{"id":4403,"date":"2015-05-06T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2024-01-27T22:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T22:08:57","slug":"spectre-operations-rules-report-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/spectre-operations-rules-report-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectre Operations: Rules Report 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unrelated to the day’s battle but here is my Farmer, ready to get them soldiers off his land. This is one of Spectre’s Sapeurs with a less flamboyant paint scheme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finding time for wargaming is hard work but luckily Brighton Warlords is packed with people\u00a0wanting to try out new things. And so I ended up with a brand new opponent to take on a few more different scenarios.\u00a0I tried to add something a little more interesting than just the scraps of the last game session and although there is room for improvement in my scenario writing, they were still fun.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a few last minute purchases (the SAS and US special weapons sets were handy\u00a0to get some much needed LMGs in the fight), I was able to have both the Yanks\u00a0and the Brits match entirely. Each comprised of 8 soldiers – two squad leaders with assault rifles, two soldiers with assault rifles, two soldiers with light machine guns, one soldier with a combat shotgun and finally a soldier packing an assault rifle with\u00a0a grenade launcher. All soldiers\u00a0have pistols, body armour, frag and smoke grenades. One soldier per team also has a battlefield trauma kit<\/p>\n

Game 1<\/strong> saw the British and the Americans scrapping over two ammo caches in the ruins of an industrial city. There were four possible locations scattered across the board (two placed by me and two by my opponent) and each one had to be investigated (rolling 4+ while in base to base contact with it) in order to make sure it was full of useful guns and ammo rather than an assorted collection of old pagers and bits of wood.<\/p>\n

The Americans got an early lead by grabbing their safest cache and then dug in around it. My Brits sprinted to take the closest one but got bogged down in a firefight down the main street. Both sides took casualties but most troubling was the grenade launcher round that took out the British team’s medic and splashed out on the two causalities he was rushing to help. The Americans at the other end of the street were also in trouble, especially when one of the injured brits dropped one of them with a pistol shot.<\/p>\n

In perhaps a misguided attempt to take some sort of victory, two British team members rushed off to climb a ruined\u00a0building and take the rooftop cache. Unfortunately, the surviving LMG gunner from the yank’s team stormed into the building behind them and riddled the top floor with automatic fire, dropping both of them. With every British soldier either bleeding out or lying dead, it was safe to call it an American victory.<\/p>\n