Back of Beyond: Red Guards and Little Green Men

 I played a very quick solo game of Fistful of Lead last night, to celebrate getting a squad of Bolsheviks painted and varnished. Their opponents were some Saucermen from Recreational Conflict, who have some wonderful 1950s sci-fi figures, along with a line of Flash Gordon-style serial types. 

Eastern Siberia, 1921. Colonel Rokoff and a Cheka squad under his command were dispatched to the tiny, remote village of Ludovosk, following reports of a fireball seen falling from the sky in its vicinity. Fearing some new weapon in the hands of the White Army or that the British had made a move against the Revolution, the Comintern wanted details on what was going on in Ludovosk. 

As soon as they reached the edge of the ruined village of Ludovosk, Rokoff's men were attacked by a huge, burrowing insect-like creature. The sounds of battle brought a group of small, green-skinned humanoids with oversized heads and singular red eyes out from the ruins to the northeast. The fireball had been a crashing spaceship!

Things went very quickly and brutally from that point. The Burrowing Behemoth rolled abysmally, even using D12s, and was killed by the middle of Turn 3 by the Bolsheviks. I don't think I rolled above a 5 once for the creature, meaning it failed every Close Combat roll it made and every Armor roll to see if it soaked any damage. 

Meanwhile the dice were extremely hot for the Martians; they were armed with Blaster Rifles (except for the Leader), and even with the -1 to hit for being Inaccurate, they gunned down the Russians in very short order, with the +1 to Wound that Blasters have resulting in a lot of instant "Out of Action" results. 

The last of the Russians went down in the middle of Turn 5, having killed two Martians at range but failed to accomplish their primary mission of capturing one alive for interrogation. The Martians primary mission was making sure all the humans and the Burrowing Behemoth were dead, so they succeeded admirably.