MULESKINNERS 4

Scenario 4: Night Attack: And then there were three…

Following the semi victory of ‘get to da...’ The crew retire to lick their wounds....days later after pushing through a thick band of forest, they spy a number of tents huddled into a circle...everyone is tired so here will be as good a place as any to rest up...but as night falls it soon becomes painfully apparent why the camp has been abandoned...
Wilderness/animals/Protect/night-time.

Charged with protecting their meagre camp (it must be clear of adversaries by the end of turn eight) the crew spend the first turn taking up defensive positions.

 Barnes triggers the appearance of a tentacle with the first roll of the game and reveals two salvage markers as nothing, while Harris reveals one and no bad guys.

Turn two and Barnes claims a salvage then returns to cover, Clyde patrols the perimeters and Harris uses her Looter skill to move a marker within range and neatly claims it but the noise rouses a carnivorous ape that had been dozing in one of the tents!

Johansen deals with a mutant hand to hand style then having no fond memories of the vicious simians reduces it to two condition points pistol wise...enraged the ape attacks Barnes causing a single wound on the leader.

Turn 3 and because he was pushed back Barnes is able to use his only range weapons...grenades...

'...err the incendiary if you please Carruthers?'

Seven fire related hits later and the area is awash with the scent of crispy, aromatic ape!

The tentacle is too far from the light of the bbq and so cannot be targeted so everyone else takes a breather.

Turn 4 sees the arrival of a brace of hyena ticks (gross) which are quickly dispatched by the combined shooting of Clyde and Johansen. 

Harris searches again to no avail and a predatory dinosaur takes to the high ground to survey the camp.

Turn 5 begins with the arrival of two blood wyrms  one of which Barnes toasts with his last firebomb while the other charges and reduces him to wounded for his pyrotechnical mayhem before dying.

Johansen kills another skulking mutant only to find two more in camp and Harris tests the dinosaur's hide with a dose of rifle fire.

Turn six and the bad guys have got to start being cleared from the camp area...cue Barnes who scores a whopping seven hits with a fast ball frag grenade, covering the camp with chunks of burning tentacle. And narrowly missing Harris in the process.

Clyde zeros the dinosaur and consolidates back to camp with the shaken Harris while Johansen mops up some mutants in a very businesslike fashion.

Turn 7 means trouble when three mutants appear right on the edge of camp threatening to undo the crew’s hard work. Barnes is forced to close with them and takes another wound for killing two as Clyde offers some side show shooting to take out two more skulking blood wyrms.

Harris ruins the party by conjuring another giant tentacle as she X’s the last mutant and clips the dinosaur in the crossfire.

The dinosaur is incensed...and guts the unsuspecting Barnes on the spot at the start of the final turn!!

Clyde with no LOS is forced to ATC and the shot bounces off its hide. The dinosaur strikes again now inside the camp reducing Harris to wounded, her return hit also fails to penetrate and Johansen is too far out so Harris is left to deal with it alone. 1 shot....1 damage die...2 wounds! One dead dinosaur...

No one has managed to pin the tentacle in place with gunfire and it spontaneously relocates....less than an inch from the camp border. Victory.

DOWNTIME

With victory comes the salvage and with flak coats, grenades,a rifle for Clyde ammo and rations supplemented by the Dino meat the crew live to fight on but they will do so without their leader.

Barnes never recovers from his fight with the dinosaur and so as most senior crew member the heavy mantle of leadership, and a cool hat, passes to Clyde the amiable orang-utan

The survivors are toughened with upgrades and better equipped but will they survive another close mission now theyare only three?