Asteroid Blues

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"Lead, kelpie. Ower many een oot thare; couldnae get close. Sorry."
"...Roger, Kelpie. Get ready to move up."

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"Reaper, we got eyes on a TR bot on the east flank. We need down, now!"
"Roger. Firing-ggrrk!"
"Lead, Band-Aid here. Bot tagged Reaper. Going to try and patch him up..."
*Russian swearing*
"What do you know, it worked! How you feeling soldier?"
"Like your mother when I was done with her last night."
"He's fine."

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"We still got that TR bot to deal with. Bearach, Blue Raider, take care of it!"
"Roger. Throwing smoke to cover Bearach's approach."
"Thanks. Movin' tae engage! Ah, crap..."
*Gunfire, then roar o pain*
"Alricht ye pile o' bolts. A got ye this time!"
*Gunfire an explosions*
"Crazy SOB! At least he died the way he lived: Screaming while blowing things up. TR bot is down. Holding position."

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"Damn, can't see them! Any one got eyes on the heavy rocket?"
"Hit the deck, incoming!"
*Various screams of pain*
"Hold position! Hold position! We need to stand our ground!"

Aleph wins the roll-off, and forces Ariadna to deploy first. In a fatal error, I elect to go first as well. Uxia fails to infiltrate, so I decide to use the Spetsnaz to surprise attack the TR bot. Rolling on 5's, the bot scores a crit on the Spetsnaz. The paramedic is able to revive him, but wary of an identical outcome, I move the Irmandinho and Dog-Warrior to attack the bot. The first attempt results in being just shy of chain rifle range, and the dog-warrior takes a critical hit from the TR bot, but avoid any more wounds. He advanced once more, successfully wounding the bot with a grenade, but falling to the fusillade of fire from the other Aleph forces.

Aleph's first turn saw the elimination of the majority of the Ariadna forces. A crit downed the Uragan Traktor Mul, and another crit down the Spetsnaz and paramedic for good. A sensor bot was able to reveal the chasseur and his mine.

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"Blue Raider, see if you can get the Mul back online. We need the all the support we can get!"
"Roger, Lead. Moving to repair...repairs successful! Traktor Mul back online!"

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"Team, got word of an info drop nearby. Moving to investigate!"

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"Lead, under fire! Need back-up, repeat, need *splrch*"

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"Lead, what are you doing! We're getting slaughtered out here! We need to get out while we ca-hrk!"

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"Aaaaaah! I'm fire! Someone put me out! Someone put me out! Aaaaaaah!"

The Irmandinho was able to repair the wounded Traktor Mul to provide some desperately needed overwatch. Vassily then moved up to try and contest the center, while the rest of the team milled about.

Aleph spent its turn eliminating the remaining Ariadna forces, save for Vassily himself.

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"Van Zant, you're our ace-in-the-hole! Drop the bot!"
"Roger. Engaging sensor bot...bot disabled."

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"Damn, this was a charlie foxtrot. HQ, get O-12 on the line and find out what the hell Aleph was doing in our Operational Area! The data we've gathered better be worth it."