Asteroid Blues

So minor warning neither me nor my opponent are all that great at taking pictures but we have done our best here. Overall though this was a rather fun game since neither of us had actually used the newer deck yet making highly classified all that much more fun for this one even if 3 of our objectives did end up being HVT based. Neither of us made use of Bar Fight for this one because we didn’t have the models for it and I didn’t want to break into 2 groups.

I won the roll off and took first turn and my deployment was done to at least try and get some of my killier pieces up the board to try and do some clearing out of his stuff while he deployed to cover some of the firelanes but keep his link team from being too heavily threatened straight out.

My turn 1 started with the obvious impetuous order which had my dog warrior take a wound from my opponents Intruder sniper and transmuting him into his much more useful form. I then proceed to throw him forward at the link team but he only succeeds in scattering them slightly with my opponent taking no damage from his chain rifles, although he does tank several shots and a pair of crazykoalas unscathed. My vet kazaks link begins their advance and puts the REM down into unconscious 2 before advancing Voronin close enough to a camo token to sensor it and reveal a bandit, I then bring a scout up and drop a mine before doing a recamo and ending my turn.

My opponents turn starts with his bandit moving up and shooting at my frontovik but he gets some T2 for the efforts and goes down, he then brings in an engineer from AD to try and fix his REM but unfortunately his drop zone means he has to move into LoF of my vet kazak and gets taken down a hail of HMG fire in ARO. The wildcat shoots my dog warrior in the back and causes a wound but his second attempt lets me drop smoke on his position and keep him alive until a doctor drops in and uses his flamethrower to put him unconscious, he then moves his wildcat up and drops him into suppressive and ends his turn.

My second turn began with my Strelok K-9 team moving up and after the wildcat declares discover when they try to move past him they bring him down with shock rounds from the SMG. The vet kazak team advances up and kills the intruder sniper before continuing their advance towards the right side of the board, my paramedic then medikits the dog warrior and he passes both PHY rolls getting him back on his fight with both wounds before finally making an attempt at one of our objectives Follow Up (paramedic or doctor WIP roll against HVT while in ZOC) and only accomplishing it after 3 attempts and using the last of my orders to do it.

On his second turn my opponents link team decides they have had enough and try to take out my dog warrior but he crits a smoke dodge and with no other targets he just opts to drop them all into suppressive.

My third turn beings with the dog warrior charging in and taking a lot of suppressive but finally succeeding in doing something by putting an alguacile unconscious and killing a second one. It then becomes a fun game of poking my vet kazak out to draw an ARO from 1 guy and then trying put him down in a hail of HMG fire while I eventually succeed at leaving only his spec-ops alive and unable to see anything so I proceed to accomplish my remaining objectives: Sabotage (Blow up the holo board I had been stood next to for ages), Innoculation (Doctor or Paramedic in btb with the HVT and doing a WIP roll) and Kidnapping (Have HVT in civevac state at the end of the game). I also had at the start of the game replaced my retroengineering objective with Secure HVT (Be in ZOC of the HVT at the end of the game with no enemies there). And an intel dead drop we were sent to recover turned out to be intact as well.

Admittedly a lot of this game came down to my opponents dice apparently being cursed as all hell, he would either end up just over a crit or roll just under whatever I did when we both succeeded otherwise any of the points I earned would have been bought with a lot of dead men.