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Post by terrance on Jul 21, 2018 19:13:54 GMT
Evacuation turn 1 Human initiative Civilians mingled including at least 1 suicidal group that moved towards the oncoming Martians. Otherwise the civilians mostly managed to get in the way of the army. Martian turn The martian gatherers attacked the infantry and captured 3 stands. (Picture taken after the stands were removed.)
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Post by terrance on Jul 21, 2018 19:19:46 GMT
Evacuation turn 2 Martian initiative Additional Martian forces enter from the table sides. More infantry is captured and some cavalry is killed by heat rays. Human turn Humans launch assaults on the gatherers and the harvester. Aircraft enter and slightly damage a scout.
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Post by terrance on Jul 21, 2018 19:28:53 GMT
Evacuation turn 3 Human initiative The humans throw nearly everything they could into assaults. The harvester, both gatherers, a scout and an assault tripod are assaulted mostly by cavalry. The infantry assault on one of the gatherers succeeds in bringing it down and 2 captured infantry stands escape. It was ruled that they had lost their weapons when captured so they dispersed rather than join another squad. Here is the attack. And here is the result. A scout was damaged and rolled d10 armor lost. The aircraft finished it off. Three tripods are down. One more is needed to break the martian army. Martian turn Two more civilians are captured and a MG unit is destroyed.
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Post by terrance on Jul 21, 2018 19:30:55 GMT
Evacuation turn 4 Martian initiative The martians start using heat rays on civilians that look like they might get away. Human turn Cavalry assault a gatherer; no effect. Infantry assault a scout and inflict 2 hits. The damage roll causes the tripod to collapse and the Martian army is broken. The scoring came to Martians 13, Humans 3. A big hit against the humans was the civilians had clustered in groups and the tripods managed to be within 12 inches of most of them. Per the scenario for every 2 civilians more than 12 inches from a tripod the humans get on point. As a result the humans probably lost 9 possible points. So Martians break but win the points so the game is a draw.
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Post by terrance on Jul 21, 2018 19:42:26 GMT
We had a lot of fun with this scenario. The stupidity of the panicking civilians was great. We felt like we could hear the doughboys and cavalry troopers screaming at them "No you idiot, run that way!"
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Post by boxholder on Jul 22, 2018 2:38:02 GMT
Very nicely done scenario!! Balanced and went down to the wire. Then a split decision. Too cool!
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Post by mikedski on Jul 22, 2018 10:13:46 GMT
Thanks for posting. What is your opinion on the aero plane participation.
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Post by Quendil on Jul 22, 2018 11:42:33 GMT
Great game
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Post by madmorgan on Jul 23, 2018 9:00:32 GMT
Good stuff as usual. Great scenario, great pics - a nice change from the 'evacuation from rivers edge' I tend to do. Then, I do like Marines with river boat support. TY - hope another one might be in the works as it feels like there's more civilians running and Army trying to help them in this campaign. Maybe a more 'beefy' one with more Scouts & Assaults and some human mobile artillery?? The balance in this one was really good btw. ty again
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Post by madmorgan on Jul 23, 2018 9:03:13 GMT
Just so everyone knows: I copy the details of the forces, set-up, and 'historical' information from the start of the game in my infamous note books. Just in case I ever have need of such scenarios at a store event or personnel fun. I've several battles behind atm due to my cat Candle wanting to play Civ V - ty all for the great games
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Post by terrance on Jul 23, 2018 15:08:32 GMT
Thanks for posting. What is your opinion on the aero plane participation. I thought it was an interesting option. They were able to finish off a badly damaged tripod. So they did some good. I’ll arm them with bombs next time and see how that works.
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Post by terrance on Jul 23, 2018 15:09:58 GMT
Just so everyone knows: I copy the details of the forces, set-up, and 'historical' information from the start of the game in my infamous note books. Just in case I ever have need of such scenarios at a store event or personnel fun. I'm several battles behind atm due to my cat Candle wanting to play Civ V - ty all for the great games Glad to hear others are getting use out of these scenarios. If anyone plays them and has feedback I’d love to hear it.
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Post by hardlec on Jul 29, 2018 20:04:20 GMT
My only regret is that I can't do more than a "LIKE."
We need an AWESOME! BULLY! BULLY! BULLY! button.
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Post by madmorgan on Jul 31, 2018 8:35:15 GMT
Hmmm wonder if our friends at IG would do a scenario book, using some of the material from the forum. I'm sure the authors would work for 'swaps' of gaming items in payment. Just saying there are real gems here that may never be seen by new players in the light of day.
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Post by scottwashburn on Jul 31, 2018 13:04:21 GMT
Great looking game! Well done!
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