come up with another team of vehicles. So I took a trio of Hot Wheels out of their packaging to make The Notorious RBG: Red Rain, Blue Monday, and Green Manalishi (with a two-prong crown), all with identical stats.

We also had Men At Work, with Overkill (dump truck) and Who Can It Be Now? (front loader).

Of course, we had The Blues Brothers, Jake (car) and Elwood (pickup), which I ended up playing. The one-vehicle Justice League consisted of the Batusi (renamed by my players from the Batmobile).

The Batusi had lots of marvelous toys, like nitro, a turreted machine gun, RC car bombs, and a smokescreen. Not enough to keep it from getting riddled with bullets by the Green Manalishi (does that make that vehicle the Riddler's car?).

The first turn was lots of maneuvering and shooting, but no kills. Shortly, though, we started damaging each other. Who Can It Be Now? unleased enough Molotov cocktails to set Elwood on fire (although the flames immediately went out, since the truck had no hazard tokens).

Overkill managed to live up to its name, taking out Jake for the first vehicle kill of the evening.

But the carnage was about to increase, as Notorious RBG had Men At Work in the sights of their front-mounted machine guns.

Red Rain took out Who Can It Be Now? with a burst of machine gun fire.

Its teammate, Blue Monday, got shot up by the crew of Overkill.

The large truck then was headed straight for the car.

A collision adds hazard tokens to each vehicle involved (and a vehicle wipes out if it gets more than six). Here's Red Rain's hazard count as it slammed into the Overkill.

The collision smashed the smaller vehicle immediately, and the unused grenades in the car contributed to the explosion that in turn wrecked the dump truck. More carnage!

Meanwhile, the Batmobile lost its wheel, and the Joker Riddler Green Manalishi got away after riddling (get it?) the Batusi with small arms fire.

There were just two vehicles left now: My pickup and my opponent's car. Misreading the amount of hull points the Green Manalish had left, I decided to ram it head-on.

He did way more damage to me than I did to him--and more than I was capable of evading. So the last of the Blues Brothers went up in smoke, and Notorious RBG won the match in the Arena of Death.

And carnage was had by all.