Just Businessmen

With the Spinosaurus steaks tidied away, these legitimate businessmen can return to their negotiations.

A group of Raptors has been attracted by the smell of spilled rum - they sneak in towards the buildings



The men retreat behind some boxes, preparing their Alamo - but the beasts are smarter than that and approach from around the back!



One of them goes down, and the rest use the feeding frenzy as an opportunity to leg it - they stop, turn around the let the beasts have it



One of the Raptors, who had remained hidden during the initial rush, creeps out behind Reilly and tries to snap his legs off. The wily hitman twirls away and runs, shooting off most of his tommy gun's drum as he does so



Dillahunt, who thought he was safe in the water tower finds something else up there with him



Yates and Salvatore close the door of the house, and the first Raptor to stick his nose inside gets it shot off



Reilly's escape by car is cut off by a Raptor on the roof



Reilly and Dillahunt brave the danger, taking to the cars - two Raptors by the storehouse get an unpleasant surprise as the vehicles try to run them over!



Reilly takes care of his target, but the other Raptors avoids the hurtling car and snaps at Dillahunt - in his attempt to avoid the jaws, Dillahunt loses control of the car and it flips over, rolling over the unfortunate mobster



Reilly gets out of the car and runs into the storehouse, taking out another of the Raptors as he goes - two more are nearby but can't seem to make out his scent amongst the heady stench of rum



Yates and his remaining henchman make their last stand in the courtyard



The last Raptor is put down like a dog



Tommy guns seem to do fine after all!
That was all I had time for at Gaelcon - though I did get to play some of the Wild Geese's Three Musketeers game, Conrad Kinch's Battle of Salamanca. Thanks for reading!

The Bigger They Come

The Yates outfit are the main operators in Monrovia. They're about to feel the heat of competition...

Newcomer in West Africa - Reilly, with his man Young arrive at the Yates' place



An uninvited guest has arrived at their business meeting - their initial fusilade doesn't stop the monster, but it does think twice and circles around through some thick jungle



After quickly grabbing guns from the cars the mobsters run for this shack and hunker down - they behemoth oustide doesn't spot them but he does notice Dillahunt on top of the water tower



Taking fire from above the Spinosaurus lurks beneath what seems to Dillahunt like a flimsy structure - he loses his nerve and runs for it (at a pace he didn't know he had in him!)



Charging out after him the rest of the mobster inside the shack open up with everything they have



The gigantic lizard falls to the ground, toast! The tommy-gun barrels are melting! Back to business fellas.

The Search for Mrs Johnston

Sampson and Kofi join forces with Lewis and the Reverend Johnston

They search high and low for Mrs Johnston - she is still lost in the jungle somewhere



Mrs Johnston, still without a weapon, runs into some Askari - these are the rest of the brigands led by the infamous DuPont



Rev. Johnston is jumped by a native out of nowhere - he manages to utilise his full array of missionary talents (12 gauge) to subdue the man



DuPont takes charge, telling Mrs Johnston to stay in his camp until he sorts things out



Taking direction from DuPont the Askari fan out



Achillobators stalk slowly around the side of the small camp



The leading Achillobator is ambushed by the Askari - their muskets bring it to the ground but have little effect. DuPont takes careful aim and kills the beast stone dead



The Askari melt into the jungle to creep away, but the Raptors come after them - they try to shoot them from cover but in so close their muskets are more of a hindrance



As the search party and Mrs Johnston are reunited, they also sneak off, but DuPont comes out of cover to aid his Askari - spooked by his stealthy movement, an Askari opens fire: slaying the Frenchman with a single musket ball!



Sampson lead them out of danger, staying hidden with Lewis bringing up the rear



The remaining Achillobator chases, spotting them as it approaches - chaos breaks out with some panicking and others running



In the bedlam, the beast attacks Mrs Johnston. It kills her leaving Sampson to run after the rest



A sad end to the day - the indefatigable Mrs Johnston almost made it

The Campsite

Chandler and his companions have camped in the hills above the Johnston Mission

In the evening a few of them (led by Cockburn) make their way there to investigate



Their camp with sentries on duty - Peters stands with Kofi and Kwesi at the fire, as the porters bring in the last of the supplies



A swarm of Raptors come out of nowhere charging the men - Sampson has gone off to the left to take a look at something



The noise he heard was a gigantic Allosaurus stomping through the American Mission



Winters and Cockburn blaze away with their guns at the Raptors, but both men go down. Nkunda, their local guide throws his spear at a Raptor in desperation - it hits the Raptor in the eye, sending it scampering backwards (along with his spear)



Kofi points at the Raptors and the sentries open fire



The Raptors move away from the seriously wounded men and towards the campsite - picking on Chandler and Peters. Nkunda is running back to the camp to pick up a machete and the boy Hal runs to Chandler's aid with his shotgun



The Allosaurus looks in over the ridgeline




A firing line is formed by the men, with Chandler at the rear waving his pisto around - the Allosaurus has jumped the ridge with amazing agility



The concerted fire from the men is too much for the Raptors and they skulk off into the undergrowth. With time on their hands the men concentrate on the Allosaurus (Nkunda's machete doing serious damage to its leg)



As thing calm down, Nkunda is overwhelmed by the Raptors



They move on, and the porters are easy picking for them



Carnage in the camp - even Kofi has gone down (though he may just be concussed)



Well Oscar, this is a fine mess you've gotten me into!



The Last Stand - somehow Peters and Chandler manage to destroy two of the Raptors before they fall to their terrible claws



As the Allosaurus leaves the campsite, weakend from Sampson's unyielding fire, a last gasp shot from his rifle strikes true and the Allosaur is killed



From their high perches Sampson and Kofi survey the campsite - only they remain



A terrible day for the adventurers, though some of them are only seriously wounded, without the porters they have little chance of surviving - even the Mission will give them little succour without anyone to help them