Grand Battle Report: Attack!

Quick overview: Three of us played the Attack! scenario from Cry Havock 2. Mark played 3000 points of Therians against me and Bryan, who each fielded 1500 points. My army was UNA, while Bryan played Red Blok. The struggle was mighty, but in the end the Therians were victorious.

A note on setup: We ran each side with two commanders, so the Red Blok and UNA each had a commander and the Therians had two separate platoons, each with a commander. Initiative was strictly alternating; for example, a Therian authority test victory might lead to Therian A – Red Blok – Therian B – UNA. Having two separate commanders for each force led to a lot of LP floating around.

Warning: I took notes along the way and took a lot of pictures. The post is below the fold because of its length.
Setup

Turn One: Red Blok winds initiative.
RPG Soldat enters at VP point, takes cover and goes into overwatch.
Succubus enters and goes into overwatch.
Captain Gray leads his troops [max steel squad w/ laser guns] forward; his troops take cover and go into overwatch.

Baal enters the board, goes into overwatch, and creates a Heckat.
Nakolvny enters and draws Succubus’s overwatch fire; all shots miss. Goes into overwatch.
6 storm golems with sonic guns rush behind the high wall and take cover.

Steel Tac Arms run left, hide behind a container, take cover and go into overwatch.
Storm golems w/ 3 flamers rush forward between heckat and succubus, hide behind high wall.

Dragonovs enter and rush left, following the Steel Tac Arms.
Atis enters and crouches at the back.
Jam Tac Arms rush forward to the edge of the high wall.
Storm Golems deploy around the Therian objective, unload on Captain Gray’s troops. With hypernano, they only kill one, then take cover.
Krasnae rush forward between Captain Gray and Jam Tacs.
Tiamat enters and spawns a Succubus.
Small steel rushes behind the Nakolvony.
Hussar rushes forward and launches missiles at [primary] succubus and destroys it. Rockets follow at the created succubus, but miss and are soaked by cover.
Assault medusas enter and rush behind the Therian container.
Defender snake enters, missiles glance off of created succubus.
End of Turn One: 2 VP each side.

Turn Two
Captain Gray advances along right, assault medusas take overwatch but miss, and turtle with cover and overwatch.
Succubus unloads on Hussar; the virus cannon inflicts one body hit to Hussar, and the sonic cannon hits the small steel squad, killing one.
Hussar fires MML @ Heckat and misses, advances and gets one hit with its rockets, but can’t penetrate.
Heckat picks up the low wall and advances toward the center.
Steel Tac Arms round the wall at the left, fire at the heckat, and wound body, body and weapon. They take cover and knee to the ground.
6 storm golem squad advances to the container and hides from Captain Gray’s men.

Dragonovs advance left behind the Steel Tac Arms and draw Baal’s overwatch.
Storm golems at Therian VP shuffle, take cover and overwatch.
Jam Tac Arms advance and fire at Heckat, immobilizing it.
Atis and friends teleport into the Dragonovs, and kills everyone they’re in contact with.


Nakolvny chases Atis’s troops and kills 3.
Baal advances and flames the Steel Tac Arms, two die. It unleashes its heavy particle accelerator at the last, killing him.
Defender snake fires MML at succubus and blows off its legs. Its mortar pounds the storm golems holding the Therian VP, killing 3 and grounding 4 of the remaining 6.
Tiamat moves cautiously, heals the Heckat and spawns another.
Krasnae charge along right toward the downed Storm Golems at the Therian VP. They take cover and overwatch.
Storms advance from behind center high wall up behind heckat and find cover behind a wall. They take cover and go into overwatch.
The small steel squad peppers the heckat, but all shots bounce.
Medusas rush to the high wall and hide out of LOS, take cover and go into overwatch.
RPG soldaty at human VP sit tight, cover and overwatch.
End of turn 2: +2 VP to each, 4 total each.

Round Three Each side bids 3 and has authority 6. Red Blok rolls 5, Therians 6. Therians go.
Atis teleports in RPG Soldaty @ Human VP after recreating a fallen troop. They slaughter 6.


Dragonovs rush toward Atis, take cover and overwatch.
Heckat rushes and engaged Captain Gray’s troops. (Kills two, but they are mediced.)
Captain Gray’s troops disengage and fire back at Heckat, but fail to penetrate.
Succubus fires a virus cannon at Hussar for 1 to torso, takes shots at small steel squad, but cover saves them.
Hussar fires MML at Baal, but one misses and the other doesn’t penetrate. Its rockets kill one storm golem (near the center), then it advances.
Baal heals a heckat, minces forward and unleashes death on Hussar, destroying it.
Defender snake fires MML at Baal, penetrates body and leg. Mortars deviate from 3 flamer storm golem squad, but kill 2 and ground 1.
Hackat advances and picks up low wall.
Nakolvny rushes the center and goes into overwatch.
Storms with Flamers circle around Baal and rush toward human VP position.
Jams hammer heckats w/ jammers, destroying it. They fire missiles at Baal and wounds the leg, immobilizing it.
Tiamat charges center and slashes at Nakolvony. It is shredded and explodes.

Krasnae grenadiers advance on Therian VP and pepper its defending storm golems, but don’t damage any.
Storms at the Therian VP stand up from grounding.
The small steel squad rushes the center, takes cover, knee to the ground, and overwatch.
Small sonic storm golems counter rush the center and engage the small steel, no damage.

RPG Soldaty at human VP disengage and shoot SMGs, inflict one kill; RPGs inflict another kill.
Assault Medusas shoot Jam Tacs, but cover saves all.
End of Round Three; +6 Therian VP [10 total], +2 human VP [6 total]

Round Four
Small sonic storm squad (center) blows away small steel squad at point blank range.
(First card in activation moved to the end.) Defender snake lands MMLs on Baal, wounding the body and particle accelerator.
Flamer storm golems advance on human VP. Overwatch kills one, but the flamers eliminate the dragonov commandos in return. Nanoblaster shots can’t bring down the RPG soldaty.

Grenade Soldat advance and assault the Therian VP zone, but only kill one.
Heckat charges and kills one Jam Tac Arm.
Jam Tacs circle away and kill Baal with Jammers; their missiles bounce off of Tiamat.

Storm golems at Therian VP area fire back and eliminate most of the grenade soldaty.
RPG soldaty fire into Atis and friends, killing them all and liberating the human VP zone.

Tiamat charges the remaining Jam Tac Arms and makes paste of them.
Captain Gray’s steels advance and eliminate storm golems at the central VP zone.
Assault medusas fire on grenade krasnae and kill 2, leaving only the corporal.
The lone steel trooper at the center fails his morale test and is rallied.
Succubus blows away that lone steel trooper.
End of Round 4: +2 VP each side, Therians total 12, Humans 8.

Round Five
Tiamat advances and shreds Captain Gray and his two medics.
Defender Snake Cobra’s mortar is into the blue, MML wounds Tiamat in the chest.
Flamer golems eliminate all RPG Soldaty at the human VP.
Remaining Steel Troopers kill one (?) and retreat.
Assault medusas advance, kill four of the five remaining steel troops.

Humans concede.