Another Panic Room mission! The battle for Darpan is winding down but we got a few more punches at the pinata, which is not an expression but let's pretend that it is.
Top of turn one: I moved Tarik Mansuri into the panic room with no difficulty. I moved the Maghariba Guard up to try to destroy Shamash's Dakini fireteam, but destroyed none of them and lost two wounds on the Maghariba Guard? Not cool, man.
Bottom of turn one: Shamash mostly scuttled around all sneaky-like, moving into position for a stronger push next turn. He blasted a Naffatun off the board from three feet away but that was mostly out of spite. The Dakini traded shots with Mansuri but to no real effect. The Asura got into an absurd fistfight with Dr. Uzi but found him apparently indestructible.
Top of turn two: Doctor Uzi was held up by the Asura, but Doctor Shotgun killed the Dakini that shot Mansuri. He died to various AROs. I kept the Maghariba where they were out of fear of losing the damaged one to a stray combi-rifle shot. I moved the Khawarij further up the board with the intention of doing a flank attack, catching the Dakini in the rear and destroying the whole squad.
Bottom of turn two: The Marut moved up and annihilated Tarik Mansuri and seized the panic room. The Asura finally finished off Doctor Uzi. That was kind of it - Shamash was running out of steam a bit.
Top of turn three: I spent a full ten minutes doing complicated math trying to figure out if I could win, or even draw, and how to even do that when I was in Loss of Lieutenant (RIP Mansuri). I even started spending irregular orders before realizing that no wait - my one Khawarij had Chain of Command! Shamash kindly let me rewind and start the turn over (I let him do so in our previous game due to a similar rules flub). My Khawarij fireteam then shot the Marut to death and seized the panic room. I was in excellent shape to win the game.
Bottom of turn three: Shamash moved his Deva and her flamer-bot closer to the panic room, then into the panic room. I declared dodges as my ARO, but Shamash simply walked into the room. Then he just... didn't do anything else, and with his Lieutenant standing in the panic room it tied up the game. I had banked on another order being used to attack my Khawarij but nope. Everyone just stood there awkwardly staring at each other. Good times!
After this we're going to be able to squeeze in one more game, and as is our tradition it's going to be a somewhat goofy one where I bring as many mercenaries as I can and see how many other named characters Achilles can kill in fistfights.
At first pass I missed the Grimlock picture and was really disappointed. But now I know all is right with the world.
Dakinis, though. That team hasn’t done as much for me as it has against me. Is flanking them usually the way you deal with them?
Dude, punching Achilles with named characters? Balls of steel
A close one!
Great battle, like the mini !
Nice game! And a good show of sportsmanship as it is 🙂
A good recovery from the previous game!
Better luck next time, Commander! Keep up the fight!
Poorman cat!
a good draw!