During the Christmas holidays, playing short games between the lobster and the turkey may be fun. A couple of cardboard ruins (we used the EM4 Combat Zone ones), a few minis, and as usual something to drink and a silly excuse.

To prepare its retaliation against the imperial territories, Veh-Deh-Merd has sent dominators to contaminate Hive Secundus, and the infestation has begun. In several areas, people have been having a strange behaviour – in fact, the mind-controlled citizens begin organising underground resistance to the Empire so as to provide support from the inside to the main mutant force that will strike the city. The worm is in the apple, but some people know. Having discovered funky sunglasses in a dustbin, a couple of heroes can see the devoured brains of people under a Dom’s dominance pattern. Facing the police's incomprehension – or even its subordination to the Doms – they decide to fight the evil monsters and their minions. And so begins a gang war.

For the mini-campaign, players select one squad of Troops of a given value (something like 300 pts should do), led by an elite model which will be the only one with a CR.

• Every model in the squad has one free hero point.
• Games are played as normal, except that as each player only has one squad, you only roll for initiative at the beginning of the game – so that it’s IGO-UGO till the end of the game.
• Game ends when all models are out – units rout as normal, except players may decide to automatically fail their rout test.
• Models that were removed from play lose one hero point for the next game. Surviving models gain an additional free hero point, and the game winner can give an extra hero point to the figure of his choice. And so on... The campaign winner is the player whose models total the greatest number of hero points in the end.
• Usual restictions on hero points still apply, so a Trooper model can have up to 4 HP and your Elite leader up to 6 HP.

When the Walrus bros discovered what was going on, the Hive Secundus police refused to hear them, arguing they smelled of beer. Hating mutants as much as True Men can, the rebel bikers and a couple of gun-fondling friends, decided to deal with the impostors by themselves and sought out the minions of Veh Deh Merd. A dominator had chosen to infiltrate the "wealthy" suburbs, and his slaves all were well-off guys used to defend themselves against envious street punks.

They fired the first shot when the Walrus bros showed up ; the gunfight was merciless and it took much time and several deaths before a squad of imperial militia arrived – and arrested the biker gang, regardless of what they said about the "mutant plot to rule the world".

They would certainly be crucified in public, so as to show that there are some places where you cannot mess with guns. Meanwhile, who knows what terrible plots the Dominator would achieve ?