Asteroid Blues

Playing against TAK, I lose the roll off and have to go 2nd. I choose the DZ with one good spot that can overwatch most of the approaches to/from the lateral objectives with the haido + zanshi team. He deploys first as pictured; camo markers galore but irmandinhos on his right (my left) and the vet kazak link to my right (his left) behind a building. Irmandinhos get an AP rifle and +2 arm between them and move up with irregular orders and the AP rifle ends his irreg in suppressive behind the central building with the tech coffin.
He declares use of AD but realises I’ve got a TO camo marker covering that flank and decides better of it! So there’s a parachutist spetsnaz somewhere….
Vet kazak link advances a bit too far and the vet kazak takes a wound from the zanshi HMG in aro on his 2nd short skill. This drives the russian into a rage and he then evaporates the zanshi with the next order. The fear of the Haido forces the Kazak team to shimmy prone to draw a bead on the tacaware HMG, costing a lot of orders for little success as a crit and four hits fail to down the valiant ZuYong. It didn’t budget enough for a full retreat/defensive set up however and they end up huddled around a small watchtower on my right flank with two guys out of cover next to the building they left, prime prey for the hac tao!
YJ 1:
My Haido and remaining zanshi team activate and pick off an exposed kazak team member, stripping the +3bs boost. The Hac tao comes around the building and picks off the other remaining guy out of cover. Feeling cocky, I push the attack on the Vet kazak who’s covering off my zuyong haris from advancing, but he successfully dodges my multirifle rounds and dips out of sight whilst retaining a bead on the zuyongs.
The tacaware HMG vows revenge for the havok wreaked on his suit’s paintjob and stands up to sling a burst at the vet kazak and promptly gets critted in ARO like a bitch 🙁
The hac tao takes a gamble, hoping the camo marker covering off the team would be a mine or a super long ranged weapon like an autocannon and pushes up to nanopulse the remaining link team members. The nanopulser takes out the vet kazak and a line kazak but the camo marker is actually vasilly t2 marksman, he promptly puts 2 wounds onto the hac tao. Dang. Play risky, get hurt i guess! For the second game in a row, my hac tao fails armour rolls on a 2 and dies.
With the central overwatch now lifted, the tacaware zuyong and Krit move up to take on the irmandinho in suppressive and he gets critted and hit and goes down like a bitch to AP rifle suppressive!!! The linked paramedic tries to heal at range but burst bonus works against him as he cancels his own success and then kills him off on 2nd attempt.
FML.
T2.
Command token use switches his specops over to main group and then the haido plugs the pair of irmandinhos in ARO on their impetuous orders.
With the hac tao now in danger of bleeding out, the spetsnaz arrives on my right flank and pushes an attack on my link team with an initial attack on my liaison officer but after a spate of good dice, all attacks are repelled or dodged and the spets goes down and stays down.
One of the camo markers starts to move up centrally and lines up on the linked Haido, putting him down and then critting the liaison with the next order.
Him and Vasilly co-ordinate to re-camo to end the turn.
YJ:
Its my 3rd game with the new faction and make a balls-up, treating the haido as true 2W and ressurect him with the paramedic, only realising the error at the end of the game. Its a bit of a game-swinger as he then discover-shoots the spetsnaz HMG, punching a hole for Krit to move up and supress the doors into the building where the tech coffin is and overwatches the tech coffin himself. The daoying uses his LT L2 orders to move up into a building ready for a run on the objectives in T3.
T3
Central camo token moves up and across the zombie haido’s LOF but he fails his discover. The camo token repositions for cover with 2nd short skill and then takes a pop at the haido, revealing as a scout ojotnik FO (liaison officer). The scout gets put down by the zombie Haido in ARO. A further Camo token climbs through the back window of the central tech-coffin building but the Zombie Haido fails his discover again. The sneaky camo token moves out of LOS to then come back to the tech coffin prone revealed as a strelok minelayer to allow him to control it.
YJ:
The daoying makes good use of his LTL2 orders and mov-movs then mov-interact to synce the left-most antenna. Krit drops his supressive and moves up to take on the strelok with his DTW, spending several orders but putting enough into it to kill it and mov onto the tech coffin to control it and secure HVT as well.
At this point I think i’ve secured a good solid win but passing through the units post-game we realise its been a big game-swinging error and the result is handed to my opponent.
Sorry guys! I hand my personal apologies to the emperor and beg for your forgiveness!!!