Dug out my London Irish rugby shirt to celebrate St Patrick's Day this evening with the St. Paddy's Day Massacre set on Company world LV-246b.I'm playing this in 'cinematic' mode with both Predator and Colonists/Security being run by a set of Reaction Tables. I had fun creating these on the train this morning. Well what else do you do at 6.30am on the Inverness train?
I admit the Reaction Tables are fast and loose but sound enough to have a fun game with. And it was.
The Predator bounced from shanty to shanty as the rules dictated. The occupants rolled against a table determining their actions - stay inside cowering, Vidcast for help, step outside to see what the noise was, pick up a gun (if they had one).The Predator meanwhile could watch and wait, change position (jump to another shack), fire (energy weapon, disk or spear) or attack (close quarter slice and dice).
Anyone coming out of their shack had to be scanned as a threat, so the Predator lost an 'action' die.
Security could take cover and observe, investigate, go tactical, open fire, call for back up.
I used a bastardised version of the Tom.War rules, Predator leaping from roof to roof, coming down to street level once to slice and dice a security team. He finally withdrew after his armour malfunctioned and being wounded twice. However he had bagged 2 armed colonists and 3 security guards.
Cheers
Mark
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Sounds like great fun. I always love a good bit of Predator fun.
ReplyDeleteExcellent fun appears to have been had. It sounds better than the new Predators film
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ReplyDeleteAny chance of posting your tables, at least once Tom.War is released? They would be great inspiration for others who want to run similar "creature" solo scenarios.
Great to see you are getting good use out of the chap, Mark.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad tomm war can be used to game such fights. I've actually got a monster coming out, the sponk, who lives in tunnels and would be a good opponent to a unit of sepulvedan militia, some control battalion troopers, even some of the karks or lhurggs that are used as an oppressive occupation force on sepulveda.
Inspiring stuff :)
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