Asteroid Blues

Initial notes:
1.- For this Battle I changed my dices, better results for me but my opponent luck was endless.
2.- Made a target mistake aiming to kill a Desperado instead of a FT core.
3.- Light wasn’t the best for the photos or video nevertheless I used the best I had.

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Falling back after a sounding defeat at the Xarak Battery Commander el Indio’s troop were recovering to get back to battle….
“Commander El Indio there is an USARF army advancing toward us!”
“How can this be? Did they knew we were here??”
“No commander, this looks like a patrol that found us by coincidence, we have 3 grunts already within our lines!”
“Kill them, we will deal with the rest of their forces after that”
“The Benevolent EI commands and we obey!”
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His deployment comprised a FT Core (grunts with Wild Bill) on the left and a Marauders Haris in the middle right, two desperadoes on the corners, 3 grunts infiltrated on my deploy (on 8s) and a Paratrooper.
My deployment consisted in a Duo FT with a Gwailo and Victor Messer in the middle, a bit behind the Mentor, Dr. Worm, a Caliban Engineer and a Haiduk on the left, Nox FO with a Slave drone on the middle left along with a TO ML Noctifier, T-Drone and slave drone on the right. 2 FO Shrouded on the middle line of the table to my right

I won the initiative choosing to go 1st. After seeing that my opponent infiltrated 3 grunts on my deployment (on 8´s). I had to spend almost my entire order pool to get rid of the grunts as the 3 had flamethrower, which can be a total pain in the rear end when you have a lot of camo. I was only able to deal with 2 of them loosing my gwailo and one FO, hoping to be able to ARO the 3rd one before he did much damage.
Also used the speculo to kill the desperadoe when she should have targeted the FT Core. A mine detonated with his ORA but he made the save. Before doing that I told my opponent that I was going to play badly, trying to lure him attacking the Speculo, but he fail the change facing roll. My 1st turn see me killing 2 Grunts and one Desperado.
On his turn, he decided to move up with the army dropping a Paratrooper luring me out as my Caliban had his back against him and failed his change facing roll. Used the speculo to fire at him, missing the shoot (again) also making an ARO shot with the Noctifier who also failed.
The rest of his turn was the FT core (that I didn’t attacked with the Speculo) cleaning up the table leaving me without enough specialist to complete the mission.
On my second turn, he had a 4 of the antenaes Marked and I had not enough orders/specialist to do any damage so the game ended with me conceding as I had to leave already.