Asteroid Blues

Infinity

Operation: IMPLACABLE ROBOT FOE

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Haqqislam
thepoorman
VS ALEPH
Shamash

"a dumpster within a dumpster, once in a lifetime find, can be used as Armor or rolled down a steep incline to make A TON of noise" -wint (@dril)

Lieutenant Rashida Ghali stared long and hard at the young, bearded face in front of her. She did her best to ignore the disbelieving stares of Jamila and Hamdan behind the man. With a sigh she raised her goggles to her forehead.

“Let me get this straight. You're a journalist.”

The man, Munir something-or-other, nodded. “Yes ma'am!”

She let the “ma'am” wash over her.

“And you're here on this godforsaken asteroid to, what, capture footage of the fighting?”

“Yes ma'am! Viewers all over the Human Sphere want to see the brave soldiers of humanity fighting back against the alien menace!”

He was too keen, and it was driving her crazy. “OK. Well, the alien meance in this case is going to look an awful lot like Dakini Tacbots. Just stay near Zaki over there.”

Munir looked longingly over at the hulking Maghariba Guard. “I'd rather stay closer to that, ma'am.”

“Absolutely not. That thing is a bullet attractor. Stay with Zaki, stay low, and don't do anything unless we tell you to, got it?”

“Yes ma'am! I hope I get some good footag!”

- - - - -

I got this game off to a great start, moving my Khawarij up along one flank and blasting apart a Yudbot, Sophotect, and a Deva Hacker. I had Shamash locked in a classic pincer: if he moved forward, the Maghariba Guard and the Al-Fasid would deliver punishing heavy hits. If he moved towards the Khawarij, he would take a bunch of AROs directly to his face. Perfect.

Then it all went wrong.

The Marut died, which was nice. It moved up and blasted the Khawarij with a heavy flamethrower and died in the process. But the Marut had already killed the Maghariba Guard (which wouldn't hit or make an ARM roll successfully) and then the Al-Fasid fell to the Dakini fireteam. Despite knocking him in to Loss of Lieutenant I was too short on orders and achievable objective cards to take advantage of it.

Shamash put his fireteam back together and just rampaged, the Dakini doing a shocking amount of damage for such spindly little dink-a-trons. I put all his success on the fact he got the newer, beefier Dakini models, since the Dakini have never done any good prior to this.

It was only a narrow victory, though, but a firm one – 4 points to my 3.

The battlefield.
The damn windows fell out of this dusty futuristic taxi.
Team photo!
The implacable hordes of the robo-tyrant ALEPH.
An amazing start. The Khawarij were able to move unmolested up this whole side of the board and cleared it out entirely.
A good start!
Then the Maghariba Guard forgot that it was covered in armour plating and decided to have itself a little lie-down.
The Al-Fasid also fell over and had a nap.
Uh-oh. Here she comes.
That could've been *worse*. One dead Marut for only one actually-dead Khawarij and one unconscious one? Not bad.
Then the Dakini started, like, landing hits. Shamash has discovered the joys of a fireteam.
But as long as I can get the Maghariba Guard back on its feet I'll be OK and oh no never mind I rolled a 16 and blew it up. Hurray.
OK, well, if I can slice this pie I can recover from that beating and oh no never mind I just took a bunch of crits to the face. That's fine. This is fine.
The as-yet-unpainted Zhayedan LT spent five orders firing at this Deva, who shrugged it all off. I either missed or she dodged or both. If I killed her, it would've wound up as a draw game at *worst* for me.
The Dakini fireteam drew a bead on the Nasmat and annihilated it with a burst of HMG fire. This kind of robot-on-robot violence is disgusting.
My final objective points. A strong early lead but then no follow-up.
And Shamash's final objectives. He scored the last two destroying the Nasmat, so he took the lead and won the game. A damn close one with a lot of shifting luck on both sides. Fun game!
Cat tax! Greg wanted to be involved.

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