Battle of Bitscay Bay [KK]

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A battle featuring myself, Aoffan23, and Veggey, played at Bricks in the Six, 2024

This is a Khromatic Konflict battle for the OT Core.

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Bitscay Bay, a bustling coastal spaceport in GGE space:


A castle has fallen out of space and time, crashing into the outskirts of town.


At the center of town, a GGE convoy escorts the OT Core through a GGE-controlled interdimensional highway portal. Its destination is the Artemis heavy destroyer, for delivery to a secure Immortal lab facility.


Major Stetson awaits the convoy's arrival at the docks. Should be a smooth, routine delivery, and another ribbon on this veteran hero's breast.

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Round 1

Aoffan23

Red Canoe Aliens attack from the sea, near a squad of Glib Glubs fighting a giant crab enemy.


The Red Canoe Aliens take out the crab, gaining the Glib Glubs as an ally - but the Glib Glubs are washed away by a failed heroic feat! Note the gem-in-a-fish that the Glib Glubs have awarded to the canoe aliens. This can be used to power the main interdimensional portal!


The wheelbarrow speeder gets a nice overkill into a GGE home guard squad on the docks.


A 45th Union squad enters the battle near the docks.


They deploy, one team heading down the main street and the other heading toward the GGE welcome party.


Tan Aliens prepare to ambush from the alleys of Bitscay.


One of the aliens hijacks a nearby Morris Mini.


There's also this drone.


They advance on the GGE convoy.


One GGE speeder is obliterated.


The driver makes an epic bail into a nearby tower!


Veggey

The Castle alliance lines up a cavalry charge at the edge of their crater.



They charge the iron horses of the GGE.


This guy finds a frogge on the top of a small hut. These can be brought to a wizard in the castle for rewards!


The skull trebuchet bombs the other GGE speeder to death. The driver bails toward the red armed car.


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The Artemis opens up its main batteries to destroy the wheelbarrow.


The wheelbarrow is unable to tank 21d6 damage.


Chickadee fighters strafe the 45th ground troops with good success.


In the center of town, the GGE flatbed makes a desperate attempt to escape away from the attacking forces. Its crane is an ineffective weapon against the scaffolds blocking its path.


The GGE armed cars try to create a defensive line to protect the flatbed.


Bonus convention pic

Here is me with Julie V's Theodore Tugboat, the best MOC ever made! She is going to be a LEGO designer!

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Overwatch:




Round 1

Aoffan23

The Red Aliens make a targeted attack, blasting through the Artemis's bridge glass.


Glib Glubs make short work of a hapless GGE home guard squad.


The remaining 45th Union troops begin scaling the Artemis's side.


"Wow, look, Ninja forgot to arm these guys against boarders!"


Down the road, the other 45th Unioners decide they are playing Crazy Taxi and smash into a parked bus.


Their hero, Roc, attempts a rocket jump, with devastating consequences for the men surrounding him.


The other car, not to be outdone, pins a civilian against a police car.


The GGE takes a few response potshots at it.


It dies.


The Secutor tank launches a rocket at the Chickadee, which does little.


The tan aliens decide they'll take the bus for themselves.


Their first charter is an Iron Maiden!


Veggey

Another castle squad arrives at the edge of the map, led by Ryvern (a reverse Nervyr)


They hijack the orange Mclaren and murder the trapped flatbed to death.


The GGE jeep drivers have no answer to the riders' second charge. I refuse to accept that riders with big pointy sticks are this powerful.


Major Stetson lines up a field goal to deploy his heavy into the fray.



The kick is good! But the heavy is dead.



The Artemis bridge crew use their turn to shove the Unioners, who had already used their action sprinting.


The Chickadee is able to easily pick off another one, which honestly makes so much more sense as a battle role for this f fighter an as an interceptor.


The other Chickadee uses a ship-to-ship missile against the Secutor, but misses.


Since the Red Aliens didn't take the hint from the cloud of red paint and metal dust left from the wheelbarrow, the Artemis fires its main guns at the larger gunboat.


Veggey

This rider leaps to the top of this tower, grabbing the legendary helm there for his Warhorse.


A polearm user on the trebuchet finishes off a GGE gunner.


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This jeep tries to make a retreat, but the portal building is a dead end, and they've got an unexpected passenger...


The GGE tank enters the fray, clearing the castle invaders on the Mclaren with a quick blast.


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Round 3

Aoffan23

The Secutor tank tries to take down the Chickadee, but critically fails and explodes a shell inside its turret.


The Secutor decides going Crazy Taxi is better than fighting Chickadees, so it zips off.


Roc tries to reload his rocket launcher heroically, but all he has left is a grapple hook.


The Centurions go after the GGE military band, tired of their parade ska.


The music is silenced.


The Tan Alien in the mini tries to jump the castle hero, but doesn't put down enough damage.


The Iron Maiden, from its perch upon the bus, blows up the GGE armed car.


The smaller 45th car picks up Mr. Bean from the ramen restaurant.


The Tan Alien Walker gives the trapped GGE car an ol' "howdy neighbor," blowing it to smithereens.



The 45th Gunship flies into the battle, swerving wildly and scorching this innocent rooftop artist.


The Glib Glub hero uses his ocean powers to toss his men onto the nearest shunter.


"Glib glubbo glapper!"


The Red Aliens are not as successful in their charge, crashing under the docks.


The gem-on-a-fish is a handy weapon to blast their way free!


The other canoe steals a cart of GGE rockets.


The gunboat's main gun jams up.


Veggey

The riders return to the wizard with frogges.


The hero summons a new steed, although maybe this one is a little porkier than expected.


It's good enough, however, to take out the Tan Alien bus driver drone, although a giant steering wheel appears to allow the Iron Maiden to maintain control of its steed.


Another rider begins to run off with the OT core.


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The GGE tank takes out the rest of the castle guys on this side, including Ryvren, with its machine guns.


In a rare bout of bad luck, the Chickadee pursuing the Secutor lands 4 critical failures.


Below the Artemis's stern, the home guard struggles to take out the heavily armored centurions.


While his troops pursue the smaller 45th Union car, Stetson gives the crane a solid kick.


The arm swings round, snagging on the gunship.


On the far side of the map, some castle riders discover their mistake in attacking the Dew refinery as slain warriors revive as horrible Dew zombies.


A couple GGE troopers make their escape on the red armed car, pursued by the skull trebuchet.


GGE troops emerge from the portal, weapons blasting. They clear some of the remaining riders at the center of the battle, but the core itself is getting away!


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Round 4

Aoffan23

Roc grapples the Chickadee that's been bothering his men.


He slams it into the side of the Artemis. The fireworks are spectacular, but neither vehicle is more than scuffed.


This guy takes out one of the main gun barrels.


The 45th car makes a daring stunt drive. Seeing the destroyed GGE flatbed, they give into their intrusive thoughts and make a flying jump off of it, overshooting by a lot, and then smashing into this building.


However, this helps them complete their side quest, dropping Mr. Bean from the sky...


...and reuniting him with his car! This quest awards them a SN green transparent popsicle that can be used to power the portal.


The gunship rips free of the crane cable and massacres the squad in the portal.


The Iron Maiden crashes its bus into the nearest trebuchet, doing little damage.


However, a small squad of Red Aliens arrive, dealing devastating gun damage that flips the trebuchet on its side, which is the wrong orientation for a gravity-powered weapon.


The Red Aliens' new heavy fighter hovers menacingly over the rider with the OT core.


The Tan Alien walker turns around and peppers the GGE home guard squad full of holes with its two guns.


Veggey

The riders begin to execute their plan, cheesing the OT core off the map with a relay of horses.


Because I am a tactical idiot who did not see that coming, and we have a whole another day of exhibiting to go, I use some cheese myself, deploying the GGE Seagull in a response action before the core can leave. Heavily armed in its gunship configuration, it launches a size 7 torpedo at the OT Core.


It all but obliterates the final relayers.


Meanwhile, my luck turns better when the skull trebuchet that's been exploding the GGE to death double fails, tangling its launchers together.


The Castle hero leaps onto the back of the bus, trying to take the Iron Maiden from behind.


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The Seagull lands, deploying a squad of commandos. After close review of the rules, we find that the castle solder's deflection is a huge pain in the ass, so he gets shoved off the map instead.


We will not be receiving our deposit back, having stained the hotel carpet with blood.


In front of the Seagull, machine gun fire and grenades deter the castle riders from approaching the core.


This GGE trooper steals Ryvren's horse. "Shadowfax! Lord of all horses!"


The tank takes a shot at the Glib Glub shunter, the air burst doing little to frighten these hardened warriors.


The Chickadee follows up with a rocket.


The Glib Glubs escape with desperate bails. (Including, the keen eyed will have noted, one in the previous pic who bailed onto the Chickadee.)


GGE rangers arrive next to the speeder chop shop to blast the tangled trebuchet to next year's battle.


This guy scurries up the crane, nomming a frogge on his way to boost the sprint all the way up.


He now controls the crane!


On Main Street, Stetson decides to use his robot legs to challenge the Tan Walker to a dance battle. The winner takes the other's legs.


He goes with his signature sliding shuffle.


The Tan Alien walker devastates Stetson with a one-footed bunny hop. Stetson's legs reject his body and short out.


The Tan Alien walker now has Stetson's legs, a talisman of speed!


Stetson crawls away in shame.


The Artemis uses some of its smaller guns to clear out the remaining 45th parasite.


The main guns are turned on the retreating red alien canoe. It probably died, idk.


Bonus Convention Pic

The chickadee meets its mommy

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Round 5

Aoffan23

The Secutor takes advantage of the nearby SRG portal, probing it with its cannon.


These castle guys are confronted with a strange protuberance. (I think those two Unioners went through the portal last round and got killed by the archers.)


Either that or they were killed by friendly fire, based on this pic.


Roc wrangles his Chickadee and uses it as a rocket sled.


Is he about to go back to the future??


No, he just careens down main street, leaving his dead troops' bodies behind.


OK is this moment over yet


Ah, no. Roc slides to a stop at the portal building, the Chickadee steaming.


Then, Roc grapples onto the castle hero, batmanning his way into a heroic duel.


There's a pretty big shockwave, as far as minifig collisions go.


The Glib Glub that bailed onto the chickadee last turn tries to hijack it.


However, a lack of teamwork results in the other Glib Glub in the shunter glibbing right into the Chickadee's glub, tangling the two vehicles together.


The Red Aliens decide to toss the rocket cart onto the Artemis and pop it off.


The explosion rips into the next room, roasting the gunners inside alive.


The explosions blast out through the walls and penetrate the torpedo pod, causing a cascade of explosions.



Startled by their own success, the Red Aliens have little time to process before their own faces are melted by the explosions.


"worth it," croaks the red alien with its dying breath.


The Tan Alien, boosted by the power of Stetson's legs, dashes over to take a shot at the GGE tank.


The gunship descends, preparing for its turn.


That's a lotta damage!


This guy tosses the GT popsicle, though I forget why.


The red aliens, now reinforced by Wampa McFuckhands and a C500 squad, attack the castle hero.


However, Wampa's snake-eyes failure causes the shots to hit the Iron Maiden instead.


Veggey

This rider makes a probing poke at the Red Alien boat hull fighter.


Four-armed demons board the GGE battlebus that has just arrived, attacking gunners.



Up top, where there are troops, the melee is more chaotic.


A laser master cavalry also finds themselves a little overwhelmed by attacks, using up their farce dice to survive the attacks.


This was just a cool shot.


The castle guys at the portal toss an explosive into the Secutor barrel.


It creates some small issues.


This SRG technician bails straight into the coffee shop.


Chives bails the other way, through the portal.


It's a huge bail roll...


...landing him all the way onto the Seagull.


Castle guys break through the GGE defenses.


But the real killer is a gryphon, swooping in to steal the core with its belly antistuds.


Despite a free response for both opponents, Veggey scurries away with the core. Honestly great, it's his problem now. Forward your complaints about a lack of lore to Veggey.


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With the battle objective gone, and the burden of delivering lore lifted, I decide to do things that will look awesome. Starting with smashing the Chickadee/Shunter furball using the crane as a baseball bat.



Yeah, this pinata delivers a lot of eye candy.


As a team, we move the Artemis into a more effective position to unload its main and secondary guns into the fray.


The gunship is punched full of holes and explosions.


It crashes straight into the tank.


The Seagull, rolling on its landing gear due to half damage, takes a desperate shot at the tan alien fighter, accomplishing little.


These guys, who survived at the portal through a combination of skilled bails and cleverly playing dead, rise and spurred on by this officer, go for a shove of the tan walker that killed their comrades.


Truly, a worthwhile victory.


Stetson summons a simon frog robot to replace his legs, which has the unfortunate effect of making him king of the frogges.

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Cool shots

Here are some additional photos I took at the end of the battle just because the castle/space mashup worked out great.





















And here's a pic of the Red Hull fighter I built for the red aliens. I traded it with Aoffan for his SRG tug build so this is probably the last time anyone sees it lol


And some tokens left by other exhibitors on the Artemis