This game took place at the Cowards wargames club at Hoveton in Norfolk on 13th September 2019. It followed the game described in 'Enter the Scarab'.
Following the destruction of the Scarab, the Martians decided to deploy the more powerful Cuttlefish tripod to complete the same mission - destroy the four objectives and exit from the opposite end of the map. The map consisted of a No-mans land mat touching a Countryside mat along its long edge. The humans had a Sopwith Triplane (A guns version), a red Fokker Dr.1, a D.H.4 (the AB/B guns version) and a Bristol F2B Fighter (the B/A version). In addition, the D.H.4 was carrying rockets and the Fokker & Bristol fighter were carrying Kazakov's anchor and chain weapon. The die on the D.H.4's control panel was to indicate the number of bursts that still could be fired from the twin top-wing mounted Lewis guns. Standard rules were being applied.
After three moves the Cuttlefish had advanced, as had the aircraft but the D,H,4 had swung out to starboard.
The Cuttlefish then turned to head over to the right. The planes came on although the D.H.4 appeared to be adopting its previous tactic of circling defensively near two objectives.
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