Springhill Goods Station - All Quiet on the Martian Front

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!