My wife challenged me to a battle again, remembering that she's on a winning streak. Her Carrion Queens have been beating my Silent Ones for a bit and her confidence was definitely built. I can't resist the opportunity to humble her, so we took to the Underhive again.
This time, I chose to use a different band. The Silent Ones haven't been cutting it lately so the Sump Dogs made their appearance. While my son is building a new Orlock gang, I decided to put the old one to work again. The wife set up the terrain as another small settlement for us to battle for and then chose the scenario "Border Dispute".
In our battle, we would start with a smaller warband and then add reinforcements until our entire crews were available. The mission goal was to defile the gang relic for each. Outside of that, everything else is the typical 'meeting engagement' battle where taking your opponent out before you quit the battlefield is the real goal. With that, we deployed and got ready for war!
The silence of the abandoned settlement was broken by gunfire almost immediately as the two gangs set to claim it for themselves. Narkas was the first to sneak up and put a round from his stubgun into Brae, seriously injuring her. As the rest of the Sump Dogs moved to guard their relic or advance, Jelena ordered her ladies forward and to fire-at-will. Reyna shot her lasgun at Jackson, but his armor turned out to be too much protection, leading Jelena herself to fire the needler and took him out of action. Toxin seems to beat armor. Seeing his friend go down so quickly led to a failed bottle and Narkas fled the battlefield even as Zed and Roky showed up. Emboldened, Nakomi joined her sisters for the next round.
With the action began, the two gangs started shuffling around the buildings and squeezing shots at each other. Kaiya aimed and missed Zed and Zorann sensed Lander as he snuck into cover, jumping from the shadows and pinning him with a point-blank shot. Unfortunately for her, Gunner Ski was near enough to help his buddy and injured Zorann with return fire. Zed gathered his senses again and let loose his harpoon at Kaiya, catching her armor plate and dragging her closer for the upcoming charge. It was a ton of action on that side, while the other side saw gangers climbing for better views or jumping into shadows to keep from being seen. Both Brae and Zorann recovered while Olinna and Marika showed up to fight, staring at Jon Krow and Grim sneaking into the battlefield from the same way.
Now everyone was basically involved and very close in this cramped area. Zed started off with a harpoon flying for Marika, piercing her and dragging her closer as well. At the same time, shots from Olinna pinned Jon Krow and Katy Kat was forced to duck the attention of Gunner Ski. Marika, hearing the commotion and gaining a new sense of urgency as she pulled the harpoon from her thigh, stood and let off her plasma pistol at Zed, knocking him to the ground for a bit. Lander stood and shot Zorann again, pinning her to the ground, even while Kaiya focused her firepower on the prone Zed, wounding him. Grimm moved up with his shotgun and knocked Nakomi from her perch high up on a ladder. Unfortunately, her three-point landing made the fall useless, but she still found herself bleeding from the shotgun round. As the rest of the ladies scrambled for cover to keep their advantage, Jelena casually strode forward and unleashed her needler at Grimm, injuring him with the poison gleefully.
This was enough to break the nerve of the Sump Dogs. They were outnumbered right from the beginning and their attacks were ineffective compared to the Carrion Queens'. Zed, Grimm, and Gunner Ski all quit the battlefield immediately, grabbing Mo Two-Fist on the way out. The rest of the Orlocks agreed and bottled out, leaving the Eschers to claim this area. A quick visit to the doc found Jackson's injury to be a spinal wound. This was not a fair trade as Jackson was an important enforcer and the Sump Dogs really needed the territory.
And the wife gets her third win in a row! She's finally got some of the tactics and a ton of the luck involved in this game, giving me a challenge every time we descend into the Underhive. And now it doesn't appear to matter which gang I use...
Let me know how your battles, especially against common opponents, have gone. In the meantime- Happy Gaming!
