Wonders will never cease, and this weekend, the rejects witnessed the arrival of sci-fi in Stuart's Shed-o-War for the first time. Steve has been painting models from Star Wars Legion for quite a while now and kept threatening to bring a game to the shed for the Rejects. After joining our ranks a few years ago, this was his first outing as an umpire for the Rejects. And he did pretty well for his first rodeo!
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| Storm Troopers moving into position. Amazingly they were not as bad a shot as they are in the films! |
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| Indeed this squad's shooting was incredible, giving the Imperial forces their first kills of the battle. |
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| Although outnumbered, there was a huge cast of characters on the Rebel side. Now if they can just get them into range we'll have something to shoot at! |
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| Our AT-ST stands very imposing in the centre of the table, ready to dish out some suppression fire. |
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| This squad had a rocket launcher so would attempt (poorly) to keep the Rebel snow speeder from causing too much damage. |
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| Steve explains that Surjit has positioned his AT-ST in exactly the wrong position because it cannot step over obstacles. Sujits pain was palpable. |
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These little rebel walkers were a real pain and their armour
made hitting them very difficult. |
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| Steve did an excellent job of navigating a bunch of Star Wars Legion newbies through the rules. The first turn was a bit slow but we soon picked things up. |
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| Some of Surjits Storm Troopers. We had a lot of troopers. |
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| My Imperial Bodyguard. Tough, and deadly, they made short work of an enemy scout squad from their elevated position. |
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| Meanwhile, the Speeder swung around the flank to try and destroy the AT-ST. Thankfully the pilot needed to go to Specsavers and didn't hit a thing. |
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| However, with a rear canon, the speeder can shoot in two directions at once! How unsporting!! |
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| I had two Speeder Bike units on the table. I really liked their speed and firepower but got too close to an imperial robot which attacked them as they tried to fly past. |
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| Meanwhile, Vader gives an inspiring speech... that was about it for his involvement I the game. |
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| Rebel Scum hiding behind a barricade. |
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| Han and Chewie likewise took cover and hunkered down for most of the game. |
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| Surjit moved the AT-ST but now he's pointing in the wrong direction, with his rear to the rebel speeder and to make matters worse the pilot can't hit a thing with the Las-Cannons. |
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| Not only Sci-Fi in the shed, but we even got Stuart to take some pictures on a mobile phone. Somehow he managed to click away and didn't take a single picture. He really is the man the 21st Century forgot, bless him. |
We only managed to get three turns completed, partly because we were new to the rules and partly because the game was very large and there was a lot to activate. Steve did an admiral job of keeping us on track, without looking his mind in the process. Even died-in-the-wool historical player Stuart enjoyed himself so I think we can call this experiment with sci-fi a success. Steve has promised us a follow-up game in the new year and we're going to hold him to it.
