This was actually game two in a summer campaign between me and my son. Game one was a short brutal affair in an urban environment that was marked by some very bad die rolls by my son. Wasn't sure if he would even be up for a game two....
But, here we were. Our crews leaving Nexus 9 at nearly the same time, and there coming out of warp in front of us, an ancient derelict spaceship....we immediately gathered our boarding crews. Time was of the essence as sensors showed imminent reactor core meltdown was at hand...
Realizing that this has become a party each captain instructs their men to carefully but quickly proceed into the ship.
I was happy to use my 40k Into the Dark terrain for this, with a mix of Battle-systems and TinkerTurf crates. Our crews are a mix of miniatures from 40k, Infinity and some random sci-fi mini's I had.
The crews fan out...all hatches and door ways are open upon entry...
Each captain leads part of his crew into a large central room and directs their first mates to take the remaining crew into smaller side rooms.
And suddenly the ship lurches, ship systems coming alive and all the hatches and doorway suddenly slam shut scattering all nearby looters.....luckily no one was hurt. Repair bots guarding each cache come alive and direct their attention nearby intruders.
Shots ring out as men engage the repair bots. Each captain moves toward loot caches, also engaging repair bots that clearly have ill intent.
Captain Nik moves to engage a repair bot
Captain Nik's crew moves to open a loot cache.
Nik's first mate hacks the terminal as a trooper takes out the repair bot, and suddenly a nearby exterior hatchway fails causing a sudden decompression.....the crew scrambles to hold on to anything they can grab as emergency shields come online and plug the hole.
Oliver's first mate radios in, "We have secured the loot sir, repair bot eliminated"
Suddenly explosions ring out across the ship. Captain Nik's Pathfinder is flung across the room, landing in an unconscious heap. Captain Oliver's men somehow go unscathed....(literally six men avoided getting wounded by this blast that laid out Nik's man)
Captain Oliver's sniper looks on in complete boredom....
Suddenly alarm klaxons ring out...reactor core breach is imminent. Count down has started.
Both Captains realize that there is no time to face off and fight for control of loot. They must take what they have an leave. Oliver makes sure each of his crew men safely escapes before himself departs into the safety of his ship, Nik doing the same with his wound crewman over his shoulder.
That game was much fun. The random event at the end of each round added a lot of flavor and I really like a countdown timer starting. My son cleaned up on repair bot kills too.