Asteroid Blues

The Oniwaban was concealed by the grey digger's rightmost rear tire, and Ariadna had the first turn.

As the Ariadnans advanced, a Dog Warrior and Irmandhino moved without any AROs possible against them, but when a Ratnik moved in sight of the O-Yoroi, the AP HMG fire was merciless, first damaging, and then disabling it over two rounds of fire.

However, a Veteran Kazak proved more fortunate, managing to avoid fire. At first his shots missed, but his second volley managed to inflict damage with the T2 rounds.

More fire from the Kazak eventually struck a key system, one round managing to strike through the cockpit armour and kill the pilot as the TAG exploded.

The Dog Warrior advanced, charging at the Keisotsu LT and the Daiyokai, managing to reach and wound the Superheavy infantry in Close Combat.

A Scout emerged from concealment, managing to fatally wound a Kempei, as the Irmadhino drew E/M grenades that he put to good use, isolating Yuriko Oda, the other Kempei, and the Keisotsu Datatracker.

The JSA counter began with Kuroshi managing to hit, but not damage, a Traktor Mul. The Daiyokai then struck the Dog Warrior with a crit hit, forcing him to transmutate.

Yuriko repaired her isolation and then attacked the Scout to no effect, as a Keisotsu moved to attack the Scout and Irmandhino, to no effect bar surviving a chain rifle hit.

Yuriko then managed to KO the Scout a few moments later.

As Ariadna kept up their advace, the Irmadhino managed to kill the Keisotsu with his pistol, as the Dog Warrior and Daiyokai fought on, the Dogface taking another wound before a round of fighting saw no effect.

The Irmahdhino, however, was KO'd by a crit ARO as he moved.

A Veteran Kazak and a Keisotsu began a series of firefights, the Keisotsu surviving three rounds unscathed thanks to misses and saves, only for his fourth round to see him felled... by the hull breach.

The Urugan Mul fired twice on Kuroshi, to no effect and then to her successful dodge.

It advanced as the Kazaks manage to kill Kuroshi with T2 rounds, and the Dog-Dai Afternoon continued nearby with the HI making a narrow save against a hit.

It was the JSA turn again, and Yuriko failed to reconnect the Kempei. The Oniwaban revealed himself but failed to harm the Mul, as the Daiyokai scored the winning blow in the brawl. The Oniwaban then died to a hit from the Urugan, whilst hitting a Dozer that narrowly survived his save. The Daiyokai, however, then KO'd the Mul as the Kempei laid suppression fire.

Ariadna reorganised their command structure to put all standing units in one group, as the Line Kazak LT moved out of the fireteam.

The Daiyokai dodged a Tank Hunter attack as the TAK Lieutenant pulled a flash pulse from a panoply, and the female Line Kazak pulled +4 ARM. The male failed to pull anything out, as the Veteran Kazak failed to harm the Daiyokai, but did score Net Undermine.

The JSA force, severely weakened and low in numbers, tried to fight on. The Kempeitai killed the unconcious Irmandhino, as Yuriko was killed trying to get into a new position to fire upon the enemy.

The Daiyokai ended the battle failing to harm a Veteran Kazak, but in the very final order, managed to NWI one and kill the Lieutenant, though the Tankhunter avoided harm.