After finish up painting my 6 stands of fleeing Humans (ie: meat on the hoof) I came up with the idea of the Martians going to town to collect prey. But since I haven't received my 3rd wave from my AQMF Kickstarter yet (cough, cough) which contains a Harvester Tripod, I decided to paint and use my Slaver Tripod as a proxy.
We've played the scenario 3 times. Final score, Martians 1, Humans 1 and one really, really costly Martian Victory (so really Martians 2).
Instead of giving you exact after action reports for each battle, I'll give an overview with a few pictures. A link to the Photobucket directory will be at the end. I hope you enjoy.
Game 1:
The Martians need to get into town. Whenever a Tripod gets within 3 inches of a building it will trigger Human prey. It was the Harvesters job to attack and scoop up the fleeing population:
The problem for the Martians was they got too many Tripods into town which caused too many fleeing Civilians...the Harvester couldn't keep up and most of the 'food' made it off the table.
Human Victory......Game 2:
This game was played at Ft. Meigs in Perrysburg Ohio. The local HMGS chapter was hosting "World at War" and AQMF is a crowd favorite. Two games were played there; both sold out with people coming up and taking pictures.
The Martians need to get into town. Whenever a Tripod gets within 3 inches of a building it will trigger Human prey. It was the Harvesters job to attack and scoop up the fleeing population (for 2 points). If the Human players could get them off the table they got 3 points per stand (secret rule).
In this game the Martians decided to get tricky. They figured on staying back and just getting into a gunnery duel with the Humans.
Unfortunately for them, the rough Rider motorcycles roared out and attacked the Harvester, immobilizing it!
Fortunately for the Martians, it was able to break free. But since the Humans obliged the Martians in open combat, and they could roll for crap, the Martians destroyed the entire human Army and then leisurely strolled into town for crunchies and munchies.
Martian Victory.....
Game 3:
Also at Ft. Meigs during the 'World at War' game day. The Martians need to get into town. Whenever a Tripod gets within 3 inches of a building it will trigger Human prey. It was the Harvesters job to attack and scoop up the fleeing population (for 2 points) OR any Tripod could 'burn them down' (for 1 point). If the Human players could get them off the table they got 3 points per stand (secret rule).
They Martians decided to bull rush the town, kill 'em all, let the Martian Gods sort them out! And rush the town they did....but behind whispers of 'watch out for the motorcycles....'
The Martians charged into town, Heat Rays sweeping left and right. It didn't matter what the target was, Armor, Infantry, fleeing civilians....if the Tripods had line of sight, they shot at them! The bad news for the Martians was, the Humans were not at all intimidated! They were spoiling for a fight!
And fight they did. In one turn BOOM!! 3 Tripods exploded into balls of flame!!
A Scout did make it to the back of the town taking more civilians down, but it too was later destroyed. The final score.....all 6 fleeing civilian stands were destroyed, but 4 of the 7 Tripods were smashed....
Martian victory.....but at what cost......
If you'd like to see all the pictures taken from these 3 games, you can view them on my Photobucket page by clicking this link:
Thanks for looking....
