Saturday, September 15, 2007

A Good Night

got to play some CBT at PI tonight! Kenneth dragged Patrick in for a game by enticing him with some Kuritan goodness in the form of the SB:S&D campaign. a demo game ensued. played on the Basic map, the battle unfolded as a 2-way fight between Patrick's HBK-4G, JR7-D, my SDR-5K and Kenneth's HER-2S.

never underestimate a Hunchback.

the damn thing headcapped the HER-2S after only 3 rounds. my Spider fought on, but a painful death was inevitable. but at least we have a new convert! hope this goes some ways to restoring our presence in PI...

since we had some time left, Kenneth and me whipped out the 4SW book to look for a quick smash-up. i forget the scenario name, but it basically pitted the WD against a regular DCMS unit on the basic map.

on the WD side:
1 x WLF-1 (1/2),
1 x HOP-4B (1/2)

on the DCMS side:
1 x TBT-5N (4/5)
1 x DRG-1N (4/5)
1 x CPLT-C1 (4/5)
1 x CP-10-Z (4/5)

the WD immediately began to display extreme gayness in terms of their amazingly low to-hit numbers. the Trebuchet died in 2 turns to an ammo explosion, as fire began to fall upon the Hoplite. while the Dragon and Cyclops double-teamed the Hoplite, the Wolfhound first pursued the harrassing mechs and then made an end-run to shoot up the Catapult up the hill delivering fire to the Hoplite. a lucky TAC scored 2 engine hits, putting an end to the happy happy fire support. the Catapult then made a series of panicky jumps to avoid getting shot up as much as possible, delaying the Hoplite and Wolfhound as the Cyclops and hip-critted Dragon staggered in to close the distance. as the distance between the Dragon and Cyclops widened, the Wolfhound managed to separate the Dragon and harrass it as the Cyclops began to pound on the Hoplite. already suffering from an actuator crit that prevented arm flipping, the Hoplite suddenly found itself victim to a 4 ML blast of glory 2 rounds in a row in addition to the attention from the Cyclops, this finally resulted in the demise of the Hoplite. durable buggers, those! the Wolfhound fought on, first legging the Dragon and then blowing out its LRM ammo before killing the unconscious pilot. in the fray leading up to this, however, the Wolfhound had suffered a leg actuator hit, and the resultant loss in mobility ate into its ability to run around and annoy the remaining DC mechs. it was a matter of time as the Cyclops slowly peeled away the Wolfhound's armour, before blowing a leg off. at this point, Kenneth conceded. it was generally agreed that the WD are a bunch of psychotic buggers. and a good time was had by all!

2 comments:

The Anonymous House Husband said...

Hi, I don't know if you are open to new gamers, but I recently moved to Singapore and have been playing battletech for years and would love to get in the occasional game. Cheers, Mark Mulkerin

Jon said...

of course we are! fresh players are always welcome! current activities include running the new Sword and Dragon campaign every friday night at 7.30-ish. we play this out at Paradigm Infinitum on friday nights. head to www.pi.com.sg (hmmm blogger wont let me use tags), thats our little base of operations. we have threads in the shop's forums, sound out to us and we'll make arrangements! or PM Dies Irae on the boards, that would be Kenneth, whos running the campaign.

-Jon (Gingiva on the forums)