That vehicle may immediately change Gear, either one up or one down, gaining 1 Hazard Token as normal. The solution that Gaslands: Refuelled presents for this problem is Burn Rubber. It can cause you to sit whole chunks of the game out. It feels appropriate, and it feels like a fair punishment for pushing your luck and driving like a maniac. Wiping out in higher gears rarely feels bad. Not only is it normally a result of bad luck or enemy actions (it’s very difficult to wipeout on turn one purely through your own actions), but it also results in a LOT of downtime for that vehicle, as it has to wait for all six gear phases to resolve before it gets another chance to activate. The problem is that wiping out in low gears can feel very bad. The reason for this is simple: the push-your-luck reward cycle of collecting and managing hazards to unlock more activations needs a suitable punishment for messing up, or there is no peril.

Being told you aren’t allowed to play the game that you sat down to play, and have to sit out instead, isn’t a great design feature, but Gaslands does it a lot. Miss-a-turn is not a mechanic loved by all.

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