From: Mark Sykes <tardis@b...>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:05:52 +1000
Subject: Cancon-Stargrunt 2 demo
This was run by Owen Glover <oglover@mov.vic.gov.au> and was based on a certain incident in a movie, which for copyright reasons, escapes me just now. Bugs Don't Surf was be a helpful title. On the beach and in from the dunes were 3 kravak air defence weapons, a hidden squad of?5, and an HQ. The forces of goodness, righteousness and Imperial oppression ( or should that be, enlightenment) were a 4 squad platoon of OU infantry in VTOL transports. These squads were to suppress the Kravak, detach a figure to race across the beach to the nicely modelled surf and moved to the line of the breaking waves. (Did I say the terrain was good?) The game ended when the surfer made it to the line of the breaking waves. This swim would have been tricky unless the OU troops suppressed the Kravak. The rules were slightly simplified by not adding all to terrain and cover modifiers (especially for the Kravak and new players). There were laminated rules and squad summaries for the players and plenty of dice. The figures were the GZG Oceanic Union infantry with the exception of the sniper in "Yowie" suit and the harlequin SAM. Duncan Robertson used the NEW OU power armour figures as one of his squads when he played. Sadly their airdrop landed them on some well prepared kravak squad and they were left with a wounded troooper and a no longer power armoured communications guy. These poor chaps were sadly finished off by one of my gunships crash landing directly on them. (The crew survived) Sorry Duncan. Anyway it was fun and a good introduction and the trooper made it to the surf. Ask Nic Robson @ eureka Miniatures about the new OU figures. (Don't mention the Humpty Dumpty power armour - Ooops) MarkS