Asteroid Blues

Mission report №3##28#

Reporting character: Keisotsu forward observer

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This mission should be a regular escort. We only need to secure some forbidden quarry town.
@We choose to play on the 36×36 inches table, frosbite missions. Mostly for testing 36×36 table before ours local tournament for 200pts.@

I suspect something wrong when Shikami enables his optical disruptor and rush forward. At the second moment HMG guy get shot.
@Shasvstii player goes first. It’s hard to find LOF throu those buildings and i do fail at it sometimes. HMG Keisotsu died without any ARO. @

Then everything goes wild. I only see how Shikami disappear under the corner, when he reports multiple shasvastii encounters.
Oyama told us to hold positions and get those “Heat Beacons” ready.

@ First battle round end’s pretty boring i would say. My opponent was pretty new in this game, so he just took HMG guy, hack one console and run back to deployment zone. His last order set 3 nox troopers and Gwailo in to supress. But positioning was so bad, that shikami 1v1 2 of enemy’s nox troopers, and let Keisotsu enable 2 consoles and run away.@

Those things took so long to getting on, i cant even say where Oyama leave us with another Domaru and Tanko. Then so many things happens at same time…
Shikami reports that he get pinned by heavy fire, we lost tanko signature, and one of those things shot our doctor from the corner.
It want looks like an escort mission any more. We are not ready to fight those alien creatures.
I saw how 2 of my comrades becomes natural meat bags. Mighty and agile Shikami get down, i can bet that this hand in front of me, at middle of the road, beign a part of tanko’s suit a bit ago. I can barelly stand still at this moment.
@Round 2 Was much faster, maybe because shikami already bite enemy deployment. Actually, this shifty bastard dodges great. Almost every order being spent to shoot this shimmering heavy ninja. But 4 dices still better than one, shikami went unconscious. Both heat beacons set up, and my enemy got only 1 activated, so I tried to take control of the middle table part. Oyama only starts his massacre here, get in close combat and start working on Predator mission I got. Oh yea, Tanko just get every ARO he can when he run in with Domaru(haris) and Oyama. Second move is something both those guys actually need, so Tanko was sacrificed to the blood god.@
I remember some shooting and everything get silent. At the end Oyama, with Shikami on his shoulder, told us to regroup and retreat. Oyama looks like he saw some shit, get through and give no fucks about it. Even after killing 4 or 5 of those things, as he say, he went back to retrieve unconscious domaru.
@ Last turn was pretty fast, my opponent wounded Domaru, fails to get close to consoles, cause of angry Oyama that engages him, and evil Domaru that follows him with one dodge after another. By some luck This FO guy successfully flash aro couple times and survive Company Mentor shooting. But when my third turn starts, I got already frenzied Domaru and oyama, who just scream BERZERKER and put to end mostly every model my opponent had. Even after finishing third guy in melee Oyama don’t want to stop and destroy single activated heat beacon. @

There is no shasvastii alive at the end of the day. I belive I cn see Haqqislam troops at morning, but no one ever notice them###
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About 36×36 table. Totally worth it if you have a lot of terrain and melee oriented army. But we will use 48X36 cause its easier to place markers and most of our tables was 72×48.