The situation: Central Park, 28 May 1957: Early in the spring the Jets had held the line in their turf wars with the Sharks. After their initial setbacks at the playground and during boy-girl dances at the gym the Sharks had regrouped and resumed their offensive, taking control of most the park by mid-May. The Sharks planned to spend the last week of May consolidating their position painting graffiti in the park rest areas. With school almost over for the year the Jets were preparing to launch their own counter-offensive in June with the park as the frontline. Thus neither side was fully prepared when Tony and Maria decided to sneak away and enjoy a romantic springtime stroll only to be discovered by Chino - as all hell broke loose.
Played to "Tonight" ensemble version (2/4 time but 2 measures per player turn. Each Gang Member Counter (GMC) has 4 MF's)
This will be an AAR for the game "
Sharks and Jets" (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22083/sharks-and-jets) which is really
ASL(SK) dressed up in
West Side Story leotards.
I've created all of the game components, mounted the counters and mapboards. The goal is to entice my fiance to play a game with me. So far, this is a solitaire only playtest scenario.
The map is what Central Park would look like if this were
ASL with the exceptions that what are wheatfields in
ASL are flowerbeds in
S&J. Stone buildings are Rest Stop buildings and wooden buildings in
ASL are pavilions here.
The gang "Sharks" are baby blue and the "Jets" are yellow. These are rival gangs and this is gang warfare but if you've dared seen
West Side Story, then you know that the "fighting" is really dancing. Hang in there, we'll get through this. The turns follow the ASL sequence of play however the phases are:
RALLY PHASE – RPh
CHORAL DANCE PHASE – CDPh
MOVEMENT PHASE – MPh
DEFENSIVE FIRST DANCE ATTACKS
DEFENSIVE DANCE PHASE
ADVANCING DANCE PHASE
ROUT PHASE– RtPh
ADVANCE PHASE – APh
PANTOMIME PHASE
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VICTORY CONDITIONS: The Sharks win if there are no cool (unbroken/good order) Jets in any rest area (building) on map boards 4 or 1.
The scenario at start has Tony of the Sharks walking with Maria (sister of Jets gang member) in Central park.
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They have been spotted by Chino of the Sharks and he calls out to his fellow gang members who will enter the park first on Turn one on the east edge of the map (right side of map).
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During Turn 1 Choral Dance Phase (Prep Fire Phase), Pepe, Rocco and Toro have also spotted Tony and Maria. Toro attempts to dance for Tony but it's far away long distance and Tony is unphased by the twirls and leaps of Toro. Pepe and Rocco forgo the dancing as there's some trees in the way.
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For their half of the turn, the Jets enter the park from the west (left side of map) and do so without being detected because of trees and objects in the park blocking the view.
The end of turn 1 finds the Sharks clearly in control of the rest areas of boards 1 and 4. The Jets have 6 turns to "freak out" (break) the Sharks and have them run off the map.
Next up, Turn 2 and more dancing!
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That is either the best or worst thing I have ever seen. Still trying to figure out which.
Quote from: mirth on February 19, 2015, 08:07:15 PM
That is either the best or worst thing I have ever seen. Still trying to figure out which.
+10,000
Edit: LOLOLOLOL...
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22083/sharks-and-jets
You can download it there, it looks like. Free game.
I've done a complete revision of the graphics for it (as can be seen in my pics above). I've also rewritten the rulebook by keeping it more in line with ASL(SK). It *is* basically ASL(SK) but with the West Side Story theme. I'm in the process of a move so haven't had a chance to get back to my AAR but the *real* goal is to get the girlfriend interested enough to play it with me (we'll see).