Space Hulk V1, mission 5

Decoy:  Marines reposition for the final attack.  Marines win by getting only 5 marines off the board.  Xenos start with a bunch, and it only gets worse.  The marines need to move fast to prevent the Xenos building up large numbers, problem is there are a couple of nasty bottlenecks to overcome

Marines start top LHS and RHS, need to get out bottom RHS

Deployed, LETS GET REAAAADY TO RUMBLE!

GO, GO, GO

Bugs swarm out

Moving fast

Flamer fires, and whiffs, fires again to fry bugs

Green Marines run to cut off the bottleneck

Just as well...

A sole Xeno survives the flames

DAKKA, DAKKA, not for long

Marines burst into the room and blow away the bug, flamer-marine pivots to set up a cut off

Reinforcements suck, lots of single bugs

And again

More Xenos appear, they swarm forwards

The flamer blocks the bug advance, three up

Three fried!

Bolter marines pivot to cover the advancing flamer-marine

Nice!

Bugs run for cover and some sneaky lurking

Marines crowd the lower rooms, prepping for the next advance

As the bugs rush, a bolter jams

Bugs exploit the gap in cover to flank the white-marines

Another jam, maybe the bugs can gain some traction here

An old trick; bugs hide behind the door, use it to force overwatch/try for jams

Meanwhile the marine turns (CP) and takes the Xeno out in HTH!

Then turns, aims and...

SPLAT!

Marines are finally stacked, the Flamer-marine leads off.  The rest fall back slowly, providing cover

Reinforcements split up

In the lower corner the bugs just cannot get a claw-hold

Soooooo close

Flames block the corridor

How slow are you lot?

About the opposite of this pile

A mini-stack forms

Flamer-marine moves up, Whoosh, one blocked corridor

Rearguard Marine advances, firing, and takes out the Xeno

but is short of AP/CP, so no overwatch

Still holding in the bottom corner

One bug too many

Kills the marine and scuttle out of LOS of the flamer-marine

Meanwhile, a nice swarm develops

Marines advance on two fronts, flames fill the corner section, has to fire twice as whiffed first time.  Bolters hose the door and Xenos behind it

Xenos make a rush for the rearguard

Close.

Very close.

Gone.

But more arrive (reinforcements starting to get some 2s and 3s, finally)

Same thing, rushing the marines, hoping for jams

The rearguard clears everything

Another flamer shot, the last one (6th shot)

Flamer steps off, one saved.  Bolter Marine rounds the corner, firing

A bit of sustained firing later, dead bug

The stack shuffle forwards

Flamer Marine from white-squad finally gets close enough to offer some support fire.  Marines may pull this off handsomely

Or not.  A bug slips through the flaming corridor

SLASH, dead marine

Flamer fires, and MISSES!

Three more exit the board, only one more needed

Bugs rush to stop the marines

A bug gets to the green-marine

Who turns red, but we have a problem.  The Bug right in front of the white marine has no more APs to attack.  The bugs lose, ONE AP!  One more attack and the bugs would likely have pulled off a squeaker of a win, but no...

The marine steps off the board, the marines win, getting only the five off needed for victory.

Bummer, I thought I had finally got to the marines there.  Ah well, this one is less fun of a mission, too many bottlenecks, makes for more random events from CPs etc.  Ah well, on to the next, and final, mission!