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Two different flavors of death by a thousand paper cuts.
Last week I played a game at the FLGS vs. Anthony again, where the scenario was simple:
Just kill each other!
8K, Clan Invasion Era, I was fielding my Desert Horde as mercenaries this time vs: whatever Anthony put in his force. He's still a newer player so is not concerned with faction limitations. It's kinda like fighting an ilClan era force, albeit with units from the 3050s.
I didn't get force pics, but we fielded the following:
Desert Horde Mercs: Crusader CRD-6T, Shadow Hawk SHD-3H, Cicada CDA-3G, Starslayer STY-3D, Condor medium tank (Laser), and a Devastator heavy tank.
Anthony's mixed 'star': King Crab KGC-001, Bane 3, Jenner IIC 3, Fire Falcon D, and a base model Sturmfeur heavy tank. All missiles in his force were Narc capable.
Here's how it went down:
Ugh, not what you want to see coming at you...
The Shadow Hawk tries to swing wide and moves up the flank whereas the Devastator just punches it and runs straight up the middle!
Jenner IIC got cocky, and ran right past the Devastator!
Not a good idea, even with +4 to hit! One AC20 connected with the center torso and that was all she wrote for the Jenner IIC!
After some careful maneuvering, my (narced) Crusader moves into point blank range and these two just start pummeling one another! The Starslayer mesanwhile was firing a consistant large laser & ER PPC shot per turn, usually hitting with at least one per turn.
I forgot that the starslayer had a rear facing medium laser, not that I would have stopped it from getting narced here.
Cicada, Condor & Shadow Hawk vs. King Crab = still not a fair fight!. The Sturmfeur was largely immobile at this point and the Devastator started working over the Sturmfeur with it's big guns!
The point blank pummeling continues...
The Starslayer snipes at the Bane while the Crusader turns and smacks the Fire Falcon, causing to to hit the ground!
The Bane falls back out of the Crusader's optimal medium laser range while the Devastator moves into point blank of the Sturmfeur which really cannot defend itself from that range!
Luckily, the King Crab largely wiffed, with the Shadow Hawk's right arm being the only casualty! The Cicada maintains it's point blank attack on the Crab's rear with all guns & even kicking!
Down goes the Sturmfeur!
Oh hey, look who was running from the King Crab on pavement and failed it's PSR...
The Bane keeps living up to it's name and hammers the Crusader, damaging a shoulder which more or less fuck's the firing of half of the Crusader's lasers! Not that I stopped shooting with them or anything...
The King Crab is slowly getting surrounded and taking on heavy fire!
The Bane & Fire Falcon both move into the back corner, for mutual support of each other while my forces move in (with the rest of the board more or less being ignored at this opoint).
In a lucky shot, one of the Condor's ER medium lasers connects with the Bane's head (previously hit by a medium laser from the Crusader). On the crit rolls, both the life support & the mechwarrior connected to it are vaporized!
Huzzah!
With the Bane down, everything turns their guns onto the King Crab, ignoring the Fire Falcon which is by far the lesser of the two threats left on the table.
The King Crab goes down fighting, taking off the Crusader's side torso, as the Devastator does the same to the King Crab, resulting in double XL engine-induced kills! The Fire Falcon being the last thing left standing in Anthony's force, wisely fled the field.
Dude, look at that! Only 6 points of armor left on my Crusader's forward facing! This thing was an LRM sponge! It should have died well before it did!
The King Crab certainly had a rough go of it as well, although oddly a barely hit the CT.
That was fun and Devastator is already in the process of getting painted in recognition of it's glorious actions in combat! I'm also a fan of the Crusader CRD-6T, it's like an HBK-4P on steroids!
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