Turn 4

(1) Upkeep & Ship Repairs

No repairs necessary.

Ship Upkeep 6 credits. 16 + 1= 17 - 6 = 11

Crew Upkeep 1 credit

(2) Assign & resolve crew tasks.

Cap-Find patrons

Wolf-Trade, 17, bits of scrap = 1 credit

Brax-Find patron

Botticelli- Trade,11, quality food and booze. Recruit single use character.

Flash Hari-train, +1 xp

Cromwell-Explore, 33, Get yourself noticed. No rivals.

(3) Determine job offers

Patron 1 Hawkwind Industries

+1 danger pay, this or next turn. B-0, H-0, C-0.

Patron 2 Sector Government

+2 danger pay. This turn. B-0, H-0, C-0.

I threw 1x6D dice to choose the corporation from the list of current patrons. The latest, Hawwind Industries was chosen by the dice.

THE CSI will take the 2nd job offer.

(4) Assign Equipment

The crew will take their usual equipment. Cap & Wolf will take the Stimpack and Brax The Medipatch.

(5) Resolve rumours.

No rumours.

(6) Choose your battle

61-Surprise encounter

Objective - secure

Enemy - criminal elements -77 Skulker Brigands.

Leughtenant  +1 combat blade

Specialist - Power Claw

Enemy 3, +3=6. Panic 1-2. Speed 6". Combat +0. Toughness 3. AI C, cautious. Weapons,military rifles.

Turn 3 post battle

(1) Resolve rival status

Rolled 3. Unity do not become rivals.

(2) Resolve patron status

Not taking this patron.

(3) Quest progress

N/A

(4) Get paid

1xd6=1(mission success raises it to minimum of 3) + 2 danger pay = 5 creds earned.

(5) Battlefield finds

88-vital info, add corporate patron to patrons list.

(6) Check for invasion

No invasion

(7) Gather the loot

83-rewards-77-ship parts discount of 3 creds.

(8) Determine Injuries & recovery

None sustained

(9) Experience & character upgrade

ALL crew members gain 3XP for completing the mission without injury.

Cap- +3XP

First to inflict casualty +1 =4 XP

Updated to 8XP

Upgrade +1 toughness (4) -6 XP = 2XP

BRAX - +3 XP.

Updated to 9 XP

Upgrade reactions to 2 -7XP = 2XP

WOLF-+3 XP =12XP 

Upgrade reactions to 2 -7XP = 5

Cromwell-+3XP =10XP

Upgrade toughness to 4 -6XP =4XP

Hari- +3XP = 4XP

Botticelli does not gain XP

(10) Advanced training

None undertaken

(11) Purchase items

None purchased

(12) campaign event

73-night of drinking, watching movies & playing cards. +1Story point

(13) Character event

Wolf-87-N/A

(14)Galactic war

N/A

The delivery (turn 3 mission)

A simple delivery. In a Unity facility. Armed grunts. Heavy weapons. Possibly back-up of hundreds.

The trouble is, you can't go many places without a weapon. Just in case.

What are the likely to think if we turn up packing? Raid for weapons or supplies, I'd guess. They wouldn't wait to ask the questions. The lead, or lasers, would be flying in our direction before we could express our peaceful intentions. 

Well, the crew was ready. I sent Hari & Brax to approach through the shanty town (the delayed deployment).

Cromwell, Wolf, Bott and I approached through the crazy forest. Not that it gave us a lot cover.

I had given Bott the package and the boosted leg. Figured he could survive a couple of hits better than any of us.

The view coming from the crazy forest.

The view from the Unity facility.

Two grunts on the roof, two ground patrol.

Cromwell ran to a clump of bushes ( the only one on first move).

It brought a shot, which sounded like it was from a marksmanship rifle, from a grunts on the roof. Luckily it missed. Damn! This made it a more dangerous mission than even I expected.

Coming out of the forest the 3 of us dashed towards the cover of some containers.

No sign of Hari & Brax.

Wolf & Bott (1st activation) moved in close behind the containers.

The marksman and his buddy on the roof, both shot at Cromwell. Missed.  The other sentries advanced towards our position.They were about the same distance from the drop point than Bott. I moved up & Cromwell took a shot at his tormentors. Looked like he missed.

Hari & Brax showed. My spirits were raised though they weren't in a position to affect anything yet.

The grunts kept firing at Cromwell who had hunkered down. They missed, but not by much.

Hari was still out of range so moved up, Brax also moved up (1st act) into a position where he could shoot at something. His target was a little obscured, but he hit. Whatever, the armour was enough to stop it. It gave them something to think about.

Wolf moved round the container, shot and missed. I did the same but didn't. One down. We were both exposed to return fire. Cromwell took a shot and missed

The grunts didn't bail as I had hoped they would.

Was te distraction of Har, Brax and losing one man enough of a distraction? It seemed not with grunt only yards from the drop point. Bott stayed in cover, waiting his chance.

Hari moved into range of the guys on the roof. Three shots, two hits. He went down. Great shooting! 

I shot at the grunt. Missed. I could have, should have, ducked back. But I didn't want to leave Wolf exposed. He shot back and I was hit. My stim pack kicked in as I sank to the ground. 

The grunt on the roof took a shot at Cromwell. Missed again! He shot back. Missed. At least keeping each other busy.

Wolf shot at the grunt. Hit. But this grunt seemed impervious to lead.

Bott made his move. Just a few yards more!

It was now the grunt on the roof decided to bail judging it too exposed, being out numbered and out gunned.

Bott moved up (1st act) delivered the package to the base of the column.

The lone grunt decided to withdraw. Thankfully.

Our mission accomplished, we scoured the field as quickly as we could.

Turn 3

(1) Upkeep & ship repairs

1 cred crew upkeep

2 creds ship debt

No medical care

(2) Assign & resolve crew tasks

Cap- find Patron. Found (6+) 2 jobs.

Wealthy individual - danger pay +2. Time this turn +2. No extra benefits

Wealthy individual - danger pay +2. This turn. No extra benefits.

Took the 2nd offer.

Battle deployment, 74, 2 crew delayed.

No notable sights.

Mission objective - 3 - deliver.

Enemy- hired muscle-50-Unity Grunts.

No's +1, rolled 3 = 4 in total.

Panic1

Speed 5

Combat 1

Toughness 4

AI T = tactical movement

Weapons 2c infantry lasers + 1 marksman rifle.

Train - Wolf & Brax + 1 xp

Trade - Hari (41) & Cromwell (44) trade goods. Roll on arrival at new planet.

Botticelli - ship guard.

We are all set for another job. 

Going up against Unity is not in our interests but I took the job before knowing. Probably NOT in our interests to have THEM as rivals. Fingers crossed!

Logs

Update on the crew log and World record sheet.

Paying for the medical training used up the gains from the recent job and a little more besides. But I think it was a good decision if it helps in the long term.

Upgrading Hari should have benefits in the long term. I should have looked at the XP overall and upgraded more crew members for various abilities. That is one to remember for after the next job. 

Although the crew is surviving it is scraping around for creds. The meanness of the Patrons (low dice rolls for benefits) is a little irritating.

Although I haven't seen anything in the rules I've named the two wealthy patrons. I may name the corporations when it seems appropriate.

In the future, I would want to give bonuses to rolls for benefits where a patron has used the crew 3 or more times. 

Below are the current crew log and world record sheet 

Post battle

(1) Rival status - No rival.

(2) New patron - wealthy individual

(3) Quest- no quest

(4) Pay-4 creds + 2 danger pay + 6 creds loot.

(5) - Battlefield finds- 

23 - usable goods, 1 stim pack. 

71- Debris, 1d3 +1 creds. Total 4 creds.

(6) - Invasion- no invasion.

(7) - Loot - 89 - rewards, 1 x suitable- 71- ship parts. Discount of next ship component purchase. 1d6 +2 = 6 creds discount.

(8) - Injuries, recovery. Cap - 95 - knocked out. No long term effects.

(9) - Experience. All, except Cap gain 3 exp.

Hari + 1 xp, 1 story point to upgrade to 3xp = +1 combat.

(10) - Training.

Cromwell Medic training. 1 cred + 20 cred = 21 creds.

(11) - Purchase items

3 creds, Gear table - 70 - Med Patch

(12) - Campaign event - 9 - new character. Decided to take the Story point.

(13) - Character event - Brax - 76 - feels grea! Ignore roll on injury table next roll. 

(14) Galactic war - no galactic war

Some painting

 Just a quick update to show the progress on the previous post.

Last thing to work on are the bases.

Other than that, the off-world habs have now been glued to bases. Finishing those and I'm ready for the next mission.

Turn 2. Colony Square rumpus (aar/battle report)

We approached Colony Square as discreetly as we could. As much as 6 heavily armed people could approach discreetly. The place looked in lock-down. Even the Med. Centre looked closed.

Colony Square, now just district 2, is one of the oldest parts of Ebaracum. It still has the off-world habs that were constructed in the second phase of colonisation. It looked good for its age. A little shabby, but generally cared for. Unlike current construction, it was set onto carbonised earth. It was the cheapest basing for habs back when.

There are local plants and bushes which brightens up the place.

Our target was the square, where the 'old Earth' statues stood, paused mid-fight with an alien creature. Hold the location, drive out the  raiders.

We got the drop on them (seized initiative), and moved up using the cover of the trees and statues whilst Botticelli tried a long shot which missed. Bott got lucky and tried another shot (only 1x2 rolled in reaction roll giving 1st phase actions) but the target was at long range and pretty well hidden in cover.

The raiders moved up took 3 shots which all missed.

Cromwell moved up, shot and missed. 

Hari didn't miss and the first went down. Brax and I moved closer to the cover of the statues.

One of the raiders bailed out (1x1 on the panic roll)

Hari and Bott moved up. The enemy also. Bott was the target of two shots, him being in the open. Both hit but bounced off his armour (two 6's in his armour saving throws!). Cromwell was shot at which missed.

Bott got the message and moved into cover (1x2 on the reaction roll giving 1st phase action)

Cromwell was the target again and was lucky it missed. I wasn't and went down. 

As Cromwell tells it, he and Hari shot at the same guy, 4 shots all missed. He must have thought it was his lucky day. Until Wolf came round the building and laid him down. Brax took a shot at one and missed.

Another enemy bailed leaving the leader alone. He must be one tough cookie to have stayed!

Bott soon took him down (1x2 on the reaction roll giving 1st phase actions) leaving the crew pretty relieved except for me being down.

The crew held the field and searched for loot while I was attended to.

Colony Square set up

 A few pictures of the set-up for the coming skirmish.

View from behind the Medical Centre. 
The statues in Colony Square

View from behind the Raiders position

View from behind the crews position

Another view from behind the Raiders position

Another view from the opposite side from the Medical Centre

You get a good view of the Off-World habs in these pictures. Cardstock buildings downloaded from Wargames vault.

The cloth is one shown in an earlier post. Such good choices in, some, US fabric shops.

Turn 2 world events

 All in all we were not in a bad position after the first mission. The galactic war was far away and we had no reason, yet, to depart Verulamium any time soon. Let's hope it stays that way a while.

The upkeep for the crew was 1 cred which took us down to 17 creds. The interest on the ship being one cred took that to 21, so I paid another 4 off the debt. The kitty now stood at 13 creds. I hoped for a well paying mission.

Wolf, Botticelli and Cromwell went to train. I was hoping it might help with marksmanship. They had some improvement (+1XP).

Brax, I sent to trade. He wasn't outstanding. Just some scrap he sold for 1 cred. It helps, but, gees!

Hari and I went job hunting. Some corporates offered us a job with 3 creds pay. Unfortunately it had no benefits. Times must be hard for these corporate types.

The job was to secure a location where some raiders had taken up residence.

I allocated equipment ready for the job. Not a lot of difference from the first one. But I'm sure glad we had the shotgun and stims.

I gave Bott the hunting rifle so he could have ranged firing.

I took the shotgun and a stim pack. I gave Wolf a stim pack, too.

Crew

Cap - Reaction 1, Speed 5,  Combat 0, Toughness 3,  Savvy 1, Luck 1,  XP 3

Boosted leg, Shotgun, Infantry laser pistol, stim pack

Wolf - Reaction 1, Speed, 4 Combat 0, Toughness 3, XP 1

Military rifle & stim pack

 Brax - Reaction 1, Speed 4,  Combat 0, Toughness 3,  Savvy 1, XP 3

Infantry laser pistol, Boarding sabre

Botticelli - Reaction 2, Speed 4,  Combat 1, Toughness 4,  Savvy 2,

Hunting rifle, close combat weapon (hammer)

Flash Hari - Reaction 1, Speed 4,  Combat 0, Toughness 3,  Savvy 0, XP 1

Rattle gun

Cromwell - Reaction 1, Speed 4,  Combat 0, Toughness 3,  Savvy 0, XP 1

Military rifle

PS

Don't ask me why Botticelli went training, he can't gain XP!

Hi!

Just a quick update on what I'm currently painting for Five Parsecs from Home. 

The first are Skaven Plague Monks. Stand-ins for the Feral race from Rattus Norvegicus in Ebaracum Galaxy. Upgraded to a formidable force with guns.

Some Necron Warriors for robotic sentries.

A picture to show a Necron Canoptek Wraith. It's bound to be lethal.

Lastly, a Haemotrope Reactor. I have the plasma conduits and this will look great attached to some piping.

The last two, like the plasma pipes and Necron power cells and doors posted in an earlier post, are from the Warhammer Imperial magazines/partworks. I certainly feel they are worth the £8.99 cost.

You will notice the paper buildings in the rear of the pictures. These are downloaded from The Wargames Vault. They are off-world habs. I think they look pretty good.

That is it for now.

Thanks' for dropping by.