Played GASLIGHT for the first time for a while this week using a new scenario idea. It worked out pretty well and will need only a little tweaking to be playable. The scenario was designed to let me use my Prussian Rocket Troopers, which have only seen action in one game. They are the Eureka WW1 Rocket troop figures and really are excellent!
The scenario concerned a Prussian attempt to capture Professor Arkwright, the inventor of a new British war machine and the genius behind a lot of the British resistance to the Prussian invasion. He has already featured in one previous scenario when the Prussians tried to snatch him by zeppelin.
My GASLIGHT game background is 1870s Britain where the British are fighting off a Prussian invasion. The Franco-Prussian war has been conclusively won and the Prussians have occupied France. Backed by the United Northern States (the American Civil War was an inconclusive draw and America is still divided), the Prussians have launched a number of small raids against Britain and have managed to secure a bridgehead in Kent on the Isle of Thanet.
The British are hoping for some aid from the Confederate States of America and some of the Free French who have fled to the rest of Europe.
GASLIGHT is perfect for playing out this type of linked scenarios against a common background and provides a fun game. The style of play is like the wargames rules from the 1960s, with most people on the table eventually dying heroically! There are some morale rules, but they don’t play too great a part and the game flows along well.
They are certainly popular whenever I propose a game at the club.
I have also picked up the new Return of the King game and this has finally prompted me to start painting my LOTR figures. I haven’t painted any GW plastics before but was very pleasantly surprised at how easy they are to paint and how good the GW painting information is for this range. Following the techniques given, I have picked up some useful hints on using washes (something I was never very happy with) and seem to have got the hang of using inks. I’m aiming to have my Two Towers figures painted and a game played with them before the Return of the King film comes out. We shall see if I make it.