District 9 using Gruntz 15mm

Rodge has a lovely setup in 15mm for District 9. We tried it out with a Bolt Action variant a while back but it didn't quite work. We have now started playing Gruntz 15mm so we thought we would see how it worked.

MNU Security deploy from their APCs

There are 4 forces in the game - the Prawns, the Gangstas , the MNU Security Battalion and the MNU Quick Reaction Force. Rodge did the Gruntz stats so the forces were equal in points. Activation in the game was by cards - 1 card for each force.

The cat food shop

Each force had different objectives - most were centred around the cat food shop which, apart from cat food, contained Alien tech weapons.

Prawns about to have lunch

Gangstas defend a shanty

MNU Security cover their flank against a Prawn attack

The Prawn Mech under fire from the MNU QRF

MNU QRF terminate the Prawn Mech and support troops with extreme prejudice

MNU QRF collects souvenirs of the Prawn Mech

Prawns with their cat food run for cover

MNU Security prepare to assault the cat food shop

Prawns prepare to assault the cat food shop

Gangstas prepare to defend the cat food shop

Dolores prepares her gatling gun to defend the cat food shop

Prawns overrun a bunker held by Gangstas

The MNU QRF Assault chopper goes into action

The Ganstas' recoiless rifle goes into action

The MNU QRF Assault chopper spots a Prawn drone (bottom left) but fails to hit it

The Prawn drone after obliterating the MNU QRF Assault chopper

MNU Security assaulting the cat food shop

MNU Security capture the cat food shop and game over

Rodge has some excellent buildings to go with the game - a lot, if not all, of them are scratch-built. Here are a few photos of them

The Gangstas' quarter

The view from the Security fence

The checkpoint

A lovely day for washing

The Prawns' quarter

All in all it was a good game - the figures and the scenery are a joy to play with.

As we've only played Gruntz a few times we were not that familiar with the rules and it was the first time we had seen the stats for these forces so there was a lot of referring to the rulebook and the stats cards.

Having 1 activation card per force did mean a lot of sitting back and waiting for the other players to take their turn. Maybe 1 card per unit is the way forward. Gruntz does allow for a lot of variation in weapons, morale, etc so it works well for District 9 with it's disparate forces. 

Definitely worth another go