Five Parsecs: Campaign Game 4. Holding out for a hero.

After the shootout in the Ash Wastes, Gallius has a rumour to follow up. His crew are assigned various tasks around the hive, but are spotted by an informer. Julio’s old gang, the Iron Hounds, sends eight fighters to kill him! The crew are caught unprepared and separated. They’ll have to hold off the Iron Hounds until the rest of the crew races back to the sound of the guns…

Four against eight in the underhive...

The crew have a range advantage, but it does not make a big difference.

Julio is the focus of most attacks

The Iron Hounds have a heavy stubber

A huge brute emerges from the door behind them!

He blazes away!

But he is on the crew's side!

The Iron Hounds falter under withering fire

Those that don't run are picked off.

Julio was very lucky- he suffered several hits but wasn't wounded. In the last turn, he found a useful toolkit that he sold for cash. The Iron Hounds decide against continuing their vendetta. Holding the field of battle after the firefight, the crew finds a crate of armour and lots of credits. Gallius thinks that it is time to leave Necromunda for more dangerous worlds…

The crew has a new recruit! At the end of the last mission, they liberated a slave from the mysterious miners. I rolled a Hulker, and was really keen to slap paint on an Ogryn. Meet Chugger:

He’s not very bright but he can lift heavy stuff.