Asteroid Blues

+++Mission Report 201293-A345-KN51+++

Operations started at approximately 2200 hours as Strikeforce Lincoln moved into position at the outskirts of the spaceport. We had received word that the duplicitous nomads were reinforcing the Haqqislamite position around the spaceport in support of their allies. Our forces managed to seize the initiative and deployed in order to deny the Nomad forces strategic positions that would dominate the area of operations. To this end 2 Heavy Flamethrower Grunts managed to infiltrate and position themselves to cover the central building in the centre of the Nomad deployment area and the Nomad leftmost flank.

With the Minuteman led team securing the central position with his fireteam of grunts and backed up by Wild Bill, and the left forward flank covered by the Haris of Marauders with Rosie, there was not much room for the Nomads to deploy unmolested. The Desperado being deployed on the left flank, the Maverick deploying in the central area just next to the Minuteman fireteam, the 2 foxtrots deployed on the centerline right and left flanks respectively.

The nomads being forced into a restricted deployment zone due to the infiltrating grunts deployed their Securitate in and around a small tower on the Nomad right flank (left flank from the Usariadna perspective), their Daktari and and some kind of remote deployed in the centre behind the building being covered by the Grunt and a Puppetmaster deploying behind a building on Nomad right flank.

Turn 1 started with the Desperado rushing up the left flank and making a beeline straight towards the Securitate link in and around the tower. The link consisted of 2 Missile Launcher Grenzers and 3 non-descript Securitate. Managing to close the distance the desperado traded shots with a Grenzer and Securitate with his trusty chain rifle. Predictably the desperado was blown to smithereens but not before taking down the Grenzer. Sensing and opportunity to further reduce the effectiveness of the link the Marauder HRL opened fire on the remaining Grenzer Missile Launcher which is when a Spektr revealed himself in the Nomad left flank and took a potshot at Rosie which missed. Things went noticeably downhill as the Grenzer ate a rocket from the Marauder and promptly burned to death. Rosie however took another shot from the Spektr and went unconscious.

On the right flank having appeared in front of the Grunt flamer, things got predictably toasty for the Spektr and he was very predictably set on fire fairly promptly. However this caused a mine to go off which ended things for the said grunt. Van Zant then decided to make a grand entrance on the now cleared right flank feeling safe and secure. As he strolled in he was rather rudely interrupted by another Spektr who had the temerity to take a potshot at him which missed. As Van Zant tried to shoot the rather rude Spektr, he somehow fumbled that and got shot in the face, but Van Zant kept going as he was manly enough not to stop a gaping head wound stop him. (ie he went dogged). The idling Maverick then decided that enough was enough and decided to casually ride up and let the Spektre understand what it means to be set on fire courtesy of a light rocket launcher. One burning Spektr later, Van Zant completed the first classified Net Undermine and the personal classfied In Extremis Recovery. Now it was time to take care of the pesky Puppetmaster and shortly therafter Van Zant quickly and quite efficiently shot him in the back who followed up with a Coup De Grace (for the 2nd Classified objective).

In the centre of the Nomad deployment area, the flamethrower grunt then rounded the corner to ensure that the Nomad Daktari couldnt revive any of his team mates. Predictably both the Daktari and the grunt died in the following exchange. With not much left to do the turn passed on to the Nomad forces.

Fat Yuan Yuan made his entrance and landed beside the Minuteman led fireteam. Using his bulk he barged his way into the fireteam and managed to fell the lead member before realising he had been shot in return. Raoul Spectre then landed to the right of the aforementioned link team but despite numerous attempts to reduce their numbers was eventually taken out by a combination of ARO’s from the grunts, minuteman and Wild Bill (WIld Bill failed to achieve anything throughout the entire mission. Before expiring the Raoul did manage to perform the Net Undermine classified. A third Spektr revealed himself at the centreline of the left flank and proceeded to forward observe a Marauder but was eventually put into unconscious state by none other that Fusilier Angus. A Meteor Zond then proceeded to land on the table edge closest to the unconscious flamer grunt and performed a coup de grace on the hapless soul.

Turn 2 proceeded with the foxtrot closest to the unconscious spektr forward observing him to secure the third objective and the paramedic grunt racing across the field to perform the Inoculation on the enemy HVT. The said paramedic failed twice (needing 16’s) before succeeding and went into suppressive fire state. The enemy decided there was not much left he could do given his vastly depleted forces and being in retreat state. The game ended on a 10-3 score.