It started off as a joke about overcomplicated Napoleonic rules, but being from the Star Wars generation, when I hear "Empire", I think Darth Vader. So I had a box full of Star Wars miniatures I had never used, added Howard's "Mad Dogs with Guns" gangster rules and a simple three way scenario and we had our first Star Wars/gangster game.
The spaceport of Pom Eisley, the second most hive of scum and villainy. The rebels would attack, seeking at least 2 objectives: the power generators, the supply bunker, and the HQ. Dan played the Rebels, Howard played the Empire and I played the Scum & Villany who would fight against both sides in opportunistic fashion.
Lando takes his squad towards the supply bunker.
Jabba's gang, hanging out in the Cantina, gets word that several high bounty targets have arrived in town.
Luke and Leia and R2 squad makes for the power generator.
Han and Chewie make for the command center.
One of Jabba's boys tries to capture the valuable R2 unit.
Perimeter sensors alert the Imperial HQ staff of the intruders, and they prepare defenses.
More bounty hunters arrive. Luke's attack on the generators bogs down in a firefight.
Despite the heroics of one rebel soldier, Jabba's boys eventually overwhelm and start to run away with R2.
Meanwhile, Han Solo blows open the command bunker door.
Lando's initial attack on the bunker is repulsed. While regrouping behind cover, he uses his "silver tongue " ability to convince some local Scum to join him.
Luke and Leia are holding off the bounty hunters, but have lost all their troops and it is looking unlikely that they will get to the generator.
With his new friends, Lando assaults the bunker again. This time they set the charge and blow the door.
Han's group abandons the HQ attack and rushes to rescue R2.
A thermal detonator clears out the last resistance in the bunker. The Scum loot what they can carry while the Rebels set explosive to destroy the rest. 1 objective to the rebels.
R2 is rescued by Han Solo. But time is running out.
With time about up, the Rebels make their way to the Millennium Falcon, which has been cleverly disguised as a "piece of junk".
Howard reveals the secret location of Darth Vader in the command bunker.
Under Darth's command, the Imperials leave the HQ and chase the remaining Rebels out of town.
As the Imperials still held 2 objectives they won the game.
All in all a fun game. Mad dogs rules worked fine with Star Wars, due to the Pulp nature of both genres.
Figures were all the prepainted plastics from the SW collectible minis game. The bunker is from MBA. The HQ is Dwarven Forge sci-fi sets. All other terrain is handmade from various sources.
Dan's awesome (and appropriate) contribution....
