Thursday, October 24, 2019

FFOL - Galactic Heroes Save The Alliance

What do you do when SoCal Edison cuts your power for 11 hours?  Why, you play Galactic Heroes, of course.  And since it's almost Halloween and you are playing by candle light, you play a horror scenario:

I started with the "Foggy Streets of London" FFOL Tales of Horror scenario.  I replaced the werewolves with Reavers.  After the scenario, I made a couple more mods to give Kaylie and Wash more jobs to do. 

Scenario:  A small research facility had a breach and accidentally deployed some Paxiline II, a new, less-lethal version.  The remaining troopers are mindless, zombie-like creatures, wandering the base.  Normally, your crew would celebrate this, but Reavers have attacked the base!  The Alliance is offering a reward for every trooper rescued.  They will also “temporarily overlook” any outstanding warrants.  (Foggy Streets of London Tales of Horror Scenario)

Reavers entering from one edge:

The board was lit by a hurricane lamp and a modern LED lamp:

Early on, a Reaver got lucky and took River out of action.  He successfully turned her into a Reaver later:


Alliance troopers are scattered around the facility:

There were 3 players:  Me as the Reavers, Sara with Zoe's team, and Helen with Mal's team.  Miles chose to survive the lack of Internet by sleeping. 

Zoe's team entered from this side.  They succeeded in getting wiped out, with Kaylie dragging the heavily-wounded Zoe to safety.  They came in last place.

Mal's team entered from Zoe's side of the board.  They won the game, with Malcom taking down the Reaver Leader and rescuing most of the troopers.  Simon couldn't bring himself to shoot River-the-Reaper, and ran away.  River ended up taking Malcom out of action.

Final tally?  9 troopers rescued alive, 2 died, and 1 turned in to a Reaver.
River and Shepard were turned in to Reavers.
Malcom died.

Helen was the clear winner!

And thankfully, half an hour later SoCal Edison decided to turn the power back on, letting me post this.