Galactic Empire Troops Shoot Something

Another Sunday night at the club and this time Dave and his Shadow Collective, led by the fearsome Darth Maul, take on my Empire, led by the implacable General Veers. An 800 point game, the mission was to capture and hold the objective markers scattered across the middle of the table. Here's the table just after we'd started.

I had a very vague plan to spend a couple of turns shooting before making a dash. With this mind I made the best use of Veers' ability to buff the shooting of nearby units and pounded away at the enemy line. I have to be fair here and say that the troops had clearly been practicing on the range, plus Dave's armour save rolls were not kind to him at all. However, I managed to repeat the little blunder of leaving Veers slightly exposed when he used his Maximum Firepower command card. The Pyke disruptor rifle wounded the General who had to scramble for cover.

On my left flank it was going very well indeed and the first two turns saw many Black Sun, Pyke Syndicate and even Mando Super Commandos tumble in to the sand. The AT-ST was awesome!

My right flank was a much more cautious affair. Two squads of those infamous men in white armour faced off against a squad of Black Sun and some more Mandos, both of which had enhanced leaders. Keep firing lads!

Here you can see that my Speeder Bikes have swept around the flank and are closing in on the centre. Also, by this point Darth Maul had plunged in to my line and slaughtered a whole unit of Death Troopers (in one round!), but thankfully he was just a little too far from the other unit to use his Force powers to drag them in to combat. In reply, Veers dished out the Aim tokens and had everything target the dreaded Sith Lord, who fell in a storm of blaster shots.

Meanwhile, on my left the Mandos had thinned out the Stormtroopers and were gunning for Veers and his bodyguard of Death Troopers. They got within range 2 and let rip with their pistols. Bravely the Death Troopers fell to protect their General. In reply, Veers cracked off a few well aimed shots (felling a Mando) and quite literally dived behind some solid cover.

The AT-ST, lacking any targets ahead, pivoted and brought it's guns to bear on the Mandos. Only their leader remained after the blizzard of blaster shots. But she quickly fell to the guns of the Stormtroopers.

So that was it, Veers' brave lads had seen off the motley collection of gangers and Mandalorians. My thanks to Dave for a great, if slightly one sided game. Plenty of comedy moments as the dice did crazy things. Also, I now properly understand the rules for Pierce and Deflect, amongst other things.