Space Crusade Mission 1: Seek & Destroy - COMPLETED

[Maturin]

Goddamn Gorman

So how does the h2h work, by the way, do you have to have the higher applicable damage of the two rolls, and then that damage is applied?

Yes, the highest score wins the combat. And then the amount you win by is the number of HP that gets taken off the loser. Armour is ignored.

One Bolter marine left!

[Sly Boots]

Ok, cool. So in that case Apone will go to U17 and fire at the ork with his bolter.

2 + 4

[Maturin]

And that 2 on the white dice is enough to get past the Ork's armour.

Apone showing Gorman how it's done!

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[Sly Boots]

Nice, felt good to restore some pride for the unit

Did I really only get 10 points from all those, though?

And I've gone back and looked at how many enemies are on the map... there looks to be an awful lot waiting for us in the last quadrant

[Maturin]

Sorry I'll update the scores...

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[Sly Boots]

I've also just realised I could have used Gorman's bionic arm to reroll on his turn... oh well, must remember in future.

Anyway, thanks for an entertaining evening mate, I feel like tomorrow is when the real bloodbath will commence

[Maturin]

Yes, that's in use for the whole mission. I'd forgotten about that too.

That was a decent start I thought! The Blood Angels are in quite a strong position, since they've cleared their quadrant and can choose to search for the primary objective before the others. The Ultramarines still have a rogue blip to deal with in their sector though, which could slow them down. That's if they want to deal with it.

Imperial Fists are in a good position too if they can clear these remaining enemies quickly.

Still all to play for.

By the way, the primary objective gives a whopping 30 points to the squad which achieves it! And on top of that the Dreadnought itself is worth 25 points....

[Mantis]

What's the primary objective again, I thought it was to kill the Dreadnought.

[The Jackal]

It's alright, it'll get quicker.

I meant I was too lightheaded to follow/catch up somewhere within the eight pages I found when I got in from work... I'll be able to fill myself in when I've, well, filled myself up.

[Maturin]

What's the primary objective again, I thought it was to kill the Dreadnought.

Yep, that's the primary objective. So the squad which deals the killing blow gets 55 points in one fell swoop! Which is why you don't need to worry about losing you Marines too much; the commander which kills him could conceivably win the game even if he loses all 4 Marines.

Also, because the Dreadnought has 3 life points it doesn't automatically mean the first squad which finds him will kill him in 1 turn.

[Maturin]

I thought it best just to remind you of your Order/Equipment cards you have available. You'll be needing to use them soon:

Remember, Order cards must be used at the very start of a turn. Equipment cards can be used at any time, plus you can use more than 1 in a turn.

Blood Angels: Commander Gorman
Order Cards:
Fire!
Equipment Cards:
Forcefield
Bionic arm
Melta bomb
Blind grenades

Ultramarines: Commander Valius
Order Cards:
Move it!
Equipment Cards:
Medi-Kit
Bolt Pistols
Digital Weapons
Blind Grenades

Imperial Fists: Commander Trusst
Order Cards:
Fire!
Equipment Cards:
Melta bomb
Bionic eye
Suspensors
Targeter - Plasma Gun

[Maturin]

Animalmother, I've just noticed you took the Bionic Eye equipment card which is no use to you since your Commander is carrying the Power Glove and Sword. It's only relevant for the other 2 commander weapons.

So I'll allow you to swap it out for another Equipment card. I'd recommend Blind Grenades.

[Sly Boots]

FYI we've been invited round to the house of one of my daughter's friends this evening for 'drinks and snacks', so not sure what time I'll be around.

However, my next move was really only going to be setting up for the turn thereafter, so if it gets to say 5pm and that turn hasn't come round yet I'll post up my proposed moves just so things can keep moving while we're being wined and semi-dined...

[Maturin]

Sure thing.

I might quickly add some little icons to the commander avatars to remind us about rerolls and things.

That's done. So this'll just show us that Mantis' Commander can reroll a dice with his digital weapons, Sly can reroll a dice with his bionic arm (and has Armour 3 with his Forcefield), plus Mantis' bolters have 1 extra dice in H2H with Bolt Pistols. Animalmother's Plasma gun already had the Targeter icon for his reroll:

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[Animalmother]

If you can swap out the bionic eye for flash grenade that would be great thanks.