Durgama Takeover

When I put my models on the board I thought that bringing two Maghariba Guard would be pretty silly - after all, if one was destroyed I'd be down a third of my points, and if both went down I'd be left with no real heavy weapons. What I failed to consider was that my opponent wouldn't bring a missile launcher or similar.

It took a full turn's worth of orders to break the Yu Jing fireteam - two-wound models with ARM 3 or better, in cover, are a tough nut to crack! Fortunately a steady bombardment of heavy rockets eventually made some headway, and the second Maghariba Guard - the classic beetle - helped out its bigger brother by bringing its Multi HMG to bear.

From there Razors_Edge ran out of steam - he managed to drop a grenade-happy paratrooper behind my lines but all he accomplished was knocking my Naffatun LT unconscious, before dying to a Najjarun's rifle fire.

My scorpion Maghariba then moved up the board and vapourized both the enemy HVTs pretty casually, then shot his automated turret out of spite. Razors_Edge conceded at that point since there was no way to recover from the fairly brutal beating he'd taken.

For all that it was a pretty clean sweep it was actually really close. Both Maghariba Guard took a few wounds and if he hadn't flubbed a few rolls at a crucial moment he could have easily swept my back field and denied me quite a few orders. But ultimately it's just really, really hard to handle a pair of giant mecha stomping across the battlefield and his list was perfectly suited to not be able to handle it.