SWAT team quells thuggery in slum zone of NHC

Played a quick game of Chain Reaction 3.0 with Jack. Got to use my new card stock buildings I have been working on. I am a recent, serious convert to card stock buildings. They are cheap, fast to get on the table, fun to build, and frankly I think they look good. Still working on my technique, but the turned out pretty good.

Here is the table... (click to en-biggen)

• The tall building is from World Works games, I am completely digging on their products. They have great card stock tutorials here.
• The smaller buildings are the new 28mm ones FREE from Germy's world. If you are new to card stock buildings, try these first to get some practice. Thanks for these, Germy!!!
  
• The ruins are the great set of Kartagrad ruins from Finger and Toe models. They are very easy to assemble and can let you cover a table in ruins cheaply and easily.

Ok, back to our story... Most of the pictures did not turn out well, so not to many to show. We used just Chain Reaction 3, with the proviso that hard body armor reduced weapon impact by 1. (not quit ready to pull New Beginnings out yet.)

The scenario was a heavily armed SWAT team venturing into the slum zone (a once prosperous area of the city, burned out by riots and fallen into some decay after the bankruptcy of Futur-ron Corp. a few years ago, the major corporate sponsor of that part of the city.) Intel has been received by the police that a gang is going to scavenge the reactor core of a power substation, which would reduce the already scant services provided to the citizens for this zone.

The SWAT team consisted of a REP 5 Sergeant with assault rifle, four REP 4 officers with assault rifles, and one REP 4 with an LMG. All are wearing hard body armor.

Here is a shot of part of the team making a dash across a street.

The game consisted of some mechanically enhanced gangers:

• REP 5 leader, fierce, machine pistol and laser pistol
• REP 4 ganger, Bionic legs (12" normal move), laser pistol, machine pistol
• REP 4 ganger, bionic arm, BA Pistol
• REP 4 ganger, bionic arm, laser rifle
• REP 4 ganger, bionic arm, machine pistol
  

Here is the gang leader by the reactor...

The battle started well for me, but rapidly went Jack's way. I blew a couple of critical In Sight tests, towards the end of the game, I had killed one of his troops, but I had lost 2 guys OOF and one OD. He got the drop on my leader next to the power station with an assault rifle armed trooper and here is what he rolled...


My leader went down obviously dead with multiple hits to the torso. A very good and quick game, took 38 minutes from start to finish. I feel more forays into the slum zone coming in the future.