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Xenos Rampamt: Two games vs Dik: Colonial Marines vs Nids then Undead.

+++New Xenomorph contact, assess, reiew, terminate with extreme prejudice+++  Dik kindly offered to beat me up at Xenos Rampant in the middle of October (been a bit busy, so failed to get the report done immediately, so this may be missing several key details/facts/jokes from the night). I rolled a 1 on my commander, on both my games, so had -2 points with a Pen-pusher in charge (Hello Lt Gorman). Dik set up his beautiful terrain (and my road), and we started our first game 'Fighting Withdrawal'. Dik was defending, which, given our two armies and the way they were built, was something on an advantage to him. Let's put it like this, he didn't withdraw, he attacked! Dik had to deploy along the halfway line, and get off the back edge. He had three units of lesser Xenomorphs, a Greater Xenomorph, a support artillery piece,  beast. I fielded a slightly different set up to my original force, a large swarm of Aliens with infiltration and extra defense, two squads of heavy inf...

Xenos Rampant: First Game - Colonial Marines vs Orc/ks.

++Report 31-01-23. Hadley's Hope/LV426 outside Rad zone +++ +++ Xenomorph clean up continues. Herding two know packs into Rad Zone for 'processing'. +++ +++Scavengers encountered in rubble and co-opted to assist.+++ +++ Motion trackers have found significant new signals, movement pattern does not suggest usual Xenomorph, all signs are of violent advance on our position with shooting and screaming +++ +++ Engaging +++ Martyn very kindly enquired if I would like a game of Xenos Rampant, I jumped at the chance, as I have many and various Sci-fi figures and had no real time to use them. But what to use? The answer was simple, my Colonial Marines . A few figures short of a full detachment, but I have enough Hasslefree S targrave 'randomness' to cover that. My force, very simple, HQ squad - Light Infantry, no upgrades. Command roll (tbc) Two squads of Armour piercing, Machine Gun armed Heavy infantry Psi scavenger squad- Light infantry with a Gamma level psionic with...