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Title: Space Pirates vs Scientific cultists - Attack on the Freewinds
Post by: mikos khan on February 25, 2025, 12:55:02 AM

A couple of weeks ago I was browsing the internet and came across a bit of celebrity gossip involving an American actress who had been in a scientific cult and was currently involved in a dispute with them.  Being the curious type I did a little more research and once I found out that the found that the said cult actually owed a cruise ship this the first thing I thought of was pirates!  Not having a suitable miniature for a contemporary pirate game I opted to give it a sci fi setting (mainly because I had the terrain).  The scenario was that the ship of the scientific cult (the Freewinds - which is not based on any real vessel) was carrying the cult leader and two of his Hollywood lackeys (who shall remain nameless but who have the initials JT and TC) plus a good deal of gold to a recruiting seminar when they are intercepted by a combined Quar & human pirate force.  The pirates entered on one end of the vessel and had to fight their way through a substantial force of robotic sentinels before encountering (and quickly routing) a force of cultist rabble.  At this point the advance unit of Quar encountered the first of the cult leader's (L Ron Hubbard in his true form of an alien brain parasite) Hollywood lackeys and in a hard fought action vanquished him.  After the rest of the pirates arrived they then engaged the second of the lackeys (TC) and after finishing him off they cornered the cult leader in this lair and in an epic firefight finished him off.  At this point the pirates looted the ship while we went out for pizza.       

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Post by: mikos khan on February 25, 2025, 12:57:19 AM

Engaging the cultists

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Post by: mikos khan on February 25, 2025, 12:59:33 AM

The pirates advance

Title: Re: Space Pirates vs Scientific cultists - Attack on the Freewinds
Post by: mikos khan on February 25, 2025, 01:02:50 AM

Engaging a lackey

Title: Re: Space Pirates vs Scientific cultists - Attack on the Freewinds
Post by: mikos khan on February 25, 2025, 01:06:22 AM

The end (of L Ron Hubbard)

Title: Re: Space Pirates vs Scientific cultists - Attack on the Freewinds
Post by: fred on February 25, 2025, 07:34:02 AM

That is cool - and pretty bonkers too!

Title: Re: Space Pirates vs Scientific cultists - Attack on the Freewinds
Post by: mikedemana on February 25, 2025, 05:13:31 PM

Great idea for the scenario! The figs and terrain look very nice, too.

Mike Demana

Title: Re: Space Pirates vs Scientific cultists - Attack on the Freewinds
Post by: leadfool on February 26, 2025, 02:03:27 AM

It was a fun game. 

Title: Re: Space Pirates vs Scientific cultists - Attack on the Freewinds
Post by: Ragnar on February 26, 2025, 03:51:50 AM

Game looks great!  It must have been fun to play.

Title: Re: Space Pirates vs Scientific cultists - Attack on the Freewinds
Post by: The_Beast on March 02, 2025, 07:51:10 PM

Couldn't have happened to a nicer, and more deserving, already dead fella...

Thanks for sharing!

Doug