Asteroid Blues

Turn 1:

With the first turn, and staring down a horde of impersonation and camouflage markers(no visible units on board), I had a lot of options for how I wanted to approach this situation. I used Sun Tze’s strategos level 2 to hold back two Guilang minelayers and then used their deployed mines to box in a camouflage marker and a impersonation marker I planned on discovering. I used my Krakot Renegade impetuous orders to advance them towards the center, and a Noctifer with a missile launcher blasted one Krakot and a holoecho of a Kanren to chunks of meat. This allowed my Daofei to spring around a corner and take out the Noctifer using his bullet advantage, with Camo, cover, and surprise shot making him a difficult target for the Noc to get a bead on. After the Noc fell, I used a Guilang to discover the impersonation marker and through a combination of combi bullets and the mine, took down Speculo #1.

Sun Tze tried to discover Speculo #2 within 8 inches. Failed on the first discover so that was that.

My second Guilang and Krakot when advancing towards two more camo markers. They managed to take out one, and then both fell prey to a Shrouded FO who was playing the liaison role. With the FO surviving alongside two kills to its name. I decided to spend my last order trying to take out the FO instead of coordinating re-camo. That was a mistake.

At the end of the top of turn 1, I had taken out 3 units and lost two of mine, and my units were out of position and primed for the aliens to take advantage of them. A Malignos approached and took out my last Guilang, a Shrouded with a boarding shotgun took down the Daofei in one shot, and my Krakot was swarmed, and despite valiantly dodging a multitude of shots – he was unable to watch his back and a sneaky Mentor came up and blasted him.

Turn 2:

Whereas I was in a bad position at the end of my turn, arguably my opponent left himself in a worse position due to his bloodthirst. However, I was down to a Zhanshi, a Kanren, and Sun Tze’s guidance. Oh yeah, and a Tiger Soldier loaded with a spitfire ready to roar.

The Tiger came down and chugged all 4 orders(3+strategos). 4 orders, 4 takedowns. The Mentor, a Caliban spitfire, the Shrouded FO, and a Shrouded AHD (who were all a part of the advance and murder the CA traitor that was my Krakot gang) Much like me, my opponent spent his last order for murder as opposed to coordinating a re-camo. His intelligence led him to think that I was stashing away a Ninja KHD, which didn’t concern him too much. The Tiger surprise made for a wonderful turn around and putting him in LoL.

Bottom of turn 2, my opponent was in LoL. He converted his orders to regular, and spent them on his Speculo Killer to take down Sun Tze who was staring it in the face. The Speculo managed to land two hits on Sun before falling to return shotgun fire. Whew. If Sun fell, I would have been in retreat. His last order was trying to have the Malignos do a classified objective and failing. While getting glued by a madtrap.

Turn 3:

Both advancing forces are decimated at this point, the Tiger mopped up some Shasvastii embryos that were littering the battlefield and marched to the farthest sector, prone on a ledge watching the last known CA survivor. On my opponents turn, the Shrouded boarding shotgun took a hail mary on the Tiger and gave its life trying,

Using my intel-com card, my Kanren + card managed to overtake the glued Malignos for the center, and while dominating all sectors and making my Liaison roll, the final score ended up 9-0 for the State Empire.