Asteroid Blues

Zhanying lieutenant Yang was thirsty – but he didn’t realize A.I’s drank!

Yu Jing Deployment:
The Yan Hao deploys on the right with a bao as his bodyguard. The hsien and zhang hold the rooftops. The crane (data tracker), zhanying(lieutenant), another bao and wild bill all took the left. The kanren deployed midway up the field in holoEcho and dropped a sniffer with minelayer and the tiger was set aside to combat drop later.

Aleph deployment
The dakini-Deva 5 man link (with Deva lieutenant) deploy on the right in some ruins; along with the EVO probot. The HVT (red silhouette) goes near the bar in the midline and the danavas and aspira take the roofs staying out of sight. A very blurry photo shows the sophotect prone on the roof next to the netRod with an Arjuna and kiranbots holding the house in front. Finally a Daleth rebot and wild bill take the left flank. Finally 2 camo markers were dropped around midway on the left amongst the gardens.

Yu jing Active turn 1:
The right hand bao scoots around the yan hao to discover the closest camo marker – unfortunately he’s misjudged the distance and when the mine goes off he fails a dodge to turn into a smear on the yan haos armor. The yan hao then peeks the opposite corner and sprays the Arjuna hittin with a crit and two more the Ajuna is shocked to dead and takes the kiranbots off the table with him. The yan hao repeats this trick against wild bill; and after 2 orders manages to put the cowboy out to pasture. Then things start to go wrong a coordinated move leaves the crane and wild bill together near the hvt in LOS to a linked dakini with a grenade launcher. The crane and bill dodge but the HVT goes to unconcious. I use another coordinated move to break LOS only to move too close to the bars door giving ANOTHER dakini with a LGL a chance to splat the crane and bill. A third coord move is required this time putting the crane past the door but bill finally fails a dodge and goes down. A total of 5 grenade ARO’s without a response not great…. The kanren scoots up the road to get a shot at the HVT and puts him unconcious. And the yan hao shuffles back towards my deployment to avoid the camo marker on his flank.

ALEPH Active turn 1:
The kanren has to pay for taking out the HVT so a dakini LGL drops a template on top of his middle holoEcho. Only one hologram manages to dodge and the kanren himself falls dead. The hackers get to work putting on cyber masks. Then the sophotects yud bot goes on a heroic run to try and revive the HVT before taking a bullet from the Zhanshi on the roof. Then a rain of speculative grenades falls onto the hapless yu jing resulting in a wound on the crane. The camo marker on the right moves towards the yan hao, prompting the zhang to go prone. The marker moves to the corner and drops a mine at the edge withing LOS of the yan hao. Then the revealed Naga moves to the corner and shoots the yan hao provoking an ARO pistol. The pistol shot cancels the Nagas only success but the yanhao then fails his armor roll for the mine. Finally the Garuda tac bot drops on the left looking to spitfire the lieutenant but drops in LOS to a Bao. The bao’s shotgun puts the tacbot out of commission before it can do any mischief.

Yu Jing Active turn 2:
With only 6 orders yu jing efficiency was going to get tested. The last command point went to a coordinated move and shoot with the intention of clearing out the NAGA. The zhanshi moved up to get LOS while the hsien and bao shuffled on the left. The yan hao was the spearhead and shot with his pistol due to range. The result was a dead yan hao and a NAGA still annoyingly in my back line. The Hsien took an order to spray HMG at the problem and it solved itself. Then the crane moved around the right side of the bar and got two nano pulsars on the unconcious HVT. Suddenly Yu jing was up 3-2! finally the tiger soldier dropped onto the field to hold the right behind the deactivated rebot.

ALEPH Active turn 2:
The core link is about to enter the fray. Moving forward the link continued to put grenades down around the crane who thanks to lucky rolling and kinematicka was able to get back outside and around the corner to safety. The link then spec fired grenades at the zhanying and bao who had hidden behind the same generator. After 2 orders the baos luck ran out and 1 more put the zhangying lieutenant down as well. Aleph lead 3-6. The link then broke and with a coord order the combi rifle dakini and the Deva were put on suppressing fire.

Yu Jing Active turn 3:
if 6 orders was a test – 4 is gonna be a puzzle. With no lieutenant, command passes to the Hsien. He proceeds to hide in a corner of my deployment. The only play that makes sense is bringing the tiger soldies accross to shoot his Deva in the spine as he’s suppressing down range. The result is the sophotect dodging to stand as I walk within her ZOC and the sophotect going NWI and turning to face. Doubling down i throw the tiger foward to use its flame thrower but the Deva manages to dodge while the sophotect shoots and misses. Running low on orders I throw away the crane in a suicide run putting down a nano pulsar on the DEVA and one across the supressing Dakini. The Crane is shredded ala that scene in platoon while accomplishing approximately…. nothing. BTS rolls save what dodges don’t.

Aleph Active turn 3:
Lighter on orders but still dangerous the sophotect shoots down the tiger soldier from behind before repairing the probot who trundles unopposed down field to find my hsien tucked in a corner with his back to a gap to shoot through. The probot puts the Hsien down – not affecting the score line but hurting yu jing pride.