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114. Assassin in the Spire

“Target in sight, entering kill mode.”
- Agent 716

In this scenario, an assassin tries to take advantage of the confusion of the Great Darkness to eliminate a high ranking rival.

Source: Cinderak Burning

Attacker & Defender​

The gang who chose this scenario is the attacker, the other is the defender. Otherwise, randomize one gang to choose who to be attacker and defender.

Battlefield​

Zone Mortalis: A maze of corridors and doors. Place a neutral fighter (the assassination target) in the centre of a large room.

The defender decides which doors start locked/unlocked.

Crews​

  • Attacker: Custom (1). This is the assassin.
  • Defender: Custom (D3+2 Sentries) + Reinforcements.

No vehicles or mounts.

Tactics Cards​

  • Defender: Custom (1).

Deployment​

  1. Defender: Half the crew (round up) in the room with the assassination target.
  2. Attacker (the assassin): B2B with any edge and at least 6" from any other fighter.

The Target​

Cannot be activated, become Ready, suffer Lasting Injury or be captured.

The Assassin​

A tooled up assassin filled with stimms tries to take advantage of the confusion of the Great Darkness to eliminate a high ranking rival.

At the start of each round, the assassin gets a number of Ready markers equal to the number of enemy fighters remaining on the battlefield (can activate multiple times, losing one Ready marker after each activation).

Ignore the following:

  • Flash, Gas, Toxin,
  • Pinned.
  • Coup the Grace.

Can be affected by Blaze, but only suffer damage after the first activation with Blaze each round.

When damaged:

  • Treat any Out of Action result on the Injury dice as Seriously Injured instead.
  • If Seriously Injured, do not make a normal recovery test. Instead, roll equal to or below the Toughness to automatically recover (suffering a Flesh Wound as normal).

When Toughness is reduced to 0:

  • Cannot recover.
  • Can still make Crawl (Double) action.
  • Can be removed with Coup de Grace.

Assassinate​

If B2B with the target (even if Engaged with other fighters), spend a Double action to kill the target and complete the mission.

Home Turf Advantage​

Defender:

  • Bottle tests: Roll 2D6 and discard the highest.
  • Rally tests: +1.
  • Hangers-on: Included in the crew on a 4+ (roll individually).

Reinforcements​

  • Defender: 2.
  • Each End phase (starting on the round the alarm is raised).

Fleeing The Battlefield​

If one gang voluntarily bottles out and subsequently flees the battlefield, the opponent automatically wins the scenario.

Ending the Battle​

The battle ends when the assassin is OoA or the target is assassinated.

Victory​

The attacker wins if the target is assassinated. Otherwise the defender wins.

Rewards​

Credits​

  • Attacker (win): 3D6x10.
  • Loser: D6x10.

Experience​

Scenario specific rewards:

  • +1 for taking part.
  • +D3 for taking the assassin OoA.

Standard rewards:

  • +1 for taking an enemy Out of Action.
  • +1 for taking an enemy Leader or Champion Out of Action.
  • +1 for killing an enemy (during the battle).
  • +1 for Rallying.

Reputation​

  • Defender (win): +D3+1.
Narrative Variant

Strike At Lord Helmawr​

If players wish, they may use this scenario to represent a Murder-cyborg infiltrating the spire in order to take out Lord Helmawr.

In order to do this, make the following changes:

  • The defender should use a Palanite Enforcers gang using Patrolmen as the sentries and creating a Reinforcements deck with the rest of their gang.
  • The attacker should use the profile of a gang leader with 100 credits of Wargear and close combat weapons to represent the Murder-Cyborg.
House Rule (Necrodamus)

This scenario breaks easily, so be careful with special rules. For example Falsehood, Devout Masses, Infiltrate etc.

The assassin should probably never test to bottle out.