Cluck Amok Retired!

I made it. I'm retired. I'm three weeks into official retirement. Not much fanfare. . . I just stopped going to work. Still have some work to do on our little project ranch house and yard but now the plan is to get the "gaming life" back on track, too.

The first game I got to play. . . in retirement. . . was a little "Grim Dark" Sc-Fi skirmish action a la Galactic Heroes (Fistful of Lead) from Wiley Games. 

The Baron invited me over; his friend Jay was putting on a game featuring Crimson Fist Marines against Planetary Defense Forces (PDF) in a "defend the refinery" scenario. The Marines were superhuman in every way and the PDFs were Grunts that were able to respawn after being killed until the Marines destroy the Spawn Points. 

 

I led a unit of 3 teams of 3 PDF Grunts. 

 Here we are bunched up behind cover awaiting the Marine onslaught.

 

"Bunching up" turned out to be bad tactics. The Marines had grenades (who knew) and numbers weren't much help in melee, either. After dying, we "re-spawned" in a more spread out formation.

 

Spreading out was a better tactic to be sure, but in the end we gave up the refinery. Those Marines are superhumans!