For a game that ended in a clear victory for me, Shamash made me bleed for it.
The first turn was nasty – Penthesilea did her usual berserker tactic and burned rubber to blast my Sekban with her nanopulser. They shrugged it off, except for one, who was my Lieutenant, which made my first turn pretty spicy. Starting in Loss of Lieutenant and losing your fireteam is… tactically unsound, let’s say.
The only good thing that happened on my first turn was my trusty Yuan Yuan showing up. Jade-Blue Afterglow and Goldenboy tore Shamash’s Deva apart, but the Fat Yuan Yuan didn’t do much of note. Then Achilles did his thing and killed all three of them extremely easily – Yuan Yuan are pretty solid in close combat, but they’re not “go toe-to-toe with human freight train Achilles” good at combat.
My second turn went much better. I managed to restore my fireteam and then spent several orders blasting Achilles at point-blank range with the Sekban doctor’s boarding shotgun. I realized at the last minute that Shamash was hoping to get Achilles to dodge into close combat range so I backed way up and managed to kill Achilles with my last order, and at the same time Achilles blasted the whole pile of Sekban with his nanopulser – Shamash saw the writing on the wall, and from Hell’s heart he stabbed at me. He managed to drop two of the five Sekban but the game was handily won once Achilles went down.
Linked YouTube video: Hans Zimmer doing his thing. Expect a *lot* of Dune music for these battle reports, folks.
Congratulations on your victory, Commander!
Glorious victory and the welcome return of the cat tax!
Such a great report! Well done.
Many extraordinary things in your report, looking forward to more! Probably slightly more to dead ALEPH-recreations than to cat-pics, but it is a close call!
Ma sh’Allah, in sh’Allah! Praises for you victory in defense of our center of operations for our humanitarian aid of those who’s lives are disrupted by this conflict! And I gladly pay all feline taxes asked! So cute!
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Great looking models but most important is CATS <3
Yes! The Cat Tax has been paid! @thepoorman is in da house!
Also, Hans Zimmer is always a win.
Nice report, great pics, bonus points for gaming with cats. Well done, Commander!
That’s a lot of space pirates and cats… nice job!
nice report and nice to see aleph kept at bay!
I only can see the catas <3
Oh I love this little blue Computers.
Cats! Sorry, I’m a cat person. Got three myself, two of which are rescued strays.
You play brave lists!) I can’t say i would play the same, but i commend your bravery.)
Sekban, staple of any of my QK armies since 2014, I love those models! Great report!
I don’t know that I’ve seen this many close ups of your models they look nice, good hobby work there
Your getting a lot of practice with Achilles.