John A found this game on the 'Pz 8' blog some months ago. We played it at the Sheffield club with John's 15mm toys. Aside from it being rather jolly, I thought the game would work rather well with 54mm toys. Having made the mistake of saying so, some other fool suggested it would fit in well at COW. Having (successfully I hope) spread the blame, it's back to the game. I established that I had most of the required toys - Deetail US for the infantry, a pair of scruffy Tamiya Jeeps and an
M-41 Walker Bulldog of dubious origin!
The spider cost about £2 from eBay and is suitably scary - especially the red eyes!
The game was inspired by those dreadful old Science Fiction movies of the 1950’-1970’s. A meteorite hits the countryside somewhere and turns out to be the egg of
a giant Spider. You are in command of an Army unit with a vital mission: kill
it.... and save the Earth!
At COW I ran the game twice with three players each time. Two of the players each commanded three infantrymen (think of them as representing a squad or thereabouts) and a Jeep with MG. The third had a tank.
The spider is cornered - human forces are approaching from top left, top right and bottom left.
The spider didn't move about very much and was soon overcome by sustained gunfire.
Wonderful! Any reason to incorporate a giant creature into a game is a good one. In true space age atomic sci-fi fashion, the obvious implied ending of this game is a cut away to a hidden nest of this spider's young hatching and spreading out into the world.
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ReplyDeleteI’m sure that won’t happen, but just in case - DON’T LOOK UNDER YOUR BED!
That Bulldog really has come up well! Nice looking game.
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