Cluedo Hostage Rescue

 We were short on numbers so John produced a perennial favourite, Cleudo Hostage Rescue, Johns game of SAS derring do on a Cluedo board (Clue for our US cousins). 

A brief recap - terrorists have seized hostages in a country house and dumped the body of Mr Black on the steps outside. There are half a dozen hostages (Reverend Green, Mrs White etc) and an unknown number of terrorists. We have a team of eight SAS soldiers to rescue the hostages. There is a limited amount of intel available on the situation from local law enforcement of varying reliability, but we were fairly sure the Conservatory and Ballroom were empty. We were fortunate that Colonel Mustard had escaped, and as a military man, gave us reliable intel that there were six terrorists.

Our SAS team had two specialists (medic No. 2) and dog handler (No. 8) and a section leader (No. 1). We were all armed with carbines and pistols, and the five non specialist had a stun grenade each.

Based on the intel, we planned to make our entrance through the Conservatory and Ballroom, my four guys (Nos 1-4) would then clear the right hand side of the building, while marks guys (5-8) would clear the left. Mark had the dog and I had the medic. The figures normally activate in number order, with two actions each, but the leader can spend an action to change the activation order, which is handy sometimes.

We came across two rooms with a pair of terrorists in each (and a pair of hostages), and despite getting the correct sequence of door opening, chucking grenades and following up with a fusillade of small arms fire onto the stunned terrorists, we were hideously unlucky and not one but two terrorists managed to detonate their suicide vests, sadly we lost a couple of the hostages (Rev Green and Mrs Peacock) but managed to save Mrs White although she was badly wounded. The medic stabilised her. We also had two troopers wounded, one quite badly, by the explosions.

Clearing the last room went better, despite my section leader managing to miss one of his shots and we rescued Professor Plum without further friendly losses and finally found Miss Scarlet hiding in the kitchen. All the terrorissts were killed.

So, not a brilliantly successful operation, but four of the hostages escaped alive and we didn't have any troopers actually killed. Back to markmanship and room clearing school though I think.