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  • Rage Virus
    • Part 1 - A police story
    • Part 2 - Attrition
    • Part 3 - Going nowhere
    • Part 4 - Special Weapons and Tactics
    • Part 5 - Tactical retrograde
    • Part 6 - Mission accomplished
    • Part 7 - It's pretty much all downhill from here
    • Part 8 - Hollerton Field
    • Part 9 - Out of the frying-pan
    • Part 10 - How few remain
  • Five Men in Ukraine
    • Five Men in Ukraine: 30 October 1943
    • Five Men in Ukraine: 05 November 1943
    • Five Men in Ukraine: 14 November 1943
    • Five Men in Ukraine: 29 November 1943
    • Five Men in Ukraine: 13 December 1943
  • DBA
    • Mongols v Georgians
    • Timurids v Georgians
    • Mongols v Il-khanids
    • Mongols v Il-khanids II
    • Pre-feudal Scots v Anglo-Danish
    • Caledonians v Scots-Irish
    • Vikings v Saxons
    • Mongol campaign
    • Ming v Mongols campaign
    • Picts v Strathclyde Britons
    • Mongols v Russians
    • Russians v Swedes
    • Köse Dağ
    • Mongols in Korea
    • Mongols in Korea II
    • The Danes in Estonia
    • Danes v Estonians
  • SF
    • Sladden >
      • Sladden - chapter 0
      • Sladden - chapter 1
      • Sladden - chapter 2
      • Sladden - interlude I
      • Sladden - chapter 3
      • Sladden - chapter 4
      • Sladden - chapter 5
      • Sladden - interlude II
      • Sladden - chapter 6
    • Dunhold >
      • Dunhold I - the raid
      • Dunhold II - the Guffinsson device
      • Dunhold III - a walk in the country
      • Dunhold IV - assassin's greed
      • Dunhold V - assault on precinct XIII
      • Dunhold VI - hostage & rescue
      • Dunhold VII - the gun
      • Dunhold VIII - tank shock
      • Dunhold IX - raid on Beteneb
      • Dunhold X - firebase Ragnhild
      • Dunhold XI - hit and run
      • Dunhold XII - just-in-time logistics
      • Dunhold XIII - infiltration
      • Dunhold XIV - Applewhite & Nettles
      • Dunhold XV - 'They've got a cave troll!'
      • Dunhold XVI - The bridges at Itrook
    • Dalek Invasion >
      • Dalek invasion - chapter 1
      • Dalek invasion - chapter 2
      • Dalek invasion - chapter 3
      • Dalek invasion - chapter 4
      • Dalek invasion - chapter 5: Bob's story
      • Dalek invasion - chapter 6: Bob's story (2)
      • Dalek invasion - chapter 7: Dalek hunters
      • Dalek invasion - cast
    • Mutants & Death Ray Guns >
      • From Dust: Introduction >
        • From Dust: Prologue
        • From Dust: Chapter 1 - the Trademaster
        • From Dust: Chapter 2 - the Wretched
        • From Dust: Chapter 3 - the Device
        • From Dust: Chapter 4 - Tucamari
      • Big Dode in the wastelands >
        • 1 - The ordeal
        • 2 - The rats
        • 3 - An ally
        • 4 - Scorpion!
        • Appendix 1 - Bestiary
      • Don Chimpanzino
      • Therianthropes are go!
      • Against the Wretched >
        • Against the Wretched - 1
    • Schar's World
    • Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Goats, Rats and Pigs >
      • Chapter 1
    • Marines v Aliens
    • Fallout >
      • Fallout - part 1
      • Fallout - part 2
      • Fallout - Resistance part 1
      • Fallout - Resistance part 2
    • England Invaded! >
      • Ottoman airship raiders
      • A sharp action at Fawkham
    • Gangs of New Neasden >
      • Gangs of New Neasden part 2
    • Post-Brexit Gangs of Middlesborough
    • Operation Last Train
    • Silver Thorn
    • Goblin Civil War
  • Dark Ages skirmish
    • Dark Ages skirmish: Chapter 1
    • Dark Ages skirmish: Chapter 2
    • Dark Ages skirmish: Chapter 3
  • Douglas of the 92nd.
    • Douglas of the 92nd. - the supply column
    • Douglas of the 92nd. - the heliograph station
  • The First World War
    • Mesopotamia
    • Trench raiding
    • Panzer Angst September 15th 1916
    • Freikorps
    • Biplane Barmy
    • 1914
    • 1914 - Opening Moves
    • Night falls over Jutland
    • 1919
    • Zeppelin L33 over England
  • Horse & Musket
    • Meyvaci Ali and the British invasion
    • Meyvaci Ali and the troublesome dervish
    • Meyvaci Ali and the Albanian raiders
    • Meyvaci Ali and the caravan
    • Meyvaci Ali and the tax collector
    • Meyvaci Ali and the customs-house
    • Meyvaci Ali and the revolting Martolos
    • Meyvaci Ali and the Albanian menace
    • Napoleonic Ottomans
    • Late 17th century >
      • Kirk o Shotts
      • Covenanters at Pitlochry
      • Auchtermuchty
    • Jacobites
    • O Brien's Farm
    • Turks v Russians
    • Turks v Russians 2
    • The Peninsula
    • Altdorf April 23rd 1813
    • Alcuesta
  • Samurai
    • Lord Sugiyama and the ten ronin
    • Neshikocho 1618
    • Ikko-ikki
  • Arty farty
    • Aikey Brae
    • Balgorkar (Castle Fraser)
    • Barra Hill
    • Brandsbutt stone
    • Broomend of Crichie
    • Clune
    • Cullerlie
    • Cuween Hill
    • Dunnideer
    • Clach an Tiompain / Eagle Stone
    • Cnoc Freiceadain
    • Eassie
    • Easter Auqhorthies
    • Kintore stone
    • Kirkton of Bourtie
    • Leuchar Moss
    • Loanhead of Daviot
    • Loch Kinord
    • Machrie Moor
    • Maiden Stone
    • Meigle
    • Midmar Kirk
    • Migvie
    • Mulloch
    • Sunhoney
    • Tollohill
    • Tomnaverie
    • Auchindoun
    • Fedderate castle
    • Fowlsheugh
    • Slains castle
    • Bullers o Buchan
    • Camster
    • Coire Fraoichidh / Corrichie
    • Cruden Bay
    • Gourdon
    • Loch Eich
    • Nairn beach
    • Newburgh
    • Perwinnes Moss (Scotstown Moor)
    • St. Fillans
    • Animals
    • Interesting rocks
    • And quiet flows the Dee
    • Enchanted Forest, Pitlochry
    • Strange skies
    • Covid-19 lockdown
    • One tree, one year
  • Fantasy
    • Song of Blades & Heroes >
      • Succession
      • The short-lived adventures of Yark the kobold
      • Gondor v Orcs
      • Cormyr - introduction
      • Cormyr - the watchtower
      • Cormyr - the ambush
      • Cormyr - the outpost
      • The adventures of Zou Kov >
        • The palace of Covidius I
        • The palace of Covidius II
        • The palace of Covidius III
        • The palace of Covidius IV
        • The howling
        • The beacon
      • Alquin of Barrowdale
      • The Young Kingdoms
      • Zothique
      • Hyperborea
      • Vadagh
    • Lord of the Rings >
      • Mahud & Haradrim v Gondor
      • Hobbits v goblins
      • Rohan v Dunlendings
      • Gondor v Haradrim & Mahud
      • Gondor v Dunlendings
      • Faramir at Osgiliath
  • Second World War
    • Atlantic Convoy SC41
    • Burma 1943
    • Neil Thomas
    • Martelange
    • Dzyatlava
    • Monopoly Blitz
    • Ten minutes on a Burmese afternoon
    • Bolt Action >
      • Encounter at Villages Pas Vrai
  • Who thought this was a good idea?
  • Modern
    • Afghanistan 2009
    • AK47 Republic
  • Terrain
    • Terrain showcase
  • Back catalogue
    • Aberdeen Beyond 2000
    • MDRG four-way scrap
    • Published articles
  • Le salon des spods
    • Semi-random scenario generation
  • Extended universe
    • Spodlight
    • Spodcast
    • There Will Be Spods
    • Spodify
  • All Under One Banner
    • All Under One Banner 03 June 2017
    • All Under One Banner 05 May 2018
    • All Under One Banner 04 May 2019
    • All Under One Banner 17 August 2019
    • All Under One Banner 07 October 2019
    • All Under One Banner 11 January 2020
  • Scrapbook
These old plastic Warzone Bauhaus could pass for some sort of lightweight Brotherhood of Steel troopers.
For the first game we did a straightforward Artefact Hunt scenario. Getting word of the uncovering of a valuable piece of ancient technology in the ruins of south central LA, the Brotherhood have despatched a squad of light infantry.  These are the people at the top of the page. Their stats were as below:
Officer                    Q2+ C2 Leader, Pistol (80 pts)
Rifleman                Q3+ C2 Assault rifle, Frag grenade (48 pts x 7)
Heavy Weapons    Q3+ C2 Rotary gun, Frag grenade (55 pts)
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However some locals also got wind of the find and set out to find it.  They were Big Derek and his crew of bikers. Derek also 'persuaded' a few of his less tooled-up neighbours, the Chequers,  to come along.
Derek        Q3+ C2 Leader, SMG, Frag grenade (74 pts) - That is him, on the left.
Bikers        Q3+ C2 Assault rifle, Frag grenade (48 pts)    
                   Q3+ C2 SMG, Frag grenade (44 pts x 3)
                   Q3+ C2 Flamethrower, Frag grenade (40 pts)     
Chequers  Q3+ C2 SMG (38 pts x 3)  
                   Q3+ C2  Pistol (34 pts x 2) 
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Here we see the battlefield from the Bikers' side.

Derek's plan, insofar as he had one, was to use his well-armed bikers to hold the strong position on his right - the line of sandbags between the two tanks. The Chequers would meanwhile look for the artefact. Derek himself took up a safe position - I mean, a commanding central position - behind the large ruined building in the centre.  You can see him. and some of the metal boxes which might contain the artefact, in the picture below.
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Before long one of the Chequers, Skinny Pete, announced that he'd found a crate. Derek went to have a look (below) but came under fire from a couple of Brotherhood troopers and dashed back behind the building. Meanwhile the rest of his biker posse were forming up along the sandbag wall and the other Chequers were fanning out to look for boxes.
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Stuff was about to get real along that sandbag wall as the Brotherhood formed up to attack it, their rotary gunner spinning up his gun and trundling a fresh wheelbarrow of ammunition alongside.
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First blood, however, went to Farrah (above, about the centre of the barricade) who blazed away with her SMG and killed one of the Brotherhood troopers. This seemed only to annoy them and the rotary gunner cut loose, hosing the length of the sandbags with a torrent of fire which killed one of the bikers and caused the others to duck behind the storage towers or dive to the ground for safety.  Before the cloud of smoke and debris cleared trooper O'Malley ran smartly forward and lobbed one of his tattie-chapper grenades over the sandbag wall. The results of this were predictably unpleasant for the bikers as two were killed by the blast and the remaining two, Big Bob and Pamela, ran for it.
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The Brotherhood's alarmingly easy disposal of the bikers' seemingly impregnable postion turned out to be something of a sideshow. Skinny Pete had opened the box on top of the ruined building and discovered a complicated looking and clearly valuable device. He scampered down the stairs and Derek called to him to get it safely away. The rest of the Chequers began to make their way back to cover Pete's retreat.
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Pete's moment of triumph was short-lived as one the remaining Brotherhood troopers shot him dead as he ran for safety. The artefact , fortunately still in a nice protective case, went flying but before any of the Brotherhood could lumber forward and get it one of the Chequers, Liz, grabbed it up and ran off with it. Derek then rapidly exfiltrated himself, followed by Big Bob, but the unfortunate Pamela was gunned down as she fled in an obvious act of senseless violence by the Brotherhood.

So on the face of it a success for Derek. But heavy losses amongst his bikers, and the inevitable follow-up by the Brotherhood to retrieve the artefact, could well lead to changes in the power structure in south central. Will the Chequers try to throw off their vassal status? Will others in the area, notably the Yardies or Sir Bufton Tufton's Gentleman Scavengers, try to challenge Derek's hold on power?
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