Durgama Takeover

The Shasvastii won the LT roll against the might WIP 17 of SunTze and immediately went first, holding back two models. I made them deploy on top, myself also holding back two models. Two times SunTze Marksman Leader. After my deployment, two Speculo Minelayer succeeded on their WIP rolls. One casually hanging out next to my Dakini Sniper on the far right, while the other deployed on the far left, both threatening a handful of models with their mines. I placed one SunTze next to the Speculo on the left and the other in the middle of the table on a roof, guarded by four core linked KuangShi.

The AI of the Dakini sniper decided to shoot at an impetuous Taigha creature, missing it and going unconscious from the Speculo's mine. Taighas moving further up the field, using their freedom, because all YJ defense was taking cover in anticipation of potential Speculo attacks. To my luck, there were not enough orders in the 2nd group for the Taigha to come in berserk range.

The left Speculo did not hesitate much and surprise attacked the left SunTze, which turned out to be Taowu, actually denying the Speculo it's martial arts bonus while applying a nasty -6 CC to its attacks. Taowu won face-to-face, but the Speculo made it’s armor roll against Taowu’s dangerous monofilament weapon. More importantly, the repeater of a nearby Chaiyi gave a spotlight ARO, netting me the Telemetry classified on my opponents turn.

The rest of the Shasvastii turn was spent on Doctor Worm, moving up and doing Sabotage as well as Retroengineering. But it took the slithering alien four rolls against 17 to complete, leaving no orders left for a fruitful retreat. This forced Sheshkin to move up with her two LT orders to give covering fire for the Worm.

The Speculo threat was mostly gone after the first round. Only a Chaiyi had to clear the mine that threatened my Hsien Haris, going unconscious in the process. I decided to do Kidnapping this round, it would mean to have 12 orders that I could spend on the Hsien link. They moved up on the left side of the table towards one of the Shasvastii HVTs, wounding Sheshkiin, killing two Taighas, Doc Worm, an Ikadron and the Nox Hacker in their path.

Doing a CasEvac on the HVT turned out to be complicated, because a Hsien is by no means capable of doing it. This left the task to the Zhanying which almost died to a Taigha chain-colt, only surviving my luck.

But fiddling around with shooting people, maintaining coherency and bringing the Zhanying to the front costed me too many orders for a proper retreat. I also lost the link because of the CasEvac state. This left the link fairly exposed to a possible counterattack.

Taowu in group 2 decided to show off and attacked the Speculo to deny my opponent an order next turn, but he died to the Speculos’ mono sword. This was stupid, because I now had to deal with two free roaming Speculos in my DZ again!

Sheshkin, having only one wound left, moved up in the back of the Hsien link, where the CSU and Zhanying were fairly exposed. She took out the CSU, but the Zhanying managed to tank the bullets, ducking back into cover for now. A little bit undecided weather to go for my Hsien or the KuangShi tower with SunTze, Sheskin went for my DZ, killing Xi to free up the rightmost Speculo. That Speculo then killed the remaining Dakini and removed my KuangShi controller. Thankfully she died to the KuangShi pistol shots, but with the new Fireteam rules, that core link was history.

After some thoughts, Sheskiin decided to rather kill the Hsien and removing the threat to the Shasvasti DZ than going for the SunTze tower, still scared of Chainrifles waiting to take her last wound.
With some maneuvering, she managed to get in the back of both Hsien and Zhanying and in melee with the Hsien, after he tanked one volley of her Red Fury. With her last order, she attacked with D-Charges, rolling a crit, but could only wound the mighty Hsien warrior!

The Zhanying could not believe his luck to still be alive. So she took her chance and did Datascan on Sheshkiin while she was busy with the Hsien. After that, the veteran Hacker moved in the middle to do Espionage.
Now it was time for the leader himself and SunTze stood up and took out the remaining Speculo and a Taigha creature in one order. He moved across the board to the last remaining HVT to do Identity Check This left me in a very good spot for the mission, but my Hsien was still in face to face with Sheskin and SunTze was fairly exposed in the midfield. It all came down to the classifieds that Shasvastii would draw!

In a dramatic turn of events, Predator, Extreme Prejudice and In Extremis Recovery came up, leaving a mighty grin on Sheskiins face!
She activated immediately and attacked the Hsien again. But the ISS HI managed to learn how Sheskin fights and won the first round of close combat. Even more angry, she attacked again furiously, forgetting her guard and the Hsien could land a critical hit on her body, wounding and striking her down!
(we forgot she healed a wound last round, which was very unfortunate but only came to our mind while writing this report).

With Sheskin down and only six orders on the table, a Caliban desperately dashed across the board to the Zhanying to kill it with a D-Charge, but he came was an inch too slow and could only mow down the poor Hacker with its SMG. And to make it even worse, going unconscious to a chain-colt in the process.

After striking Sheskiin down with Extreme prejudice, the Hsien cleaned his sword from Sheskiins blood and moved over to collect the Calibans corpse for In Extremis Recovery
With no threats left, doing Net Undermine was also not a problem.

SunTze cleared his throat. "I congratulate you to this decisive victory today. The training we did in the past days payed off tremendously and with the skill an vigor of Hsien Qiang Li, we were able defend this facility and do a serious blow to our enemys plans. Celebrate victory for the day, but be prepared, the next attack will come for sure!"