The Escape from Dubai
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:58 am
So I have a lot of posts on this forum, and I realized after my return that I had contributed very little other than walls of text.
I'm going to remedy that by supplying you with a wall of pictures. If you want to visit my flickr stream, here's a link to all of the pictures, http://flickr.com/photos/35301231@N05/.
These were taken last fall at a 6-player Brikwars game entitled "The Escape from Dubai". After several rigorous minutes of research on wikipedia, I painstakenly recreated the city of Dubai, complete with high-rise towers, colonial forts, open-air markets, and an indoor ski slope.
This is an overview of the entire 14-sq panel battlefield, viewed along Sheikh Zayed Road (yeah I wiki'd it). At the bottom of the image, next to the pile of dice, is the 501st Legion. I don't really have a backstory for them, but it was the only army Josh had.
The two guys in the previous picture were playing The Knights Templar (seen here scaling the purple skyscraper, again without backstory), and the OPEC Terminator, which actually has a deeply-rooted story in this setting.
The 501st Legion begins their assault next to the Jumeirah Mosque, with Ski Dubai in the foreground.
My own army, Blackwater Security, lands on the shore next to The Palm Islands with a Cougar MRAP. Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the Emirate, can be seen in the lower left-hand corner.
The point of this scenario was for my forces to rescue my hero, a Tony Stark-eque character who had invented an economical form of fusion, from the OPEC Oil Lords in the palace seen here. OPEC sent an oil-based Terminator back in time to prevent his escape, and their impending economic obsolecence.
This is where the details get fuzzy. I think the Terminator crashed that convertible full of jewels into my MRAP. The red sports car was sent careening into the market and ran over a neutral npc falconer. Pretty rude.
I'm not at all sure what happened here, but one of the Knights Templar got gibbed.
Somebody blew up the Mosque later in the game. My friends are really politically incorrect and intolerant.
After destroying half the city and lighting the Oil-Terminator on fire, my squad escapes to Al Fahidi Fort to wait for the chopper to pick them up.
Unfortunately, like in all Terminator movies, he wasn't quite dead yet, so the battle ended with a climactic fight suspended mid-air from a Eurocopter AS 332B. In the end, I rolled a critical heroic feat and red-shirted General Grevious (my friend Jesse's hero) to sacrifice himself to save Tony Stark. Yeah that's right, I forced him to do it. That's how I roll.
And finally, the coup-de-grâce for my awesome battle:
A girl playing brikwars! I win the internet!
I'm going to remedy that by supplying you with a wall of pictures. If you want to visit my flickr stream, here's a link to all of the pictures, http://flickr.com/photos/35301231@N05/.
These were taken last fall at a 6-player Brikwars game entitled "The Escape from Dubai". After several rigorous minutes of research on wikipedia, I painstakenly recreated the city of Dubai, complete with high-rise towers, colonial forts, open-air markets, and an indoor ski slope.
This is an overview of the entire 14-sq panel battlefield, viewed along Sheikh Zayed Road (yeah I wiki'd it). At the bottom of the image, next to the pile of dice, is the 501st Legion. I don't really have a backstory for them, but it was the only army Josh had.
The two guys in the previous picture were playing The Knights Templar (seen here scaling the purple skyscraper, again without backstory), and the OPEC Terminator, which actually has a deeply-rooted story in this setting.
The 501st Legion begins their assault next to the Jumeirah Mosque, with Ski Dubai in the foreground.
My own army, Blackwater Security, lands on the shore next to The Palm Islands with a Cougar MRAP. Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the Emirate, can be seen in the lower left-hand corner.
The point of this scenario was for my forces to rescue my hero, a Tony Stark-eque character who had invented an economical form of fusion, from the OPEC Oil Lords in the palace seen here. OPEC sent an oil-based Terminator back in time to prevent his escape, and their impending economic obsolecence.
This is where the details get fuzzy. I think the Terminator crashed that convertible full of jewels into my MRAP. The red sports car was sent careening into the market and ran over a neutral npc falconer. Pretty rude.
I'm not at all sure what happened here, but one of the Knights Templar got gibbed.
Somebody blew up the Mosque later in the game. My friends are really politically incorrect and intolerant.
After destroying half the city and lighting the Oil-Terminator on fire, my squad escapes to Al Fahidi Fort to wait for the chopper to pick them up.
Unfortunately, like in all Terminator movies, he wasn't quite dead yet, so the battle ended with a climactic fight suspended mid-air from a Eurocopter AS 332B. In the end, I rolled a critical heroic feat and red-shirted General Grevious (my friend Jesse's hero) to sacrifice himself to save Tony Stark. Yeah that's right, I forced him to do it. That's how I roll.
And finally, the coup-de-grâce for my awesome battle:
A girl playing brikwars! I win the internet!
