Asteroid Blues

Our squad was supposed to ensure the safety of the retreat of other military units from the occupied sector. We are the last to leave. Not an easy task. The tension is growing, intelligence data is becoming sketchy, and responsibility is high.

At the moment when the last allied forces left their positions, we were attacked. Fighters who were the first to discover enemy forces reported the presence of JSA. Are these renegades of the Japanese, bribed by the Shaswast, or the Shaswast themselves under the guise of impersonation? I’m afraid that we will never know, but it’s not so important.

Almost immediately, artificial gravity systems began to fail. Intelligence received information about a violation of the integrity of the sector’s structures and serious malfunctions in the life support systems. But we face the challenge - we are responsible for the lives of the allies. We accept the battle in these difficult conditions!

Mission: Frostbyte.
I lose the roll and must place the troops first. After evaluating the position, I decide to play on defense. I give the first move to the opponent. I put the troops as safe as possible. To contain the onslaught will be Janissrary c Missile Launcher and Hafza Spec. Ops with Viral Sniper in Core. They should be helped by Warcor, Fanous and two Hafza fighters who used the Holoprojector and frightening the enemy.

The opponent puts his troops.
I aggressively set Hawwa AHD (camo1), control a position convenient for TAG and 1 Tanko model with Missile Launcher.
Opponent puts O-Yoroi on the hacker control zone. Bingo!

I understand that the battle will be difficult. The opponent’s army is not afraid of the cold, which means that he can ignore most of the conditions of the mission. However, it is enough for him not to let me grab the console. Аnd he will win.

1 turn.
The Daiyokai and two heavy foot soldiers of opponent moves along the left flank. They takes a position for fire on the Janissrar in the center. O-Yoroi comes out and fires on the Hafza Spec. Ops.

Several orders fail, but Hawwa successfully uses Oblivion, leaving the TAG in the Isolated state. Daiyokai attacks Janissrary c Missile Launcher and in several attempts inflicts 2 wounds (unconscious), while losing 1 wound. Continuing to attack, he shoots at the Hafza Spec. Ops., Loses a second wound, NWI. Keisotsu Engineer repairs O-Yoroi, which inflicts 1 wound to Hafza Spec.Ops (unconscious). Servant heals one wound in Daiyokai. The opponent’s move ends, my losses are small.
I will drop 2 Yuan to the opponent’s location, 1 to my rear. Then I am re-creating an Djanbazan-based core.

Yuan puts a smoke bomb under feet of Djanbazan and Djan with HMG destroys O-Yoroi in several bursts. After that, with the support of Hawwa, Djanbazan kills two Tanko c Missile Launcher. Bashi Bazouk appears near Daiyokai, lay a mine and dies. Yuan goes on a bold attack on Keisotsu, kills him, but dies from mines that Keisotsu installed earlier.

Servant treats one wound of Janissrar in unconscious state. I form a protective an Janissrar-based core. Djanbazan lay on the roof.

2 turn.
O-Yoroi Pilot kills Hawwa. Oyama on the second attempt kills Yuan nearby. JSA has few orders left, so Daiyokai attacks on his flank. He kills Janissrary, but Flash Pulse stops his further attack.

Haqqislam almost repeats his first move. Djanbazan-based core kills Daiyokai and O-Yoroi Pilot. I still did not protect my soldiers from the cold. And this means that I should not kill the opponent’s models, so as not to cause a state of "retreat". Leila Sharif runs to the center of the table to activate the console and secure the models into their deploy, but fails three times to try to do this.

3 turn.
JSA has 4 models. He spends his orders to mouve and lock in close combat my specialists, which can activate the console, but this plan is failed.

Djanbazan Datatracker activates 2 consoles and secure the Exclusion Zone, providing Haqqislam with a landslide victory (10:0).