Fallout Wasteland Warfare: Mission 5- The Coming Storm

The following is a play-through of  the final tutorial mission (# 5)  from the FWW campaign book, it incorporates the previous sections of the rulebook discussed in my four earlier play-trough’s  but adds in leaders, leadership and Heroic abilities and critical hits. Full game rules at play here.  Following up last game  I am again featuring Sole Survivor, Lone Wanderer Nate and his group being pursued by the particularly nasty group of Super Mutants that beat them last match

SCENARIO – Barely escaping the failed attempt to retrieve the Journal for the Brotherhood of Steel, Nate and company have barely had time to patch themselves up got Codsworth  and Goddards Power Armor back online and running , when disaster looms not only is a massive radiation storm moving through the area, But Hammer and his group of Super Mutants have followed the and are closing in.  Goddard , knows of abandoned underground bunker near an old radio station where the game ride the storm out in safety. The problem is, it’s been rumored a Deathclaw has been seen in that area for sometime now.

The Bunker Entrance

OBJECTIVES  (Victory Conditions)

Survivors-  

A.       Get  Nate and at least 2 other Survivors to the bunker entrance by the end of 6 rounds.

B.      Hammer is Killed- The others will flee

Super Mutants –

A.      No more than 2 Survivors get to the Bunker entrance by the end of 6 rounds

B.      Nate is Killed or Capture- the others will flee

Deathclaw- A Deathclaw lives in the area, upon each models activation, a luck token is flipped, after 5 luck failures.

The Deathclaw will be placed on the board and follow standard AI Rules. Its objective is to kill and eat everything

Deathclaw

Air Raid Siren.  Attached to the radio station is an old hand crank Air Raid Siren, Using a single action each  Survivor in the Radio Station can activate the Siren once on its turn, When the Siren is activated the Deathclaw immediately makes a single yellow move directly toward the Siren, whether its currently engaged or otherwise (Free Strikes apply)  IF the Deathclaw’s  path toward  the siren intersects with any models on the board within its yellow move, stop the Deathclaw there and place it into combat with the model  as if it had charged.  If the Deathclaw starts is own turn in contact with the Siren,  the Siren is automatically destroyed, The  Deathclaw may then activate normally

PRE GAME NOTES.

Survivors begin the game with the Advantage Marker.  AI Cards with dictate the Super Mutants actions.

Survivors are assumed “readied”  before they are activated I only point it out if  they are holding their action.

SURVIVORS ROSTER

Nate, Sole Survivor- Loner, Heroic, Leader- Hunter , Hunting Rifle, 10mm Pistol,  1 Stimpak , Frag Grenade

Cassidy , Settler- Combat Shotgun, , Institute laser rifle, Nuka Cherry

Randall, Settler,  Assault Rifle, Nuka Cherry,.

Aspirant Goddard- T-60 Power Armor,  Laser Rifle, Baseball Bat

Codsworth- Mr Handy Flamer and Buzzsaw.

SUPER MUTANTS ROSTER

Hammer- Heroic, Leader- Brawler -Super Sledge and Missile Launcher

2 Mutant Hound- Hound Bite

Aviator-, Aviator Cap Bolt Action Pipe Rifle, iguana bits

 Brute – Sledgehammer

Enslaved Tech, Combat Rifle, 2 Frag Grenades, Patched 3  Piece Suit, Mutant Hound Meat

*** Only the Enslaved tech may operate Air Raid Siren for Super Mutants , Once the Deathclaw is on the board, activating the Siren will be his AI Objective.***

ROUND 1

TURN 1

 SURVIVORS

I move Nate first, his 1^st action is to move to the junk barricade in front of him for cover,  he’s not close enough to reach the barricade so I must use his 2^nd action to move again to get into base contact.  Since Nate is now Heroic we can roll a blue die using VATS and Nate gains 1 quick action.  Nate could attack here  using his hunting rifle he has a clear LoS at a couple of the Super Mutants  but he would suffer a -2 to hit penalty for shooting is a skill test . Its irrelevant as the distance is too great for even his Hunting Rifle.  When Nate can do is prepare an action thou so when the mutants move he’s ready.

I then flip a luck token and its fails…4 more failures..the Death Claws comes a knocking.

SUPER MUTANTS

AI  says  The Enslaved Tech  is up first,  Hammer orders him to Attack…The Tech steps forward  and is range to shoot

 That triggers Nates prepared action so Nate will shoot first.

Nate , Having the Lone Wander Perk, Heroic and Hunter gets some serious Bonus.. He ends up with 3 greens and yellow for his hunting rifle shot..he rolls a 7, -1 x2 , a bonus damage and an armor break.  He’d normally need a 5 but needs a3 due the cover from the far barricade. Nate also now has Luck and he will get 4 luck chances this match.  A successful luck flip with give him -2 to hit which is what hes given he already at 5 (roll 7,-2 Green dice) , I flip the luck token and its fails

Meaning Nates shot misses and my Luck goes from 4 chance to now 3.

Nates shoot buzzes by the Enslaved tech who blasts away with his Combat Rifle, with -4 with 2 instances of cover hes needs a Crit or Cog, and gets a X so he misses.

His luck is good when it comes to keeps the Deathclaw at bay and his luck succeeds. The DC needs 4 more failures.

TURN 2

SURVIVORS

I have Codsworth go next, his weapons are pretty short range, so I have move twice around the car where he can guard the entrance to the radio station.

SUPER MUTANTS

AI chooses the Hammer to go next , his action roll is also a single bottle , meaning  he should recklessly attack the objective ( The Survivors) at Range,  he has a loaded missile launcher  ready to go and makes a single yellow move fires off at Nate,

He’s -4  to hit due to cover but , it’s a reckless attack  so, Hammer is also Heroic, so since he’s shooting he will uses his VATS and he comes up with a single quick action on the blue die..that will allow him to advance the remaining way to cover and he now has a much better shot with his missile launcher at only -2..

He rolls a 7, a blank and a bonus damage, He needed a 4 with the Cover Penalty so he missed by 3 meaning the missile scatters yellow distance, lucking for the survivors the direction is off the bottom edge, where the missile cant hurt anyone.

The Deathclaw roll is a fail so the Deathclaw is now 3 failures from entering the game.

Yellow distance is the missile scattering off the board.

TURN 3

SURVIVORS

I have new guy, Randall start making a run for the Bunker Entrance…newbies don’t live long and we need people to make it to the bunker to win so off he goes with a double move..

Randall fails the Deathclaw luck roll too,, the Deathclaw is now 2 failures from entering the game.

Codsworth lying in wait.  Randall running for the Bunker..

SUPER MUTANTS

AI chooses the Brute next, the Brute only knows one thing, Charge! He moves twice toward the Survivors

The Brutes luck roll is good, keeping the Deathclaw at bay another turn at least..

TURN 4

SURVIVORS

Aspirant Goddard is next , Since the Brute is out in the open I have Goddard step up to blast him with his laser rife. He has a long range, clear shot.  I roll a critical, a blank and a double bottle for the special effect, which is ON FIRE.  The Brute fails his save takes 2 base damage and 1 fire damage, but unlike last time he makes the luck check and the fire goes out.

Goddards luck check for the Deathclaw is good, and its arrival is still two failures away.

SUPER MUTANTS

 The AI chooses one of the mutant hounds to go next.  It makes a double move toward the Survivors.

The Hound fails its luck roll . ,, the Deathclaw is now 1 failures from entering the game.

The Hounds had a bad bad day.

TURN 5

SURVIVORS

Cassidy is up next , She makes a single move toward the radio station, then takes a prepared action readying her double barreled shotgun.

Cassidy passes her luck roll, the Deathclaw looms

SUPER  MUTANTS

AI chooses  the second mutant hound, its only option is to move toward the survivors..moving twice.

The move does not trigger Cassidy as she cannot see it after it first move where it was well  out of her awareness range.

Hound also fails its luck roll . ,, the Deathclaw will now enter the game at the end of this round,

Lastly the AI has the Aviator act. He rolls an explosion on the action die, or cautiously persue the objective which is stop the survivors. He makes a single move. Tries to shoot no one is in range, so he moves again into some cover since he’s being cautious and he hears the Deathclaws roar.

END OF ROUND

Deathclaw arrives 

DEATHCLAW"S TURN  

Deathclaw immediately charges the nearest model, which is the poor mutant hound . Roaring its battlecry as it charges, the hound can and does try to resist but needs a 6 rolls an “8” vs the DC’s which needs an 11 and rolls a  “5”

Deathclaw now has a crazy huge dice pool and being Strength 11, its only going to fail on a “X” on the die .Total dice  Bonus Green and Black for Charge with Battlecry, extra Black for Str.

It attacks with a Deathclaw Swipe which has a base 2 yellow and special effect Blue

Rolls is 6, -3 to hit, 3 extra damage and 3 armor break, and a star for special  (no effect)

Hound takes 5 damage no save and is KIA.,  Next!

  

This hound didnt know what hit it.

 ROUND 2

With even sides the advantage falls to the Super Mutants

TURN 1

SUPER MUTANTS

Well the Deathclaw slicing a mutant hound in two certainly  changes things up a bit,

AI Priorities must be adjusted, while the Survivors are the goal, they cant meet that goal if a Deathclaw is stomping around between them.

AI Chooses the remaining hound first,  its action is to reckless attack but the hound has no interest in the Deathclaw and proceeds at the first survivor it can see, which is Aspirant Goddard. Its just withing its Blue Charge range, so it does getting in base contact with Goddard and picking up an extra black die  , its all for naught thou because despite the 4 extra dice needs a “6” and comes up with a “7” miss.

Goddard in T60 Power Armor makes short work of this hound with a baseball bat.

SURVIVORS

I decide to lets play this fight out with Goddard and the Hound.  Goddard breaks out his baseball bat and lays it into the hound. He going to attack twice and in his T60 power armor he is Strength 8 so he gets an extra black die in melee

1-      Roll, Critical, 2 x extra damage , 2 x armor break...

2-       Roll, 5, 2 x extra damage, armor break,

Lays 6 damage on the hound  and falls dead ,beaten to a pulp…  despite the Bat being a 1 physical damage item

The extra black dice for damage are no joke in power armor, on a charge he could get a 3^rd..,

TURN 2

SUPERMUTANTS

AI chooses the Aviator,  his action roll is again cautiously attack at range.   He moves behind a wall

Shielding himself from the Deathclaw and having a nice line of sight on Cassidy. He needs a 6 or less to hit thanks to his Aviator Cap.

And rolls a cog (1) plus bonus damage and the action point. He hits Cass for 3 damage and prepares an action

Cassidy has 1 armor plus 1  Strong Armor boost token so she can save 1+1,, rolls a 1 and saves 2 damage ,  and loses the token,  she’s now wounded.

The Aviator is obviously the smart one of the group.

  

SURVIVORS

I have Cassidy go next, she moves twice into the radio station , as she enters I realize that I just gave the Aviator a prepared action, as Cass passes thru the door I notice it the Aviators range is green and meets the middle of the doorway,  He fires off a shot a her rolls a Critical and an Armor Break,  She takes 2 more damage , ending at the searchable crate and goes digging for a Stimpak?  Well she pulls out a .44 Revolver…shes loaded for bear , with the Shotgun, and Laser Rifle and now the .44, but shes at deaths door with 1 health remaining.

Cassidy wounded makes it to the bunker, only to get gunned down through the window.

TURN 3

SUPER MUTANTS

AI chooses the Enslaved Tech next. His AI priority is get to the Radio Station and get on the Siren if the Mutants need it

He moves around X2   behind the Aviator ending with some cover from the building corner and near a window , Cass can see him but hes safe for now.

Enslaved Tech making for the Radio Station.

SURVIVORS

Codsworth is staying put and preparing an action he is going Flame thrower anyone coming around that corner toward the front door of the radio station.  Prepared Action.

TURN 4

SUPERMUTANTS

AI chooses The Hammer to go next, his action die is to recklessly attack at range…this time his target is the deathclaw way  too close to him  Hammer reloads his missile launcher and fires scoring a direct hit one the deathclaw with a critical and 3 bonus damage, for 6 total damage…huge hit but the Deathclaw is a armored beast at 3+1 and saves 3 of it so it takes 3 damage , which just pisses it off more.

Hammer does decide to burn a luck token to try to gain and extra critical point and succeeds!  He now has all 3 Critical points ( 1 hit, 1 luck roll, 1 crit die roll, next time his is locked and loaded he can fire off one hell of a missle strike.

After eating Hammers missile, the Brute charges in.

SURVIVORS

I have Randall continue moving toward the bunker entrance, Move x 2

TURN 5

SUPERMUTANTS

Last is the Brute, he has no choice but to Charge the Deathclaw , AI says Attack!,  Hammer would want him to tie the thing up as long as possible, so he can kill some humans..

The Brute charges  picking up a Black die for Strength and another for the Charge (battle cry wont work on the Deathclaw its immune) The Brute rolls 4, with a 2 x Armor break and 2 Bonus damage. , pretty good That lowers the Deathclaws armor to 1+1 he rolls a 2, so he still saves 1, taking 3 damage ..5 wounds on him so far 7 more to go!

SURVIVORS

I was waiting for this , Nate is now up, and he going to happily fire into the Brute/ Deathclaw melee, because all damage there is good damage! The shooting action is a miss, it whole lots of nothing (10 to hit) second shot is a 7 with a -2 an armor break and he picks up a quick action, That one is a hit, ( you do get +2 to hit shooting into engaged models) and I randomize between the two with red armor die, and it hits the Deathclaw.. The Deathclaw fails the save but still saves one taking another wound.

I use my quick action since Nate is now Heroic to shoot again, this time it’s a good hit, a 3, + 2 bonus damage and an armor break for a total of 4 damage possible, Hit the deathclaw again this time for 2 wounds its saves the other two. Nate also has picked up 2 Critical points toward making a Critical attack

The Deathclaw is now vulnerable  its down to 4 health, buts its been hit with a missile launcher, a charge from a super mutant brute, and two good hits from a hunting rifle and it’s the Deathclaws turn

END OF ROUND

DEATHCLAWS TURN

Deathclaw swipes at at Brute easily hitting him doing 2 damage and pushing him back orange distance. He then follows with another swipe, I want to try the Deathclaw crush but it has to be “primed” (which Ill explain if I can do it, after this action he has 2 of the 3 tokens he needs to prime the attack.

Second swipe… Hits with a 9, a bonus damage and a stun effect, The Brute manages to save 1 damage, hanging with 1 health left and being Stunned,  The Super Mutants may take this thing down yet.

The Brute hung in there surviving the follow up attack.

ROUND 3

Advantage stays with the Super Mutants

TURN 1

SUPER MUTANTS

AI chooses The Hammer.  Action Die says double bottle. For Hammer that means recklessly attack in melee. Hammer has a full charged critical meter, but Hammer doesn’t have a clear lane to charge the Deathclaw But he has VATS and I easily roll a bottle for an extra action…

So Hammer can move into position and Critically Attack the Deathclaw with the Super Sledge…

He gets a lot of dice, 3 yellow, 2 blue and green  He hits with  a 6 (rolls 6, -2,-1, bottle x 2, bonus damage and  a double armor break which  drops the deathclaws  armor to 1+1  I roll a 2 for the Deathclaw’s armor save meaning he fails but still saves 1 damage, but takes 4 which is how much health he has left…THE DEATHCLAW is SLAIN BY THE HAMMER….

If he wasn’t cocky enough that’s one hell of a trophy if they survive!

Hammer Super Sledges the Deathclaw...

SURVIVORS

I think at this point The Survivors need to start making it to the bunker, 

I have Aspirant Goddard go first….

He takes a quick shot at the one health left,  stunned,  Brute and tries  to put it down.

Goddard shoots..( Critical!, double bottle (on fire) , blank.)

Hits him for 2 energy damage, the Brute saves both points of damage, but again is ON FIRE so he takes an immediate extra point of Damage and that kills him..the brute falls a smoking ruin.

Goddard then moves  yellow behind Nate, toward the left side of the Radio Station.

Goddard cooks the Brute with his Laser Rifle

TURN 2

SUPER MUTANTS

AI Chooses Enslaved Tech next Action Die says Cautiously go for the objective, which in his case ‘was” the Siren But since the Deathclaw is in a crumpled dead heap, the defaults to kill the humans.

ET turns and fires his combat shotgun thru the window at poor Cassidy. Roll (4, -1. Bonus damage)  4 is  what he needs thanks to his patched  3 piece suit, the bonus damage means 3 damage to Cassidy she has 1 armor and 1 health so she is done for down in heap,  his second action is climb thru the open window into the radio station, escaping Codsworth lying in wait..  One Survivor down.

Poor Cassidy gets gunned down by Enslaved Tech from the window.

SURVIVORS

I have Randall go next, he just keeps moving and this turn he reaches the Bunker Entrance on his second action.One down , Nate +1 to go…

TURN 3

SUPERMUTANTS

The Aviator is last,  Action Die, says cautiously go for objective or stop the Survivors

He’s got a nice clean long range shot on the moving Aspiriant Goddard so he fires his Bolt action pipe rifle twice..

First shot misses with a 7 (needs 6) , Second Shot hits with a 2 and bonus damage, Goddard save is 3+1 , He rolls a 3 saving all 3 damage,  damn that T60 power armor

Aviator puts the heat on Goddard its just bounces off.

SURVIVORS

Nate moves twice to the left behind the Corvega near the left of the radio station, then using VATS he generates a quick action which he uses to Shoot at the Hammer this shot is -2 since Im using the quick action to shoot, he at long range so he picks up an extra green die from the Hunter Ability..roll (7, -2, 2 x armor break, bonus damage) bummer because as a normal shot, that would hit, being a quick action it misses.

Codsworth flies over the fences and prepares an action for next turn in case he need to flame and mutants in pursuit.

END OF ROUND

  

ROUND 4

Deathclaw is dead and its Survivors 4 vs Super Mutants 3, advantage remains with the Supermutants!

TURN 1

SUPER MUTANTS

AI chooses Enslaved Tech, action die  is again cautious  (attack and objective are the same here) he can see Nate by the Corvega sedan outside the radio station window and fires..he needed a ‘2” comes up “x” so he misses…Rifle pings of the car fender…

Enslaved Tech tries to ambush Nate, misses. Nate throws a frag grenade through the open window...no more enslaved tech!

SURVIVORS

Nate , surprised he’s being fired on from inside the building does what he should have done earlier and chucks his frag grenade at the window of the radio station (I forgot I had this earlier of would have thrown it at the Deathclaw/Mutant fight!)  He needs a 5, rolls  (a 6, an armor break and a bonus damage)  He comes that heroic luck again, I flip the luck token it comes up lucky lowering the 6 to 4 and the Grenade goes in the window. Hitting the Enslaved Tech,  exploding

With the Armor Break and Bonus damage the Tech takes 4 damage and is down and out of action.

Nate also uses VATS here but comes up with an explosion on the die meaning he does NOT gain an extra action point

With his second action Nate makes haste toward the bunker..

TURN 2

SUPER MUTANTS

AI chooses  The Hammer next, Again its recklessly attack,  Hammer needs to kill Nate to win the match, so pursue him he does…making two moves past the radio antenna ending in cover.  Hammer uses VATS picking up an extra AP,

He has a nice LoS on Codsworth and Nate is within the Missle area of effect so he fires away!

Critical, -1, bottle, no bonuses here but a direct hit on  Codsworth,  after saves both Nate and Codsworth  end up with

1 damage each, could have been worse.

Hammers Missile Hits Codsworth AoE damage to Nate...they got lucky on the armor saves

SURVIVORS

I have Aspirant Goddard go next, having him engage the mutants and maybe slow them down so the others can get to the safety of the bunker, he can always ride out the storm in his T60 Power Armor.

Goddard moves and lays down a shot at the Aviator hitting him (Cog, bonus damage and bottle) bottle means 1 damage ignores armor he blows the armor save anyway and takes 3 damage.

Goddard trying to delay the mutants, the Aviator didnt take the bait.

TURN 3

SUPER MUTANTS

The Aviator is up,  action says he again reckless go for the objective which at this point is stopping the Survivors from getting to the bunker, he moves away from Goddards Line of Sight and moves up next to Hammer

He fires a shot off at Codsworth but misses with a “10”

SURVIVORS

Randall standing on the Bunker entrance , has LoS on the Aviator, he fires off two long range shots with his AR, the first one misses, the second is a critical, The Aviator save one taking another point of Damage, he’s halfway down.

Codsworth, moves toward the Bunker Entrance  and prepares an action anyway coming within red is getting the Flame thrower.

END OF TURN 4

ROUND 5

Coming down to the wire here, Advantage- SUPER MUTANTS

TURN 1

SUPER MUTANTS

AI chooses The Aviator 1^st, his action die is to Move..the attack most vulnerable..That would be Randall standing out in the open on the Bunker Entrance, he moves to touch the rocks for cover and is still (barely) in long range for his Bolt Action Pipe Rifle he fires a shot and again misses..

Avitator tries to Kill Randall, misses, Codsworth intervenes, Flames him good.

SURVIVORS

Aspriant Goddard seizes the opportunity and charges the Hammer! It takes both Action so he wont fight yet but picks up a black on the charge.  This will keep hammer busy so the others can get to the Bunker!

Goddard charges the Hammer

TURN 2

SUPER MUTANTS

The Hammer gets charged from behind and attacks Goddard and his Power Armor with the Super Sledge..  His first attack is a miss with “10” with no friendly accuracy dice even luck wont fix that..second attack is a Critical, boom but luck id with Goddard he saves all 3 damage, and Hammer misses his VATS for an extra AP.

SURVIVORS

Codsworth moves between Randall and The Aviator, If Randall gets killed we’ll lose the Scenario as Goddard cant make it to the Bunker in time  He flames the Aviator hitting with a “2” the Aviator flubs the Armor save taking 2 more Damage from fire

Nate taking out the Aviator, thanks to a timely quick action.

Nate has to move twice if he going to make it to the bunker in time, he does I check his VATS and he rolls a Bottle and gets an AP he fires his 10mm Pistol at the Aviator who has Cover  , the quick action attack gives him another -2 so its a long shot  but Nate scores  get s a Cog a (1) and armor break and a bonus damage, the damage finishes of the Aviator since he can only save one Nate uses his new quick action from the Cog roll to move to the Bunker Entrance.

Bonus (Nate finally maxes out his crit meter)

Survivors have made it to the Bunker

END OF ROUND.

ROUND 6

 ADVANTAGE SUPER MUTANTS

TURN 1

SUPER MUTANTS

Hammer has no choice and well placed missile just needs to kill one of the 3 Survivors on the Bunker Entrance and the Mutants can claim victory.

Hammers last ditch effort a lucky missile hit could win him the game, but the dice let him down!

Hammer 1^st, must pull away from Goddard and face his free strike… this free attack is a quick action so its at -2 to hit. Goddard has an extra black die from the Charge. Goddard misses barely by 1 (he had 3 bonus damage too!)

Hammer moves to the right for a clear shot lines up on Randall as a hit with a bonus damage kills him and …

Totally Flubs it…”X, blank, blank” ouch!!   He tries to re aim with VATS rolls a star failing….game over Mutants

SURVIVORS 

Every unloads on Hammer last round, they manage a couple wounds on him.

We Finish the turn with Nate, Randall and Goddard , trying to gun Hammer down then end up putting 2 damage on him combined. Hammer could not hit when he needed it but he makes his armor saves no problem…

Survivors win this time!

 SURVIVORS are Victorious!

Had a great time with this one, could have went any number of ways…The Deathclaw was tough, but its pretty clear strong  close combat Super Mutants can take it down as they did here, there were a lot of extra rules and I am sure I missed some key places to use luck and who knows what else…I really liked the "Heroic" characters and what they bring to mix.

  I must recommend playing thru all these tutorial missions  to anyone who wants to play this game. Playing all five of these mission is a great primer for layering the more advanced rules game by game. 

Next Up .. A Fallout Campaign using the  Settlement building mode. I have plenty of terrain and figures to paint before we do,and will be bringing the Raiders next.

During all our newly found downtime here at home I have been working on my other favorite game there days. Rangers of Shadow Deep. I'm close to having everything for the next big mission down

so I also be soon be rolling the dice for: 

Rangers of Shadow Deep: Bloodmoon!

Fallout Wasteland Warfare: Mission 4- The Lost Journal

The following is a play-through of tutorial mission 4 from the FWW campaign book, it incorporates the previous sections of the rulebook discussed in the three earlier play-throughs  but adds in advanced weapons and varying conditions including Radiation and Radiation Damage, I am changing the characters up for a change of pace using more advanced characters with wider range of items. This game and the next will feature Nate , instead of Nora and I’ll bring them all together for some campaign scenarios moving forward

SCENARIO – Nate awakens from his cryo-bed in Vault 111 to discover Nora missing,  despite his brief awakening where he saw her  killed and baby Shaun Kidnapped.  Finding Codsworth, he headed immediately toward Diamond City recruiting Cassidy along the way. Eventually connecting with the Brotherhood of Steel  at the Boston Police Station. Though BoS reports he discovers  Nora is alive and with another group at their own settlement. In exchange for equipment, supplies and information to help seek them out,  Nate agrees to join Aspirant Goddard , A senior BOS initiate looking to prove himself  in an attempt to recover valuable information for the BoS  located in an old safe in the center nearby junkyard. The problem the Junkyard is directly adjacent to the neighborhood base of  Hammer, a  local Super Mutant Warlord.

   

SURVIVORS

Nate-Sole Survivor- Loner, Hunting Rifle, 10mm Pistol,  1 Radaway, 2 Frag Grenades

          Nate also has the Lone Wanderer perk, which he can use under the right conditions.

Cassidy - Settler- Combat Shotgun, 1 Stimpak, , Damaged  hazmat suit

Aspirant Goddard- Brotherhood of Steel, T-60 Power Armor,  Laser Rifle,

Codsworth- Robot,  Mr Handy Flamer and Buzzsaw.

The Survivors begin the game with the Advantage Marker.

Survivors are assumed “readied”  before they are activated I'll only point  out "readied" if  they are holding their action. (the games version of "overwatch")

SUPER MUTANTS

Hammer- Super Sledge and Missile Launcher

Mutant Hound- Hound Bite

Aviator- Pipe Pistol, Aviator Cap

Brute – Sledgehammer

Super Mutant (Soldier)- Bolt Action Pipe Rifle and Board

Each turn I roll a die to  which order the AI activates its squad.  Each models AI Cards will dictate its action I will refer to this as "action roll" or "action die"

#1 Hammer

#2 Aviator

#3  Super Mutant

#4  Mutant Hound

#5  Brute

OBJECTIVES  (Victory Conditions)

Survivors- Recover  the Journal.  1 Model leaves the battlefield with the Journal

Super Mutants – Journal not recovered, more meat for the meat bag!

TERRAIN-  Radiation Danger , there a 4 areas of Toxic Sludge bleeding Radiation on site, and figure that ends it turn within yellow distance of  any Sludge must check for random radiation damage. 

****** Super Mutants and Robots are Immune to Radiation Damage.***************

 ****** The Game will last 6 Rounds****************************

ROUND 1

TURN 1

SURVIVORS

I move Nate first, his 1^st action is to move to the car in front of him for cover, using his hunting rifle he has a clear LoS at The Super Mutant Brute, the Brute has cover from another car in the way giving Nate a -2 to hit lowering his "5"  to a 3

He shoots (roll  Critical, -3,-3 ) whoa  certainly a hit,  2 base damage vs the Brutes 2 Armor his armor check is a 1 meaning he block 1 dam so the Brute takes 1 wound.

SUPER MUTANTS

AI  says Super Mutant Soldier is up next, his action roll is a single bottle , meaning  he should recklessly attack the objective ( The Survivors) at Range, He has not shot so he moves once finding all Survivors bases are hidden behind Scrapped Vehicles, he moves again behind another Car looking for a better vantage point to shoot next turn.

TURN 2

SURVIVORS

I have Cassidy move next, shes move behind a junk barrier finds a searchable  markers and recovers a Nuka Cola. She can see the Super Mutant Soldier but has 2 pieces of terrain in the way for a -4 to hit meaning she will need a 2, she rolls a 7..and misses.

 

Cass finds herself a nice warm Nuka Cola

SUPER MUTANTS

AI chooses the Hammer to go next , his action roll is also a single bottle , meaning  he should recklessly attack the objective ( The Survivors) at Range, except he has a loaded missile launcher  ready to go and \ lights on off at Nate and Codsworth.  Hammer needs a  4 or better (Roll Crit!, -12, Xtra damage) Ouch!  4 damage to Nate and 3 damage to Codsworth , Nate with his Armor Bonus has an Armor of 4 , rolls a 3, so he takes 1, but Codsworth has 3 Armor rolls a 4 and takes all 3 points of damage, ouch again!

 

Hammer on the Left unloads his first and most damaging missile, 1st turn!

  

TURN 3

 SURVIVORS

I put Codsworth into the action as we wont be around long if he takes another hit like the last one., since he’s  not in potential attack range of anyone,  I have him move the safe which he examines and tell us we are looking for key to open it, according to Aspirant Goddard that key is here in the junkyard (we are looking for Key A)

Codsworth examines the safe, but they are all ready on him!

SUPER MUTANTS

AI chooses the Aviator next, his action roll is double star which in this case means  “cautiously attack”  (where as in this scenario both “Attack” and Objective” are the same , kill the survivors, The Aviator moves to some cover and fires his pipe pistol at Codsworth , who has Cover, which Lowers the Aviators very good “to hit” to a “4” he rolls (6, Blank, bonus damage) but it’s a miss.

TURN 4

 SURVIVORS

Aspirant Goddard is next , I have him move up to nearby searchable marker near a barrel of toxic radioactive sludge

He flips it and finds marker A - the Key to the safe!  (luck of the draw)  he then fires of a shot with Laser Rifle at Super Mutant Soldier, and rolls an (Action Point , Roll -Cog, Bottle, Explosion)  all he can do is prepare an action and wait for the Super Mutants to move

 RADIATION DAMAGE.  Goddard has end his turn right next to a sludge barrel, I roll for Rad damage and its one point, he is well protected in his Power Armor at 4 with a +1 Strong Armor Bonus versus Radiation and he easily saves it.

SUPER MUTANTS

AI Chooses the  Mutant Hound followed by the Brute both Action’s rolls are  to “Recklessly Attack!"  They do, but due to Terrain they cant quite reach any Survivors and the end the round closing distance with Codsworth and Nate

  

END OF ROUND

END OF ROUND 1

ROUND 2

Sides are 4 Survivors to 5 Super Mutant so the Survivors retain the Advantage Marker

TURN 1

SURVIVORS

Codsworth charges the nearby Mutant Hound as his 1^st Action, unloading his flamer as a second action picking up a bonus black dice.  Roll  (3, bonus damage, bottle) A easy hit..unfortunately the range on he flamer is very short otherwise that brute is directly behind them..with the Armor break and extra damage the Hound takes a full 3 damage

 

BBQ Hound

SUPER MUTANTS

AI  says Super Mutant Soldier is up next, his action roll is a double bottle or “recklessly attack the objective” or in this case, again “kill the humans!” he turn an opens fire on the nearest unengaged target the wide open Aspirant Goddard

BUT, Goddard has an action prepared from last turn and gets the drop on him with his laser rifle  Roll (3, 2x bonus damage, double bottle)  now that is actually one of the best rolls I have had playing this yet,, a hit (he needed a 3) 2x damage and the double bottle  special effect of the laser rifle is YOU ARE ON FIRE

Generic Super Mutant (soldier, I call him) not only fails his 1 energy save and take 4 energy damage but is now on fire

This Super Mutant has a particularly bad game. 

Moving back to start of its turn, The Super Mutant now  immediate takes a point of Fire Damage with no save, we then flip a luck token to see if the fire goes out, it DOES NOT (fails)

His first action is now to try to put out the fire with an Agility Test he needs a  5 or better rolls a 6 fails ,Still on fire and  he will be dead on his next activation anyway…

He fires at Goddard in a last act of desperation, seems like if you are “on fire” you should have some form of “to hit” penalty but I cant find it..the doomed mutant rolls a 10 to hit anyway missing so hes just firing wildly , which makes sense,  being on fire.

TURN 2

SURVIVORS

I choose to move Nate next,  As the Sole Survivor Loner, Nate gets the free “Lone Wanderer” perk  which gives some very powerful bonuses but you have to be Black Distance away (the longest) from any allies eventually.

As it stands he moves yellow distance to the rear of the vehicle and shoots and the Brute who is now a blue distance away optimum distance for both his weapons, I choose the hunting rifle for the 2 x yellow dice but roll an 8 so he misses.

Nate end his turn way to close to the Toxic barrel field and now must face radiation damage, the black die comes up blank so now damage yet.

SUPER MUTANTS

 The AI chooses the Hammer next.. Action Roll is again a single bottle..meaning he stays put and reloads the missile launcher and fires away, he’s go equal chance to hit both Goddard or Nate so I 50/50 it and the Target is Nate, with the Cover from the vehicle he again needs a 3, but rolls an “X” so the missile is off track and it scatters max distance in this case red!  I flip a scatter token and it behind him so the missile over shoots..

 

Bombs away, the missile launcher could be extremely effective when paired with say the Aviator Cap (+2 Per) as it stands Hammer was shooting at 50% not terrible, but not as effective as it could have been . The lucky hit round 1, did set Codsworth up for any early exit from the game.

TURN 3

SURVIVORS

Aspirant Goddard, Readies and Holds

SUPER MUTANTS

AI says The Brute. Action is a single star or “Cautiously Attack”  he can move into but not charge into Codsworth getting a bonus black die for his Strength of 8 and a Bonus Green Die for the Mutant Hound also being in Combat. The Roll is (5, 2 armor breaks, a -1 and bonus damage. Ouch Codsworth armor is reduced to 1, he fails the save and takes 3 damage an s reduced to a non functioning heap!  Oh No.

Cant Charge- has to go around.

  

TURN 4

SURVIVORS

Cassidy activates moving up to a toxic sludge barrel she shoot the Brute with her Combat Shotgun, unfortunately the range is not optimal and she gets no bonus dice  she needs a 6 rolls a 6 a hit!  2 damage vs 2 armor the Brutes save blocks 1 and he takes his second wound. 

She now must face potential radiation damage, the black die says 2 potential damage, her damage radiation suit gives her 3 resistance, she rolls a 2 and is safe.

This Also now activates Goddard who will shoot the Laser Rifle twice at the Brute, the first shot is a critical, with a single bottle effect meaning a bonus AP damage. The Brute tries to save the initial damage fails and take the full 3 energy damage..he now has 5 wounds

TURN 5

SUPER  MUTANTS

AI chooses the Aviator next, his action roll is bottle which in this case means  “recklessly attack”  at range

So the Aviator opens fire from where he is at  at Aspirant Goddard who is in range of his pipe pistol, the first shot misses due some barrels being in the way reducing the aviators “to hit”  from 6 or less to 5 or less second shot is a critical with Bonus damage for 3 damage total, Goddards Power Armor saves all the damage

Lastly the Mutant Hound is up and its all its options are to recklessly attack no matter what in this particular case so it charges I take the extra green die on the charge rolls is 2, -1, bonus damage, armor break, explosion

3 damage total vs 3 +1 Strong Armor on the power armor which becomes 2+1 due to the Armor Break, Rolls is 4 Goddard saves none but gets 1 for the Strong Armor  so he takes 2 damage,

The explosion gives him an injured arm and -2 to all Skills much worse than the 2 damage.

END OF ROUND

Survivor’s down 3 vs 5 retain the Advantage Marker.

ROUND 3

TURN 1

SURVIVORS

I activate Nate and decide to use a frag grenade on the Brute, he’s also far enough away that the lone wander perk can kick in , he still needs a 5 to hit with Grenade and the first attempt misses  scatters  back toward him and narrowly misses him with Orange blast radius, I decide to throw the 2^nd grenade this on hits with 2, a bonus damage and 3 armor breaks…the Brute gets no save taking 4 damage and hits the dirt out for the count..making his wound total now 9!

Nate again faces Radiation Damage he looking at 1 point from the black dice, Lone Wanderer gives him a Rad Armor bonus , and he saves it easily

 

Throwing Grenades

SUPER MUTANTS

AI says Super Mutant Soldier activates next, no need to roll anything else he is STILL ON FIRE and immediately takes 1 point of damage which is all he has left., he dies.

TURN 2

SURVIVORS

 I have Goddard go next locked in melee combat with the Mutant Hound is no way to be when your arm is damaged and you have no melee weapon, hoping the Power Armor can take abuse he leaves combat and faces Hound free attack the Dog misses but gets an action point as Goddard Moves the dog just follows, he trys again, this time the dog hits with a Bonus damage for three total but  he manages to save all three damage.

SUPER MUTANTS

AI chooses Hammer to go next , his action roll is  a single star , meaning  he should recklessly attack ( The Survivors) at Range, again its seems to be rinse repeat here  , Action 1 is to reload , Action 2 is to Fire . He can see both Cassidy and Nate , both have the same cover bonus , He will get the mutant hound in the blast if he fires at Cassidy, Makes sense he’d keep going after Nate. He does. Roll, 2 Direct hit, with 2 bonus damage, so Nate is facing 5 damage total,  with his Survivor Armor Boost, Lone Wander Perk h Nates Armor is 5 , we can save up to 4, he rolls 2 so we take 3 damage bringing Nates damage total to 4

TURN 3

SURVIVORS

Cassidy turns and unloads on the Mutant Hound at optimal range  Rolls 6 plus 2 bonus damage for 4 total, the Hound only has 2 health so its 1 Armor wont Save it, it goes down hard,

Cassidy  moves to the Trailer and a searchable container in it she finds an Institute Laser Rifle…nice..

Shes still too close to the toxic barrels and black die says shes looking at 1 damage, her hazmat suit saves her again, no damage,

 SUPER MUTANTS

AI just has the Aviator,  his action roll is to again cautiously attack., He moves behind the Trailer giving him cover and nice clear shot at Aspirant Goddard, He hits with a Critical and 2 Bonus Damage for 3 total, Goddard saves 1 +1  so he takes one damage and that degraded his Power Armor

END OF ROUND

ROUND 4

Things are coming to a head here at 2 vs 3 , The Super Mutants get the Advantage Marker

 TURN 1

SUPER MUTANTS

AI picks the Aviator, he just keep shooting at Goddard hoping to get lucky, hits first time but even in degraded power armor (3 protection)  he still makes the save, the second shot he rolls a 7 and misses.

SURVIVORS

Aspirant Goddard  is activated, he needs that intel and he has the key ,  he moves twice in a dash to get to the safe.

TURN 2

SUPER MUTANTS

Hammer is next, a double bottle this time finally means hes ready to attack in Melee with his nasty Super Sledge He makes a single move then is able to charge making contact with Aspirant Goddard.  They wont fight this round But Hammer adds a green die to his pool

Goddard dashing for the Safe gets intercepted by the Hammer.

SURVIVORS

I activate Nate next, he moves to nearby searchable marker finding a Machete, which will be useful if hes in close combat, I then have him prepare and action and wait for the Aviator to show his face.

Again he is too close to the Toxic Sludge Pile and is threatened with 1 radiation damage, but again he saves it (im thinking the Radiation damage here is not enough of a threat.)

TURN 3

SUPER MUTANTS

The Aviator is next and his action roll is a double star meaning he “cautiously attacks” I have move behind the Nuka Cola machine and since he’s go no target (Nate is too far away) he prepares an action!

I was hoping his movement would trigger Nates prepared action but he far past Nates long awareness range of black

SURVIVORS

Cassidy is next, she moves out and tries to take out the Aviator, she crosses his path and he shoots at her with his Pipe Pistol, he misses with an “X” and it’s a good thing for here since he rolled 3 Bonus damage!

Cassidy Moves near the car with a clean LoS an unloads the Combat Shotgun  nearly point blank shes roll a Crit, an armor break and 2 bonus damage nice…the Aviator saves 1 and takes 3 damage

The battle continues….

ROUND  5

A 2 vs 3 The Super Mutants Continue to have the Advantage

TURN 1

SUPER MUTANTS

AI picks Hammer of course,  his extra charge dice ready he unloads with the Super Sledge missing but getting an action point he swings again and misses again he prepares an action.

SURVIVORS

This turn here get the most complicated yet

Aspirant Goddard leaves melee dashing toward the safe, he suffers a free strike from Hammer (not his prepared action)

This time Hammer connects with the Super Sledge doing 3 damage, with an Armor Break Goddard saves  2 and takes 1 damage.

Hammer  then uses his prepared action to follow Goddard

Hammers movement is close enough to Nate to allow his use his prepared action to fire at Hammer, he does Roll (3, armor break, bonus damage)  Hammer looking at 3 damage, saves 1 and takes 2 he then reconnects with Melee into Goddard

Goddard still has a second action, the scenario says grabbing the journal once you have the key is a “free action” So I have Goddard  get the journal from the safe and FLEE AGAIN

AGAIN Hammer responds with another free swing from the Super Sledge  Hammer rolls (6, double armor break, 2 stars) Stars mean nothing here, but the double armor break is key  it lowers Goddards armor to 1 he rolls a 4 and takes all 3 which is enough to put him in his degraded power armor down for the count.

TURN 2

SUPER MUTANTS

Aviator is next , a single star on the action dice says he finally with “recklessly attack” in melee, he charges  into Cassidy getting an extra black die.  Super Mutants get to use the melee stat when using a improvised weapon in close combat so, the Aviator is hitting on a 7 with a black and green die…ouch..  he hits with a 6 and 1 bonus damage,  Cassidy still has her armor boost token giving her a chance to block both, but she rolls 1, saving and also taking 1 damage.

SURVIVORS

Cassidy isn’t going to do much in CC so she withdraws , The Aviators free strike hits with an Armor Break, it’s a single point of damage but she get no save.. she down to 2 health

Cassidy fires the Combat Shotgun again she shoots hit with a critical but no extra damage,  The aviator has 3 armor and saves the base 2 points from the Shotgun, this is bad.

Nate is up last things aren’t looking good, but Nate has a machete now an will be nasty in Melee if he lets the Hammer Charge  he will pick up Lone Wander Bonuses, Nate decides to put 2 shots on Hammer with 10mm Pistol

He Hits both times but gets NO BONUS DAMAGE, even with the extra yellow die from the perk, Hammer saves both times  the 2 point s of damage.,..OOOFF

10mm rounds just bounce off, Nate shoots, the Hammer Charges

Nate still taking Radiation Damage, but the die comes up empty so either he’s turning into a Ghoul or its not effecting him

LAST ROUND ( ROUND 6)

2 vs 2 Advantage goes to the Survivors.

TURN 1

SURVIVORS

Cassidy will get creamed in melee so shes on run she makes a double move toward the board edge.

Retreating , Mission failed.

SUPER MUTANTS

 AI chooses The Hammer action is roll is explosion , which stay engaged on Nate so he Charges as he’s in range. He’ll take a green die as bonus to help hit, he attacks. He misses! But gets an action point

 TURN 2

SURVIVORS

Nate attacks twice with his new Machete, he misses but follows up with a hit and Hammer fails his armor save taking a point of damage

Nate with 4 armor with the Perk vs the Hammers 3 Armor these two could go at for awhile until dice let one of them down

SUPER MUTANTS

Aviator’s  action roll is a double bottle meaning “recklessly move” in this case pursue the easy target- Cassidy! He cannot catch her as shes beyond his Charge range.

The Game ends with the Aviator chasing Cassidy off the board and the Hammer and the Sole Survivor locked in melee combat,  even an couple extra rounds with some really lucky dice it be unlikely the Survivors pull it off it’s a clear VICTORY for the SUPER MUTANTS.

“ Whatever the Survivors where after, the were denied. The Junkyard now burns to ensure they do not return!”

Bad guys win this one.

 Overall a very fun match,  I gave the Survivors a bunch of fancy gear and they had additional skills but were bested by Super Mutants with the basic gear and a single character, granted the Hammer is a tough customer.  Probably due to my inexperience using them but even thou the Survivors lost, I really enjoyed this mission. I don’t think the Radiation Damage is much of a threat, I’ll have to re-read the rules and see if I missed something.

Next up the final tutorial scenario: The Coming Storm.