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.

VSF - Martian Assault - Flitwick Surprise

 After the Martian's victory at Bedford the Martians pushed on towards London so they could crown themselves rulers of Britain.

"Is this railway line the only way to get to London?" asked Martian 1.

"Yes, they don't have canals here, at least not proper ones. The humans fill their canals with water, the fools." said Martian 2 as the tripod moved towards their next target - Flitwick - a non descript human slum on the way to London.

"What do you mean fill their canals with water? How stupid is that? How do they go up hills? Mars! humans are dense"

Martian 2 replied "They have this elaborate set of machinery so they can drain water from uphill and catch it going down hill and then move their floating carts with the water. It is horribly complicated and if they had any brains they would have dry canals to make it easier. The Big Head said that once we are established we will drain all the canals or turn them into floating places - to get some relief from this hideous gravity!"

The Martians moved into sight of Flitwick - In the large Tripod the crew cut the chatter and they reported back to base - "It doesn't seem defended. There are some of those horse soldiers on the hill behind the town and a couple of carts running away. Not large guns. Piece of cake. We are moving into the town!" 

On the hill behind Flitwick, the Cavalry Captain turned to the operative from Her Majesty's Department of Dirty Deeds (DODD), "do you think it will work?". "I hope so, the canons damaged them at Bedford, so the theory is good. It certainly worked in Afghanistan." Before the Captain could ask anymore the Martians started to advance.

The Martians advance while the two wagons run for cover.

One of the wagons doesn't make it.

The Martians enter the town, it seems to be undefended.

The mines go off. Seemingly innocent barrels have been filled with gunpowder! Explosions ripple down the street destroying the Martian Tripods.

The Martians get off a single destress call and then all goes quiet.

The man from DODD surveys his handiwork - Her Maj will be amused!

A win for the British! But the Martian juggernaut rolls onto Luton.