MANTA Force vs Spiders

 Another game with the kids, this time involving MANTA (Multiple Air, Naval & Terrain Assault) Force!  The villainous Major Vex and his Viper Force have recruited some giant Space Spiders to help them in their fight against MANTA Force.  Who will be victorious?

Flying vehicles were perched on inverted jam jars.  I must invest in a pack or two of plastic Champagne flutes next time I'm in Poundland or somewhere similar, to use for this very purpose.  Now that the kids are playing more game, it'll be useful to have some sort of cheap flight stands, and plastic "glasses" are great because they can be placed over the top of some terrain features such as trees.

Major Vex and a Viper trooper.

 

Space Spiders ready to go..

MANTA Sharks stand ready.

 

MANTA Wolves and Hawks await orders.

Rocket Rammer wonders why it parked behind the rocks.

Sharks approach the woods.  Spiders ahoy!

Battle Copter hovers over the battlefield.  Target sighted!

Spiders taking missile fire from Battle Copter.

Time to use my counters to track damage.

Sharks and Stingray confront the spiders.

Battle Copter and MANTA Hawks strike hard.

Spiders swarm the MANTA Sharks.  SAM pulls them off.

Gundog and Sky Skeeter approach spiders in the bushes.

That's an impressive roll to hit!

Strike Bike is attacked!  Oops, Sky Skeeter delivers friendly fire.

Another impressive hit roll, Stingray strafes the spiders!

Blue Lightning is shot down by Viper vehicles!

Sadly, tea-time curtailed the battle.  It was an entertaining game, with several incidents of friendly fire (natural 1s on to-hit rolls) from MANTA force damaging their own vehicles while trying to clean off spiders which were close-assaulting. 

The rules were the usual style with range rulers indicating slow/fast move distances, weapon ranges (-1 to hit for every additional ruler of distance).  Weapons were mainly D6 or multiples thereof, with the occasional larger weapon (eg D10 missiles).