5 Klicks... Sanctuary!

Continuing from Campaign Turn 1.

Campaign Turn 2

ENCOUNTER

Outlands: Shuihua encounters a Cordial Mercenary. (I spent a precious story token to upgrade her reaction to Friendly.) She agrees to help Meilan out for ONE battle.

She’s Yolanda Skorn, a wandering Mercenary, and wears a veil over her face. Her violet eyes and pale, nearly white hair belie her tanned, fit body under the form fitting leather armour she wears.

Shuihua tells Yolanda about her quest to find the raiders that ripped her life away from her.

Yolanda is scornful. You think you’re the only one that’s suffered? But she says no more about her past.

They settle down for the night. 5 days of rations left!

Campaign Turn 3

The duo travel deeper into the Outlands. They are wary and their wariness pays off as they spy several figures skulking about in the ruins of what was once a settlement. The way the figures move are confident and aggressive yet careful, darting from cover to cover but moving closer to Shuihua and Skorn. It’s clear they’ve been spotted.

ENCOUNTER

Foes: 4 Well equipped gang members prowling for opportunities.

No Condition. Phew!

No leadership figures! Double phew!

The well equipped gang members are Aggressive and that leads to their undoing. They thought two lone females in the Outlands were easy prey. How wrong they were! 

One interesting aspect of the game is Suspicious Activity tokens that can turn into various different events/encounters, depending on who triggers them (friend or foe). This time round, a foe triggers one of those tokens that turns into a token that can POTENTIALLY bring in bandit reinforcements!

Thankfully, no bandit reinforcements are rolled and Shuihua is able to neutralise the token (red circle)... 

...then the final bandit is taken out by a well placed shot from Skorn.

Total 3 loot: A cyber eye, a med kit and a hafted weapon. Wish it was armour or something like that. Darn. 

Shuihua keeps the cyber eye and offers the rest of the loot to Yolanda if she will join her little band. A successful roll, so Yolanda is Meilan’s first recruit!

And that ends the campaign turn. 4 days' rations left!

CAMPAIGN Turn 4:

Encounter: A suspicious traveller, but Shuihua is able to turn him cordial. She isn't able to persuade him to join them but he does give them some info about an abandoned settlement that might contain items that scavengers haven't looted yet.

They follow his information and find a scrap grenade.

Sigh. 

Digging around some more, the duo uncover a bipod and a tech blade. Not the armour they were hoping for but it's still better than nothing.

As they camp for the night, Shuihua checks her food stocks. 3 days left!

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That's as far as they get so far. It's not easy to recruit new squad members since you need to have a very positive encounter to do so.

Still, the game's fun and seems to be a blend closer to 5 Leagues than 5 Parsecs.

There's also the possibility of NOT having a battle every campaign turn, which makes it faster to play compared to 5 Parsecs. I recall 5 Leagues was also similar. That didn't work so well with a full warband of 8 minis, but it works well for a tiny little squad like this.