Carrying on with my adventures of a day out at Herts of Lard day. My morning session saw me playing in Mike Wilkins's They mostly come at night…..mostly. A What a Colonist, an Aliens 28mm miniatures game.
A mostly co-operative game to escape Hadleys hope. Mostly, because Mike's friend Simon was running the aliens.
Movie quotes abounded, and hilarity ensued.
One of the players was assigned Burke and Hudson as his characters, the other ran Ripley and Hicks, while I got to play Vasquez and Gorman.
Gorman had a mission to disable the safety protocols of the air processing plant, so it would blow up when we left the planet.
I had Vasquez cover his back while he fiddled with the controls of the air processor.
And, of course Vasquez went full rock'n roll.
Meanwhile, Ripley found Newt, who was then chased by a nasty alien who caught up with her. I managed to get Gorman to run and save her by shooting the alien.
We achieved our mission goals, but ran out of time to play out all the consequences of the mission.
That meant we finished with Burke about to meet his end, having tried to carry a specimen to our escape vehicle. Meanwhile Hudson wondered why the aliens weren't attacking him? He was infected
It was a fun game, though both Mike and Simon were fretting that out in the open, with ranged weapons, we were too good at dealing with the aliens.
Having given it some thought, I think they were fretting unnecessarily, but that's because I felt this was more of an RPG skirmish than an out-and-out skirmish wargame.
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