"The Company Rules": #4, Last Stand

Last Stand

Three Trooper teams gang-up on a single trooper team.  The defender has to roll each turn for arrival of an evacuation dropship.  Defender sets up, attackers choose where to start, at least 12" away, so on my 2x2' board that means the edge.

Crustie troopers dig in and wait

But not for long

Bronx Drop Legion advance

Pow! First blood to the Crusties

Legion troopers sneak along the side

While one team advances and occupies the Crustie attention

More sneaking

And more

Crusties and Legion trade wounds, fatally for one Legionnaire

Time to shoot a lot more

More wounds

This time the Crusties notice the sneakers and tag them too

The flanking Legion team gets in posiiton ready to fire

The team in the middle is getting shot up badly

Charge! one of the flankers rushes forwards into better position

Only to be shot up badly

All Legion teams now have some wounded

Blammo! Dead crustie, Legionnaires rally

The middle team loses more Legionnaires, pushing them back

Start of the turn, wounds on all sides

My favourite wound marker, smoking boots and helmet only remain.  Legionnaires go defensive (CP orders)

Things are not looking good for the Legionnaires

Legionnaire fire starts to tell, more wounded crusties

While the flanking team provides cover fire

Its time to exploit those CP orders and charge forwards

To good effect, another Crustie goes down while the remainder are heavily wounded

The assault pays off, another crustie down - Where is that Dropship! (rolled each turn, so far all failed)

Still no dropship!, Legionnaires press their advantage and gun down the remaining Crustie

 

A fun Last Stand game, it really could have gone both ways as the Legionnaires lost a lot of men.  Ah, fickle dice, no dropship to bail out the Crusties, or perhaps the pilot saw the hot drop zone and bailed...

On to more carnage!