Campaign Turn 4: The Wyrm Turns

 Mission Background

Retired General Hakir again called on the Revengers for their assistance. It seems his good friend, Imperial Prosecutor Rynn Huang had been murdered by agents of the dreaded Cult of the Devouring Wyrm, jeopardizing the case he had built against them and their activities on Weber’s World and beyond. 

While all digital evidence Huang had on the Cult had been expunged by their hackers, the brave lawyer had left physical copies with Hakir. Now he wants to pay the Revengers to carry this satchel of documents to the Tower of Justice itself in downtown New Brighton. 

But the Cult had gotten wind of the mission (Deliver, pg. 90), and sent a team of crack operatives to slay the Revengers and anyone aiding them. With the local law enforcement cowed by the Cult’s air of menace, the Revengers are left on their own. 

Complicating matters, Gleebo Nixx, another member of Captain Roger Stevens “class” of ersatz super-soldiers has joined the Cult. He knows Stevens and his crew are looking for the secret lair of the Supreme One, and he wants to stop them! 

Revengers (L to R: Sawtooth, Stevens, Rourke, Lykos, Morgna, and Crane).

The Cult with three-armed super-soldier Gleebo Nixx. 

New Brighton—Justice Row!

The crew seizes the initiative and quickly leaves Hakir’s prearranged transport. 

Stevens carries the satchel, trailed by the recently recovered Morgna. 

Lykos does not want to face that Rattle Gun in the open!  

Meanwhile, the Wyrm cultists move up with Nixx in their vanguard. 

Crane is getting good with that Hyper Blaster! But only a stun. 

Rourke seeks the high ground too! 

Lykos enters a deserted shop to get up high with his Shotgun.

Stevens is in position to deliver the satchel, and a reluctant Sawtooth pages behind. He’s a pacifist! 

Sawtooth Deploys the Insta-Wall as Stevens completes the mission! 

But the fight has just begun, and Crane draws first blood again!

Agressive and impetuous, Nixx lets the hated Stevens have it up close! 

Driving him back with machine pistol fire!

Morgna retaliates with his infantry laser, but Nixx employs his Luck to cheat death! 

The dreaded six! The Insta-Wall fails! 

Morgna goes down in a hail of autogun fire! 

Double sixes = double dead!

Lykos gets stunned, but not KO’ed.

After letting it cool down, Crane again brings the Hyper Blaster to bear. 

Sasha Rourke fights from on high.

Nixx again pursues his vendetta, but an out of Luck Stevens saves himself with a Stim-pack. 

The sure-shooting Lykos takes Nixx out!

But he gets blasted in return, and expends his stim-pack. 

Overcoming his aversion to violence, Sawtooth shoots at a cultist and misses!

Stevens goes on the warpath and takes out a cultist.

Rourke joins Lykos as he authorities unleash smoke canisters and visibility drops to near zero (7”).

Even in the smoke, Stevens makes and amazing Shield throw to take out the last Cultist!

This was a great battle that went eight rounds and resulted in the Revengers holding the field. A few notes on the game and how I am playing it:

* I am adopting the new ranged attack rules from Freelancer’s HB. I think I will like them better. 

* I have started using WYSIWYG for weapons for my AI opponents, especially if it makes them deadlier. In this scenario, I rolled Cultists as an opponent. I had a number of options for models, but I chose to use my Genestealer Cultists. It was also great to work in that three armed Kelermorph as the super-soldier rival to my Captain. 

* I can’t generate a quest rumor (or any rumors) to save my life! I am only 4 rounds in though, so we’ll see. I really want to start trying to track down the Supreme One, the evil scientist responsible for Captain Roger Stevens’ existence, and a powerful force for chaos in the galaxy. 

* I burned a lot of resources to survive this one. Two Stim-packs and three Story Points. 

* I am slowly building and adding some new, TT Combat scenery. I am trying to paint this differently from my other more Grimdark terrain. 

That’s all for now! This game is such a pleasure to play and model for. 

Thanks for reading! 

—Scott.