Last Chance Resupply: Guerilla Raid

[eilif]

I'm introducing a couple of new players to Mech Attack today so I made up this senario for us to play. It's below and I've attached it as a PDF. Please forgive any typos or inconstencies as it's a first draft. I plan to modify it if necessary depending on what we learn from tonight's game(s).

If anyone has a chance to play it I'd welcome comments and recommendations.

Last Chance Resupply: Guerrilla Raid.

Background:
It's been a hard time for the Toshdari Raiders a mercenary unit hired to do garrison work on Fahandi 12 in the name of the Caliphate of Umkar. The Fahandi Free Peoples rebel movement has overtaken the planetary government and now it's the Toshdari who are on the run. It's been almost a month since the last resupply ship was able to reach them and the Caliphate reports that it will be at least another month before they Toshdari can be evacuated. Low on ammunition and supplies the Toshdari attempt to raid a Fahandi supply depot to rearm and equip.

The Toshdari decide to raid the supply depot at Qumreni. Though lightly defended, the Toshdari supply depot is not far from reinforcements.

Objectives

Attacker, Toshdari: Reach the Supply Depot, retrieve supplies and leave the board alive.
Defender, Fahandi: Defend the Supply Depot and eliminate the Toshdari raiders.

Setup

-Attacker or GM sets up terrain, the more the better.
-Divide table in half
-Defender chooses their side and places Resupply Depot on the right half of their side, no less than 4 inches from any table edge.
-Defender places all units anywhere on their half.
-Attacker places units anywhere along his table edge.

Units

Attacker
2 Heavy mechs. Each should have at least 1 (preferably 2) missile weapons.
1 Medium mech. Should have at least 1 (preferably 2) missile weapons.
1 light mech. Can be armed however player would like

Defender
1 Heavy Mech
1 Light Mech
2 Condor (or similar) Medium Tanks

Mission special rules

1) Limited Ammunition. Until they reach the supply depot, the Attackers only have 2 reloads for each of their missile weapons/

2) Supply Depot: To resupply, a Mech must either spend an entire turn adjacent to and facing the depot, or forgo firing and end their turn adjacent to, and facing the depot. Either way, this may give the enemy a chance for a rear shot. After Resupply a Mech has unlimited reloads for their Missile weapons.

3) Reinforcements: The Fahandi may call for reinforcements twice during the game at any time they are the active player. Reinforcements immediately enter from the left corner of the defender's table edge and must be rolled for.

The dice used depends on the turn.
Turn 1 D10
Turn 2 D8
Turn 3 D6
Turn 4+ D4

The Results of the reinforcement roll are as follows
1 Heavy Mech
2 Medium Mech
3 Two light mechs
4 Light mech
5 Vehicle
6+ 2 infantry units

If at anytime the entire Fahandi garrison is destroyed or leaves the table, they immediately roll for reinforcements on 4d6.

4) Facing. Because facing is so important in this scenario, two special rules are in effect.
1-It takes one inch of movement to turn more than 90 degrees. (Up to 90 is free)
2-Rear shots may only be taken if the rear edge of the target's base is visible to attacker.

Victory Conditions

Victory points will determine the victor unless an Automatic Victory condition is met.
-2 Points for each Attacking unit destroyed.
-1 point for each defending unit destroyed.
-1 points for each attacking Mech that reaches, resupplies and leaves the Depot.
-1 point for each Attacking mech that manages to leave the table via their table edge.

Automatic Victory Conditions
-Automatic victory for Defender if three of the Attacker's mechs are destroyed
-Automatic Victory for Attacker if three of the attacker's mechs escape via their table edge after resupply.

Attachments:

[Dagger]

Very cool... one question though. If the garrison is destroyed and 4d6 are rolled for immediate reinforcements with a result of four 1's... does that mean 4 Heavy Mechs show up?

I especially like how you have the Attacker setup the terrain an the Defender place the Garrison... I really like the idea of limited reloads too.

I'm anxious to hear how it goes...

[eilif]

Yep, there's a chance (however small) that 4 heavy mechs could show up. You can't control players of course, but I wanted to do whatever possible to make the Attackers want to reach their objective. In this senario there's no way for the attackers to win if at least 2 of their mechs don't make it back across the border resupplied.

The games went pretty well last night. When I have the player's feedback, I'll be modifying the senario, probably lessening the defender's force, centraly locating the depot (on a 4x4 it takes too long to get there), and generally streamlining the senario.

[eilif]

Posted this up elswehere, but forgot to post it here. Here's how the battle worked out.

It was an attack on a supply depot with the Attackers needing to steal supplies and get back across the border and the defenders needing to drive off the attackers. Attackers started with superior numbers, but Defenders had the ability to roll for reinforcements, and attackers could not win just by killing the defenders if they did not meet the mission objectives.

Pics of the Supply Depot Raid senario (Most Defending Mech's have gold trim)
Rearguard wheeled tanks for the Supply Depot Defenders


Defending Mech's take up position in the city as attacker's approach.


Attacker's Advance


A few temporary immobilizations allows the Attackers to outflank the defending mech's and make their way closer to the Supply Depot.


Chaos Ensues.


Attacking mech reaches the depot, but will be destroyed momentarily, largely because of rear shots from the defender's wheeled tanks.


Despite a strong start, the Attackers were bogged down long enough for the defeders to call in reinforcements (see senario PDF for details on how it works) . In both senario games, the Attackers sceeded the field after taking two casualties and facing a much superior force.

Pics of the Kill-em-All game being played on the table adjacent to the Supply Raid






All in all it was a good batch of games. I'm definitely going to streamline the senario as it took longer than expceted to finish it. We try to keep our Mech attack games to around an hour, and it probably would have taken around 2 hours to complete the senario.

It was a great reminder of how much I like the Mech Attack rules (http://www.armorgridgames.com/). I was able to complete two mech skirmishes on a real terrain table and do some FLGS shopping in less time than it would take to play one game of battletech on a hex map.

All the figures are rebased N/1:44/10mm scale Mechwarrior Clix figures. The grey and white figs are the stock paintjobs and the green ones are repainted by one of our members.

After playing through the senario, I recommend the following changes.

-4'x4' is too big and almost completely guarantees a defender victory. Stick with the 30' or 36' square that Mech Attack recommends. The small size is necessary for the attackers to get in quickly and for the reinforcements to arrive in a timely manner.
-Ammo rules should be optional.

[Dagger]

Amazing... I really like how you've re-purposed those Mechwarrior figs. I'd be interested in seeing the stats you used for some of them.

It makes me chuckle to hear you were able to get 2 games done in less time it would take to play 1 BT game... that's exactly the goal I was going for. BT has its strengths if you want a very detailed Mech "simulator" type game... but I'd rather have a faster playing "tactical" type game.

Great job on the figs... and thanks for sharing!