TURN 5
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Initiative Phase
With things looking very bad for the Bandits, they win the Initiative for the turn giving them a chance to escape. The Martians will activate after the Bandits, then the Mercenaries thereafter before finally the Zombies. But if the Martians escape, its Game over!
Movement Phase
The Bandits waste no time in fleeing the field. The Zombies, who are just out of melee, look on with blank and muted faces.
The Bandits lost a total of six of their nine strong crew, leaving only three survivors. A stunning defeat for the Bandits who hopped to find some juicy loot to sell on the black market.
The Martians get to activate next and the first thing they have to do is see if their Engineer has fixed their flying saucer. Needing a total of 8, and (being now Turn 5) with a +5 bonus to the die roll, he rolls a total of 11. The Martians are out of there.
Each Martian is either within movement range of the saucer or already standing on it. Even the grunt on the mezzanine floor can simply vault over the balcony and on to the saucer. With an "Arkakak!" from the Martian Leader, they all pile on in and kick over the ignition. With a high-pitched wining sound, the saucer begins to lift off and moments later exits the factory main entrance. The Mercenaries look on in stunned amazement as the Martian craft rises slowly before zooming off into the sky.
With that, all that is left of the Mercs to do is search the abandoned factory. There they find pieces of an unusual metal alloy scattered around some discarded strange looking hand tools whose function isn't readily apparent. They also find a number of smouldering ash heaps, a couple of Zombies, whom they dispatch with prejudice, two munched on Bandit corpses, and a single frightened human woman whom they rescue.
One key prize that the Mercs find however lays out in front of the main entrance to the factory. There, its brain popped like an over-ripe melon, is a single alien figure. Next to this oddity is an unusual weapon. The body and weapon they will take back to HQ for sending on to the boffins at the military research facility for further examination. But for now, at least, the military knows that the Martians exist and pose a significant threat to Earth. All wonder what this encounter now foreshadows in the years to come. Earth has been warned.
