We played another game of Aliens vs. Colonial Marines and it was a good ‘un! This was actually the second play-through of a scenario, but I think it worked really well the second time. Pictures below.
The scenario features a small number of human combatants—9 Marines, 4 special forces troopers, and 10 cops—trying to both evacuate civilians and gather supplies before falling back to a secure facility, all while xenomorphs pour in through two mountain passes.
The board starts with several supply caches, an emergency transmitter which the humans need to manually turn on, and four gaggles of civilians. Each gaggle has to roll 1D6 at the end of every turn—once they total 15, they have successfully evacuated and are removed to the secure facility. But if the bugs get to the civvies first…
The game was tense and competitive until the very end. At first, human firepower—pulse rifles with underslung grenade launchers, smart-guns, robotic sentries, and an incinerator—stopped the alien assault cold. But, gradually, the bugs tightened the noose. Human units started running out of ammo and failing morale checks, all the while more and more xenomorphs arrived, and finally the bugs got a breakthrough out of both mountain passes. They overran one group of civilians (the other 3 escaped) and destroyed most of the human fighters.
It was an alien victory, but the game was close.
Key moments of heroics for the humans:
PFC Schmidt, "Schmidthead" to his friends, standing off against several aliens alone, pulse rifle burning through mags and grenades, until he was finally dragged away to the hive for impregnation;
The SF troopers risking their all to grab one of the supply caches;
The Marines in one mountain pass outnumbered 8:1, but they chose when to withdraw! (sure, they got eaten a moment later, but no slime-covered bug-monster told them they had to leave!)
I'm going to eventually write up the scenarios we've been testing to share online.
All figures by Khurasan; paper models are a mix of manufacturers. Not sure about the mountains. Thanks for looking!
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