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♬ Now Playing: Metal Slug 3 - Into the Cosmos
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Acquisition of control of the Zebu Centre and the rescue operations for Ensign seemed to be successful for now. However, We received transmission that the Combind Army's offensive has begun again and has already occupied the Comms module. DSPD, Deep-Space patrol division gets no time to take a break and goes into orbit to aid the human forces...
As soon as they entered the Raveneye comms room area, Shasvastii was a member of the enemy.
I won the initiative roll.
I chose to attack first to prevent the opponent from setting up his defense.
The Shasvastii Expeditionary Force of Combined Army, who was high-spirited, chose wherer to deploy and decided to DEPLOY FIRST.
He revealed the three-man team featured by Nox with MSR.
It was an unacceptable situation for our pride and the peace of the Human Sphere to be defeated.
My turn:
Spread the smoke screen with the right Varangian at the front, and Epsilon advances to shoot down the most threatening ARO piece, Nox sniper, and shoots HMG under cover.
However, the results were not satisfying.
The Nox sniper not dead yet hides behind the full-cover. It's a disappointing result, but I approach the console to hack the console with a Beta hacker to take advantage of the loosened overwatch. The opponent activates the pre-installed boobitrap. Beta is swept away by a viral mine and fails to hack into the console.
As my regular orders becomes running out, I considered whether to continue to attempt console hacking or to increase the viability of Epsilon and other forward troops in my reactive turn and expect later, and then I select the latter and my forward troopers entered Suppresive-fire state using with Coordinated Order.
In the meantime, a HMG remote on the left highland of the deployment zone captures Aida Swanson hiding, and succeeds in getting rid of her by attempting to fire.
Opponent's turn:
As if to ridicule this choice, Nox sniper, who was hiding, appears again wearing a cover, and shoots a Beta hacker. The Beta hacker's main weapon was SMG, so it was too poor to gunfight the sniper. He tries to get out of the crossfire, but is eventually defeated helplessly on the spot.
At that time, a Cadmus inside a cocoon in the blind spot of the O-12 force appeared, getting out of its cocoon. Then he starts targeting Epsilon and other frontline agents. Eventually, Cadmus was neutralized, but agents such as Epsilon fell into a critical state.
From the first round, Taigha creatures' offensive had continued from both sides, but HMG Remotes defended well.
My turn:
Gangbuster, who remained in the center, attempted to hack against enemy HVT for Classified Mission ESPIONAGE, but it was ineffective. Since he was also a hacker, he thought about trying to hack the console, but he chose to discover a camo marker that are believed to be Caliban and engage them, but he faced limitations. He becomes unconscious to Kaliban, who responded by coming out and firing back.
Agent Nyoka, who found a route from outside the station for a flanking strike, arrived. As she climbed onto a structure near the enemy's DZ, her sight captured members of his fireteam, though not Nox sniper. She shoots a heavy rocket launcher and turns the place where the firepower team is into a scorched earth.
When the area around the central console is cleared, a hidden Maligno hacker appears and starts hacking the console. The hacking was an easy success.
Among the servers O-12 force saved, They found a location of the server with Rogue AI.
My opponent also launched an offensive with the Kaliban, which had hidden with Spitfire. It knocked down the gangbuster that was waiting in the center without much difficulty and removed the HMG remote that was guarding the right side. When the obstruction is no longer present, Caliban penetrates into the DZ of O-12.
Then a blast came from a structure near the our server.
The opponent achieved 50% of the progress of the classified mission: SABOTAGE.
My turn:
To avoid my defeat from Shasvastii, I had to achieve at least a classified mission or hack the console to earn one victory point. The former was impossible because all my hackers were all unconscious, so the specialist Beta, who had been waiting all time, reached the console and succeeded in hacking, but was destroyed by Nox sniper, who was overwatching that way. The O-12 builds a server defense line by gathering up leftover orders like crumbs…
Opponent's turn:
Sargosh, the last card on Enemy's hands, is activated. Nyoka, who was watching over it, quickly aimed at the heavy rocket launcher and tried to launch it, but considered it difficult to c, so she decided and succeeded to roll over and avoided shooting the MULTI rifle. Sargosh was able to keep stealthy, so he advances toward the server guarded by the O-12 without being discovered again by Nyoka, who is under cover.
Sargosh approaches the server with a grim smile.
At that time, the E/M mine pre-installed by the RavenEye Officer takes a turnaround blow.
Sargosh gets caught up in electromagnetic pulses and goes into Isolated state!
As a result, Sargosh failed to destroy the server, and each player succeeded a console hacking, ending the match in a 1:1 draw. The O-12 force, which ran out of cards in his hands, miraculously avoided defeat by blocking Shasvastii, who still had one card left.
- O-12 is basically an all-rounder army which has object-oriented models. In other words, when you not order models not to participate in the role they are best at, the snowball will gradually roll against you. Don't forget this even the situations are getting out of hands.
- If you wanted to take the initiative in missions such as Mindwipe, or Unmasking, make sure to think turning on the central objectives as top priority.
Thank you for reading!
(-IMO if Nyoka origianlly had parachutist, it would be very powerful.)
Excellent report and choice of music!
A draw on this mission means the fight was hard. Must have been a lot of fun !
Closely fought, Commander.