Asteroid Blues

Infinity

Rumours of hull breach greatly exaggerated

300 POINTS
Yu Jing
East of Irem
VS NA-2
Veonix

Under the harsh artificial glare of the floodlit tunnel compound the forces of yu jing perform their usual patrol. The nearby police station has a strange history: a relic from the caravansary of the Aal’ cowha group, purchased in a bulk lot by ji yuan unlimited some years earlier after some minor law and order issue (dealt with by plentiful yu jing security forces). It has seen heavy use dealing with any unco-operative mine wrokers. As such it is a rare secure location at the quarry buried in a maze of tunnels adjascent to the pit. (we forgot the hull breach scenario rules)

Mid patrol our plucky yu jing troopers encounter the Soldiers of fortune, wary but confused by the presence of such famous personalities in the company of a kriza boracs and panoceanian ORC we give up first turn and return fire desperately as they launch the attack against the police station.

Powerful foreign co link moves towards the market, the famous people hide in the building on the left whilst the ORC fires his feuerbach at anything moving (unlucky kuang shi).

Foreign co moves up the ORC & team a little but ends up holding ground on the edge of their deployment causing minor damage and failing a discover against a far distant camo marker (lunah). The Kriza goes on a rambo run which unfortunately meets with little success. To try and break the deadlock a zero minelayer moves up to see left flank kuang shi, failing 3 combi shots, the zero proves to be within chain rifle range and goes down...
Rough turn for Foreign co

Kriza goes on a rambo, knocking down our celestial guard and going after the tenacious husong. Follwing 3 saves against the HMG our husong only goes down at the end of turn 1 after 4 regular orders & the Lt order; in the end it is his data tracker order that gets the job done with a double crit.
Guijia hunts down the kriza with his multi hmg from extreme range.

I am a couple of orders down and feel cautious, cancel an impetuous and move up carefully, my leftmost kuang shi gets the chance to do extremis recovery against the unlucky zero and pulls off the WIP roll easily. Next up is the Guijia, one order puts me in LoS of the kriza, we are both out of cover at 33" and though the guijia wins the F2F roll the kriza can get into cover, making it flat rolls for bohtof us on the next activation. I fix my damaged huson and drop in my lui xing from the second pool down into the for co DZ (with a bit of help from my 2 LT orders to get assisted drop and a re-camo). Lui xing fires his multi rifle but cant damage either the warcor or the kriza (who shot in the back from ~16") and gets blinded for his trouble. Oh well... the guijia will spend a couple of orders doing it the hard way, duely grinding the kriza datatracker into paste with the multi HMG. I pull the guijia datatracker up just into my left quarter to score points (avoiding that ORC feuerbach), dropping suppression fire. The husong moves up to take hits for the guijia, with kuang shi (some blinded) securing both foreign co right quarter and my right quarter, Foreign co hold only their left side quarter.

Yu Jing scores three zones at the end of round 1. Guijia data tracker in suppression fire holds my left quadrant.
Kuang shi scores in extremis recovery on the zero he knocked down with his chain rifle.

Sadly turn 2 foreign co will be the last turn due to some time constraints. Peacemaker armbot spitfire moves to remove the madtraps deployed around the station, clearing only one in the end with his auxbot, shredding a monk near my guijia (smoke thrown on to my tag fails... I fear the ORC...) However major lunah reveals, challenging her old arena competitors, firing a perfect shot across the market wrecking the peacemaker into the bargin...
Hanibal is unimpressed, hes hired the best, code dive: oscar the orc blast that sniper! Lunah will not be joining us for the post match tea and medals...
Following this success the team advances lead by oscar (oscar the unglued is immune to madtraps, we are all interested in how this man achieved the perfection of plot armour) engages the guijia, causing some damage, somewhat freaked out by the hardcore heavy the pilot backs her machine off. Senor massacre however draws some heat advancing carelessly, a liberto targets him with an improvised explosive device...
Hannibal has none of it and uses his chain of command to personally intervene against the slippery fishman, code: blitz oscar the orc is required to put down the resistance. Foreign company are all over us! Valkyrie is mere inches from our guijia with only the husong between them and close combat mayhem. Laxmee has ZoC on my rooftop Daoying hacker Lt (who studiously did not ARO), impetuous orders will see many of my troops cast their lives into the guns of professional killers... What now?

Liberto makes massacre explode with his DEP, but dies to the pistol of the ORC in return.

'Hey you, yeah you! on top of the police station, I know you're there; what are you playing at?'
Hannibal yelled loudly
'Do you want your free autograph from the greatest most talented aristiea! squad in the sphere....
This is your last chance!'
A wedge shaped black & green helmet popped out from the rooftop.
'Did you say free autograph?' yelled back the yu jing officer
'Yeah free autographs all round we'll throw in a gorgeous selfy of yourself with the team once massacre is... errr back from his 'nap'

....and so the soldiers of fortune 'surrendered' at the jiyuan police station, enjoying perhaps the best hospitality to be found in this terrible void mine.
'I love it when a plan comes together'

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