I managed to play a quick game of Song of Blasters a couple of days ago featuring the forces of the Imperium being charged with driving a mercenary unit away from a strategic bunker on Viridia II.
Imperial patrol
The best thing about playing games in 15mm scale is that it is really quick and easy, not to mention cheap to throw together a couple of small forces! My Imperials cost about £5 and my Mercs even less!
Mercenary Outfit
The Imperials were at a real disadvantage with only a single heavy bolter and a couple of grenade launchers as well as a heavy rifle and would struggle against the mechanised Mercs. The Imperial Sentinel with a multilaser would prove vital in laying down enough fire to keep the mercenary mechs from dominating the battlefield.
Imperial heavy weapon squad
The Imperials won initiative repeatedly throughout the game and opened up with their heavy bolter on the larger mech and managed to scratch the paint on the beast before it opened up with two missile pods and blew the whole squad up.
Mercenary Mech advances
Supremely confident in it's heavy armour protecting it, the heavy mech advances on the Imperial lines firing as it goes.
Meanwhile on the other flank, the Sentinel and Battlesuit repeatedly exchanged fire but the multilaser's high rate of fire told and succeeded in riddling the mercenary machine sending it crashing to the ground.
Fire from the Mech hits the Heavy Weapons squad.
Things were looking grim for the Imperials as the heavy mech gunned down the Sentinel and approached the second infantry squad who hurled everything they could at the rampaging machine. Fortunately a well placed barrage of grenades and heavy rifle fire finally brought down the beast and the Imperial command squad droid called down an artillery barrage that spooked the mercenaries and forced them to withdraw.
End of Play
The Imperium lost three dead and five wounded whilst their Sentinel was recovered but would be in the shop for some time being repaired.
The Mercenaries lost two dead and three wounded whilst both mechs were damaged beyond repair and had to be abandoned on the battlefield.
Apologies for the ropey pics but I used my phone to take all the shots so it's a little bit fuzzy but a lot quicker to put together a quick report!
Hopefully I'll get chance to play some more games in the next couple of weeks so watch this space!
A nice little fight!
ReplyDeleteFantastic stuff as always, Richard! I need this ruleset, just by the way. ;)
ReplyDeleteSadly it needs an awful lot of work done to it but I keep getting distracted but once I finally have a decent draft of it, I can send it over!
DeleteLooks like a good game :)
ReplyDeleteWhat ruleset did you use?
ReplyDeleteReally nice game!
Song of Blasters started as a mod of Song of Blades but has since morphed into something completely different and each game I play of it seems to result in further changes! I've got random scribblings for it in several notebooks but I tend to just go with what works to make for a more entertaining game.
DeleteI do plan on playing some Rogue Trader at some point in the next few weeks for some retro fun though!
The forces for this game have a really great Rogue Trader feel to it, fantastic game!
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