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Military a.i.s have run amok. Nationalist clones have deployed interdict teams to hunt down and destroy rogue units. Nationalist Intel has identified a safe house used for machine transmissions. The mission: advance to, and capture, the safe house. Rules for robots as previous, they are A.I. controlled 'smart bots' so order as will, two 'wounds' (in two separate firing incidents to destroy, on one wound can reboot on 6+ on QR, second kills)
The machines launched a war which ravaged cities, the A.I.s made a mistake, it only made the humans madder...
Interdict team ready for deployment. Combat clones plus support drones and care-bears
Lurking in the city, potent death machines
The target - the machine safe-house/transmitter center (brownie points if you know the Brewery!)
Clones enter the combat zone
Clones deploy into the rubble of the city
Surveillance drones circle overheard providing "god-vision" (no sneak moves!)
Clone advance falters as the machines open fire
Old ABC robots claim the first blood, return fire from the clones knocks them out though!
The second clone unit falls to the same fate
But manages some effective return fire
Combat drones mop-up in the center
Reinforcements move to flank the pinned clone unit
More reinforcements pour into the combat zone
A heavy-combat unit in the center reboots successfully
As do the ABC unit
Not for long, effective fire from the clones knock them out for good!
A care-bear rushes to recover a casualty
Another care-bear recovers a casualty
Combat-drones advance
Clones flanked and ambushed, more clones go down
return fire knocks-out a couple of doids
The clones are pinned...
More reinforcements appear
More care-bears, just what the clone-doctor ordered
Still more bad news on the casualty front
Remaining clones engage and knock-out/down the flanking droids
Combat-drones engage a war-droid in the center
And, BOOM!
On the left-flank the clones are struggling, more casualties, despite a droid KO
Care-bears race to and fro
Good news at last! The clones recover a casualty and knock-out the threatening droid.
The clones grab the slim window of opportunity to advance fast
Drones mop-up as they advance knocking down another ABC droid and a heavy-droid
However, more reinforcements appear in front of the advancing clones
and behind them too
and to the side of them. Things don't look too good...
ZAP!
BLAMMO!
SIZZLE, drones clean-up! really they KO all reinforcements due to some awful interrupt rolls and some great saving rolls by the drones
The clones dart forwards into the gap
Victory in sight!
Uh-Oh, may be not
The drones advance, the lead drone is KO'd by the war-droid
Drones reply, KO ABC droid
KO both war-droids
A clone unit darts forwards into the building, and falls to a deadly ambush
The remaining clones rush to support the unit
Meh! poor fire discipline
A lone stalker reactivates behind the clone front
As do the war-droids
ZAP! the drones knock-them out for good
Drones advance to support the clones
Drone KO Droids
Clones finish-off the job this time
And we have a winner!
A close-fought game. I thought all was up for the clones earlier, fortunately the drones were highly-effective in this game, accounting for most of the clone droid KOs. The lack of morale and pinned/fall back to recover wounds helped the drones/droids a lot and really forced the clones to fight very differently. In the end it came down to the machines getting a couple of rounds of low-numbers of reinforcements, if they had more I doubt the clones would have made it.
