Durgama Takeover

Infinity

There was a Firefight

150 POINTS
Nomads
Sheldon
VS Ariadna
Uman
For the Boondock Saints Fans

Sebastian looked over the small group of soldiers given to his command. It wasn’t a force of quantity, but there was quality, and they were Corregidor. Between his own Brigada armour and the heavy support of Alessandra’s EVA rig, they should have the edge in most scraps. He hadn’t worked with the Intruder Boris Petriv before but the commandoes rarely failed to evidence their reputation, and Boris had insisted on bringing that great bloody machine gun along. The group was rounded out by an ever reliable squad of Alguacils who spoke with a familiarity that suggested they had worked together for years.

The briefing was simple, a small group of Ariadnan soldiers were trying to slip in and poach supplies from a remote corner of the weapons storage that the Nomads had thought to be locked down. There must have been a miscommunication as the briefing also suggested there were patches of jungle in the ship, someone had screwed up a translation, but they were ready for anything.

A small battle between me and a mate. Both newish to the game, although he is newer than me. Jungles in the ship sounded daft to both of us, so we replaced them with Zero G zones instead.
Nomad Classified Objectives: Identity Check, Telemetry, Sabotage.
Ariadna Classified Objectives: Predator, Extreme Prejudice, 2 X Not possible
Ariadna won the Lt roll and chose side, I chose to go first.

Round 1
The evader kicks things off by moving up and pulling a flamethrower out of the vending machine. But then can’t get a clean line on any of the volunteers without eating a chain rifle so just backs off. The intruder tries to sneak past another volunteer but gets spotted immediately by another chain rifle. To try and make the identity check safer the brigada jumps up and tries to clean the two volunteers off the stairs, but his pride gets in the way and he instead takes a wound and does nothing in return. I’m running out of orders and don’t want to leave the intruder in the open without at least attempting the classified, so I spend the Lt order and manage to drop one of the two volunteers but not the one watching the intruder. The intruder finally moves across and gets the identity check, just eating the chain rifle but shrugging it on his armour. The turn feels weak as I have done little but reveal my Lt, get my Lt half dead, hang the intruder out in the open and get a single classified.
Ariadna starts their turn and my opponent reveals that the random volunteer I accidentally killed was his Lt. Ruh Roh Raggy. This leads to a far less optimised turn and Uman runs through all of his command points to get the grey’s fireteam working and kills the evader, but selling his life after having to go dogged to get it to happen. A volunteer steps up to chain rifle my forward observer and rather than die for no effect she chooses to try and complete telemetry and in a super annoying manner she not only succeeds at telemetry but then survives the chain rifle before dropping prone behind cover. Remainder of the turn is largely positioning, raiding vending machines, and taking speculative shots.

Identity Check

Round 2
Having killed his Lt and still having the brigada alive, the brigada starts to crawl back to a hiding place. The intruder spends a bunch of orders shooting his HMG and throwing grenades at a wulver eventually taking him down and re-camoing but leaving me few other orders. An alguacil steps up and puts a chain rifle volunteer down but simultaneously going unconscious himself.
In their previous turn one of the volunteers had found a pair of rollerblades in the vending machine and used them to rush forward to be deep on my side and stare intently at the camo intruder. Most of the nomad models are hiding so the ariadnans push forward for position but can’t really accomplish much with their classified, and contends with grabbing some more goodies from the panoplies. In hindsight this was the turn for the SAS to make his presence known but the opportunity was missed.

Round 3
I want to hide the brigada and also want to use the intruder against the other wulver to kill the big stuff so the brigade slides out of line of sight of the rollerbladed volunteer. The volunteer decides to shoot and after the misfiring multirifle at the start of the game I elect to just us the flamethrower. Unfortunately the brigada armour is not good enough and he goes down, the volunteer does get turned to ash though. The intruder accomplishes very little, getting spotted immediately upon moving out, so simply finds cover for the last reactive turn. The brigada is mostly in cover now though so the paramedic moves to try and get him back up. Three orders later and he is still unconscious on the floor, shooting needles at people is hard.
Ariadna turn exchanges some fire with the intruder. A volunteer moves around to chain rifle the cheeky FO from last turn but she dodges to engage him when he strays too close and then stabs him when he tries to get familiar with her. At this point there are insufficient orders to get the last wulver to the brigada for prejudice, so we end it there.

Sebastian Down

Wrap-up
Nomads take out a narrow win, but had Uman been more familiar with the game he would have comfortably taken a draw if not the win. Heading off earlier for the brigada and ignoring the forward observer with the volunteer and instead secured my HVT.
Kill more Specialists – Ariadna
Kill more Lieutenants – Neither
Kill more Army points – Nomads
Obtain more Panoplies – Ariadna
Classifieds – Nomads 2, Ariadna 0

Boris retreated away from the battle with Sebastian in a fireman’s carry while the algacuils dragged out Alessandra and the downed Reid brother. Sebastian would make it but the others were far from certain. That had been far closer than he would have liked and he couldn’t help but acknowledge there was no small measure of luck in that battle. They had retained control of the area but the Ariadnans had made off with far more loot than they should have.

Game Over Dude

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