Having just returned from BLAM at the weekend, where we played in gamerMac's great Endor game, both myself and Legionnaire Bert were eager to crack on with some more Galactic Heroes action.
So, quickly throwing some scenery down on the table and coming up with a quick scenario, Operation Shutdown was played out....
On the outskirts of the Northern Forest of Endovv the Cognitive Collective had opened a 'research facility' where they were obviously up to no good (who knows what they were really doing, but it certainly was not going to be for the good of the locals, whatever it was).
Captain Codz-Wollup and his Covert Commandos were dispatched to eradicate this menace by getting into the centre of the prefabricated base and pressing the big 'red button' and shutting it down.
Their mission was to get any member of the team into the building nearest the Cognitive Collective and fiddling with the aforementioned button.
The Cognitive simply had to stop them.
(Told you it was a quick and easy scenario...
).
The Cognitive Research Facility....
The building in the bottom left corner was the objective.
The Commandos were set up in the opposite corner of the table.
The space between the base and forest edge was occupied by a pair of Surveyor Bots, going about their business with their controllers....
...who had quickly got themselves out of their machines when the perimeter sensors had gone off, heading quickly back to their quarters in the base.
The sensors had been unwittingly tripped by the Covert Commandos, who were approaching the base via the forest....
(Sorry, but some of these pics are pretty crap but are necessary for the story to make sense...)
As the alarm was raised the Cyber Hounds were let loose....
...swiftly followed by a second pack.
With the Hounds leading the way, the Robot Legions were soon emerging too, heartily encouraged in binary code by their Cognitive master...
The Cyber Hounds were fast approaching the edges of the forest, eager to find the intruders....
...whilst the Robot Legionaries were closing off the flanks of any approach...
In the meantime the Collective Controller, accompanied by his Robot Bodyguard, could be seen effortlessly and calmly gliding forth to see what the kerfuffle was...
The Commandos emerged at the forest edge and quickly made a break across the open ground towards the base....
....where they were instantly set upon by the Hounds!
They took some nasty licks in this encounter and only through the heroic intervention of their leader did they manage to press on, leaving a number of their party either down or heavily bleeding from a few serious and rust-infected wounds.
They swiftly pressed on, knowing they had lost precious time dealing with the mechanical pooches, which had allowed reinforcements to arrive....
Said reinforcements were quick in leaving their mark, especially the arrival of the second Hound pack, the sight of which made Codz-Wollup emit an audible moan...
As the rest of his team were either gunned down or chewed up, the brave Captain soon found himself alone and receiving the attentions of every mechanical bastard in the area...
Which eventually proved too much, even for the esteemed veteran, who went down under a succession of blows...
....and Operation Shutdown had been shut down.
Leaving the Cognitive Controller to float off back to his base and resume his oil bath in peace.....
Until next time.
NOTE: See the next post for Legionnaire Bert's much funnier version of events.
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