Holiday games

 We managed to play a few games over the past week.

First off, instead of our usual D&D session, Arthur set up a Fistful of Lead game, set somewhere between Russian and British controlled territory in Afghanistan.   Arthur set it up as a three-way battle, with his intent being that the Russians and British would fight each other for the village, while the Afghans would snipe at both sides.  As it turned out, things happened a bit different from Arthur's original plan!

Here is the village that the troops will battle for.

Each of the imperial forces had an officer (veteran, d12) and 4 riflemen (d10).  The Afghans had no veterans, but they did each get a couple groups of 3 grunts (d8) each.

British force carefully advances into the village.

Meanwhile, the Russians enter the village from the other side.

The first British soldier enters the orchard, and is immediately ambushed and cut down by a group of Afghan warriors.

Remaining British are more cautious and shoot at the Afghans rather than risk hand to hand combat.

Russians were carefully checking each location, but found no Afghans.  Arthur eventually figured out that Oliver had set up all of his Afghans to attack his father's British soldiers.

British soldiers carry on fighting the Afghans.  Smoke clouds represent shock on the affected models.

Russians continue their careful advance.

The skirmish between the British and Afghans continues.

Meanwhile the Russians move in behind the skirmishing warriors.

After the Afghans and British battled to a standstill, the Russians came in and cleaned up.

Today, Arthur and I played a couple of scenarios for our Mad Dogs With Guns campaign.  

In the first game, my Dockworkers gang conducted a raid against the Rum Room, a speakeasy on the South Side of Chicago.  As we don't actually have any big city terrain, Chicago's South Side ended up looking a bit less urban.

Lucius and his gangsters move to the front door.

Meanwhile at the rear of the building, Crazy Ivan and Modest Mike climb up the back stairs.

A defender of the speakeasy looks out the window at Crazy Ivan and his friend move up.

My tommygunner Chun Lee opens up into the main room of the speakeasy but ends up jamming his submachinegun for the rest of the game.

Upstairs, Crazy Ivan and Mike beat up the Southsiders.

On the ground floor, Lucius and Sam were too slow to intervene, and the blonde southsider managed to call for support.

Not shown in the photos, a car with 6 low-level gangsters showed up (summoned by the blonde's phone call) and slowed the Dockworkers efforts to take over the Rum Room.

Meanwhile, two jokers were drawn from the deck, signalling outrage and a police response!

All the gangsters dashed for the exits.  Most of the Dockworkers escaped, but Modest Mike was cornered by the police and was arrested.

Final result for the Dockworkers.  The raid failed, Crazy Ivan suffered a gruesome death, and Sam the Shovel was knocked out and arrested.

We next played out an ambush as Arthur's corrupt Mounties tried to hijack an NPC truck.  Here is the truck coming along the road, with a driver, hoodlum co-driver and an enforcer with a tommygun in the back of the truck.

The truck comes around the corner, spots the roadblock and slams on the breaks.  As the driver puts the truck into reverse, Arthur recognises that he didn't consider that the truck might not stay still and allow it to be taken!

The Mounties open fire on the truck, as their mooks rush forward to seize the truck.  The BAR gunner in particular is quite indifferent about risk, and fired while his friend Inigo Montoya was nearby.  Inigo had to dive for cover to escape his own friend's fire!

The BAR gunner knocks out the tires, and the brakes, and damages the motor.  The truck crashes and is immobilised for the rest of the game.

The truckers return fire, killing and wounding some of their attackers.

But it's too little, too late.  The Mounties' BAR gunner keeps shooting, until a bullet hits the fuel tank and starts a fire.  The vehicle explodes, killing the truckers as well as one of the Mounties.

Final result, the truckers were all killed, the truck exploded, and for the Mounties, they lost two of their gang killed and two wounded.