The Daemon's Claw

With our teams now having been classified as Xenomorph Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). We were promptly dispatched to another science expedition. This one had been studying some ancient ruins and maybe a crashed spaceship. For this game we decided to add more terrain to compress the lines of sight, we also changed the lock and load rules so that you either shot in the shooting phase or in the threat phase but not both. This still gives you the ability to move to a point where you will be able to see a target when it moves towards you. We also added some Yautja. These had cloaking devices, Ash suggested the rules: a TN 7 intelligence test to spot, and an additional -1 to hit. however once hit they lose their cloaking for the rest of the turn. We armed them with heavy blades and a single shot S6 12" range plasma caster. We also decided that the hunters would be on locked and loaded state when revealed from their blips. We kept the blips secret until it was discovered,  by moving with...

 With humanity surviving the 21st century, Alan Richard, Thomas and I took some last days crews to investigate a colony planet. Alan had some Wayland-Yutani commandos, I had an acquisitions team from Wagner-Gurevich. Microsoft had dispatched a support team from their Service Hub lead by Thomas and Richard was using a band of independent contractors.  When you lose contact with one of your colonies after investing millions of credits, its important to try and save your investment. This is my team. I have an acquisitions project manager, 5 soldiers and Nikita the Synthetic. My Solders are a set from Copplestone and the others are Hasslefree. This is an overview of the table. My team are positioned here for display. The gaming area is two 6*4 tables. These are my new Geek Villain cloths. The Buildings are all Allan's Out teams are spreading out from the comms tower. My project manager and the communications expert stay in the tower to download the colony log as soon as Wayland Yu...