Star Wars Campaign Game 11: Train Robbery

 

Over the summer, I ran game 11 in the ongoing Fawcett Avenue Conscripts’ Star Wars skirmish campaign.

In game 10, the Rebels failed in their attempt to rescue Captain Rex. Not only was the Clone Wars veteran permanently killed, but Chewbacca was put Out of Action until next season!

The current game was a variant of the “Holding Up the Wasteland Caravan” scenario in Wiley Games' Wasteland Warriors book.

The MDF maglev train is from BP Laser. This is also the first time we have used the Science Fiction folding cardboard terrain set from Acid House; very portable and strong enough for gaming. The mat is a nice 4’ x 2’ mousepad type from the late Antenoceti’s Workshop. 

The Rebels, led by Ahsoka Tano, and featuring a reformed Barriss Offee set up within 1” of either long table edge. (Last season, Barriss was an Inquisitor and lost her left arm in a duel with Ahsoka; she has since literally returned to the Light.) 

The Imperials included Dark Troopers (Soulless, Tough as Nails droids), some ubiquitous Stormtroopers, and a Probe Droid with Self Destruct. 

The Imperials set up in response to the Rebels, near the train, picking several spots of high ground with good fields of fire. (Clearly, there is a traitor in the Rebel’ midst!)

The Rebels’ goal was to steal as many types of loot (secret Imperial tech) as possible and exit the board; each flat car had one of three different types of loot. At the end of Turn 8, the train would leave and end the game. 

Several 2-wound, non-combatant models were also wandering around the table. The factions would LOSE Renown for each none-combatant killed.  

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At first things looked very bad for the  Imperials. The Probe Droid managed to get into contact with 4 Rebels and detonated, but then rolled badly, only causing Shock and no Wounds! Then they took several casualties from blaster fire and Ahsoka’s lightsabers (even though she, AGAIN, managed to drop one). Bariss, the Rebel strike force’s healer, tried to emulate Ahsoka’s assault, but she was knocked Out of Action immediately by a Droid!

The Rebels wisely tasked several team members to just trying to steal tech. Though a few were gunned down by the Imperial  fire, they managed to obtain at least one set of loot from each flat car. 

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The Rebels held the field at the end, with only a Stormtrooper Officer as the sole survivor of the opposing force. Game MVP was Ahsoka, who managed to recover her lost saber, and put Out of Action or severely Wound several Imperials. A special Mention in Dispatches to a simple Rebel Trooper who put out of action a Dark Trooper. The lone Stormtrooper Officer will be able to spin some kind of plausible story, and maybe even cage a promotion. 

Fortunately, Bariss Offee will recover in time for the start of next season. 

The Rebels gained enough Renown to ensure that Princess Leia gains some Force powers. She will join her Farm-boy Hero brother, Luke, to once again face off against their father, Anakin, in the Season 2 Finale next month!  However, what clone shenanigans will the Imps have come up with by then?

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 Thanks to Dallas, KevinG, KevinH, and Frederick for playing.