Springhill Goods Station
BEF - Me
3 Kitchener Tanks
3 Field guns
3 Vickers guns
3 MKII Tanks
6 Infantry Elements
1 Coil Gun
3 Imperial Tanks
Martian – The Wife
2 Assault Tripods
1 Assualt Tripod with Black Dust
1 Scout Tripod with Radio Jammer
1 Veteran Tripod
Martian attempt to jam the BEF radio
signals. If they succeed the
imperial tanks will not turn up till round 3 if they fail they turn up in round
2. This is to show that if the
imperial tanks know that springhill station is under attack they will drive
faster to reach it and not stop for tea.
The Martian fail so the tanks will arrive
at the start of turn 2
Martians win the Initiative
Turn1 – Martian
All Tripods move. Those in range fire and miss
Turn 1 – BEF
Kitchener and MKII tanks move closer.
All infantry fire at Scout Tripod and cause
1 damage to armour.
Field guns and Coil gun all miss.
MKII tanks hit Assualt tripod causing 1
damage to armour.
BEF win Initiative
Turn 2 – BEF
Imperial Tanks Arrive
BEF MG’s and Infantry fire at Scout tripod
and it blows up. It takes with it
2 BEF infantry elements and 1 Assualt Tripod.
MKII tanks cause 1 damage to other Assault
tripod also a weapons damage.
Everything else misses.
Turn 2 – Martians
All Tripods move
Black Dust Assault tripod destroys one MKII
tank but they pass the morale test.
Other Tripods miss
BEF win Initiative
Turn 3 - BEF
Imperial Tanks move then destroy the
weapons damaged Assault Tripod
MKII tanks cause 1 damage to armour to
Black Dust Assault Tripod
Kitchener Tanks cause 1 damage to armour to
Black Dust Assault Tripod
Infantry cause 1 damage to armour to Black
Dust Assault Tripod
Field Guns cause 1 damage to armour to
Black Dust Assault Tripod
Coil gun misses
Turn 3 - Martian
Tripods Move
Veteran Misses
Black Dust Tripod kills 1 infantry element but they pass morale test.
Martians win the Initiative
Turn 4 Martians
Black Dust Tripod kills 1 MG element but they pass morale test.
Veteran Tripod Misses
Turn 4 – BEF
Imperial Tanks move
Imperial Tanks cause 1 damage to armour to
Black Dust Assault Tripod
Kitchener Tanks cause 1 damage to armour to
Black Dust Assault Tripod
MG’s cause 1 damage to armour to Black Dust
Assault Tripod
Field Guns cause 1 damage to armour to
Black Dust Assault Tripod
BEF win Initiative
Turn 5 – BEF
Infantry destroy Black Dust Assault tripod
Everything else misses.
Turn 5 – Martians
Veteran Assault Tripod move then destroys
Coil gun.
Martians win the Initiative
Turn 6 – Martian
Veteran Assault Tripod move then sweep MKII
tanks destorying one and the other flees.
Turn 6 – BEF
All Kitchener tanks jam.
Imperial Tanks hit Veteran Assault tripod
casuing 1 damage to armour.
Field guns hit Veteran Assault tripod
rolling a 10 on the damage table for it to explode taking 2 infantry elemenst
with it.
Conclusion
Was a fun game with the dice on my side. I would have assumed that the Veteran
Assault Tripod would have withdrawn after being the only one left but my wife
wanted to destroy stuff and she did by getting blown up!
