Asteroid Blues

Infinity

Hack the planet

300 POINTS
Nomads
gravitypool
VS NA-2
Rolc

Great day for a plague

This is a game of Biotechvore played against Rolc during the last tournament at Kekolandia, Barcelona.

He was playing Dashat and I was playing a crazy tunguska list I had built the night before in a rush.
I really hate Biotechvore because I love playing troops with structure so my train of thought was: let's put everything I can gather from nomads with the highest BTS.

Enter the Interventor

So basically I went crazy and decided to go for a full AVA list of Interventors. I also added Hecklers for extra area denial and access to FastPandas to increas the hacking range. As I was going all out with hackers, decided to go the extra mile and get me Mary Problems for the extra lulz, and a Szally for the punch and the extra killer hacker.

All in all 6 hackers in a 10 orders list. I was really hoping I didn't get paired with an Ariadna player.

View from the bromad side at the end of the first turn

Bromad turn 1 consisted basically on coordinating the hecklers out of the danger zone. And get sweet spots from where they could deter any possible advance from the mercs.
The Szally rolled out on the flank to remove the main enemy aro piece, a reaction bot, but the lucky bastard rolled 2 crits in a single roll. Getting the Szally almost killed by turn 1. Szally managed to get out of his firelane and pummel the Ruishi instead, removing it from the game.

The biotech ended up killing the EVO remote as the orders spent on the reaktion made it impossible to invest on moving the EVO upfield.

Szally moves under heavy enemy fire

Dashat turn 1
Dashat invested his turn in rolling out of the deployment zone. The liberto moved first to take on the szally with his shotgun, and the szally decided to flame the fish. Guess what? Another crit. 3 wounds on 3 crits and Szally was down without making a single armor roll in all the game. At least the liberto went down too (what a tradeoff, 90 points for a 9 points miniature...)

At this point McMurrough advanced to get some coup de grace classifieds on the poor szally.

Hacktung baby

Bromads turn 2
Mary tried several times to break the Brawler fireteam with her SMG but luck refused to be on bromad's side on this game. Decided to get me some objectives, one of the brawlers trew a fastpanda near the enemy reaction bot and my hacking might put him out of comission for some turns. The Interventor showed up out of McMurroughs range and the dog decided to smoke himself, taking the bait. I was not interested in him but in killing the immobilized reaction bot and hacking the HVT right behind the truck.

Dashat takes position behind the trucks.

Dashat turn 2
McMurrough jumped into the interventor and proceeded to move through the bromad flank, getting the jamming heckler.
As the Terracota link with valerya moved forward they faced all the hacking might of tunguska through the panda repeater, and Valerya ended up dying to skullbusting programs.
On the other side, the libertos sneaked on the Interventors and got a shot on one of the killer hackers and the second jammer.

Sneaky fish doing sneaky fish things.

Nomad turn 3
Down to 4 orders my only chance was to land a coup the grace to complete my third objective. However, the Libertos leave no corpse so he was a no-go. Still had to go through him to get me any other target. It was impossible though as it took me all four orthers to land a hit on the fish thing, ending all chances of bromad victory.

McMurrough secures the HVT

Dashat turn 3
With bromad resistance gone it was easy for the Ghulam medic to revive some troopers and McMurrough move up the field in smoke to secure the HVT.

In the end it was a 4-9 victory to Dashat mercs!

Final Thoughts

While the idea of a full interventor list seemed crazy at first I really liked how the list performed and I'm pretty sure the game would have gone in a very different direction if not for the 3 crits on the Szally on turn 1. With the amount of area denial the hecklers and pandas bring it's pretty hard to get close to the interventors themselves. Specially after the go into cybermask.

I wish someone at CB would read this and give us an Interventor Core for N4. If Bakunin has Custodier Haris, this should also be a thing!

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