Project Star Wars: First game!

After painting (almost) all my Star Wars stuff last year (see the blog Project Star Wars entries), the miniatures finally made it to the gaming table for our very first game of the year.

Using Fistful of Lead: Galactic Heroes and a scenario borrowed from Baron von J my son took charge of Darth Vader and four Royal guards while I had a Jedi with 4 supporters.

The bad guys

The good guys

The scenario takes place after order 66, which killed most Jedi. In order to lure the Jedi that escaped order 66 out of their hiding places, the Empire has set up a false Jedi beacon in an old Jedi temple on the planet Aniron. Jedi Master Judwan Vhing recognizes the trap (It's a Trap!) and must destroy the beacon. Darth Vader happens to visit Aniron on an inspection tour and must take out Vhing's party leaving the beacon intact to attract more Jedi.

 

The Imperial beacon

Both the Rebels and the Imperials started their turns moving towards the temple.

I included three jokers in the deck, representing Aniron wildlife looking for prey. Two of these appeared immediately in the first turn and turned out to be Maw beasts.

The beasts moved towards the nearest prey. One group headed for the Imperials, another group towards the Rebels.

Ptanak managed to pick one off, but Tashik missed, allowing the beasts to close on him.

Next turn the third joker fell and a Nexu appeared, heading for the Rebels!

The beasts were now also closing in on the Imperials.

On the Rebel side, Blayne aimed his heavy blaster at the oncoming Nexu and killed it before it could come close.

One Royal guard spotted the Rebel scout Sluur and shot him with his laser lance, putting Sluur out of action.

Master Vhing closed the distance to the droid operating as the beacon and tried to destroy it with his light saber. He must've been distracted by something because the droid won the close combat and inflicted a wound on Vhing!

Ptanak dropped another maw beast, emptying his blaster. Two beasts left, heading full speed for Tashik.

Darth Vader decided to neutralize the maw beast threat first before engaging the Rebels.

The beasts took down one Royal guard before they had to give up the hunt.

In the same turn, two maw beasts jumped Tashik, taking him down and causing a wound.

A Royal guard joined the fight between the droid and Master Vhing and was immediately cut down. The droid proved very hard to hit however.  Darth Vader saw the light saber flashes and made his way to Master Vhing. With a mighty blow, Master Vhing put Darth Vader out of action (he did have the high ground).

Finally the droid wasn't able to escape Master Vhing's light saber any more and was cut in half.

After using The Force to heal his wound, Master Vhing rushed over to keep the maw beasts off Tashik.

With Blayne joining in and another Force Heal on Tashik, the Rebel party claimed victory.

Darth Vader was dragged to a gunship evac, and lived to fight another day.

Again a fun Fistful of Lead game, with the early appearance of the local wildlife disrupting the plans of both sides.

Njam, njam.