300 point Shock army vs. Yu Jing Antenna Field

[Angron]

Played against Brian's Yujing we played the new Antenna Field Mission

My army was
Shock Army of Acontecimento - Untitled Roster (298/300 | 4/6)

Group #1 | 9 Models | 9 0 0

Dragoes | HMC, Heavy Flamethrower (2 | 94)
Nagas Monofilament Mines | Combi Rifle, Monofilament Mines, Pistol / Knife (32)
Akalis Hacker | Hacker, Hacking Device, Combi Rifle, Pistol / CCW (0.5 | 35)
Nagas Monofilament Mines | Combi Rifle, Monofilament Mines, Pistol / Knife (32)
Lieutenant Stephen Rao Lieutenant | Lieutenant, Combi Rifle, Assault Pistol / Knife (24)
Bagh-Mari Paramedic | MediKit, Combi Rifle, Light Shotgun, Pistol / Knife (26)
Bagh-Mari Shotgun | Boarding Shotgun, Pistol / Knife (18)
Bagh-Mari HMG | HMG, Pistol / Knife (1.5 | 27)
Acontecimento Regulars Combi | Combi Rifle, Pistol / Knife (10)

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Not the most balanced or optimal force, but it had things I wanted to try out.

I won the initiative roll and chose deployment, we decided that the objectives that ended up on terrain would require climb rolls to get into base to base contact.

Brian took the first turn and moved his Shaolins and an engineer up to the objective on the flank using a smoke train to get to it. Almost out of orders I pointed out that in order to get points for the objective you have to camp on the marker and he promptly move one of his total reaction remotes to cover the objective.
With his last two orders he brought on a BS Tiger soldier to harass one of my nagas that was covering a flank. The nagas ARO was to drop a mono mine. When the tiger soldier attacked both our shooting was ineffective but the mine did its job.

This missions exclusion zone rule really limits where models can come in or forward deploy. It's easier for infiltrators to cover the flanks and keep Ad2 troops from wrecking your day or taking objectives late.

My first turn started with my Akalis coming in to attack Brian's cheerleaders that were on the side that the objective he was holding was. I was able to surprise and kill Zhanshi and then kill a Shaolin while falling to his chain rifle. I was hoping to neutralize the remote with the hacker but that wasn't to be. I think i used my other naga to fIrst strike kill his engineer and mine the objective. I then proceeded to get into a shoot out using my Bagh Mari HMG to eliminate his remote. That ended my turn.


Turn two had Brian using a hacker to take the objective that was nearest his deployment zone and subsequently covering it with another total reaction remote.

My second turn started with me walking one of my nagas up to get a shot at the hacker only to be stopped by the Hidden deployed Hac Tao. I stopped spending orders on the naga and attempted to use the Dragoe to attack the other side of the board. He killed the other remote a Dao Fei and the Hacker on the objective. That ended my turn

Brian's third turn saw him in retreat and as he had no one else who could claim an objective we called the game a 0 to 0 tie.


I liked the mission, it really makes you play to the objectives.

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[kuozar]

Re-reading the rules for the Exclusion Zone, it seems to me that you are not allowed to use Airborne Deployment, Mechanized Deployment, and Infiltration. And if you use Impersonation, then you cannot be in the 8 inch area.

But these scenarios are seeming to focus more on objective grabbing since you could them at the end of each game turn, which is kind of awesome, but can be messy if you forget.

[Angron]

We did the infiltrators and Ad correct, I think his hactao was in the exclusion zone but only a slight amount. I hope they add it to some of the other missions.

[brianw]

I think I screwed up the Hac Tao. I did Infiltration with him when he should have been in the deployment area. I was thinking of him as the Dao Fei I guess. It’s been a long time since I did YJ.

This is definitely a mission where you need a lot of specialists. Specialists that can take and hold. I like that you could not set up within 8 in of objectives but because there so many of them there were not many options of placement. HI and MI specialists might have an easier time. Especially if in a Link team.

[Angron]

I meant he was infiltrated to far up but your right he can't even do that. No worries, I've accidentally done it with a sphinx before.