Enough bikes, back to small soldiers

A quick skirmish in the basement.

A power-armour assault team is attacking a base to destroy its computer core. 

 The base, computer core upper LHS

 VTOL landing

 Defenders rushing to ready stations

 Technicians trying to shut down the cores

 As ready as they will ever be

 Here they come, defense turrets KO'd

 Forwards!

 Camera show the attackers are in heavy PA

 Heavy weapons-suit targets the main doors

 Kablweie! doors blown open

 Attackers pour in through the rent doors

 Attackers KO one abut the first suit takes heavy fire

 Attackers push forwards, the heavy suits soaking up the damage

 Assault!

 And splat.  Heavy PA in assault tends to win

 A defender squad rounds the corner and pins the heavy suits

 Defenders mass to protect the cores

 More Defenders appear behind the attackers

 The lead assault team advances despite taking a beating

 Attackers charge into assault

 The squad-auto chews through the heavy PA, KO-ing the first suit

 While the other attackers gain entry to the computer-corridor

 Meanwhile, back in the entry area, that pesky flanking Defender squad keeps popping out an hosing down Attackers, KO-ing one suit

 Then popping back into hiding

 The remaining assault team pushed on

 Oops, not what you want to open a door to

 Splat!

 The heavy suit turns to try to secure the exit

 Defenders gain another flank

 The last defenders of the cores try to stay alive a little longer

 Bit by bit the Defenders pick away at the rearguard heavy suit

 Techs try to prevent the assault team's entry

 Not for long...

 The Defender squad pops out and hoses the assault team, damaging one suit

 Its back-and forth in the corrider, neither side has the real upper-hand

 As casualties mount it starts to look like the attackers may prevail

 One tech remains to protect the cores

 Chaaarge!

 Man down, and one (of three) cores destroyed

 Defenders pour fire into the heavy-attackers

 However, as casualties mount the volume of fire is clearly slacking

 Two cores down!

 This mission may succeed, time to secure the exit

 The heavy-suit trooper gets in posiiton

 Defenders try a last-ditch attempt to KO the assault team

 the suits holding the corridor are taking a pounding

 Last core down!  Run for it...

 The Assault team goes for the exfil

 Defenders keep firing on the Attackers

 Attacking suits start providing cover as they leapfrog to  the exit

 Teh heavy suit takes more hits

 Then fails, KO one more suit

 Another attacker pushes the heavy aside and opens up

 Punching a hole through the defenders ranks

 The crew-chief signally its time to 'get to the choppa!'

 Heavy suits mow down Defends as they rush by

 The last few Attackers push on

 Defenders mass behind them. the suits' armour is holding, for now

 Things are not going so well for Defenders on the landing pad

 The first attacker enters the Dropship

 closely followed by two more

 The Defenders fail to KO anothe suit

 Enabling the Attackers to escape

 The final tally, one undamaged suit and four heavily damaged suits.

And the Defenders, almost completely wiped out, computer cores destroyed. This will significantly set back their war efforts.

A fun quick game.  I just felt like getting some toys out and getting straight into the action.  Set up was quick, I used this new book of maps I got this summer

There are a lot of different maps in these books, ideal for small scenarios.  With one book they are good for hero-focused action, with two larger game.  I guess they would look better without the spiral binding, but for now its a convenient way of keeping them together.  At least until the mini-me's are finished playing with them!

One challenge with these mats is taking thier picture, they are protected with a shinny finish so the light bounces off them really badly.  Its not noticeable in play, but shows up quite badly in the pics.

Figs are all 20mm, the suits are Reverisco 'Troll' power armour (for Starguard?). The Defenders are mostly old Blade/Rolf Hedges with a smattering of GW Dark future as the technicians.  I think the crew chief is either from Revell or Airfix.  The Dropship is the 1/100 Halo one, as is huge I also use it for 20mm.