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Doncaster 2019, Friday Game #1 - Listening Post
Paul "Tikkifriend" ran this game on Friday afternoon.
"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..................."
<<Monty Python 'British Officer'>> STOP IT, this is getting silly!
Alright, then......................
Colonial Scouts have stumbled across a Cylon listening Post on a small moon just beyond an asteroid belt.
'Galactica' has dispatched Vipers to destroy it, so that the Rag-Tag Colonial Fleet can pass by undetected.
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The moon looks quiet enough...........
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The Vipers rush in, before the Cylons can mount a defence..............
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..........but they are already here! Is there a Cylon loose in the Colonial Fleet?
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The Vipers attack regardless
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The flanking Vipers turn outward, to screen the central pair in their approach to the moon
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and one is separated from the other three and attacked by a Heavy Raider and a Scarred Raider
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The hotshot pilots get distracted from their mission, and engage the Cylon Raiders
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Having broken up the attacking formation, the Cylons set to work methodically taking down their human opponents
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all except for the one hideously disfigured Raider, who slips away into the asteroid field, on a mission of his own!
The Cylons exploit their positional advantage
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The Heavy Raider destroys one Viper, as Cylon "Helmut" purues Lt. "Deadly M".........
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..........and his targeting is frighteningly accurate!
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"Deadly M" is now just, well, dead.............but so is "Helmut"'s wingman, destroyed by Lt."Hawkhurst". The remaining humans call in the two "Alert" Vipers to assist.
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The scarred Raider reaches his objective - and takes a selfie! :eek:
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Mission accomplished, he returns to the fray.
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Lt. "Hawkhurst" overshoots "Helmut", and the Vipers return to the mission objective, firing on the base on the moon.
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All vessels now converge on the moon - with the "Alert" Vipers behind him, Cylon "Helmut" performs an FTL jump, to try to get behind them instead...............
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...........but his damaged Raider reappears on the wrong facing, and he moves across the engine trails of his intended victims.
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The remaining Vipers, in desperation, declare ramming attacks against the base on the moon! :eek::eek::eek:
Paul, the GM, says "you'll hit on anything but double one" - guess what happened next! :)
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The Heavy Raider rams and destroys another Viper, and the game is over - the base is badly damaged, but it survives.
One Raider lost, against 5 Vipers..........CYLON VICTORY!
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The 'Galactica' will have to find another route to Earth.
