Battle Report - Battletech Clan Invasion

 Hello Folks,

Yesterday was time for another game of battoectech. This time it was clan vs clan on a lava world. Thought this would be a fun mix up.

Special rules:

Ambient Temperature 70deg, so all mechs get +2 heat a turn

Magma: Gives to heat if walked through, 5 heat and 2d6 damage to parts that sound a full turn in it, and you might bog diwb and get stuck.

Magma Crust: hexes walked over break and turn to maga on a d6 roll of 6. Mechs might bog

We used random mech assignment and played with zelbrigen dudes, with the following mechs facing off:

Jade Falcon - Ghost Bear

Executioner vs Gargoyle

Hellbringer vs mad dog 

Nova A vs Nova Prime

Mad Cat vs Summoner 

Stormcrow vs ice ferret

Scenario was take and hold, so we had a communications truck near the center, you get a point each turn you hold it, most points over 10 turns wins.

To be honest this was maybe a bit to big of a battle to realistically complete.

Here's the set up. Full stars of clan mechs ready for action. The area between the yarn is the thin crist, used fire hexes to denote the new Magma. 

Mostly advance with jade falcon scoring some hits, but ghost bear getting misses. Ghost bear have the fastest mech thou and are able to claim the truck turn 1. The ghost bear mech ended up breaking through the lava on his last move and got some heavy leg damage.

Turn 2 everyone charges in and the crust starts breaking up. My Nova flew up on a mountain because it seemed fun. The executioner was really pulling hits into the gargoyle, but my hellbringer was also taking some good damage. Magma is getting harder and harder to avoid!

Turn 3, starting to get hard keeping mechs moving fast, while avoid the Magma, and keeping 1 near the truck. Big event this turn is my executioner going around the bug rock. The gargoyle tried to follow but bogged down in the lava, taking a good bit of leg damage.

Turn 4 rolls around and its getting late, the sun is going down. The Jade Falcons feel that give time they would kills ghost bear mechs and win the scenario, really they deserve a win. Given that they decided to set aside the tenets of zelbrigen and just a hilary the 2 mechs by the truck. The mad cat even going so far as to shoot the mad dog in the back! For shame. Sadly despite a heroic attempt leaving both pretty crippled they dont quite go down.

Out of time the ghost bears declare themselves the winners and the falcons honourless scum and head home.

The Magma turned out to be very fun in the end, lots of drama moving units and seeing of they will breakthrough or not! Sadly this game was maybe a bit to big and we didn't have time to get even halfway through, making it a bit easy fir whoever gets the truck first. But the last ditch effort to cheat and spice things up was fun to. Everyone likes being evil afterall.

Thanks;

Mike