MULESKINNERS 2

 

Scenario 2: The Factory

Having made it into town the crew find themselves in a heavily industrialised area overgrown with the weeds of years.

‘Slim pickings....’

Then a voice raised and distressed, it seems to be coming from the broken down factory to the left. A Pathfinders life is not just looting and shooting...that’s for the savages.
Whoever it is they need help and at this point in history every human life counts.....

Scenario rolls were...Interior/search/mutants (again!) and ‘starting adversaries’ as a complication for a bit of spice which turned out to be 2 blood wyrms (meh) and a mutant hulk...oh.

Turn 1 was all movement and a failure to complete the first of the four required searches. Barnes scored the first search at the second attempt in turn2 and found two mutants and an alpha too...Harris circled round to the second quadrant and caught the eye of the hulk. While Johansen got a second search. Newman Smith scored a hit a blood wyrm then was jumped by Barnes’s revealed mutants!

Out with the machete says he and chops them up taking two hits in the process (good shot...ouch!)
Busy turn 3 for Barnes the boss, random spawning (another alpha) he then blasts the first alpha to hell, claimed a savage marker and splashed a blood wyrm to boot!

Harris scored another search (one more will reveal the position of the scientist in distress) but the alpha and mutants pile up around her as her rifle jams. Elsewhere some pesky rad rats claim the salvage that the injured Smith was angling for.

Turn 4 sees a deal of inconclusive scuffling centre board which moves Harris to venture an incendiary grenade.

'Give us some warning will you?'

The explosion lights up mutants rats and sets fire to an enraged hulk (fire!)
Smith limps on...scores a salvage marker and makes it into the final quadrant ready to make the final search next turn 

'Nice one Newman!'

Turn 5 sees Barnes zero another alpha then jam! Harris needs the whole turn to un-jam her rifle, Johansen jams too and is forced to consolidate with her crew mates. Only Smith seems to be still working completing the last search  and finding the scientist hiding in a truck!
They just need to hold him for the last three turns to claim the victory ...

Barnes spends turn 6 Un-jamming his shotgun and claiming the scientist while Harris try’s out her newly acquired armour piercing rounds on the hulk but misses. Johansen can only manage a default move and Smith circles the truck and sees two good hits on the hulk turned by its armour.

Turn7 breaks the crew...another jam for Barnes forces him to close with the hulk to protect the scientist (brave but foolish) beating a mutant hulk to death with the butt of his shotgun was always wishful thinking and eight hits in return blasts him out of the game despite his armour.

An already injured Harris succumbs to a mutant and plucky newcomer Smith is trodden on by the same hulk that got Barnes.

'Newman!!!'

In the confusion Johansen grabs the scientist and moves out of range of the rampaging hulk
Last turn and a massive roll by Johansen finally wrestles the initiative from the bad guys only to fail activation and get trapped in combat with a giant spider that had been waiting for its chance since turn five.

Her armour saves her as the last mutants converge. The hulk activates but has no LOS for a killing debris throw and can’t get into combat with her due to its 4 inch move....

A very narrow victory but at what cost?

DOWNTIME

Well...
Barnes will miss the final mission (something's busted) Harris however returns, thankfully unharmed, and Crazy Clyde also comes back fully rested to take on the role of senior crew mate or a mission

'You put the monkey in charge!?!'

Smith however failed his survival roll and now lies in a shallow, unmarked footprint somewhere in a quiet corner of Sector 12, not quite surviving one mission...

'What was that guy’s name? The one who got stepped on?’

Rewards were 6 XP and one salvage for the scientist, as anyone who was carrying salvage was taken out. The problem now is ammo...reorganising supplies gives the four remaining  crew enough for the next scenario but if they don’t find anymore and some rations then it’s back to base....Will they be able to get the scientist to safety?

Next (and last) mission: Get to da ch...oh never mind....