Pictures From Game Night

Braden gave me a disk full of images from the last Game Night, including a bunch of the Spinespur game I demo'd for everyone. Morgan and Rich played Slaughterhouse, Andrew and Eric played Uncorrupted.

l. to r. Rich, Morgan, Matt, Andrew

l. to r. Matt, Andrew, Eric, Ken (Gailbraithe)

She got some shots of the game, but they're not the greatest photos. We did the You Better Run scenario, except I changed the Men of G.O.D. agenda squad to a Uncorrupted Philosophy squad:

UNCORRUPTED SQUAD
31 Martin Greygun
15 Brother James
15 Brother Malcolm
61 Total

This was the third time I'd run this scenario, and the only time the Defender (Uncorrupted in this case) won was when I played them. My strategy in that game was to spread my forces as wide as possible, forcing Slaughterhouse to cast as wide a net as possible. When other people played the Defender, they choose to keep their force together, generally trying to use the Fists of G.O.D. as blockers to cover the central character's escape. This only works if Slaughterhouse falls for it and wastes resources engaging the blockers, but with the three weighted chains on Slaughterhouse's squad they can easily defeat this tactic.

Eric and Andrew tried to use this tactic, but Morgan and Rich got Elmo into base to base contact with Greygun and stopped his forward movement. Then Rufus toppled him with the weighted chain and dragged him to within 4" of a yet to be activated Pigskin.

"Get over here!"

Being prone within 4" of Pigskin meant he was easy pickings for a Death Drag/Practiced Butcher Combo. Already wounded by several earlier attacks, Martin went down for the count. After that it pretty much turned into a classic clusterf*ck.


The game highlight though came right after Brother Malcolm went down. Brother James turned so that he had Pigskin, Manny and Elmo all in his forward arc, with Greygun's corpse behind him. But Elmo wasn't actually engaged with James, and when it came his turn to activate, he took a 1" half-step action, followed by Scavenge half-action to pick up one of Greygun's dropped pistols, followed by a Distance Attack into the Unaware back of Brother James.

"Pow! Cap in your ass beyotch!"

Elmo truly lived up to his designation of "Thug." And thus ended the valiant but futile effort of the Uncorrupteds to escape the Slaughterhouse.

And hey, check this out. Matt is a sculptor.


I'm trying to convince him to work on some castable pieces for wargaming purposes. Because damn, that is some amazing stuff he does.