Rogue Stars Fun evening with old stuff

My Mutant Cock is broke!  I tried to fix it with soup (many thanks to the Entoyment staff) but the cock was a leaky.

BIG shout out to Alternative Armies.  All the mad stuff here (well there was an unused reserve Splintered Light future Santa)  I sometimes wonder who else buys these- someone must!  The advantage of 15/18mm is that you can put together a force for the price of one goppin awful cartoony plastic/resin bit of junk.  Deep breath:

The teams.

Psycho Presents Mercenaries. What is more mercenary than a present? I should get another 2 sets of these - all guns for a uniformed Parcel Force and polearms for wild Amazons.

Elfless, 3 smg's, blunderbus & spear 203

Elfless, Leader 3 Marks3, Reactive. 31 Total 37

Smg(4) Auto, 6

Troopers  Machine Pistol. Pink n Green, Gold.  Diminutive, Mineral, Tough Marksman2 29 Total 35

SMG (4) Auto, 6

Blunderbuss, Diminutive, Mineral, Tough Marksman2, 29 Total 33

Musket (4) reload, 2 handed 4

Polearm, Diminutive, Mineral, Tough Weaponmaster3 26 Total 28

Spear, (2) primitive, long 2

Gingerbread Persons Militia. Future Christmas, sword, axe, 2 spear, blunderbus = 200

Future Christmas Ambidextrous, Leader, Veteran, Weapon master3 31 Total 49

2x built in monowire blades (3) Armour piercing 18

Sword, Axe, Agile, Diminutive, Fast2, Mineral, Weapon Master3 26 Total 28

Sword (2) primitive, 2

Spear and shield. Agile, Diminutive, Fast2, Mineral, Weapon master3 26 Total 28

Spear, (2) primitive, long 2

Blunderbuss. Agile, Diminutive, Fast2, Mineral, Marksman3 35 Total 39

Musket (4) reload, 2 handed 4

Killer Xmas Trees Christmas Cyborgs. All teeth and doom! 3 Trees, Santa, Rudolf 200

Opportunists, +1 reaction roll

Sanity Klaus. Artificial, Big, Reactive, Leader1 22

Cyborg, Light combat dress, Powered Gauntlets 30 Total 52

Rudolf, Artificial, Extra leg, Weapon master2, 19 total 28

Force flail antlers (4) Disarm, energy, clumsy 9

Trees, Rustle series, Grant1, Brand2, Kurt3. Artificial, Steadfast, Tough 21 Total 40

Monowire scourge (2) scorching 5

Needler Rifle (5) Auto, silent, built in. 14

Bear the Bounty Hunters. Bushwackers 8 terrain tokens, auto pass terrain roll.

"Ripper" Boo Boo (blue hat) Big, Fast, Medic, Tech, Tough 1 20 Vibroblade (3) 4 Total 24

Paddington (red hat) Big, Fast, Tough1, Marksman, 19, Vibroblade (3) 4 Sonic pistol (2) 6 Total 29

Pa (yellow hat) Big, Fast, Tough1, Marksman, 19, Monowire tangler (3) 10 Total 29

Ted (mohawk) Big, Fast, Tough2, Leader1, Marksman 2, 39, Zap rifle, (4) 7 46

Yogi (green hat) Big, Fast, Tough2, Marksman 2, 33, Molecular slugthrower (4) 7 40

Flambear Big, Ambidextrous, Fast, Marksman 1, 21 2 Flamer pistols (3) built in 16 Total 37

Total 205

The Games! Tasked with exploring an abandoned mining town the Killer Trees vs the Presents

One suit of exoskeleton is in this container. For convenience we used by broken mutant cock. More of this wisdom later.

Terrain was provided by the Lovely Person and opponent Matt Hay.

Santa goes forward, Rudolf goes and opens the first hut.  A roll, 3 NPC's.  We use the Gingerbreads as listed.

Turnover, the Gingers attack!  Rudolf is axed and poked to death!  The Parcels slowly advance, in no rush--.

One Ginger gets to Santa, but gets clobbered.

Santa gets to the door, but comes under fire from a Present before he can open it. That was a surprise package! 

Now 2 of the trees go in!  Poor shooting, an attack that didn't work.  One tree dead for a wounded Ginger. 

Turnover, tree is attacked.  Santa gets into cover.

The presents .  Blunderbus finds an assault rifle and the spear carrier starts jimmying open the container holding the exoskeleton.   Alas, we rolled no atmosphere and Elfless'ss attempt to gain shelter failed and she dies with her hand on a vehicles handle.  Pause for effect.

Turnover.  A short and bitter fight. Rustle Brand enters and shoots.  

Right, the spear carrier present has gained and mounts the exoskeleton.  Then it takes the blunderbus from its mate, now armed with an assault rifle, in the other hand and advances. Rustle Brand is cut sown by the assault rifle.  If your games don't play like this, time to change!

Santa attempts to intervene, but it doesn't go well-.

And that, alas - was that. The presents lost their leader due to lack of air. I blame the lethal gingers who will not be blamed for nothing!

Game 2 Me and Tony this time. 'ee took the Killer Trees and I got the Bear Bountyhunters. Hostage - Ripper Boo Boo had been captured and was trussed up (this is important later) Complication Vortex (we got it wrong at the start) Location was insect hive. A lrthal combination.

So my plan was - Flambear would waltz down the middle, incinerating everything in sight. The others would take a more surgical approach. But them damn insects wos viscous. And the coffee kept running out!

Tree got it as well.

No! Flambear gets toasted!

This turned into a right roughhouse!

Flambear and Paddington combined hold of one insect!

Pa has located Boo Boo and awaits to effect a rescue.

Santa goes where others fear to tread. Yogi is thrown down!

Flambear has had enough and runs for it!

Now Ted is struck down from behind by a pesky insect.

Now Pa, who had picked up a (surrendered) pet tree, flees.

Insects again-- Note Boo Boo is tied up in the hut, and theirs an insect - Santa is forced to the rescue.

Paddington takes out Rudolf and gets it in the leg from the insect for his troubles.

Santa struggles, Paddington takes tree.

Note the last insect. Queue Spaghetti Western music.

They grapple and Paddington rolls bad - losing his footing he's dragged into the vortex -

Now Santa is (rolled) laid low and he/it is sucked into the vortex!

Now remember the last insect? And Boo Boo trussed up in a hut with a broken window. There's no-one left to hear his screams.

We could have done one more but we'd run out of steam.