Mission Critical Custom Scenario 02 –
MCCS02
designed by Felipe A. L. Mascarenhas
(felipealm@gmail.com)
Pursuit of Cobra
(Requires Mission Critical Base Game and expansions
Heavy Firepower and Chaos Break)
The Joes, following a thread of leads, start a race
against time to stop Cobra’s most nefarious plan!
How to win/lose
The objective of this scenario is to clear each location
with no more than 2 battles each, chasing the cobras to
the next location, in order. You lose if you can’t clear the
location within 2 battles or runs out of Joes on reserve.
Set up
This scenario uses a unique set up, and a few different
variant rules. Also it is story driven. At the beginning of
the game, and after clearing each area, read the
appropriate text.
Place the location tiles in a (…errr) serpentine pattern,
follow this sequence. New York > Jungle Laboratory >
Cobra Temple > Space Station Delta. Set aside the HQ
tile, it will be used to store the Joes on reserve.
Do not distribute individual activation tokens, instead
place 2 activation tokes near each area. You don’t spend
activation to move between areas, the Joe team moves
as a unit, and only move to the next area after defeating
the current one.
This scenario dos not use the deployment deck and
tokens. Instead place troops as follows
New York – 4 Cobra Trooper + 1 Random
Lieutenant/Nemesis
Jungle Laboratory – 3 Cobra Trooper +1 Crimson
Guard + 1 Random Lieutenant/Nemesis
Cobra Temple – 2 cobra troops + 2 Crimson Guard +
1 Random Lieutenant/Nemesis
New York – 4 Crimson guards + Cobra Commander
Pick up your 10 favorite Joes. Select your starting
team (depending on player count) and place the other
joes on reserve on the HQ. (More on that on the special
rules section)
Give yourself a free vehicle token. After defeating each
lieutenant/nemesis gain one extra vehicle token. You
can have at most 2 vehicles tokens.
Special Rules:
KIA/Reserve Joes
When a Joe is defeated they are treated as out of
commission, and retired for the game. You can select (if
available) another joe from the reserve team and they
can join the team next battle.
Refresh
Power up and Recover actions are not available this
scenario. However, if the Joes manage the clear a
location with only one activation, they can take a refresh
action. This action allows to recover 12 shields of cards
between all the team members and gain 2 energy.
Extended Energy Pool
The Energy pool does not empty at the end of the battle.
It remains with the energy until they are spent or
drained. At the start of a battle, add 2 energy as normal.
Story Mode
Before the first battle:
Following a tip from an undercover informant, the Gi
Joe discovers a Cobra hideout in New York. Selecting
the best of the best, General Hawk dispatches a task
force to deal with the snakes. In the dark of the night
the team infiltrates the seemly abandoned warehouse,
while expecting some resistance, the Joes did not expect
to find so many enemies ready to combat…..
If the scenario is lost (failing to win
each location within 2 activations)
The cobra forces manage to escape. Their trail goes
cold. The joes return to the HQ, as soon as they
disembark their transportation they see everyone
running around in disarray. They turn on all the
monitors on the base, each tunned on a local news
channel from around the world.
The news is dire. Multiple reports of major cities around
the world been struck at the same moment by a
mysterious Cobra weapon. The casualties and
destruction are overwhelming.
Suddenly all monitor go black for a minute and an
incoming transmission invades the airwaves. The visage
of Cobra Commander, triumphantly addresses:
“Citizens of Earth. You have witnessed just a fraction of
out power. Cobra have defeated the government of the
most powerful nations on earth. You that remain are
luck survivors that are now living under Cobra World
order!!!!!”
The battle was lost….Cobra won the war.
If the Joes win the New York
battleground:
The dust settles. No enemies remain. With the guns still
smoking and sweat running thought their faces, the Joes
start to look for intel. After all, such enemy forces
stationed here must have been guarding something
important. While the warehouse was mostly empty, the
team finds some shipping manifestoes and nautical
charts. The Cobra has been sending some huge amount
of electronic components and high grade chemical
through this facility. The last few shipments were sent
just a few days ago, and according to the documents,
they would be arriving at their destination anytime now.
Sending the info to the headquarters for analysis, just a
few minutes later Dialtone calls the team on their Joe-
Comms “Good job. With your intel we managed to find
the location those shipments were sent. Hawk has
requested transport to take you to this new found
location. We cannot let them run away. Keep the
Pursuit. Yo Joe!!”.
A few moments later, a loud noise of turbine and
propeller blades fastly spinning approaches the
warehouse. Wildbill and Lifticket hover the Tomahawk
above the team and then lower the hoist cables to allow
them to embark. After the last joe is on board, Wildbill
says “Hold your hats, hope you did not forget your bug
repellant, we are off the jungle”. The joes know, cobra is
planning something dangerous, not exactly sure what,
but they know they must act promptly. The flight is as
bumpy, as it is fast, they arrive at the break of dawn.
Soon the voice of Lifticket comes through their flight
communicators. “We are closing in the location, we
expect heavy resistance, prepare to…..” The
communication is interrupted by a gun salvo. “We are
hit, must land the bird….Time to fight back. Yo Joe!!”.
If the Joes win the battle on the Jungle
Laboratory:
Not much is left standing after such extreme conflict.
While the laboratory is now useless, whatever purpose
it had, was already fulfilled. While the Joes are
inspecting the remains of the laboratory, they hear some
remaining cobra forcers scattering around the woods,
and soon the noise of revving motors reach their ears.
“Hidden vehicles! They are on the run!! Follow them!!”
The team leader says. With haste, the team rushes
outside and with some skilled shots, they manage to
take down a couple of cobra troopers and take the
Cobra Ferrets they were using the escape.
With the cobras on the run, the joes manage the keep
on their tails. After a few hours pursuing the enemies on
the trails of the jungle, the communicators on the
Ferrets go live, and a familiar evil voice comes through:
“What?!! The joesss are following you?? You foolsss!!!
You led them here! Luckily my plan issss sssstill on
track. Hold them of!!!!”. As soon as the message ends,
the trees on the forest start to open on a clearing. The
ominous presence of the Cobra Temple can be seen on
the distance. While hot on the chase, the joes will not
give up, however they still have a battalion of cobras to
face.
If the Joes win the infiltration on the Cobra Temple. The
Joes finally breach the enemies’ defenses and manage to
storm Cobra Temple. Doing a clean sweep of the place,
the joes encounter no further resistance. the temple is
weirdly empty. No sign of Cobra Commander and the
remainder of Cobra troops. A few moments later, the
team infiltration specialist finds a hidden trapdoor
which leads to a tunnel.
Rushing through the newfound passage the joes finally
find a reinforce door marked with Cobra insignias. The
team sets breaching charges on the door…and…3….2…
1…the door goes down. “Yo Joe!!! Surrender Cobra
Commander! Your days of terror are done!!” – Screams
the team leader while they storm the hidden The team waits and stares down on earth while they
bunker….However no one is found inside. Just on the spot the slowly approaching Joe Spaceship: The Defiant
center of the room the Joes see a huge machine, with and ponder…This battle has been won. Is it the end of
blinking lights, hanging cables and beeping sounds. The the War on Cobra? Only time will tell. If ever trouble
team technician inspects the machine and says “It looks arises again, where ever it is, Gi Joe will be there,
like some sort of teleportation device, I think I can make fighting for freedom over land and air.
it work. Asking permission to active the machinery”.
Over the comms, the voice of Gen. Hawk comes through
“Permission Granted. Let’s end this. Yo Joe!!”. The
technician points to the center platform of the machine
and instructs the team while fervorously typing on the
machine keyboard. “Get over there. I think I got this”
Zooomp….a flash white light blinds they
sight….wwooommmp….
”Did it work? Where are we?” The team looks around
and sees themselves on a platform similar to the one
they hoped on a few seconds ago. Stepping out of the
platform they stand in a room made of metal, from floor
to ceiling, the only way out is a metallic corridor. The
team leader moves along the faintly illuminated
corridor, and stops on small slit on the side wall. “I
think I know where we are, or at least, I know where we
are not.” He moves around and lets the other team
members look at the small window. They see a blue and
green sphere floating on a dark void space. Earth. The
planet they swore to protect with their lives.
Zaaapt…a red laser misses them by an inch. There
stands before them. Cobra Commander and the last
elite Cobra Troops.
“Time to end thissss! You have been bugging me for too
long, Joesss. Attack Cobraaaaaa!”
“Yo Joe!!!” the team screams in unison.
If the Joes win the last stand on Space
Station Delta:

Cobra Commander is down. No more enemies stand

and fight back. The team rushes the space station and
find 20 chemical missiles armed and programmed to
target major cities all around the globe. With haste they
manage to halt the count down. “A few moments later,
we would have not been able to save them” states the
team technician.
Bzzz….bzzz..”Congratulation Joes!”…says Gen Hawk
over the communicator…”Hang on a little bit more, we
will get you home soon”.