[renegade scout] 8: power play

[twisted moon]

following the release of the leaf dealers, deshane and jamaall, and the majority of the bonehead skins, yossa has done a deal with doc friday reuban to carry out a job for him in exchange for assistance is securing a ship off-world.
the bonehead skins have been tasked with raiding a melange distribution point on the outskirts of spanglish town. according to the leaf dealers, the site is run by local thugs franchised by the silent partners. the former prisoners are now armed with the slug pistols looted from the constables at the ambush site.
unbeknownst to the bonehead skins, or the leaf dealers, the distribution point was recently raided by a group of jokaero (https://tinyurl.com/5cuff9kp), for their own inscrutable purposes. as such the operation is currently directly run by the silent partners.

i used merc's stat's for the silent partners' goons, but swapped the special rule to this: ignores one casualty each turn for morale check purposes. there are five of them.

set up
the distribution point is a storage facility in the centre of the table, all internal walls have been removed to form a large warehouse space inside. there are residential buildings on three sides and commercial premises on the fourth one; all face away from the storage facility. the silent partners have a stretch limousine parked at one end of the building, there is a ladder nearby leading to the roof.

a randomly determined goon is on lookout duty on the roof; on turn 1 s/he will start to walk around the roof with an equal chance of clockwise or anti-clockwise. s/he will continue in this direction on subsequent turns until s/he either reaches his starting point or becomes aware of the bonehead skins.
roll a d6 for each of the other goons, on a 6 place them outside a building adjacent to a random door. all other goons start the game inside the distribution point. roll a D6 at the start of each turn, on a 6 a random goon exits the building via a random door.

the bonehead skins can choose to enter the table from the centre of any table edge. they set up next to the van they have been provided as a getaway vehicle. they get priority for the first turn.

pre-game
boreyev georgiy was selected for sentry duty. all the other silent partners set up inside the distribution centre.

 

[twisted moon]

turn 1
the bonehead skins had priority.

connie, yossa and jammy cautiously moved 4” forward and sheltered.

karen and pricey ran 10” towards the surgery, rachel followed them 8”.

boreyev georgiy moved 4” anti-clockwise around the roof giving him line of sight on karen, pricey and rachel, but he’s well out of range with his shotgun. he’s never seen them before and they’re not acting too suspiciously so he opts not to sound the alarm just yet.

rodeo boris exits via door 1 gaining line of sight on karen, pricey and rachel. he is also out of range of his slug pistol, but walks towards them to see what they are up to.

That ends the turn.

 

[twisted moon]

turn 2
priority switched to the silent partners.

boreyev georgiy continues his circumnavigation of the roof by 4”.

rodeo boris walks a further 4” towards karen et al.

no other goons leave the building.

rachel walked 4”.

karen walked forwards 4” and took a shot at rodeo boris at long range, with her scrap rifle, and hit, wounding and taking him out of action.

pricey ran 10” towards the storage facility.

connie, yossa and jammy ran 8” around the building.

That ended the turn.

 

[twisted moon]

turn 3
priority returned to the bonehead skins.

connie, yossa and jammy ran another 8” towards the end of the storage facility.

pricey walked 5” towards the vending machine.

rachel ran 8” after pricey.

karen took an aimed shot at boreyev georgiy, with her scrap rifle, hitting, but failing to wound.

boreyev georgiy ran 7” to take cover behind the hoarding on the storage facility roof, and to be within range next round.

alerted by the gunfire, lena mastikova came out of door 4, saw rachel and took a shot at short range, with her scrap rifle, hitting, and taking her out of action

irina came out of door 5, saw yossa and took a shot at at short range, with her slug pistol, but missed (on a roll of 6).

sergei came out of door 2, saw karen, and took a shot at long range, with his scrap rifle but missed.

That ended the turn

 

[twisted moon]

turn 4
the silent partners have priority.

lena mastikova doesn’t notice pricey, so takes a long range shot at karen. She hits but fails to wound.

sergei takes an aimed shot, at long range, at karen, but misses due to the partial cover of the barrels.

irina takes another short range shot at yossa and hits, but fails to wound.

boreyev georgiy walks forward 2” to get line of sight on pricey and fires his shotgun at him from long range but misses.

yossa charges irina, he hits and wounds taking her out of action.

jammy walks forward 4” to bring him within short range and takes a shot at boreyev georgiy with his slug pistol, he hits and wounds, putting him down.

connie walks up beside yossa, ready to enter the building next turn.

pricey takes a short range, aimed, shot at lena mastikova, with his scrap pistol, misses with a 6 which he can re-roll thanks to aiming. he hits and wounds taking her out of action.

karen moves an inch up to the barrels to get the maximum advantage of cover, then fires her scrap rifle at sergei at long range. she hits but fail to wound.

even with their special rule, the silent partners have taken sufficient casualties this turn to have to test morale. they pass, so sergei will carry on fighting.

 

[twisted moon]

turn 5
priority returns to the bonehead skins.

karen takes an aimed, long range, shot, with her scrap rifle at sergei, hits and wounds, taking him out of action and effectively ending the game.

yossa and connie enter the building to ensure it is clear, and the others eventually follow them to carry out the terms of their contract with the leaf dealers.

 

[twisted moon]

post-game
i’m sure there’s a duck back rule for missed shots, but i forgot about it until turn 4 and then couldn’t find it.

yossa gains 8 exp. for a total of 14. he advances his attack dice to 2.
connie gains 2 exp. for a total of 6.
jammy gains 8 exp. for a total of 17. he advances his shooting to 3
karen gains 9 exp. for a total of 12. she advances her Defence to 4.
rachel suffered a short term injury and will miss the next game. she gains 2 exp. for a total of 8.
pricey gains 8 exp. for a total of 8.

lena mastikova suffers a long term injury, reducing her movement to 3.
rodeo boris suffers a short term injury,
irina suffers a long term injury, reducing her Movement to 3.
sergei makes an immediate recovery.
boreyev georgiy suffers a fatal injury.