From: Richard Kirke <richardkirke@h...>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:30:10 +0000
Subject: [SGII] AAR, Crouching weasle, hidden danger (long)
Since I hadn't played with them yet, and my brother had nearly a platoon of
NAC marines painted up, we thought we'd do something a bit different,.
Set-up: A long winding path, about 7-8 ft long, was set along the length
of the table, with bits of cover (woods, scrub, broken areas, a clasical
temple and some hilly ridges etc) placed along it. The human forces had to
follow the path, exscorting an individual figure, protecting him at all costs
{insert reason here}. The Alien player dices as and when he wishes to use (or
the human player tries to spot into the cover) aliens conceiled in the
piece of cover, each piece contains D6-2 aliens. All the alien player's
dice rolls are kept concieled, and results are explained, i.e. "You can see
something in there" depending on the dice roll (this is pretty much up to the
alien player, if he rolls low then he should be more helpful until a
unit is spotted properly.
The rules I used for the aliens were as follows:
Movement 6 hidden, D12 combat Armor D8 Sensors D8
CA X2, +2 die shifts (any alien downed in CA is considered
dead, on the rational that would be the only thing that would stop an alien in
mid charge) Quality D10
Morale: Ignore first Suppression Removal of suppression automatic but takes an
action Never take morale check Once enemy is detected (must attempt to spot
even when enemy is in the open), must move to engage, once out of cover, move
to close assault.
D6-2 Aliens in each piece of cover.
If there are more than 10 Aliens to be placed on-
table then some hang-back until some of their
comrades have fallen.
Have a terror effect. If a unit breaks then they retreat directly away from
attacking aliens and then another CA is carried out (moving 1 D12 doubled
only), if other aliens are now within range/provoked etc, then they will
also charge.
Extra rule invented on the night: After a succesful CA (like there are many
other kinds for the beasties...) they must spend an action eating the bodies
and wounded.
Wounded: no doubling in CA, 6D6 movement, D6 sensors, +1 die
shift in CA. Once wounded they will engage any enemy within 6 then withdraw
to the nearest cover and stay inactive for a turn (unless provoked).
I know this is not very faithful to the Alien(tm) background, but I can't
realy be bothered with all that.
-{how it went}-
The understrengthed platoon was sadly too weak to take on the alien hordes,
particularly since the first 4 pieces of cover heald 2 3-alien groups,
which inflicted a good deal of punishment, effectively eliminating a squad
each. But it was fun.
The final straw was infact due to a slightly questionable decision to charge
an un-explored piece of cover with a heavy squad (loaned from the UNSC)
which turned out to contain 4 aliens. The 4 surviving members of the force
were going to be no match fro four hungry aliens. They looked like they would
break, and run into the forest, to be devoured by some other unknown nasty,
when they took a "Last Stand" (Now I don't know how many people have ever
tried this, but I have never seen it fail), they stood ready to take on
anything (thus bypassing the 4:1 odds confidence check). The aliens filed them
under BBS (brave but stupid) and ripped them to shreds, but you can't have
everything.
We have decided to re-fight this at some point, but giving the human
forces
a full strength platoon, maybe 5x6-man squads or something.
Thoughts, comments (as long as they are nice...) anyone tried anyhting
similar?