Asteroid Blues

"Orange six calling orange alpha. Nothing out here, like the last three times", reported sergeant Chiang grumbling. "orange alpha here, the heaters in sector 21 aren't responding for 40 minutes now." "And what's that to us? That is a job for the Sophotects. We didn't have any enemy activity in this sector for days now and with all necessary respect, we are freezing our asses of out here. " "You remark is received, orange six. Now proceed with the next checkpoint. The next report is scheduled in 10 minutes." "Confirmed, next report in 10 Minutes. Orange six out."
Chiang cut of his Comm and gasped in resignation. He would be glad if the patrol was over soon. The cold of void was unnerving despite his protective suit. Chiang quickened his steps as he advanced. As he rounded the corner of another storage building he glimpsed something in the distance. Was there a movement or just some reflection on the frozen gas on the surface of the asteroid? He signaled his comrades and advanced further. Maybe there was something out there after all.

I won initiative an decided to go first. I deployed my Crane /Celestial Guard Link Team in the Center of my deployment Zone and my Rui Shi along my more defensive troops on the flanks. My Bounty Hunter rolled a Flash Pulse on the Booty Table.

I had to cancel one of my Kuang Shi movement in the first turn, because i would have risked that my Linkteam could be hit by a rocket launcher template otherwise.
My right flank seemed like deadlook from the beginning because of two linked snipers on Haqq side and an Daikini sniper and the Bounty Hunter (which rolled an Flash Pulse) on my side. I decided to advance with my Linkteam unter the protection of a smoke screen. Unfortunately the Celestial Guard officer seems to be fresh from the training, because he had great problems operating the grenade launcer and needed three orders to deliver the nessesary cover. Finally the Linkteam was able to move in attack position. In the first excange of fire my Cran didn't hit the enemy and took a wound from the rocket launcher. In the second attempt he could neutralise the rocket launcher.
I didn't had many orders left in my main group so whent over to the Kanren in the second group. He advanced Forward and tried to engage one of the opponet fanous remotes but was caught by surprise by an Tuarg himself. Unter the cover of an additional smoke screen I could at last activate the console and pull him back behind a Building.
In his first round activated the console for himself and attacked my Linkteam with his Namurr and Mukhtar. As the dust settleed He had deactivated my Flash Pulse Bot an killed one of the Celestial Guards. My Kanren had managed to doge his attack so far.

At first I regrouped my linkteam with my lonely Celestial Guard. My Crane changed position and eliminated the Tuareg to claered the path for the Kanren. The Kanren rounded the table Building and engaged the the wounded Mukhtar in a template duel. Both troopers succeeded their armor rolls so I initiated another attack. In the end the Kanren was unconscious and the Mukhtar was gone. At last my Sophotect repaired my Flash Puls Bot. Unfortunate she used up three Command Tokens by doing so.
My Opponent starting to feel the loss of heavy weapons. He moved his Fasid on the other side of the Battlefield and tried to attack my troops on my left flank. Fortunately my Flash Pulse Bot stoped him after several orders. Then he cybermasked Leila Sharif and moved her closer to one of the remaining consoles.

In my last turn I tried to use my Zhanying Agent to activate another console. He reached it in a few orders but he could not manage to activate it in his remaining orders. (guys what's wrong with your delicate equipment today? That must have to do with this killer cold. Too thick glooves maybe). So the Celestial Guard had to do the job. I advanced into the exclusion zone and activated the console with my CG Hacker. I had two option now: Fall back or attack further. I decided to attack his linkteam and eliminated both snipers (double crit, yeah!). But in retrospective, it would have beeb better to fall back.
My opponent invested everything he had in his Fasid. This time my Flash Puls Bot wasn't able to stop his assault and was disabled in one volley. The Fasid advanced forward and enganged my linkteam in an intense firefight. He eliminated four members of the linkteam including the Crane in his relentless charge without taking a single hit! This assault secured my opponent not only the exclusion zone, but he managed to kill more army points also. In this way he had tuned the game around in the last turn and achieved the victory.

"Orange Alpha calling Orange six, I don't know what you are doing there but the heaters are reactivating, please report." Again there was no answer. He sweared that his Chiangs next assignment would be with the Wu Ming corps if he did not report immediately. Suddenly the static of the comm was brocken by a voice. "...repeat this ist Orange Six, we are under attack!" Chiangs voice was distorted like under the influence from some kind of jamming transmitter. "Are you sitting on your ears, Orange Alpha? We need reinforcements now!" "This is Orange Alpha, we hear you. Whats happening out there?" But this time he recived only static noise as an answer. An then there was only silence.