Batrep: UCM vs PHR in the New Monorail Scenery Mission

I am a little behind today on things, and am taking it easy today. The reason is I was up just way to late gettting in a couple of games with the new Monorail Scenery pack. After playing a game with the monorail (we were doing mission 1) I highly suggest getting a game or two of these games in. If not getting the scenery pack yourself, convince your store to pick them up. Very cool missions, and I look forward to trying the second one out at a later date.




The Mission:
Valuable cargo is onboard a fast moving monorail train. Shots fired at the monorail or its supports or track could damage this, so the monorail virtually acts like a wall of protection from and to aircraft. This creates a very unusual game condition where aircraft have a lot of free reign.

The second part of this, is that you must board the train, find the objective, and see if you can get it off the train. There are two stations to get into the train from, (the center works out as the only entrance zone for troops coming in via larger dropships). If you find the objective on the train, you get 2vp, and if you get it off the train you get 2vp. There are also 4 spread out focal points on the board which is a 6x4 board for this mission.

Also as a fun bonus, small dropships can land on the train cars, and deploy their troops directly into the train at any time.

I dont get into the details of this what happened, except to say that I was testing out some things I was afraid to try........ Katana Squads, and Eagle Gunships. Katanas against the high strength shots and Hard armor of the PHR seems like a losing proposition, as does the long range AA of the PHR Phobos against Eagle Gunships.

We did also play a second game afterwards. Same mission, altered list for the side that lost the first game, and the results were a PHR dominated game, with the results being 8-6vp (had to work hard to even get that)