Asteroid Blues

Infinity

The Grind

300 POINTS
ALEPH
Shamash
VS Yu Jing
RazorsEdge

Shakti laughed as she sprinted between buildings in the Gorge, the still air whipping through her hair as Chandra and Damayanti struggled to keep up behind her. A hand-me-down though it may be, her Bodhisattva LHost was pure joy to inhabit. Her steps were lighter, even as her tank-like weight crushed the stones beneath her feet; the Spitfire in her hands was light as a feather, even as she sprayed lead at the representatives of the latest spot of annoyance. She was mighty! She was invincible! She was truly a perfect immortal machi

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So this one was a bit of a grind, which was not helped at all by my undercaffienated brain being effectively switched off tonight. I think RazorsEdge might have been a -titch- frustrated with my constantly staring at the measurey stick trying to remember how numbers work! I won entirely based on a good TACOS draw and being marginally less miserable at rolling dice. Marginally.

The team!
One-half of deployment, with Hypatia ready to run for objectives, should they come up. For most of the game, they did not.
The Asura-Deva fireteam stares down a camo-marker.
This Zensha Forward-Observed Shakti for a quick TACOS card, then shot at her with an SMG to try and claim a second. Asuras have ARM 5, and she was in cover. Of -course- she went down.

A Hulong and a Shenji (spelling?) moved up as well, on and around some stairs to the left of the above pictures. Beth, the Marut, wanged a few shots at them ineffectually. Tai Sheng took a single step on the other end of the board; Beth was no longer inaccurate.

My turn opened with the Yudbot getting Shakti back on her feet, and one of the Devas Fairy Dusting her for a point. Beth finished off Tai Sheng, but caught a sniper bullet. Shakti gunned the Zensha down and her newly-reformed fireteam moved up between the buildings to the people lurking on the stairs.

Perfect supersoldier. Optimal range. No cover. Of -course- she died. In revenge, Beth stomped forward and shot the sniper and another Zensha.
In Loss of Lieutenant, RazorsEdge couldn't do much other than put people into Suppressive Fire. For my own turn, I drew two 'control the console' TACOS cards. Hypatia jogged over to get one, and Beth popped her Karkata to grab the other. It took so many tries, I had -just- enough orders left to get her back into her body.
RazorsEdge -almost- came back to force a draw - a Hulong shot down a Yudbot for a pair of cards. But this Shenji ran up first and got shot by Beth, and the objective card from that cinched it for me.

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