v0.2

Holographic Havoc

Author: YueFei23, WiseKensai, nehemiah

Apparently it grew itself in the wild, but this fractal self-replicating AI virus is a real piece of work. If we can get a few copies of it onto their network it will hog all their resources and shut everything down. Our job is to bridge the air gap and plug it into as many of their consoles as we can.

Their security protocols are on high alert and our specialists are going to have to get past an enemy spec ops team, mines and sentry guns, it's not going to be easy. To give you a better chance to hide and slip through, the virus data packs contain built in holoprojectors.

Mission Objectives

Main Objectives

  • At the end of the game, have successfully uploaded a Data Pack into an enemy console
    • 2 Objective Points per uploaded Data Pack (max 3 data packs).
  • At the end of the game, have killed more enemy specialists.
    • 2 Objective Points.
  • At the end of the game, have killed the same amount of enemy specialists.
    • 1 Objective Point, if at least one specialist has been killed.

Classified Objectives

  • Each player has 2 Classified Objectives.
    • 1 Objective Point for each one.

Forces and Deployment

  • SIDE A and SIDE B: Both players will deploy on opposite sides of the game table, in Deployment Zones whose size depends on the number of Army Points in the Army Lists.
  • It is not permitted to deploy in Silhouette contact with a Console.

Holographic Havoc

Scenario Special Rules

Data Packs

Before deployment, each player must choose two specialist troops in their list and mark them as carrying a Data Pack. The models carrying the Data Packs are Private Information. These models automatically gain the Holoprojector rule.

The models carrying the data packs must deploy in the Deployment Zone, and may not deploy in a marker state other Holoecho State.

If a model with a Data Pack dies or enters a null state, place a 25mm Data Pack token on the table touching their silhouette or in the last position their silhouette was in before their model was removed. A specialist trooper from either army may pick it up with a short skill and will also immediately gain Holoprojector equipment, which may be activated by an entire order or in subsequent states phases as normal.

Consoles

There are six consoles, three placed on the edge of each Deployment Zone. The three consoles on the edge of the enemy Deployment Zone are Enemy Consoles, the three on your Deployment Zone edge are Friendly Consoles.

Upload Data Pack
Long Skill, Attack
Requirements
  • Only Specialist Troops carrying Data Pack tokens may declare this Skill.
  • The Specialist Troop must be in Silhouette contact with an Enemy Console.
  • The console must not be Locked.
Effects
  • Once a Data Pack is successfully uploaded,the console should be marked with a token as Locked. No further data packs may be uploaded into it.
  • Once successfully uploaded, the Data Pack disappears and the Specialist Troop loses the Holoprojector equipment granted by the Data Pack.

Specialist Troops

For the purposes of this scenario, only Hackers, Doctors, Engineers, Forward Observers, Paramedics, and Troopers possessing the Chain of Command or the Specialist Operative Special Skill are considered Specialist Troops. Hackers, Doctors, and Engineers cannot make use of Repeaters or Peripheral (Servant) Models to perform tasks reserved for Specialist Troops.

Minefield

At the beginning of their Deployment Phase, each player must place 3 shock mines in their Defense Zone, the zone immediately outside of their deployment zone, as Camo Markers

End of the Mission

This scenario has a limited time frame, so it will automatically finish at the end of the third Game Round.