The battle aboard the ship had lasted for almost a solid week. At the end of it both Aleph and Evolved intelligence forces had been exhausted, shattered in fact.
Strewn among the debris were invaluable pieces of technology that could be reverse engineered and a Nomad hacker had found that the most profound of these technologies was a weaponized virus that the forces of the EI could absolutely not allow to fall into human hands.
That virus was on the ship and the Nomad had sold the information to all three of the other main powers. They were determined to get it.
This game saw Pan Oceana, Yu Jing and Haqqislam in a three way struggle to obtain a container in the center of the table.
The forces allowed to the players were four regular troops with standard weapons, one lightly armoured model with TO camouflage and 50 pts to be spent on anything else.
The forces looked like this:
Yu Jing: 4 Zhanshi, Guilang with sniper rifle, 2 Arigato
Butei with combi rifles.
Pan Oceana: 4 Fusiliers, 1 fusilier with HMG, sierra dronbot with HMG and a croc man with a combi rifle
Haqqislam: 4 Ghulam, 1 Tuareg with sniper rifle, Hassassin Fiday and 2 Muttawii.
Unlike almost any game of Infinity I've ever played this table had little terrain on it. There was enough debris scattered about to allow for cover but not much to block LOS.
It was, as expected, a blood bath as everyone had to reach the objective in the center and then get back to their deployment zone alive.
The three TO camo troops were allowed to deploy hidden and as long as they didn't move didn't have to even put a marker down.
The hassassin Fiday was allowed to infiltrate.
The Pan Oceana forces got to start and moved their dronbot to the edge of the ramp that they started on. With total reaction and an HMG the dronbot would make any movement from any of the other forces difficult and would probably force them to reveal their TO camo troops.
It worked better than expected with a Arrigato being gunned down on the first turn and the Guilang revealing herself to shoot the dronebot and the Tuareg revealing herself to shoot the Guilang.
There was a chain reaction of bloodshed after this with the Fiday making a play for the objective and almost making it back to his lines before being gunned down.
The Muttawii impetuously jumped forward to grab it but were gunned down.
The Yu Jing forces were the first to give up as they were caught in a crossfire while attempting to enfilade the Haqqislam troops. It came down to two Ghulams vs. two Fusiliers in the end and one of the fusiliers tried to pin the Ghulams down from his elevated position while his lt. moved around to catch them in the flank. There was enough stuff there that he was able to get close without exposing himself.
But a lucky shot at long range dropped his mate and his attack on the Ghulam position was not successful and he died.
It was a neat quick game. Not the sort of thing I'd want to do everytime but it was fun.
I'll post some pics when I can get them to upload. Imgur seems to have failed me this time.
There are pics of the other battle report I posted yesterday now though.