Sunday, September 5, 2021

Captain Black and the Game that never ended

 Mini-Me minor was down in the basement playing soldiers on a rainy day during Dad-Camp (more later).  Want to play, says I.  Yes, says Mini-Me Minor.

So, one game set up later we have Captain Black trying to drill into th earth to set of an atomic bomb while Captain Scarlet and Blue try to thwart his nefarious deeds.  Or at least that was the plan...

The set-up, Balck and cronies have a core drill going, Scarlet, Blue and Spectrum troops enter bottom right in an SPV and hover-APC

Nearly ready to get going

The control station

Mine, robots and all sorts await Spectrum

Vroom, vroom, hover, swish

Is it ready?

Ready when you are, Chief!

GO!

Dodge the mines

Or not

Robots activate

Scarlet in the SPV charges ahead, easily dodging the mines

Scarlet blows away a robot

Blue and Troopsers debus, BLAM!, BLAM!, more robots down

ITS ON!  The core drill starts

Phew, a busy first turn

Robots rush to counter Spectrum

A lone defender vainly tries to eshoot down the SPV

Well ,you know how that would go...

Th estompy warbots move towards the SPV

A hit!, it immobilises the SPV

Scarlet bails, his anti-mysteron gun ready

More defenders rally, at least briefly

As I said, briefly.  At this point Mini-Me Minor and PSectrum anre taking names and kicking Bottom.  However, storm clouds are gathering, he was distinctly unhappy about losing the SPV

Stompybots shoot

And miss, Blue and Scarlet lead the assault

Defenders huddle around the drill for any cover they can find

Black is firmly in control (Black, in disguise, is the guy pointing), the atomic bomb starts being driven towards the drill

The attack seems to stall, Mini-Me is losing his momentum...

The defenders shoot, its just a flesh-wound shrugs Blue

In return Blue and Scarlet blow away a warbot

Over other side the Spectrum Troops decide they have had enough, as does Mini-Me Minor.  Unfortunately, this was GAME-OVER!  

 Bummer, but that's the way it goes gaming with kids sometimes.  Perhaps it was me and I missed the point at which I should have stopped and given him a snack.  Maybe next time...

6 comments:

  1. were did you get the vehicles and the figures from

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  2. Hi,

    The SPV is Konami (ebay), the APC is Khurasan (four Nations APC, its supposed to be 15mm, but it v.large for that).

    The yellow figs are 1/72 modern ground crew from Revell, the green/grey security are old Dark Future (GW), the sand-coloured robots are Heavy Gear (DP9), the green robots and Spectrum are from MJ figures in the UK. Spectrum are from thier Dune range, the Atreides packs.

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  3. by the way could you send me the link to mj figs i cant seem to bring it up on my computer here is my email ( samuraibadturtle@yahoo.com ) thanks ahead of time

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  4. Hi, sorry, I got them at a show in the UK. My GoogleFu is failing to find a link, they may have gone, which really would be a shame. Sorry about that.

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