Galactic Heroes - Moon Wars - Space X vs Blue Origin

 So I have all my space men painted and wanted to have a game using the Galactic Heroes rules. I quickly decided that Blue Origin and SpaceX would go to war (AKA Kinetic Business Competition) on the moon.

So the situation is that NASA has discovered a crashed alien spacecraft on the Moon and SpaceX and Blue Origin have sent out teams to claim it for themselves.

An overview of the table - SpaceX in bottom right and Blue Origin in top left

Blue Origin in their orange jump suits.

SpaceX in their stylish white suits

 Both sides have four squads of three Grunts armed with auto-rifles. One squad on each side has a grenade launcher.

The alien space ship

Both sides move up. Blue Origin is faster while SpaceX is more cautious

Blue Origin has won the race and got to the crater with the alien space ship. SpaceX will need to attack while Blue Origin hides in cover.

And it all goes wrong for Blue Origin. Despite a fusillade of shots they only get one wound (kill) on a SpaceX astronaut (blood splatter middle right) and one shock on another SpaceX astronaut. However, there is nothing more embarrassing than blazing away point blank at your enemy and running out of ammo. (Two pistol chits next to Blue Origin men.)
Return fire from SpaceX kills four Blue origin astronauts and puts a whole lot of shock on the ones who ran out of ammo.

More bad news for Blue Origin with another two dead (top centre) and one dead in the middle crater while SpaceX take over.

 

The final turn, Space X get the initiative, blast Blue Origin's grenade launcher and the rest of them decide discretion is the better part of valour and run away.

So a short and deadly game with a fun and unexpected twist in the middle. 

I like the Galactic Heroes rules, using the playing cards for activations makes it nice and random for a solo game as well as keeping track of who has moved each turn.

Not happy with my moon table. The flock has all faded where I left it out in the sun, so I have been doing some painting to bring it back to scratch as well as making some rough terrain to add some more variety. I have also started to build a moon base for either side to attack.

New Aliens

 I saw that Pendraken had a newish range of fantasy monsters and I decided that some of them would make excellent aliens for various sci-fi adventures, so here they are.

Carnivorous vegetables

Happy family of toothy & leggy monsters

Flying toothy monsters

A flock of giant birds - very colourful

Some demon types from the planet heaven

And a shot of them all, including the unicorns that didn't get an individual shot.

Anyway, something to add to the table.

VSF - Martian Assault - The Empire Strikes Back - or Humans Sir! Thousands of em!

 As the Martian controlled area expanded many humans were overrun and went in to hiding.  Some of them formed into partisan groups, armed with weapons scavenged off battlefields, they started to make raids on Martian installations.

The Martians believed the colonisation effort was going well despite the human efforts to resist. However, some Martians were becoming fatigued and they were sent to small posts to keep control over the land and to manage the Mars-forming efforts to make Earth into a liveable Martian colony. 

Here we see one such outpost, a primitive human abode that was easily fortified with a Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator covering the road in both directions, Martians are manning the walls and two small pickets are in position further out.

The Mars-forming efforts are going well with the Martian trees loving all the moisture on Earth.

An overview of the isolated outpost and the approaching humans. A downed tripod marks the site of a rare human victory.

The outpost with it's stored human blood bins.

The revolting natives

The natives start their attack, a well placed shot by the Q-36 kills a base of cavalry but the natives push on undeterred

The natives continue their assault, pushing through the Martian forests to avoid the Q-36 

The natives attack! Their primitive cannon has deployed next to the destroyed tripod.

Disaster! the native cavalry has made it inside the compound. But one of the native infantry companies has been destroyed.

The battle see-saws - the Q-36 is destroyed! Only a few Martians survive.

A final volley of fire destroys the native cavalry and the rest  of the natives retreat. But only a few Martians are left to savour the victory.

Well a fun game. Poor Brits lose again but that is often the fate of the natives when facing a coloniser with superior weaponry.

The Martians are free to push on to London.