Asteroid Blues

“I just feel a lot better with him around, you know?

Non-Lieutenant Rashida Ghali turned to Midhat. “I know what you mean. He's so... tall.”

“It's weird, I feel like we don't even need to pay attention while he does all the work!”

The nearby Khawarij looked over, lowering the barrel of his rocket launcher. “Now hold on, Midhat, we should still probably pay attention -”.

And then the world exploded.

- - - - -

RazorsEdge used a trick on me that I should have remembered – airborne troopers dropping on top of me and dropping a bag of hand grenades in the process. His two AD troopers landed on to of my fireteam and broke it in to pieces with those explosions. They did a bit of damage in return by both of those AD jerks had NWI and stayed standing.

FUN FACT: My fireteam was actually illegal because it didn't have any Ghulam in it, but since they never had any benefit from the fireteam composition mater it didn't have any affect on the game.

His sniper took a long-shot at the Khawrij with the rocket launcher and handily dropped him. He ended his turn not having scored any points, but cut my army directly in half.

On my turn, Tarik Mansuri swept backwards and took out the two AD troopers. He moved up the board with the intention of taking out the sniper and/or seizing the crate, but he ran out of orders.

At this point we realized that we couldn't score any of the face-up objective cards. The only one we could possibly score was the one that you got by dealing damage with a weapon of D13 or lower... and we all either had HMGs, sniper rifles, spitfires, boarding shotguns, or Fatality L1. We all had pistols, but we weren't going to start making 24-inch-range pistol shots.

On his next turn, he flipped a new card and revealed the do-damage-with-DAM 14-or-higher card, which I scored almost immediately with Tarik Mansuri in ARO. Shortly thereafter he got revenge by bringing Tarik Mansuri low with a concentrated blast of MK 12 fire. His turn ended with no points scored.

On my turn, I was up 1 – 0. I had two Khawrij left standing. One of them had Chain of Command, so in desperation to secure my lead I had him move up and try to take out the enemy LT. The enemy LT scored a crit, and down goes my LT and thus ended my final turn.

RazorsEdge then flipped one more card, and the objective now was get in to my deployment zone for a point. He then ran like Hell and managed to get in to my deployment zone, far away from where my last Khawarij could see him, and tied the game.