After action report - Into the Maw

By LanceND, in Rogue Trader

So my first time GMing went well and the group seems to have enjoyed themselves. And i thought id share some of the more memorable moments.

At the Ork ambush near the star mirror instead of helping Lady Ash or waiting for the Orks to capture her the group decide to send the servo skull on a bombing run! With its maximum lift capacity of 9kg it could carry 18 frag grenades tied together in 3 groups of 6 with one primed and the pin strung to the skull at the correct length to pull the pin out and detonate on the ground from 7m up (Explorator done a logic roll). It carried them in a piece of cloth with one end tied to the skull and the other to an actuator in the skull (there must be one to work the multitool) to open the cloth and let them drop.

A -10 BS roll to drop them, with a scatter roll and a distance of 1d5m. 1 on target, one far left and one far right. They sucessfully took out all the orks! But with all the dust that was kicked up, and because our Astropath gave Lady Ash a warning to look out she had plenty of time to react and run off for now. But she would have to run off quick as the players then sabotaged the star mirror and once back on ship bombarded it from orbit. And also a couple of salvos into any ork encampments for good measure!

But alas Lady ash when she returned did not live long, but did go out in a hail of glory. The RTs glory! When she ambushed the players on the bridge the astropath was able to make a sucessful agility roll on hearing the airlock cycling to throw a blind grenade. This meant they couldnt see her or the servitors, but they couldnt see us with their augments due to the chaff! The players waited for them to emerge from the end of the consoles and had done a mix of delayed and full aim actions. They made quick work of the servitors with dual auto pistols with manstoppers, hell guns and plasma pistols. And also some very bad rolls from the servitors when trying to shoot with their heavy bolters helped a little. Lady Ash however decided not to follow the servirors and instead to jump over the consoles. She failed her agility roll, landed flat on the ground at the feet of our RT who done a full auto burst with his red dot auto pistol at point blank range and scored 7 DoS...

With the shock of losing his trusted aide (and our time quickly running out) Fel called off his attack on their ship and left the area knowing he had been bested.