Asteroid Blues

*Incoming Encrypted Transmission*
YanJing ZhongYang, this is YanJing TaiYuan. Standby to receive a debrief from an armed conflict including some of our forces sent to reinforce the JiYuan dig site at Novyy Bangkok:
(Note: this debrief has had a level of propaganda included to be approved for partial-public release by the authority of Li ChengRui, Imperial Agent, Crane Rank.)

Sir, we apologize for the performance of our previous Information Dissemination Officer. Due to his missing of the deadline to submit battle information during the previous phase of the campaign, he has been reassigned to the mines.

On this occasion, we encountered a familiar enemy commander using a different army (and faction altogether). EDOCGenKip previously attacked our innocent forces under the O-12 banner, but today he came to the Jiyuan site flying the flag of Tanguska.

We discovered a force from the Tanguskan jurisdiction approaching our mining operations on Novyy Bangkok and deployed our forces to give them a friendly greeting. Before we could even wave hello, a large core group of Hollow Men advanced from the left to disable a Pangguling and a Haidao carrying a sniper rifle with mid-range missiles (of note: the Haidao left a much larger mess).

A Mowang responded rapidly by pushing up the left side against the Hollow Men advance. He was able to deactivate one carrying a missile launcher and one with a spitfire, but took heavy wounds from a well-placed missile and a rock that had loosened during recent mining. He retreated to a slightly more defensible position as a haris team advanced into our right quadrant.

At the end of this turn, each force controlled both of its quadrants, with the datatracker in one of them. If this were an imaginary game, i believe that the score would be 2 - 2 at this point...

A Meteor Zond attempted to land in our territory, but it deployed inaccurately near its own lines, just barely out of sight of the Mowang. It was unable to move comfortably at this point and instead chose to cover a lane of approach. A hidden Spektr was able to sneak up to a Zuyong taking cover on a building in our left quadrant by going in and out of camouflage and climbing a ladder on the opposite wall of its position. It was able to make quick work of the Zuyong and a nearby Pangguling, but was unable to dislodge our Yanhuo fire support. A Heckler approached the middle of the battlefield to deploy a Fast Panda inside the zone of control of our hacking Daoying lieutenant, who had de-cloaked to oppose the Meteor Zond's airborne approach.

Our Yanhuo immediately advanced to lend his weight and support to the right quadrant, granting us control for a time. A brave and powerful Liuxing was able to make an airborne drop into the midst of the Hollow Men at this time, wounding several in the group and only taking a single wound in return. He fought through the pain long enough to unload two shots from his boarding shotgun into the enemy Hollow Man that was designated as a datatracker, but was brought low in return. His heroic sacrifice gave the Mowang datatracker the opportunity needed to push all the way up the left side, killing what remained of the Hollow Men team. He took up a firing position in the enemy quadrant as the turn came to an end.

Our glorious Invincible Army now controlled three quadrants (and datatracker) to the enemy's one, giving us a significant lead going into the final phase of the battle!

The opposing lieutenant attempted to regain the initiative by attempting to slay our lieutenant through the Fast Panda repeater, but another one of those loose rocks took him out while hacking! The dirty Nomads finally had enough after the Meteor Zond picked a firefight it couldn't win with the massive Mowang. Before the Zond's circuits emptied themselves of remaining electricity, the Tanguska commander admitted defeat.