It's the final round of the Covid Cup here in lockdown and it's still all to play for. The current ranks show Abe in first place with 2 wins, myself in second with 1 and Paggy limping along with zero. But this final game will shake things up a bit as we introduce the Planet-Smasher. That's right, for the final round I've brought in a forth player whose soul objective is to trash everyone else at all costs. In other words, I persuaded my partner, who also lives with me, to get involved with the promise of petty revenge on the boys for such crimes as talking during movie night or changing the toilet roll tube. So there's some rage there.
For this round, it's highest score takes the over all victory. Points are awarded for;
Clearing any gate that isn't a player's own starting gate. 2pts
Wrecking another player's car. 2pts
Crabbing a Loot Crate. 1pt
Further more, the Planet-Smasher doesn't award points for being wrecked, but can score points to trade-in for Audience Tokens.
So the game is set, mine and Abe's previous winnings were converted into points for this game, giving us a 3 and 6 point head start respectively.
Abe to the high speed, performance car, Red Streak.
I had tricky, Silver Skull
Paggy took the All-rounder, Beaster
And the house car, Planet-Smasher
Red Streak made a quick start at scoring, turning into the outer ring of the arena, hoping score some quick points before the other cars can get their weapons activated.
Rather than risking a head-on collision with Planet-Smasher, Silver Skull turns towards Beaster's starting gate, out maneuvering the ram fitted red tank and clearing the gate.
But isn't going to be easy.
Red Streak gets side swiped by the Planet-Smasher...
...as Beaster closes in for the kill.
Red Streak gets shunted through the gate only to get smashed to bits by a charging Beaster.
As the Red Streak goes up in smoke, Planet-Smasher powers through the wreckage and destroys itself and Beaster in one fell hit!
Silver Skull clears the far gate, grabs a few crates and then turns back towards the action.
Red Streak re-spawns only to stair down the arena at all three adversaries charging towards him.
Red Streak chose it's end, deciding to ram Silver Skull rather than tackle the two ram fitted cars.
With Red Streak knocked back to his re-spawn gate, Silver Skull was left to take on Beaster.
At this point, despite being wrecked twice, Red Streak still held the lead with 11 points, Silver Skull 8 and Beaster holding it's own with 6 points. Back in the game, Red Streak took off away from the smash party that was every other player on the board. Planet-Smasher went on the prowl for more carnage.
At this point in the game, Red Streak was getting totaled at every turn, either by bad luck or the relentless pursuit the Planet-Smasher. Regardless of this fact, Red Streak was still holding on to the lead with Silver Skull always close behind.
Beaster continues to make solid efforts, but Planet-Smasher is always there to wreck the day....
...or is it? By a near miss, Beaster sets it's sites on Red Streak.
Aaah, the ballet.
Silver Skull claims a few more points at the gate, closing the lead on Red Streak.
Red Streak re-spawns and sets itself up as bait for Beaster.
Once!
Twice! And the guns blaze away, taking out Beaster to score the last few points.
And there you have it! Red Streak takes the win. Final scores;
Red Streak 20
Silver Skull 16
Beaster 12
So ends the final round of the Covid Cup with Abe taking the trophy through sheer dumb luck. This was a lot of fun and a great way to kill time during lock down. to anyone who hasn't tried Gaslands, I can't recommend it enough as a quick pick up play set of rules or even a narrative campaign for wasteland warfare. A few toy cars and some dice and you're practically good to go. I plan to get my own back on Abe next time with Kill Team. That'll teach 'im.
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