Doctor Who AAR - The Invasion

This is one of the Invasion scenarios for Doctor Who the Miniatures Game. This was played by Richard and Jason with me umpiring.

The streets of London. Eerily quiet as the Doctor, Polly and a UNIT squad leave the docks. The Cerebron Menetor is in the wrecked landrover top left. The manhole covers where the Cybermen may enter the game are represented by 6 counters in the streets.

The Doctor's team start to make their way into the streets.

To be faced immediately by their first Cyberman.

Unit troopers make short work of the Cyberman with a very well aimed grenade.

The UNIT grenadiers are kept bust neutralising the manholes as the rest of the Doctors team make there way to the objective.

The Doctor pauses to stun a Cyberman with his sonic screwdriver.

UNIT covers the alleyways that threaten the escape route.

Private Perkins dashes forward and seizes the Cerebron machine.

Cybermen lie in wait.

And try to head off the UNIT force.

With UNIT troopers holding off the Cybermen, Polly and the Doctor make a dash for the docks.

The Doctor successfully made his way off the table aided by the Cerebron Menetor machine which had a devastating effect on the last few Cybermen who got too close to its emotion transmissions. A very well handled game by Jason the UNIT player. Good use of grenades down manhole covers and a couple of timely Sonic Screwdriver interventions certainly helped. The players reversed roles in a second game which proved much closer. Richard as UNIT ad the Doctor blew most of his luck points in the first couple of turns. Boiled down to who won the initiative and the Doctor was the only survivor, just making it off table with the machine which he rather ungallantly made Polly carry for most of the game.

Heresy Who Lookalikes Commission

Black Tree Doctor Who Heroes and Villain

Black Cat Civilians and Boffins Commission

Black Tree Daleks and Ogrons Commission

Doctor Who Commission

Peri, Mel and Ace

Doctor Who game at the Gloucester Club - 4th July 2012

A Movellan has been smashed back in time by the Daleks and crashes in 1980s England (for a change). UNIT dispatch a squad to secure the site. The Daleks send in a recovery team to collect a cannister of the Movellan virus for study.

UNIT reinforcements arrived and come under heavy fire from the oncoming Daleks who exterminate the bazooka team before it gets a shot off.

 An Ogron bashes an objective counter but finds nothing of interest except a hail of bullets.

Without the bazooka team, the inexperienced UNIT commander is reminded that the front of a Land Rover is the next best anti-dalek weapon on the table. Chaos ensues as Jo drives one of the UNIT vehicles through hedgerows, Ogrons and Daleks with a terrified UNIT passenger clings on for dear life.

 The Ogrons and Daleks close in on the ruined church.

UNIT hold out as the Daleks lose half their force and start to teleport away empty-suckered.

Who Painting Blitz Begins

After sitting in a boxfile for about a year, the who figures are finally getting some attention. Pics of the first batch here.

Bok

Azal

Omega's Gell Guards

Axons

Doctor Who Triple Play - Part Three - The Cybermen

This is one of the Invasion scenarios from DWMG. The Cybermen are coming out of the sewers while the UNIT team, with the Doctor and Polly, make their way across the city to recover the Cerebraton device from a crashed UNIT landrover.

All is quiet. The crashed Landrover is to the right of the Cathedral at the top of the picture. The UNIT team enter from the near side. 6 counters are placed for the manholes through which the Cybermen will emerge.

The objective.

The Doctor hugs the wall as the UNI force advances hurriedly before too many Cybermen appear.

The first Cyberman climbs out of the sewer.

Another appears and is quickly overpowered. The sergeant orders one of the grenade armed men to remain there. Private Smith drops a grenade each turn to prevent any Cybermen using it for the rest of the game, hoping that this will provide his team with an escape route.

UNIT soldiers take cover behind the warehouse as they near the objective.

Private Roberts makes a dash for the crash site and finds the device.

The sergeant keeps watch by the phone box as Roberts prepares to get back to the team.

Cybermen have gathered in an attempt to cut off the returning UNIT force, but with the aid of his own and Polly's Luck, he is able to block the Cyber control signal long enough for the soldiers to finish them off. The team make it back to base but sadly, Smith doesn't make it, being gunned down just as he is about to get away.

So three good fun games over two days. All UNIT victories but it could easily have gone the other way with a little fortune.

Doctor Who Triple Play - Part Two - The Autons

This is the Locate Swarm Leader scenario from the DWMG rules played out on the standard 4x4 board. The 3rd Doctor, Jo an UNIT are at Sam Sealey's farm looking for the Auton swarm leader as are the Autons who are lurking in the undergrowth.

The Sealey farm. The Doctor has found some bits and pieces and starts his invent rolls as soon as he can. In a fit of pique at the Doctor not letting her help as usual, Jo heads off into the woods impulsively, followed by a concerned UNIT soldier, "Oi, come back Miss Grant, the Brig'll kill me!".

The Brigadier organises his defences as Autons begin to move into view.

Grenades at the ready.

Jo makes it back to the farm without finding the sphere.

Autons on the move.

A soldier goes up in a puff of special effects, the first victim of the boiler suited menace.

On the other side of the table, Private Jenkins looks on as Private Perkins is clubbed to death by an Auton.

Jenkins finds the sphere and heads back to the relative safety of the farm.

The Autons breach the farm's defences just in time for the Doctor to discover a major weakness if the plastic villains are engaged in close combat.

Uh-oh...

...the Doctor saves the day. His sonic screwdriver halts the Autons, allowing the UNIT men to finish them off with ease.

The Brigadier joins in the fun, finishing off an uncontrolled Auton.

UNIT and the Doctor break out of the farm and head off towards the edge of the table. Time for one last sonic/rifle butt combo I think.

The last Auton is recalled. The Nestene consciousness will have to recover the sphere some other way.