Asteroid Blues

Infinity

Operation: FACE-TO-FIST STYLE

300 POINTS
Haqqislam
thepoorman
VS ALEPH
Shamash

"the asimo robot is full of rats. nobody ever washes it" -wint (@dril)

Lieutenant Rashida Ghali lay motionless against the wall, a bloody hole in her torso seeping blood. Breath-of-Life-002 rounded the corner at full speed and skidded to a stop in front of her. It dropped to its knees in front of her and focuses its optics on injuries.

Breath-of-Life-002 used its right arm to steady itself, digging in to the rocky ground, and its left arm moved towards the wound. Various needles and suture-torches extended from their casings and it inserted its hand in to the wound and began its work.

The Lieutenant's body gave a sudden jerk, and Breath-of-Life-002 detected a sudden decline in her vital signs. New orders entered its robotic mind as this information filtered to its controller. It pulled its hand back and retracted the needles and suture-torches, turned its hand 90 degrees to the left, and extended a vice-like tool-set. Its right hand dug deeper to give it better purchase, and it moved its hand instead to the base of the Lieutenant's neck to carry out its new orders: Cube retrieval.

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This was an absolutely brutal game and by all rights should have been a victory for Shamash. I took an early and, ultimately, insurmountable lead by scrambling out to be in proximity to all four objective markers. Shamash then went on a incredibly bloody rampage with his Marut, who stomped around the table like Godzilla. It easily slaughtered half of my models, including my Lieutenant.

He moved his Marut towards my remaining models, and I wound up having a Khawarij close to base contact with a successful Engage. The Marut tried twice to slaughter the Khawarij with a CC Attack, only to lose both F2F rolls and fail both ARM saves. Not what either of us expected.

On my turn, the Khawarij did finally die when it failed to disengage from the Marut. The two remaining Khawarij used a coordinated order to catch the Marut in a crossfire, bringing the robotic terror down. This victory was slightly tainted by one of the Khawarij being annihilated by the Marut's ARO, though.

I basically won by head-butting Shamash in his swinging fist.

Battlefield shot.
Team photo! I failed to get one of Shamash's troops. Once again I'm proxying Mukhtar.
First blood! It's hard to see the angle from the overhead shot, but the Khawarij in the bottom blasted the Naga with his heavy rocket launcher.
The Marut was able to draw a bead on the lead Mukhtar, and handily slaughtered him in the ensuing gunfight.
The Marut rounds the corner and exchanges fire with the Zhayedan LT, laying her low with its heavy flamethrower. I really thought suppressive fire with a breaker rifle would work better.
The Marut approaches my remaining troops and, once again, gets some good use out of its heavy flamethrower.
The Marut jumps down, and the Khawarij engages.
I win the CC with a 17! The Marut takes a wound!
I win another CC with a 19! So close to a crit! And the Marut takes another wound!
On my turn the Khawarij tried to disengage so that I could shoot the damn thing and failed, finally getting cut in half by the Marut.
Meanwhile, my luck continued to be lousy when my Ghulam Doctor (and new LT) failed to heal the Zhayedan.
The Khawarij catch the Marut in a coordinated crossfire, bringing it low at the cost of the Khawarij Doctor.
My final objectives.
And Shamah's final objectives. A clear victory for me.
My only survivors.
Cat tax!

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