"GASLIGHT Undersea Game Wins Award at NASHCON" Topic

This past weekend the HAWKs (Harford Area Weekly Kriegspielers) made a road trip down to the NASHCON gaming convention near Nashville, TN, to host over a dozen games. The big showcase game on our line-up was a 12 player GASLIGHT Undersea Extravaganza, using figures, vehicles, and beasties from both Buck Surdu's and my collections. We arrived at the convention hotel late Thursday night after a 12 hour drive from Maryland, and were up early Friday to unpack our van and set up for our midday games. The Extravaganza was slated to run during the Saturday night game slot.

We set up the game with four factions, a human exploration party, Fishmen, Atlanteans, and a "Bad Guy" human party. Each team had it's own list of objectives such as, Loot the Atlantean Temple, Steal secrets from the crashed submarine, destroy the exploration party's power plant, etc..

We were pleased to get 10 folks signed up for the game, ranging from young to old. After Buck gave a rules brief things got underway. The action was fast and furious, and there was lots of carnage, and cantankerous vehicles to content with; and of course, laughter, cheers, and groans of frustration when things didn't go according to plan. Everyone seemed to have a great time, including Buck and I, and we had many passers-by stop and comment on the uniqueness and coolness of the game. Most of all, we were pleasantly surprised when the folks from CigarBoxBattle.com awarded us a Superior Game Presentation Award for our time slot.

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Let me ask the obvious question,,, who makes the Nautilus submarine? Great use of stuff. I love a board busy with interesting things.

That looks incredibly creative, inspiring, and just plain fun. It is one reason I want to run games like this. I do not play Gaslight but I have used other VSF rules to achieve the same thing. I may shamelessly steal this idea.

See this link for Nautilus information:

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I got mine some years ago.

That Nautilus is a beauty. Thanks.

I played in that game and it was a lot of fun! Thanks for coming to Nashcon! Cory

What an AWESOME looking battle!

Who makes the divers?

And what are the "attack subs" made from? The look really cool.

Thanks for all the kind remarks everyone!

Most of the Divers are from Scheltrum. There are also a couple units on the table from Reviersco.

The hull of the Attack Subs are Little Hug kids'drink bottles

The wings and belly guns are from some cheap robot-dinosaur building toy. And the propellers are from one of those sping loaded guns, like this:

It's attached to the rear of the hull with strips of cardboard, with a bit of drinking straw as an axle.

Looks great! And congratulations on your award.

Thank you!