Test-Run of the Trench Run

        Last Saturday we gave the Death to the Death Star scenario a run-through. The battle above the Death Star was epic with the X-Wings flashing back and forth across the table destroying Laser turrets, comms blocks and infrastructure like wild men and blasting the TIE fighters out of the sky in droves. With the path cleared the Y-Wings began their fateful approach only to encounter Darth Vader and his sidekick. The Y-Wings went down but got close enough to actually fire a photon-torpedo (it just impacted on the surface). In the meantime The battle above had grown tighter and more desperate as more TIE Fighters poured into the area and the X-Wings continued to blaze them into atoms. With the failure of the Y-Wings Luke, Wedge, and Porkins broke loose and dived into the trench to take their run at the unprotected exhaust vent.

 

A frantic furball of elite Alliance pilots and Imperial expendables

 

 

"Red Leader, this is Gold Leader. We're starting our attack run."
After being dogged by TIEs on the surface, the Y-Wings have entered the trench.

 

They have some distance ahead of them.

 

Despite being better pilots, the Alliance is in a rough place.
Theron Nett (X-Wing second from the bottom) is about to become
one with the Force.

 

"They're coming in! Three marks at 2-10!"

Darth Vader and his wingman have arrived!

 

"I'll take them myself. Cover me."
Despite losing Gold 5, Gold Leader does manage to make it down the trench...
Only for it to impact on the surface.

 

"Use the Force, Luke..."
Luke, alone in the Trench after Jek Porkins and Wedge Antilles died in defense.
However, Luke manages to survive long enough to successfully
bullseye the exhaust port and destroy the Death Star! 

 

       The only remaining tasks are to crate up the trench and painting the white sheet to resemble the surface of the Death Star. Plus a bunch of little details (guns in the turbo-laser turrets is at the top of that list!) that will add eye-candy to the tabletop.