Durgama Takeover

TL;DR Version

This game was brutal. Playing on a small board makes quite a difference in the overall strategy.
The Evader performed well, as did Mary P, who managed to identify the rogue AI and destroy it.
My friends dice just, didn’t, play ball with him. He had me dead to rights a couple of times, but couldn’t roll a competitive number.
Solid win for the Nomads.

Opening Narrative

It had been sometime since Lt TimBotB led a squad into an engagement, preferring to work in the background to secure the network and enhance the tinbots and puppetbots. But High Command needed all forces to work, so here he was.
It’s meant to be a simple mission: Get into PanO territory, destroy some servers and get out. Someone on the Black Hand got wind that a Rogue AI was spreading through the system without them knowing it. It could be a Combined Army AI, but they couldn’t be sure. With the PanO forces pulling out, it should be relatively simple.
But it never is…
He felt better knowing that Mary Problems was there, she was used to frontline engagements. What made his uneasy were the Morlocks in the squad, one was incredibly silent and still and the other appeared like a slavering beast. He shivered, and looked at a digital map in his helmets HUD. He gestured in the air, the neural-net responding to commands instantly. Chiming across the squads comms was a simple message, punctuated by the Evaders spitfire racking:
“Showtime”

Game Breakdown

Deployment

I (Nomads) won the roll-off and elected to take the first turn. PanO chose to have me deploy first.
I held back my Evader to place in a more aggressive gunslinger role, to backup the Morlocks. Mary and Heckler on the sides in a pincer movement and to access the consoles.
PanO deployed his 2 fireteams of Teutonic Knights and Crosiers on and around the center building to cover all angles.
Morlocks rolled “6: Regeneration” (Codename: Gator Guy) and “20: +3 PH and Regeneration” (Codename: Lady Blade), making them really tough to beat.

Turn 1

Morlocks rushed forward, with Gator Guy leaving a smoke grenade to block LoS on the left side of the board. Lady Blade managed to doge 2 Panzerfaust shots and tank the DA sniper shots. She wasn’t so lucky a second time, going down in a hail of bullets. Mary used the chance to activate the console and we found the rougue AI on the left (orange antennae).The evader then moved into firing positions, taking out the tinbot Teutontic Knight, then the multisniper Crosier.

PanO attempted to medikit the Teutonic knight, but his wounds were too grievous and he passed to dead. The other Knights rushed and dodged forward attempting to get to grips with Gator Guy, but didn’t realise they were within range of Mary P. He managed to deactivate both their armours and left them hanging. They each took a wound from the Morlock for their troubles.

Turn 2

Morlock started wailing on them, taking one out but also getting knocked down. Evader came and finished off the other before taking out the Blizten Crosier. The Tomcat came onto the board to threaten the other edge. Mary P then managed to use ‘Data Erasure’ and destroyed the rogue AI server. Gator Guy managed to pass his Regen roll and stoop up for a fight again.

PanO was in big trouble, now in LoL and not having many pieces on the board left. A Knight of Santiago appeared on the board, and suffered a wound for his trouble. He killed off Gator guy as more bullets from Mary pinged off his armour.

Turn 3

The Evader walked up and finished off the Knight Santiago, putting PanO into retreat. Using coordinated orders, the Heckler and Mary moved up to destroy another server, right after he stepped on the neck of one Teutonic Knight. After that, the game ended in a sound victory for the Nomads.

Closing Narrative

The servers were sparking and shorting, the Rogue AI destroyed as per High Commands request. Fortunately, the managed to implant their own AI in other unattended servers, which could now start scouring the PanO records for any juicy information. The Evader was carrying the body of Gator Guy, while the Tomcat was carrying Lady Blade. Timbot was sure they wouldn’t mind getting some extra scars on their bodies one they retrieved their Cubes.
He kept looking back, knowing that PanO wouldn’t let this slide with repercussions. But for now, back to home base in the Port Battery…