House Party - May '21 - Munda Day

Didn't even have to reschedule this one (though rona played a bit part in the previous session being postponed).

Necromunda, being smaller boards than Epic (especially Mega-Epic) meant that just a 6x4 table-topper, plus an extra plank was enough to put two munda boards on the main table.

Ended up playing... 3 games which was more than sufficient.

A 750pt mission, a 1,000pt mission, and a 1,000 point 4-way uber-mission.

First games were me (van saar) vs dan (delaque)...

and tom (escher) vs gary (enforcers)...

we played specific scenarios, just so we weren't mired by the 'general ruck' malaise - aka to give us some focus.

the 750pt games were something like 'assassinate the corrupt enforcer' - where the team in the middle had a VIP target that they had to escort to the edge of the board, and the other team had to stop them.

This was quite hard as there's a lot of board edge to cover with very few models.

On my board the VIP escaped, on the other board the enforcers managed to shoot him with a sniper as he wasn't adequately meat-shielded.

I think we did lunch bbq after that. Weather wasn't appalling for (general winterly unpleasantness) and it was at least warmer than when we started.

We then went to our 1,000pt squads as a build up to the final mission.

This was my 1,000 pointer... I included melta/claw guy (2nd pic) mainly just so I could try him out/give him a run as he seemed unlikely to make a seriously built list... that said... 

The squad had Fury with twin sub-carbines as the Leader and Overseer skill, paired with Rysaph with a combi-plasma and fast shot skill.  This is a fairly common van-saar loadout that allows the plasma gunner more than 2 actions per turn as the leader can bequeath their actions to another model. so you could potentially shoot plasma 4 times. Or duck out, shoot, shoot again, duck back in. It's a bit cheesy, but cheerleading models isn't unique to this situation, and all crews have access to it. Davos the Melta/Claw guy for shiggles, and the rest are basic lasgun dudes with no armour or extra game to speak of.

The scenario object for second game was for the defending side (tom) to have 5 ammo crates and for me to run over and try to steal them. In our game there was a lot of death for the first 2/3rds of the game, and only in the last turn or two did either of us get back to the mission and start hauling crates away... actually i didn't get any but I kind of rolled up the right-hand side of the board, while tom had the left. If we had kept playing I possibly could have hauled one, maybe two away, though tom's gals would have been pot-shotting me the entire time... and we were down to 2 models each.

Sat out in the sun while we waited for the other game to conclude, around 2pm the warmest part of the day and the sun was nice.

Then we started a 4-way game, the Ambot in the middle was the target. It had some funky and unpleasant rules such as overwatching you if you tried to shoot it... or if you ended your turn in line of sight of it... or something...

I was entirely focused on getting my crew up to the Ambot with the intention of having the melta guy swat it good. Managed to avoid conflicts with the other gangs aside from a minor incident with a wayward dwarf (Enforcer hanger-oner)...

Escher crew...

Pic stolen from tom's insta...

With everyone loaded onto the elevator (which was out of LoS), one of the other gangers ran into cover and hit the 'up' button (and sneakily remaining out of LoS).

Melta guy hosed down the Ambot with a strength 8, 3 wound attack and melted it to slag. Done.

I fully acknowledge that everyone else was generally letting me stick to task.

That said the Enforcers and Delaque were getting distracted by having a bit of bif on their side of the board. The Escher did have their crew approaching the Ambot.

The 3 wound critter was a pretty tough customer though, and i'm sure the regular gangers (mine included) would have suffered several casualties beating it down the conventional way.

All good fun. I had a great day and hope the visitors did too.

Although we 'only' had 3 games, games are rarely quick activities, so getting 3 in was an a worthy effort. Think we finished up around 7pm... 8pm at the latest.

Until next time...