All Quiet on the Martian Front - Return of the Tripods

 

Scooping up some civilians

American forces advance into the gap!

 

 

 

This weekend we gave Return of the Tripods a try, a reworking of All Quiet on the Martian Front rule set. It was a fun game. There were a few changes to the rules, some good, some bad. However for the two players that did not know the old rules, it seemed to flow fairly well.

July 15th game All Quiet on the Martian Front

 

 So, a brief diversion before the start of the new Pulp Alley game, a few of us got together to play AQMF.  It has been quite some time since this game has been on the table so a crash course on the rules was in order. I know I made some mistakes but for the most part I think it ran pretty well. The armies were approximately 1860 points each with the Martians the attackers while the humans occupied some ruins on the edge of town. The scenario was 'The Outskirts' from the rule book. The Americans deployed many of their troops as hidden (being represented by blips markers) and also deployed one ambush party. 

Picture from our latest game, AAR to follow (pic courtesy of The Ronin)

If it's not ants it's something else that will ruin a picnic!

Our second test run  of AQMF, and another victory for the humans (boo, hiss)
On the plus side a lot of humans were captured or vaporized, but more managed to escape.
So 10 of the 24 deployed, newly painted civilians were removed from the game 1/2 way through the first turn, thankfully the human player let the rest of them stay on the table a bit longer, makes the effort of painting them not feel so wasted.

Next game day tentatively set for February 29th. Games to be played to be determined...

February 1st game day

Thank you to all who attended!

We had two sessions on Saturday. In the afternoon the 2-6pm group tested out

 All Quiet on the Martian Front. 

 The evening 7 until whenever session saw us playing one of my favorite games 

Eclipse.

Both games went well, and offered up a lot of fun and some challenges for the members who played.

The jury is still out on AQMF, but we all liked the dynamics of Eclipse.

I will be posting an AAR for the AQMF game on my "Menelduir' blog.

Next game day is most likely to be Saturday February 15th. While the games to be played have not yet been selected, I am hoping that one of them will be Fist Full of Lead!

 A proper invite will be sent this week.