Water Pumping Plant

 

Tara, Jess and Doug regarded the male sat in front of the fire. He gobbled down the bowl of stew they had given him.

“So, Ted tell us again how you escaped the mutants?” Doug asked, he sounded suspicious

“They were all huddled together saying about raiding the base for supplies but they couldn’t agree on who would stay behind so tied me up and left me. When they left, I managed to get free and ran until you guys found me. Stupid mutants, bet they needed me to hack any terminals and I hope they didn’t find anything” Ted said in between slurps.

Tara watched him; he was a nervous man his eyes were everywhere. If you had been captured by those horrors Tara could understand a certain nervousness.

“Ok we are doing ok but we need a better supply of water. The stream is not the most reliable source for us. “Tara said to the group. Jess and Doug nodded, a few more settlers had joined their little band and the stream was there only source. Ted coughed,

“What about the water pump station over the way?” he said,

Tara racked her brain, oh yeah it came to her

“Yes, there is a pumping station in this area! Well there was” Tara told the group.

“Its there still, I’m sure I can get the pumps to pump water into stream if we can dam it to make a pool. “Ted said sounding more enthusiastic now

“That sounds brilliant, can we do it?” Jess asked,

“Its fairly simple I can run the complicated bit” Ted replied,

“Good let’s go get it done.” Tara said.

 

This is the third tutorial scenario and is 6 rounds. The survivors must pump 30,000 litres of water to win. The super mutants must stop them. 

The water pumping station

The survivors prepare to pump water and defend the location

Turn 1

The super mutants started the game, the mutant hound bounds forward and Doug tries to shoot at it twice but misses. A super mutant moves forward determined to stop the humans, Dog meat charges forward and attacks a mutant hound causing 3 damage.

 

Dogmeat attacks!

Another super mutant wants to get to grips with the human so surges forward to engage in hand to hand combat. Ted the freed Tech manages to activate the pumps twice sending water towards Sanctuary Valley.

The super mutants move forward

The super mutant Brute takes his psycho and moves forward. Tara activates a pump and readies her weapon for the on coming super mutants. Jess shoots twice at the Brute but misses

Tara activates pumps and covers the approaches to the building with her gun

Water Pumped so Far: 7000 litres

 

Turn 2

Dogmeat kills the mutant hound in combat and then charges into a super mutant! The super mutant Brute charges into Jess, Tara reacts by firing a quick shot clipping the brute for 1 damage. Jess frantically shoots the Brute with her assault rifle in melee. The super mutant dogmeat attacks hits the dog for 3 damage. Tara sees the Brute attacking Jess so fires her pistol into the melee twice and thankfully manages to hit the Brute twice! A super mutant sees Tara open fire and charges her.

Sole survivor vs super mutant!

Doug shoots twice at the super mutant fighting Tara, luckily both shots struck the super mutant reducing him to 1 health. Ted activates the pumps again and sees Jess fighting for her life so he levels his shotgun and blasts the Brute in the back killing him. Jess throws him a smile and a thumbs up.

Doug fires into the melee

Ted activates the pumps and kills a |Brute!

Water Pumped so Far: 13,000

Turn 3

 

The turn starts off with a super mutant swinging at Tara, he misses twice. Dogmeat attacks his opponent for 3 damage.

The super mutant can't hit Tara

Dogmeat bites the super mutant

The super mutant engaged with Dogmeat hits the dog twice, one is saved by armour but the second hit gets through taking Dog meat out of the game! Tara still in melee misses once but hits the super mutant on the second time taking him out of the game.

The super mutant takes out Dogmeat

Tara shoots the super mutant dead

Ted sees the chaos going on around him but knows he needs to pump the water so manages to activate the pumps twice. Doug moves to cover and prepares for any super mutant advances. Jess moves and activates a pump.

Doug gets behind cover

Water Pumped so Far: 21,000

 

Turn 4

 

Tara moved forward and prepared for any super mutant attack; they must defend the water pumps no time to get revenge for Dogmeat……yet. The super mutant sees Tara and charges! Both Tara and Doug open fire. Doug hits causing 2 damage.

Super mutant charges through a hail of bullets

Ted manages to pump more water! Jess moves to a generator that will automatically pump water. Doug fires into the melee and hits Tara but thankfully her armour holds.

Water Pumped so Far: 28,000

 

Turn 5

 

The super mutant swings and misses Tara twice, she tries to shoot him twice and also misses! Ted activates the pumps again taking the water pumped total over the winning level.

Water Pumped so Far: 35,000

 

Survivors Win!

 

As the gunfire died down, the remaining super mutant could be seen retreating in the distance. Tara lent back against a wall of the old pump building and took a deep breath. Doug came over smiling,

“We did it Tara!” he turned to Ted who was fiddling with the pumps,

“Nice one Ted!” Ted shyly smiled obviously not used to compliments. Jess walked over to him and hugged him.

“Thank you, that Brute was out for my blood! You saved me” she clapped him on the back. Tara looked around for Dogmeat and could see him on the floor breathing shallowly. She ran over and injected a stim pack. The mutt perked up and nuzzled her.

“let’s get back home boy”

 

That was a fun game, this scenario was one I was not looking forward to as most of the playthroughs I have seen it has been a hard fight for the humans. I had some ridiculous luck shooting into melee which helped a lot. As always, a few mistakes here and then but I am getting more confident with the rules. Stay tuned for the next instalment.