VSF - Martians Land in England 1886

 Now for a short campaign in the home of VSF - Victorian England/Great Britain.

The Martian ships landed north of Bedford and attracted a great crowd of native gawkers and onlookers. The Martians calmly assembled their tripods great and small, ignoring the ignorant natives  who looked on slack jawed.

When all was ready the Great Martian read out the Colonisation Protocol. "Natives of this land, please be informed that you are now citizens, fourth class, of Greater Mars. Your land is now the property of my government. You must obey all orders from any Martian under pain of death."

A great cry went up from the assembled natives and they started forward to remonstrate with the Great Martian, who stood impassive and then ordered a warning shot to be fired and when that did not work, a fusillade of blasters directly into the native hordes.

The natives turned and ran from the deadly force. The Great Martian turned and said to his soldiers, "Today is a great day, when we take this land for ourselves to hold in trust in perpetuity for the natives who don't know what is good for them. We shall exploit this land's riches for the benefit of ourselves and I believe that with strict training the natives will be able to become our servants and helpers."

So the colonisation of Great Britain began.

In this battle the hordes of natives are trying to escape from the Martian Tripods. The British Army is on its way to protect their people and repel the Martian invaders.

The hordes of people have the objective of getting off the board to escape. The British army objective is to stop the Martians and help the people to escape. The Martians need to kill, capture or suck the blood from the natives. Native blood is assumed to have some constituent that protects them from the high Earth gravity. The Martians will drink the blood to help them cope. They will also need to destroy the British army although they don't think anything in the army can hurt them.

So onto the show.

Initial setup - The Martians will enter the board from the top. The hordes are blocking the roads and the British Infantry and Artillery are stuck on the road.

The hordes of civilians block the army

The Martians enter and immediately start blasting

The Infantry go around the panicking peoples while top right the Cavalry charge gloriously against a smaller tripod and even damage it! Top left a infantry company deploys in line and fires, only to see its bullets harmlessly bounce off. A large Tripod devours the humans below it.

The Cavalry continue their attack. The two centre infantry companies deploy so the civilians can escape.

But the Martians make short work of the infantry and few are left . But the civilians continue their escape.

The artillery manages to deploy but one gun is destroyed. The infantry are destroyed only one base remains. The Cavalry are also destroyed. but the sacrifices have not been in vain, the civilians are escaping.

All the guns are destroyed. The tripods chase down the humans

On the left a large group of humans is escaping while a smaller group runs through the woods. A Martian tripod is racing around the woods to cut them off. In the centre a large tripod has got in front of a human horde and deployed its Martian infantry. On the right a human horde has escaped.

On the left the Martian tripod has quickly come round. But the Infantry make a last stand! The main group of humans escape but the smaller group is captured!

In the centre the humans are surrounded and captured! What will be their fate. Slaves of the Martians or to have their blood sucked out!

Final score.

Humans    Damaged 2 small tripods and 1 large tripods - The Martians are shocked

                Escaped with 22 stands of humans

                One glorious disastrous cavalry charge

Martians    Humans captured 14 stands

                    Humans blood sucked out 12 stands

                    Humans killed 41 stands

So its a draw.

But the humans who escaped will provide valuable information for the Army to resist the Martian onslaught.

From the human captives the Martians learn the secret of conquering Britain.