Asteroid Blues

Infinity

The Evil Alien Masterplan: Homeland season 1

300 POINTS
Combined Army
Cagn
VS PanOceania
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Prologue

Update successful……… starting boot sequence…… 5……4……3…2…1. “What?!” exclaimed a surprised Panoceania tech-bee. “F@$K-sakes these tags come in broken as all hell, glad I am not in the engineering department anymore, some one is going to get overtime to fix this poor tin-can. The system was supposed to run diagnostics, not update and boot, probably a sign of some fried circuit or some-such. That or this new diagnostic program is incompatible, the one that got dropped off this morning by whats-her-name-never-seen-before. Either way, that’s my supervisor’s problem and I should go and report this to him.” The irate tech-bee thought to himself as he left to find his manager.
“The new voodoo-tech update on RATS-III will no doubt be a nasty surprise to the Panoceania forces assigned to protect this quadrant, and a good test run” speculo Lilith thought as she made her way from the repair facility to get some high ground advantage before operation.
Systems online……..diagnostic report:…….damaged wing stabiliser…….Posterior-armour report 40% intact…. lower right side missing reactive armour panel……..Anterior-armour damage superficial 80% intact…system functionality…..70%….mobility report…100%..functional. “Not ideal, but it shall have to suffice, these no evidence missions are a pain” E.I. aspect designation R.A.T.S. (Reconnaissance Assault and Tactical Sabotage) thought as he uploaded into the dilapidated Panoceania tag.

Deployment
Panoceania won and decided to take deployment, going second, no reserve troopers due to Avatar’s Strategos level 3.
CA set up a defensive REM backline with two M-drones (left and right centre); E-drone (centre); R-drone (left flank); Ikardon (left flank). The zerat (data-tracker) took centre high ground in cover and prone, the Imetron centre field, both in CA side of the table. (proxy was used for AVATAR, R-Drone, M-drones)
Panoceania deploys: central backline 5 man link team (Sniper and Missile members exposed to ARO -one on each midline flank); Aquila guard with HMG (right flank) exposed for ARO; prone Bolts-Harris link (shotguns, combi rifles and a hacker) central back high-ground (used forward deployment), angry robot with flame bot centre table (mechanized deployment), angry ODD-robot (right flank) with spitfire; some-trooper with flame bot (seriously, why all the fire, guy!!??).
Speculo killer finds her way onto the roof with the unsuspecting Harris-link team. The Avatar deploys in the REM backline.

Round 1
The Avatar and the Aquila guard start hostilities and in the ensuing gun battle the Aquila guard manages to crit (CRIT!!) the poor Avatar, luckily Dr. Worm (really 3 different degrees, will he ever stop with his academic conquest?) repairs the lost structure point (achieved classified objective). With the added close moral support of Dr Worm the Avatar tries again and this time there is no crit from the Aquila guard only failed armour saves. Not to be outdone by the stolen tag the speculo killer decides to hug one of the Harris members. Unfortunately, the monofilament was a bit too much for him to handle. After such success the speculo decided to share some boarding shotgun with the link leader, whom failed to shoot back so badly that the environment killed the poor soul, leaving the speculo quite confused.
The Avatar not wanting to be outdone by the speculo decided to gun down the exposed sniper (5man-link team) and after suffering another wound found success with the second attempt. With the last orders before the end of the CA turn, the Avatar, M-drone, E-drone and Zerat went into suppressive fire after some maneuvering.
The Pano army was not happy with the loss of key units and so Lt . Nickholas Broady ordered his very angry robots to go and “burn that damn tag to the ground or don’t come back!!” After choosing the correct attack vector the small flame bot with big brother in-tow ran out valiantly and successfully to burn the Avatar (2wounds). Losing his flame bot Mr Angry decided to kill the M-drone (protecting and blocking access to Dr Worm) which he did but only to get extinguished by the other M-drone in suppressive fire. Next was the Harris team tried to corner the speculo by dropping a drop bear next to her.
Next the trooper and the other flame-bot charged down the CA left flank only to get stuck halfway down the street. The pair had a fight with the R-drone (flash pulse), killing the poor REM but not before it blinded the flame-bot (who burned the Avatar again). From this point Pano started moving in to dominate zones and there was a short relief to hostilities.
END OF ROUND

CA – 4 points (more zones, data-tracker dominating zone, classified objective)
Pano- 0 points

Round 2
Dr Worm manages to sneak past the Pano troops and repair the Avatar (oooh boy, now it’s his turn to be upset – he hates living in the cramped housing that is the Ikadron). The lone morat had enough, where was her fun? She decided to shoot the drop-bear Bolt in the back, which worked out for the Zerat. Next was that pesky last flame-bots turn. The Zerat was spotted by an ODD-sneaky man with a shotgun on her way to the next client and as such had to split the burst. She killed the flame-bot but died to the shotgun (bye-bye data-tracker). With the last flame-bot dreaming of electric sheep the Avatar could get busy without worrying to become BBQ. The last two defenders in the street (one defender the data-tracker) did not survive the Avatars first split burst. With the last couple of orders, the baggage-bot got into a quadrant to control and the Avatar went into suppressive fire. Pano had little and only tough choices from this point onwards.

Pano moved the remaining link team core members into the closest quadrant and the ODD spitfire bot up into the next quad that was within the CA side of the table. The ODD-sneaky man decided to kill some CA REMS (the E-drone and the remaining M-drone) by walking into the deployment zone and spreading love. The last order on the ODD bot loses the fight against the Avatar. The 4 man link team moves up to take quadrants and the missile launcher gets a shot off on the Avatar but only kills Dr Worm. The second attempt sees the Avatar landing a crit (YEAH!!!) with an explosive round ending any hope of quickly killing the tag. The rest of the link hides, to die another round.

END OF ROUND
CA – 1 point (control of 2 zones)
Pano- 1 point (control of 2 zones)

Round 3
The Avatar shoots the exposed members of the fireteam, the second order kills the ODD nasty man. The last two orders are spent on walking the tag to the Pano Lt and trying to Sepsitorize him. The Lt makes the saves, the Avatar makes the armour save.
The Pano LT with the last two orders decided to do what heroes do, to save the day by killing the tag and putting a stop the CA devastation. Success on the last order and the tag is downed, but the CA gained a new member (a Hero!)

CA – 2 points (more zones)
Pano- 0 points

Epilogue

“Sir, I don’t know how I survived, the last thing I saw was that @*^king malfunctioning tag blowing up after I managed to hit the exposed back armour panel. How could there be no bodies but Pano? I am convinced that it was an attack mediated by Nomads agents. Bipandra reported Nomad agents in the area prior to the incident which further suggests their involvement.” Lt. N. Broady reported to Gen. Corlex from his hospital bed. “These are troubling and disturbing thoughts Lt, most assuredly this will lead to a Pano retaliation against these Nomad aggressors, seeing as their electronic signatures were found on that tag. You will receive a medal for the valour and determination you showed, maybe even a promotion depending on your after-action report” replied Gen Corlex without a sign of trepidation.

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