Fought At Xiāndăo Neosteelworks: Main Furnace
647 days 22 hours 26 minutes ago
Who let the dogs out to Rush B?!
View Linked Report - CLICK HERE 150 POINTSWith a small Ariadnan team getting the element of surprise while conducting an incursion into the Xiandao furnace, the Yu Jing commander makes a critical mistake based on his ignorance of Ariadnan unit types, which eventually results in a crushing victory!
The Yu Jing and Ariadna Commanders roll off and the Yu Jing player gets it. He chooses first turn. The Yu Jing commander considers using his Liu Xings to immediately wreack havoc in the enemy deployment zones and spots the dog-warriors, which he has no experience with. He imagines that these units likely are the real players in the enemy team apart from the many camo tokens, which are probably decoys/three-card-monty stuff. Since he can’t drop a Liu Xing on a camo marker intentionally, he thinks it probably is best to try and see if he can take out the dog warriors. This turned out to be a mistake. Now, he knew it would be less than ideal odds, but sadly did not know about the shapeshifting after taking a point of damage. This meant that though the Liu Xing’s took out a line khazak standing with the two dog warriors, both the Liu Xing’s died and it took almost the entire first turn for Yu Jing. With the Yu Jing commander now on the back foot, the Ariadna commander chooses to advance rather recklessly, resulting in one dog warrior feeling the power of a 4-man fireteam and getting annihilated. Afterwards, he goes for a more careful approach, using smoke and trying to eliminate the Zhencha placed in a reasonably annoying position. This takes the rest of his turn and he fails to eliminate it, but the Zhencha is in NWI. Now, with relatively few options available and a Zhencha stuck in melee, the Yu Jing commander takes reasonably desperate measures, and loses the Zhencha in prolonged melee. He does get one Strelok FO eliminated, but at the cost of one now precious Zhanshi going unconscious, given the diminishing forces at his disposal. For the second Ariadna turn, the Ariadna commander introduces a nasty surprise in the form of a Spetznaz, deployed to flank the remainder of the fireteam. The YJ commander had hoped to use the Zhanshi paramedic to regain some strength, but the flanking Spetznaz ends that hope summarily, and spends the rest of the turn eliminating all but the Zhanshi LT. On the third Yu Jing turn, very few options are left, and he chooses to try and get some melee with the Spetznaz. Sadly, it eventually fails and the game ends in an Ariadnan victory.
Ariadna brought:
Line Kazakh LT
Line Kazakh
Strelok K-9
K-9 Antipode
Strelok FO
Spetznaz Boarding Shotgun
Dog Warrior x2
Yu Jing Brought:
Zhanshi LT
Zhanshi Paramedic
Zhanshi regular x2
Zhencha FO SMG
Liu Xing Boarding Shotgun
Liu Xing Hacker Boarding Shotgun
The Yu Jing commander for their efforts got 1 objective point in this game of Annihilation
The Ariadna commander got with along with their victory 9 points for their efforts in this game of Annihilation.
YJ deployment
The Yu Jing commander deploys his forces as shown above, with two Liu Xings awaiting opportunistically off the board.
Ariadna T.A.C. Deployment
The Ariadna commander deploys his forces as shown above,
with the Streloks hiding behind the black rectangle in the middle and behind the wall in the center-line in the map,
with the other silhouettes being either decoys or the K-9 Antipode (the large camo token).
YJ Turn 1:
The Yu Jing commander misjudges the situation, thinking that getting rid of the dog warriors with the Liu Xings would be a boon.
What he doesn't realize due to his inexperience with Ariadna, is that the dogs shift and suddenly get two more wounds.
This costs him the Liu Xings, but they do sadly still get a line khazak eliminated.
Ariadna Turn 1:
The Ariadna commander spends this turn moving up one dog warrior, only to meet an untimely demise at the hands of a four-man fireteam and their many shots.
Afterwards, the second dog warrior moves more cautiously with smoke, but fails to yeet the Zhencha, though it does put him into NWI, while sadly getting a wound on itself.
YJ Turn 2:
The Yu Jing commander spends this turn shooting at the Strelok, resulting in one dead Strelok FO and one unconscious Zhanshi.
The YJ commander sadly does have a paramedic, so barring any sudden ambush, there is a good chance of recovery.
Ariadna Turn 2:
And here comes the Vietnam-esque ambush, with a Spetznaz walking onto the board and starting to systematically eliminate the hapless Zhanshis.
In the end, only the Zhanshi LT remains by the end of the turn.
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NosferatuWickedWins
Very fun report, the State Empire will rise!
Nice TTS map, great match.
Good job commander.
Honestly, such a big mistake on my part. I really should have gone for the line khazak in the corner. But that’s on me for not knowing what the dog be doin?