And here we are again, another battle report, this time with
a fellow named Alex. We both had lots of fun and I’m sure we’ll have another
game sometime in the near future, so you might be hearing more about Alex in
the future.
Setup:
Deployment:
The deployment is thusly; The mission was Ambush, and it is
my first time playing this mission. Alex had to deploy first, wherein he placed
his first 4 troops up on top of the gantry-way close to the centre of the
board. two troopers and two drones.
He then had to deploy his remaining troops 4 inches from each other. He then
placed 1 rail riflemen and a trooper behind the 2 troopers and 2 drones on the building behind him,
two
rail riflemen on the ground near the other two, and then beside that in the
next building over he placed his stealth suit and recon drone.
I had placed my two heavy stubbers on the building on the
closest edge, and then placed the rest of my troopers behind the same building
I had placed my stubbers on. Everything started in hiding.
Turn 1:
I had moved my troopers forwards, out from behind the
building and behind the ruins of the other buildings.
Alex ran his troopers as far away from my heavy stubbers as
he could and placed his rail riflemen into hiding, and his stealth suit into
overwatch.
Turn 2:
I kept moving my
troopers through the ruins, in hiding, trying to gain a better vantage point
from which to strike.
Alex kept running his troopers in the opposite direction,
out of sight of my heavy stubbers
Turn 3:
I kept moving my men stealthily through the ruins, still
trying to gain a vantage point, and still thinking I could stay hidden. I moved
my grenade launcher to the base of the gantry way.
Alex had moved his men to a vantage point behind a number of
buildings, creating a choke point from which he could prevent my troopers from
charging head on.
Turn 4:
I continued to move
my troopers through the ruins, I shot with my grenade launcher, blowing the
head off of one of his troopers
Alex moved a few of his troopers into better positions, and
opened fire with the rest of those that hadn’t moved. He had downed my trooper
with blasting charges.
Turn 5:
I had moved my shotgunners and my leader up to try and get
to better vantage points with which to charge them from. I had also moved my
troopers up in an attempt to keep the opposing forces occupied on them rather
than my shotgunners and my leader. My grenade launcher opened up and blew the
head off of another one of his troopers, causing his drones to panic, but not
the troopers beside him as I had been hoping for.
Alex had moved his stealth suit up, and had opened fire with
everything that he could and put his rail riflemen into overwatch. The troopers
had moved around the corner to open fire on my leader, downing him. The recon
drone moved from around the corner from where my stubbers could not see him and
opened up on them and downing one. Alex had ran his rail riflemen up the
nearest building to get a better vantage point for them also. The stealth suit
had downed the trooper in front.
Turn 6:
I didn’t have much left to shoot with, so I had moved my
shotgunners to the cover of the side of the building, although they did not
have much to shoot at. They stayed there while my grenade launcher popped off
another shot, but missed wildly.
Alex moved his remaining troopers that were around the
corner through the door of the building my shotgunners were behind and opened
up fire on them, wounding one, and downing the other, the stealth suit had
opened up on the other stubber, and downed him also. The rail riflemen in the building had shot at my trooper behind the first one and had downed him also.
I then bottled out.
So what did I learn? I learned that if I can take the shot,
I should, all the time, because if I don’t it’ll come back to bite me. I also
learned that hiding in this game isn’t that great and is super situational and
that for this scenario, bunching up isn’t that great of a tactic. I needed to
spread out more and cover more areas to fire from, and keep his men more
separated. All in all we had a fun time and I’m sure we’ll have another game soon and don't forget to let me know what you think in the comments below.
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