Take That! You Martian!

     The humans have begun to make a proper response to the Martian Invasion. Having carefully examined the Martian technology Earth  scientists have determined that Martian sensors detect visible light only rather poorly and depend on electromagnetic sensors for a great deal of information. minor field testing has confirmed this thesis.
     A massive undertaking has produced two test vehicles that are equipped with new technology that blocks these sensors, leaving the Martians nearly blind in the intense Terran sunshine. These have been carefully disguised to handle the Martian's  limited sight in daylight and brought to the battlefield just in time to confront a significant Martian assault.

 

 

the Martian horde appears out of the dawn light

 

and finds their path blocked by carefully dug in

 Canadian and U.S. infantry backed up with some mobile artillery

 

more of a bother than a real obstacle to a Martian force of this size

 

the Earthlings prepared to sell their lioves dearly in defense of their home lands

 

and the Martians had brought their pet horrors along as well, 

lobotomized humans that they forced to fight an behalf of Mars

 

the ground trembled beneath the weight of the Martian hordes

 

frightened by a few ineffective  hits the Martians 

concentrated their fire against the artillery and drew first blood

 

unable to hurt the walkers the artillery turned its attention to the unfortunate 

wretches that had been mutilated by the Martian fiends and out some out the their hellish misery

 

the ground might have trembled under the weight of Martian metal

 but the stout hearts of the infantry remained unmoved

 

once in range the Martians began to conduct the "Martian Mamba"

dancing into range to fire only to creep cowardly away to avoid the Earthlings return fire

 

then the wonder of modern science made itself known, a giant land-monitor 

 moved out from its camouflaged position and opened fire at the nearest walker

 

the first salvo caused little damage but threw the Martians into chaos

 

suddenly it seemed that the Martians didn't have time for the slow grind of a long range fire fight

 

the monitor destroyed one walker but took damage from the host of units firing at it

 

a lucky hit penetrated a chink in the armor and detonated the power core

 

if Martians were capable of emotion they would have given forth a collective 

sigh of relief as they turned their attention back to the P.B.I.

 

bored and frustrated with the slow work of the long range shooting 

they commenced a close -in attack

 

they took some casualties in the assault but soon had virtually cleared the trenches

then terror struck, 

the earthlings revealed an even larger land-battleship 

one that was absolutely festooned with guns

powerful guns

 

it was supported by hordes of light tanks and motorcyclists 

and began dealing out punishment right away

 

surrounded, outnumbered, outgunned 

the Canadians died to a man fighting the Martians 

a new Thermopylae

     Honestly, as a long-time human player, it was a relief to see the shoe on the other foot for once with the Martians finding out just how hard it was to score a hit on something with an armor value of 12 or so. The MASSIVE (probably ten ponds of resin) land battleship is an eye-popping model and painted in US Naval livery it really stands out on the table.

     Jolly fun for all thanks to the Housemartin (or is that houseMARTIAN????)