"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!

"The Company Rules": #3 Fauna Assault

Fauna Assault... ...or Bug Stompa!

Two troopers must wipe out the Queen bug, or be wiped out by Bugs.  Queen plus guards start in the center, troopers can start at any board edge.  Queen must just get off the board to win.  Bug reinforcements are random appearance with randomized board location (bug holes as previous scenario)

Queen, eggs and Warriors - all old Peter Pig from their ex-scifi line.  the Bugs were called Phugs

Troopers appear on the horizon (old Lazerburn figs)

Bugs boil out of a hole in front of a trooper team

KaSplat! most bugs squished

In the center the other team hustles towards the queen, who promptly flees

(oops ,got this sideways), Troopers finish off the last bug as it charges into melee

In the middle the Troopers only succeed in winging a Warrior

More workers appear to relieve pressure on the Queen

Charge!  Troopers get their move on

Missiles out.

The charging Troopers manage to clear one of the Queens bodyguard warriors leaving the queen open to attack next turn

Next turn the queen is two moves off the board edge, its do or die time for the troopers, so, Fire!

Get on the hill and Fire!

The Queen is winged but not out, next turn she could be off the board

Troopers at the back mop up stragglers

Boom!  The heavy weapons trooper ranges on the exposed, wounded queen and lights her up

The Troopers love the smell of frying bug in the morning as plasma hoses down the Queen... ...only inches from victory

 

A good victory for the Troopers (at last!), no messing with tactics. I hustled to target the queen and it worked.  This plan probably would have gone bad had the Queen received one or more warrior reinforcement groups instead of just workers.

"The Company Rules": #2 Fauna Encounter

... Or "Get to tha' Dropship"

A trooper team is stranded in bug country, they must fight their way out to a waiting dropship, meanwhile the bugs aint happy!

Trooper team on RHS, dropship LHS.  The mounds are bug-holes.  Bugs arrival is based on dice roll, with location roll for mound of arrival (D6 1-3 bottom R to L, 4-6 top L to R)

 This is going to be a walk in the park!

 Ulp,maybe not.  Worker bugs boil out of a hole nearby

 Blam, Blam, Blam, dead bugs

 Watch out, they're behind you...

 Nah, we aint bothered (troopers trying to advance forwards)

 Hey, they are close, maybe we should stop and shoot

 Zoink! Whirl! Bleep!, one of them got through

 Don't worry we'll get it

The workers gnaw at the leg of a trooper (a single wound in combat)

 Meanwhile,  Warriors (bigger, tougher, more combat-focused) appear in front of the troopers

Its looking a mighty long way to the dropship, especially with more bugs appearing in the way

Help! Troopers opt to to shoot it out, staying put, enabling the Bugs to swarm

 Y-Racks, expand all missiles boys!

 Missiles out (markers by Peter Pig)

 Boom, Crack, Splat!  Some wounds and one dead bug

 Om Nom Nom Nom.  Warriors crunch up a couple of troopers

 Last Stand!  Remaing Troopers opt to shoot it out

 More bugs appear on the horizon

 Shooting not too bad, combat not too bad either

 Last Stand, again!  More Warriors appear, this time right on top of the remaining troopers

 Full Auto, troopers shoot with everything

 To no avail, they are swarmed by warriors

 CHOMP!  Game over man

The tropers started out OK, but I kept them static too long, allowing the bug numbers to build up.  I should have kept them moving, running and gunning instead of trying to be too cute with tactics.

Some not great shots here, I'm using my old camera and between trying to capture in-game shots and not good enough light for no-flash photos the resolution is suffering.

So, on to the next game: Fauna Assault

In which we find out why the bugs fought so hard...  ...a bug nest right around the corner