We set up a pretty simple table (Yeah, that's my homemade D20 battle grid, 1m x 1m) put up some cover (Lego masonry bricks. Aww yeah.) and took a handful of 'frames. Some numbers:
Danni's Raiders RED
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| VT22 MINX "Sliver" 
- | Fiddler "The Dancer" 
| VMX-05 Pounder "Outlaw"Frames: 3
Systems: 12
Asset Value: 6 (5 +1 (least 'frames)
Initiative: 30 (5 assets * 6 asset value)
Chris' 13th Guard GREEN
- | ST07w Chub | Lieutenant Ashley Vale - | ST07w Chub | Staff Sergeant Robin Seeberg | ST07w Chub | Corporal Zach Ambercroft | ST07x Chub | Sergeant Florence GiabeneFrames: 4
Systems: 12
Asset Value: 4 (5 -1 (most 'frames)
Initiative: 24 (6 assets * 4 asset value)
Turn #1
Dancer opens fire on Ambercroft, the point 'frame of the 13th. While the shot is ineffective (5 ATK vs. 6 DEF), he also drops 6 SPOT on him. Ambercroft retaliates, but he only blows up the cover in the path of his bullets. Only a DEF 3 on Dancer is joined by a 2 SPOT that Ambercroft got to drop.
Sliver answers with a devasting 8 ATK, blasting Ambercrofts cover to smithereens that litter the battlefield and rip both the stormshield (
) and the Predator rifle ( ) of his 'frame, as well as cracking his cockpit, sheering the comm antenna ( ) right off. Ambercroft is crippled and limps into cover, left with .
In the background, Outlaw moves right in, snatches the station and blasts away at Giabene in her X Chub. She loses her reinforced carapace (
) and fires LRMs at the spotted Dancer. Her missiles impact mostly harmlessly, but one lucky shot rips the short-range scanner ( ) of the hull of the warmachine.+6 Initiative (now 36) for the NR, -4 (now 20) for the 13th.
Lt Vale and her Sarge had enough of the bullcrap. Unloading all SSRs and both of their rifles, Vale advances rapidly with a 5 MOVE and obliberates first all the cover, then with Seeberg's (who uses her 5 SPOT) support, the entire Fiddler behind it. Seeberg stays back, watching across the rubble-littered clearing, where Sliver just nigh-on destroyed Ambercrofts Chub.
-6 Initiative (now 30) for the NR.
End of Turn #1 The nightraiders advance the DDC, and it drops to 9.
Turn #2
Sliver fires wildly at Ambercroft, wanting to seal the deal and moves north, to stay in cover from the advancing Chubs. His bullets sprayed everywhere, eating more cover, but leave Ambercroft alive. Outlaw shells Vale across the field, ripping her advanced sensor array (
) off and then proceeds towards the next station. He's in good health and deems neither Chub an issue - Giabene has and Ambercroft is a mere . Vale declares war on Sliver and sprints up, just past the station. She tags it for the 13th and unloads her rifle through the hole in the wall into the next wall ahead. Her bullets mostly miss Sliver. Mostly. One lucky shot gets through and eats his tires ( ), and pro as she is, Vale drops a 5 SPOT on Sliver. Seeberg seizes the opportunity and marches right into the rubble, under steady fire of his assault rifle. He is a stonecold killer and reduces Sliver to . Meanwhile, Ambercroft gets his marbles together and declares Hand to Hand to Outlaw. His attack goes right in to the legs, bending the motivators and costing Outlaw his Movement system ( ). Pushing the enemy towards Giabene, he leaves 1 SPOT on Outlaw. Giabene throws her X Chub at him, but misses. she scoots back a little.-6 Initiative (now 24) for the NR, +4 (now 24) initiative for the 13th. NR remain up, because they had the higher Initiative last.
End of Turn #2 The nightraiders advance the DDC, and it drops to 7.
Turn #3
Sliver putzes about, limping back to the station, with a mere 1 MOVE and gets into cover, with a puny 2 DEF. Outlaw gets the hell out of dodge after being mauled by the two seemingly harmless Chubs, and proceeds south of the station, in an attempt to tag it. He unloads at Ambercroft, who recklessly pursues him, but fails to hit him again. Vale and Seeberg have enough of Outlaws games, turn west and pump him full of lead. First, Vale takes a sprint through the rubble and barely gets in range, but her bullets hit and rip the artillery (
) and ECM system ( )of the raider.Seeberg fires, too, but misses. Meanwhile, Giabene is unbound, shells Sliver for 1 point of damage. Reduced to , he sits idly. She scoots north by an inch.End of Turn #3 The nightraiders advance the DDC, and it drops to 5.
Turn #4
Giabene finishes off Sliver and grabs the station the Nightraiders stole at the beginning of the game. Vale and Seeberg coordinate their fire this time, together with Ambercroft who is holding on to the station with now a mere
, and destroy Outlaw. With Sliver and Outlaw out of the picture, Seeberg sprints with 5 MOVE towards the last hostile asset.-12 Initiative (now 6) for the NR, +4 (now 28) for the 13th. 13th is up in Intitative.
End of Turn #4 The 13th advance the DDC, and it drops to 3.
Turn #5
In a gentlemanly agreement, the 13th forgoes all actions and passes to the Nightraiders, who have no 'frames to activate.
End of Turn #5 The nightraiders and the 13th advance the DDC, and it drops to 0. Game Over.
Admiral Ackbar declares the 13th Guard as victorious.
- An Ijad-controlled system, where SU and FC are still fighting.
