Space Crusade: Mission 2 - Clearing Action - COMPLETED

[Maturin]

Consider him nailed! Your 2 damage easily beats the 0 Armour value of the Gretchin.

Suddenly, your motion tracker lights up...!

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[Animalmother]

Bolter to Q23 and see if he borrow a cup of sugar from yon blip.

[Maturin]

It's another Gretchin, all alone in the corner.

Just to remind you, they have 1 white dice in H2H combat and your bolt pistols give your Bolter 3 white dice.

Although with 0 armour, you only need 1 damage to kill it while firing.

[Animalmother]

Lovely

3 & 1 & 6

[Maturin]

You score 1 damage.

Roll(1d6)+0:
6,+0
Total:6

I roll a 6 in defence (again!), which is useless. So you beat me by 1 to 0 and the Gretchin is dead. I stuck you in S21 to make the H2H attack.

It just shows how risky H2H combat is though, you only scored 1 with 3 dice. If I'd rolled a 2 you'd be dead right now!

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[Animalmother]

Can I get my rocket to M20 to lob one around that corner?

btw I'm using https://www.random.org/dice/?num=3 for my rolls if that's ok?

[Maturin]

That's absolutely fine mate. Looks quite a decent site actually.

Yep you would have line of sight to hit square R18 that's between those 2 enemies. Good spot.

[Animalmother]

Make it so...please

Roll 4 & 3 once the alien scum is revealed

[Sly Boots]

Animal kicking scum-sucking alien ass!

[Maturin]

You detect 2 enemies close together and fire your rocket launcher between them, scoring 3 damage on 1 dice.

I can reveal you have just killed an Ork and another Gretchin! Suspensors really give the Imperial Fists a movement advantage over the other teams, especially in the first turn when the blips are placed down.

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[Animalmother]

Plasma to L24 and Commander to M22

[Maturin]

A strong start for the Imperial Fists as they move sleekly into the Alien-infested ship, dispatching Greenskins with ease, apart from one close battle with a Gretchin. The Blood Angels are a little bogged down.

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We await Mantis, hopefully he'll be on later on today. Note how quickly we can move through the turns now, flowing very smoothly indeed.

[Sly Boots]

I think I erred by opening that first door so soon, thus meaning no enemies could be stationed inside. Lesson learned for next time.

Also:

apart from one close battle with a Gretchin

[Maturin]

Yeah, I typically try to spread the Aliens out a bit as best I can, but I can only put them where you can't see them.

I'm a bit underpowered in these first 2 missions against 3 squads tbh, but that all starts to change from mission 3 onwards. They'll come a point where your goal will simply be to get the Commander back to the airlock alive.

[Animalmother]

Aye, would have been a tad embarrassing if shock trooper Talon Ironstag had been taken out by what's basically a garden gnome.