ALIENS: Another Glorious Day in the Corps - Mission 3 - RESCUE 

Hero Hudson? Aaaw, that’s nice. Always loved Bill Paxton in this, but wanted Hudson to have more of a redemption. About time.

I love watching these! I mean.. Ash please stop my poor bank account you're rupturing it!

Some important notes: Hicks may draw a card, he isn't required to. Defensive fire is only used on Aliens that come into contact with a character. Before the attack, all characters within 4 spaces get to shoot. It isn't like an Overwatch, where any time an Alien moves, characters within 4 spaces away get to shoot, like you were doing. When you fired the flamethrower the first time, you would have hit Hicks as well. It has a max range of 2, and hits every square around the target square. Hicks would have been killed on a 7 or less too, with no save. If Hudson had moved one space further, he could have targeted the back square and only hit the Aliens. Blips move d6 squares, not 6 like Alien models do. Flamethrowers cannot be used in Defensive Fire because they have the Cumbersome rule. Hudson would only be able to use a pistol or shotgun for Defensive Fire if he had one. Newt would only Recycle 3 per Rest, not 4, because she is a Grunt unless Ripley is played as a Hero.

I like how this game really recreates the sense of the Marines laying down a wall of file; like the scene outside the Med Bay in Aliens. "You want some?! You want some?!"

Imagine if they gave Hudson a flamer from the beginning. Game over man! (for the Xenomorphs)

The stack mechanic is very good, and really illustrates the horde mentality of the xenomorph hive.

Man i love the old aliens i wish we got more marines ive been playing alien dark descent and named all my marines after the 2 movies lol

Thanks Ash!

enjoying the play through series, but I think you need to review the auto fire rule for smartguns and pulse rifle, and also the conditions that trigger covering fire during Alien move phase. I think that the way you are playing - the disadvantage of not using auto fire and the cover fire on sight rather when the Alien engages with a player, weirdly sort of balances out not being overrun :) However- you are burning through cards faster than you’re meant to; especially with the smart gun. Also blip tokens are supposed to move on a D6 roll.

Also you don’t get defensive fire until the alien is directly adjacent to a character. You were firing on the alien turn as they rounded the corner in turn 2.

awesome play through! can't wait to see the next one.

Ooh very dramatic! That was an excellent rescue mission - looking forward to seeing you play (and paint!) the expansions over the coming weeks.

Glad that you rescued Ripley and that Hudson kicked some Alien @ss!

Another cool Aliens run there Ash! I recently painted the expansions and have some tips on the power loader. It's easier to paint in sub assemblies. I built the body and dry fit Ripley to glue legs in correct alignment. Then pulled Ripley back out. Then painted the separate components before final assembly and touch up. Allowed me to get the details I wanted much easier.

Yeah I had that same thought about the stacks under the xenomorph model. At least regarding movement I didnt think about that hallway issue in Space Hulk, but now I wonder how that mechanic would effect gameplay in SH.

An appropriately cinematic escape!

Just got this game and stumbled across your channel trying to understand some of the mechanics. I’ve now binge-watched 3 of your episodes! Great stuff my man, keep it up.

Well done Ash

1:40 “get her uncaptured” they made a word for that, it’s called rescued lol 😉

I believe the rules say you roll an alien die to determine how far blips move. You were moving them 6 spaces like a revealed alien. Am I wrong?

I remember my dad dragging me in front of the TV to watch the movie Aliens, hmm wonder if I can get him interested in gaming it?

super aliens yes yes

Great contents as always but I thought blips moved d6

Thanks for the great video, Ash! You seem to have a lot of fun with this game. It's been in my wishlist for a while now. The base game is CAD 75$ at least; is it worth it? Coming from Gloomhaven and it's ton of content, I feel like other board games ask a lot of money for not much content... Your thoughts?

Did anyone else though one of the xenos had a gun in the thumbnail