grab a beer and some popcorn, sit back and enjoy <cue scrolly text and intro music>
Last night, in a dining room, far far away...
After losing the retreating Rebel fleet on the M25 bypass the Imperials decided to pull into a service station and draw straws to see who was going to tell Vader. Several days later 'Choky' smithers reported back in a hoarse voice that Vader would be personally commanding ISD 'Heavy Breathing' and continuing the hunt for the fleeing rebels. Eventually the Imperial fleet caught up with the Rebels after they were delayed waiting for Han to defrost, '48 hours at room temperature' be safe kids. The imperial forces consisted of some heavy hitters this time round, 2 advanced ties, 1 Defender, 2 tie bombers and 3 tie fighters. Vader commanded the ISD, Imperial forces came to 539pts, the ISD taking up 330 of that. Fortunately the Rebels had also been able to replace their losses from the previous encounter courtesy of 'Honest Hutts' second hand starfighters. The Rebel fleet consisted of 3 x wings, 2 B wings and the legendary Falcon piloted by a slightly damp Han with a very hairy Chewy manning the guns. Total points 540 with the Rebel destroyer taking up 334pts. While the advanced took the left flank to mix it up with Han the 2 bombers escorted by the 3 tie fighters skirted around the asteroid field (some excellent models created and soon to be sold by combatzone scenery, shameless plug, sorry no more Han set an intercept course to halt the incoming advanced fighters while the xwings and b wings forms a lance of naughtiness and headed straight for the bombers and escorts. The defender, well, it just sort of wandered into the asteroid field to take a closer look at the fantastic scenery created and sold by combatzone scenery (ok, I lied, there's another plug) First blood went to the advanced ties and the defender as they all released a deadly salvo of missiles into the closest B-wing, unable to dodge the incoming missiles the pilot gave them the finger and quickly ejected just before the B-wing exploded into a plethora of consonants. meanwhile Han, realising that he had left his phone on board the Venator (it had some particularly racy pictures of Leia that he didn't want to fall into the wrong hands) quickly pulled a Koiogran turn, speeding back towards his capital ship with a cold sweat breaking on his brow. After a brief exchange of hot laser death the Rebel forces dispatched a couple of tie fighters (when do they ever do anything else except explode)! However, they had done their job and the bombers were within range and locked on to the Venator ready to launch everything they had into the port side of the lumbering Behemoth. Suddenly the Rebels pulled a sneaky underhand move, just as sneaky underhand rebels always do, meh! Disrupting our communications they made us discard all our focus and lock on tokens. That single turn they denied is the opportunity to pummel the Venator AND we saw over 10 focus results go to waste. Bah! Some may say genius move, the rest of us say, **** you! You underhand and sneaky rebels! In the centre of the asteroids field the Defender accidentally crashed into one of the amazing asteroid models, probably distracted by the awesomeness he wasn't too bothered as the rocks simply lifted off allowing the ship to sit neatly on the base while he noted down the makers mark 'hmmmm, combatzone scenery, he thought to himself...nice' Then Han shot him and he died. At that point it was quite late, one of the Rebel commanders was feeling pretty rough with the lurgy (he was actually breathing like Vader) and I had eaten far too many ginger crunches and had major biscuit belly so we decided to end it there and return for round 3 in the near future. We called it a draw although secretly between me and the other Imperial player we decided we had won on moral grounds because they outpointed us by a whole 1 point. Dirty, sneaky, nasty rebels...tbc....
Hey look, Asteroids!
Loads of 'em!
Even more Asteroids, with some sort of intergalactic struggle of power going on in between them...
Han hightails it back to the capital ship (narrowly missing those amazing asteroids)
PEW PEW PEW
KABOOM AAAEEEEIIII
Everyone please form an orderly queue, the asteroid tour starts in 10 minutes
My belly hurts, can I go home now
