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Aliens - Replacement/second Hicks

+++Emergency Transmission+++ 
Lost Hicks! Aquired a replacement from a friend, found Hicks, friend will now have their own squad of Marines, when I get to the others assembled.


Blurry one

+++Further transmissions received+++
Final set of bits from Assests and Hazards for Aliens, including four eggs.


Eight more cases.


Top view


Three more terminals


Classic beige


Couldn't help myself - electric dreams!
 
+++Transmition received+++

What weird eggs are these?


And one is already open, which means...


Hold on, I'll just check the database...


Errr, guys...


There's a lot of blips...


Another twelve of them!


I've got them on monitor...


They've breached the wall...


They're coming this way!


We can't stop them!


+++Transmition ends+++

 
Four more crates.
Because...
 
A few extra bits of usefullness to run the game next week.

The stuff of nightmares, a pair of facehuggers!


Really nasty idea


Leaping to capture new victims


Eeep!


A pair of high tech computer terminals


Living in electric dreams...


Sure my Uni had these as high tech in the 90s.


Peek, poke, bytes and ram!


Supply boxes, hopefully with something useful inside.


A & B guns, UA 571-C Automated Sentry Gun


Special edition anyone?


Dakka dakka


"It's wall to wall in there man!"
 
 
Got hold of the 'In The Pipe, Five-by-Five' expansion.
So, here we go, Ferro and Spunkmeyer.


Pistols vs Aliens, not going to end well.


Useful that the name the bases, allows you to identify the bodies...


Pew?


The four named and different warriors, the Guard, Brute, Sulker and Scout, just gives you a bit of variety.


Interesting poses


Waiting


And Ferro's spare head


Four more alien drones from the original set. Well, I needed all eight for last night's game.


Takes it up to 20 aliens now. In motion


Tail swish...


Charge


Odds on the black guys
 
Was up at Boards and Swords the other week, and after playing a fair amount of 'Xenos Rampant', I noticed Rob & Manny had a copy of the "get away from her you B****!" expansion.
Which includes 'enraged' Ripley - i.e. Ripley with Newt, Ripley in Power Loader, Bishop being normal and half a Bishop!
It also included the Alien Queen, Greater Xenomorph anyone!

Power Loader and Queen


Back view, the yellow has worked really well


From above


It's behind you!


Conga line?


Annoyed Ripley and Newt


She's not happy


Tooled up


Back view


Bishop and half-a-Bishop!


He's a bit of a mess!


I can remote pilot the dropship.


Bald patch?


Back off
 
 
And now something really scary (yes, the time it took to assemble them)


They're in the walls...




Oh heck!




They come at night, mostly

 One of those 'I'll never use it but I need it' purchases. Huge fan of Aliens, and I've been eyeing up the Marines set that very sensibly they sell separate from the new Aliens board game. Saying that, I did use them on Wednesday when Cliff at the LB club brought his first edition copy of 'Space Hulk' down and we played it properly!

The heroes of Hadley's Hope


Apone, Hicks and Deitrich


'Eat this!'


Bases come pre sculpted with names too


Weisbowski, Crowe, Hudson and Frost


Team of ultimate badarses!


The camo nearly sent me blind!


Vasquez and Drake


Love the animation on these two


Drake was a nightmare to assemble, all the rest were a dream


Gorman and Burke


One a man out of his depth, the other a nasty little toad


Newt and Ripley


Newt's sculpt is soooo cute


And here they are in action on Wednesday, Three of us played 4 games, it was hilarious!

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