Wrong End Of The Kill Zone

Tonight my Wyld Kats took on the Van Saar of the Carbon Copies and got absolutely wrecked - the combination of plasma guns and a highly mobile hand flamer with my own inability to sit tight in a nice close confines and force them to come to me meant that the third and final game in the first half of this campaign did not go my way at all, and the Narco Den ended up with the Carbon Copies!

Deployment - I was hoping to try and use Tia Venom and Faye Starr to cover the kill zone with close combat backup from Penny Diamond, while Fancy, Vikki, and Ripperjack waited in the close corridors to jump anyone who came after them

End Round 1: Tia Venom went out of action to the very first shot of the game from the Carbon Copies' boss Axel and his plasma gun, while Faye Starr was pinned by plasma fire from the champion Bella's own plasma gun. Penny joined Fancy, Vikki, and Ripperjack out of line of sight!

End Round 2: Ouch! In an attempt to try and get some flanking pistol shots both Fancy and Ripperjack got shot down - Fancy having managed to pin the Ambot with a max power plasma shot that both failed to wound and caused her to run out of ammo, she was then send out of action by Bella. Ripperjack, stood just to the side of the gap in the right wall, got flamed by Gina the neotek.

End Round 3: Having decided not to face off against the Van Saar, Faye Starr legged it through the door to try and catch up with the others. Unfortunately Gina the neotek swung round on her hoverboard and set both Vikki Vicious and Penny Diamond on fire!

End Round 4: The ambot coup de gras'd Vikki Vicious, who had been left with a serious injury, and then Faye managed to wound it with her stub gun (atta girl)! Penny Diamond put the fire out and then moved into cover.

End Round 5, end game: Penny managed to charge and take out the ambot, then, with a judicious use of the tactics card Chain Attack, got into combat with Gina and took her out of action too - before being shot to bits, of course. Then the remainder of the Carbon Copies lined up to take turns shooting at Faye until she succumbed. At this point, with my two remaining gang members seriously injured, I conceded.

In the aftermath it turned out both Vikki Vicious and Ripperjack Knox were critically injured... and I could only afford to treat one at the doc. So Vikki lived, and Ripperjack died of her burns. Worse, neither of my Settlements produced any Juves or Gangers, and I rolled well below average for their income again. On the plus side, it turned out that Penny had savagely dismantled the ambot with her power sword, destroying it - Gina on the other hand survived... next time I'll get her!

So now we lick our wounds and prepare for the second phase of the campaign. The Wyld Kats might be down, but we're not out!

And there were a lot of other games at the club, too:

40K - Marines vs Necrons

Extra tiny WW2

Two games of Bolt Action (on the right, Finns vs Poles, on the left Germans vs British I think)

Beautifully painted SAGA

More 40K - Chaos Knights vs Imperial Guard

More 40K - Dark Angels vs Genestealer Cults

More (!) 40K - Tau vs Tyranids

More (!!) 40K - Dark Angels vs very lovely Imperial Guard, I think Death Korps

Age of Sigmar: Spearhead

Kill Team (3rd edition)

Kill Team (3rd Edition)

Even MORE 40K - Eldar vs Chaos Marines

And finally there was...

The Old World - Grudge match! High Elves vs Dwarfs

The more I see of 10th Edition 40K the less I like it. I think I'll stick to 4th Edition and be happy about it honestly.

Anyway, there you go, a nice little Battle Report and some photos of games in progress at Warwickshire Gamers to start the week.