Durgama Takeover

Vanilla PanO vs Steel Phalanx on TTS. East Coast USA vs West Coast Aus.

Running an irregular heavy list with Joanne v1, heavy hitters were going to be the Saint herself, Montessa on a bike with red fury, Bolt sniper, Order sergeant HRL, Beasthunter and Mendoza. Definitely had enough firepower and to be honest the list wasn’t a bad match up for a mimetism heavy SP.

Won the LT roll opted for deployment, things fell early off the rails at this point, hadn’t played PR in a long time and thought it had the same rules as the armoury being you had to open the doors not that they all started open. Had I realised this I would have been pointing a fair few more ARO’s at the door itself.

Opponent running a Myrmidon link with an officer and a hero link with Ajax, Hector et al, a couple of net rods and a TR bot. Myrm link made good headway into the Panic Room under cover of eclipse smoke, came out and smoked my Order Sergeant HRL in a FTF, this would have dire consequences later as the Auxbot disconnected.
First turn for me went great up until the last two orders, Mendoza did great work and with the Beasthunter destroyed the entire Myrm link, Heavy Shotgun’s in hit mode on a BS 14 model is real even against Mim-6. What cost me was a coordinated order to cautious move with the Beasthunter and Mendoza into the Panic room to avoid the HR bot. With two orders to go I moved the Beasthunter up and dropped a mine near the door. Forgetting that Hectors Plasma rife can shoot blast mode I moved Mendoza out to take a shot at him, Hector was at from memory about 9″ so I had misjudged that and in zero range took a Plasma to the face which also destroyed the Beasthunter and his mine.

As with all games of Infinity I have a PHD in hindsight, I should have moved the Beasthunter out with the last order who could have got base contact with Ajax, I I think it would be a safe bet he would have been shot to pieces coming out but I would have had my pick baiting them to get a good heavy flamethrower off but alas it wasn’t to be. Mendoza’s last order also provoked the dodge ARO for Ajax to get inside the Panic room and that was pretty much the game. Only other memorable moment was me pushing forward with a hail mary from Joan who got a bit close to the disconnected Auxbot, Hector lit up the Auxbot with four dice, Joan’s dodge got past two of dice but nuffed her saves against the other two and then it was a simple clean up operation from Mechmage who didnt have to worry himself with a final turn.

10-0 loss, definitely with an order or two go in my first turn felt like I was in a commanding position but them’s the brakes. Very well played to my opponent who was a pleasure to play against.