Five Parsecs. Campaign Game 19. The Close

Last time, in Hive Primus...

Gallius Marbec had entered the Underhive and stolen a blasphemous totem. As the crew load their shuttle to leave Necromunda, the cultists send a crack team to exact their revenge...

"Stop them! Get back our sacred icon!"

The cultists tactically advance across the shuttle bay.

The crew run from the shuttle after hearing the blast.

Roma takes a commanding position, but realises she is exposed.

Chugger doesn't waste time thinking- he comes out blasting!

Marbec directs his crew to a hasty defence behind the pipes.

The cultists still have a way to go.

The crew put a weight of fire across the hangar.

A marksman tries to slip into the room...

... but Chugger guns him down! (Deafening poor Hezel.)

The cultists' fire is becoming more accurate. Hezel goes down.

As the cultist deploys his heavy stubber, Lady Heldycryn takes him out.

Marbec slags a cultist with his plasma gun.

The marksman is back! But Lady H snipes him first.

The cultists are closing the gap, but Marbec feels confident.

Stazie Rendir tries to flank the cultists with her shotgun.

A second wave of cultists appears, led by an ominous cloaked figure.

Chugger downs another!

But the numbers are great.

Stazie misses with her shotgun!

She, too, is taken out.

Roma Jyan goes down under the weight of incoming fire.

Marbec decides to run for it.

The flanking cultists get a clean shot on Chugger- the ogryn goes down.

The cultists close the trap.

Marbec's armour saves him from multiple shots.

A cultist commander is at the shuttle!

Lady Heldycryn leaps off the pad. The exit door is so close...

She fights off a cultist, as the flamer gets a clear shot at Marbec.

Marbec staggers to the door- he reaches out to the control panel, but collapses. His campaign is over.

Whew! What a finale! I had planned to complete a twentieth mission, but after such a dramatic and definitive battle I've decided to wind up this campaign here. I haven't done any post battle rolls. Did the crew live or die- who knows!

I used an 'elite' force from the Five Parsecs Compendium as enemies, as well as some of the variant and random rolls. Not only were the enemies tougher and better fighters, but there were more of them coming on in waves. I think there were fifteen in the end against the six crew.

The shuttle is an FDM print from The Dragon's Rest. The ramp opens and closes.

Did Marbec escape? Is he nursing his horrific wounds in the Underhive and planning vengeance? Would anyone listen to his crazy tales of monsters in the ducts? Or did he die forgotten, his crew destroyed?

Postscript:

"I have saved the icon for you, masters."

Betrayal! I never trusted Corvin anyway. Where was he in this battle? How did he fight off three genestealers last time?

Next time: my thoughts on Five Parsecs from Home.

Turbo Kid and Apple

These figures from Imitation of Life pay homage to Turbo Kid and Apple. I painted them for the  'Romance' theme of the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge.

Trailer:

Buddy, the Six-String Samurai

This is an homage to Buddy, the guitar-wielding ronin of Six-String Samurai. In the post-apocalyptic far future of 1997, Elvis has died and Buddy must travel to Lost Vegas to become the new king of rock 'n' roll. On his journey, he is accompanied by The Kid.

Buddy

Buddy and The Kid

The Kid

3D prints from Imitation of Life.

Christmas Cultists

These festive fundamentalists are 3D prints from Imitation of Life.

I'm trying out Speedpaint 2.0, with mixed results. Early days.

Greyscale Gangster

Angels with Filthy Souls is a highly-quotable 80 second metafilm, created for and shown within the classic Home Alone (1990). Starring Ralph Foody as Johnny and Michael Guido as Snakes, it is an homage to the gangster classic Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). There is a good Vanity Fair article about it here.

This is a free digital figure from Wargames Atlantic. The barrel is a bit delicate, but it was a fun figure to paint. I like the shirt garters! I was heavily influenced by Carmen 'Fun Painty Time' Cerra as I learned about greyscale and value painting. I was lucky to have a black and white source to refer to!

This was a technical task from the Analogue Hobbies Challenge. I started with a black undercoat, drybrushed white. I used a dark grey highlighted with a mid grey, the mid grey highlighted with a light grey, and the light grey highlighted with white. There's room for improvement with the tommy gun and maybe I could pick out the tie pattern, but that was enough for now. I'm not going to start a whole greyscale project- but it would be fun...