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Michael’s Tyrant returns fire and scores one point of damage against the Scorpion with his twin LBG’s. Brian then retreats the Scorpion out of sight behind the hill. With all the CAV’s of Brian’s section activated, Michael draws the next card. It’s a black one. Brian activates the Whisper Missile Launcher and launches the missile. The missile loiters around Brian’s deployment zone in preparation for striking next turn. At this point, the players discover that they aren’t playing with the same version of models. Both players used Army Builder to construct their forces, but Michael used version 1.2 – which uses the newer point values from the Journal of Recognition. The effect of this is that Brian’s CAV’s average about 100 points less than they should. As a quick fix, Brian removes the Whisper missile and Launcher from the game, as well as one black card from the deck. Brian draws the final card - the red one – and Michael actives his section. Michael advances the Vanquisher to flank Brian’s Tyrant. Michael achieves TL and scores 4 damage points with his twin Gattling Gauss Cannons (GGC). The DFM does no damage. The Tyrant returns fire and scores 2 damage on the Vanquisher with his twin LBG’s. Michael then advances his Specter behind a boulder, obscuring it from most fire, and targets Brian’s Tyrant with the Shriek II IFM. The Specter scores two more damage points. Brian’s Tyrant is destroyed. Michael activates his tyrant and attempts to repair it. He fails. Finally, Michael activates his Puma and sends it after the Brian’s Scorpion. He fails to achieve target lock and the Puma’s light weapons do no damage. Brian returns fire with the Scorpion and scores 2 damage points and forces the Puma to make a suppression check. The puma passes. At the end of turn one, three of Michael’s CAV’s are damaged while Brian lost one. The rest of Brian’s force is unscratched. Turn Two Michael drew the first card of turn two: it was red. Michael activated his Specter 70 Notice the Whisper Missile crashing and exploding off-board, down on the bottom left. Ok, so it’s just excessive flash from the camera :( and targeted the Starhawk with the IFM. He failed to achieve TL and the missiles drifted off-target, hitting nothing but rocks. Michael then activated his Vanquisher and advanced it to attack the Scorpion. The Vanquisher achieved target lock and scored 1 more damage point with the twin GCC’s. The DFM missed. Brian returned fire with the Scorpion but missed. Michael’s Puma attacked the Scorpion and scored one damage point with its flamer. Finally, Michael’s Tyrant succeeded in making its repair roll, reducing its damage to 3. It was now Brian’s half of turn two. He first activated the Scorpion and targeted the Puma. The Scorpion achieves TL and destroys the Puma with hits from all its weapons. Before it blows up, Michael has the Puma return fire, causing another damage point to the Scorpion and forcing it to take a suppression check. The Scorpion passes. Brian then activated the Specter and targeted Michael’s Vanquisher. He achieved TL and scored 1 damage point with its DFM. The Vanquisher’s return fire was ineffective. Finally, Brian activated his Starhawk and climbed up the hill to directly engage Michael’s Tyrant. The Starhawk’s attack and the Tyrant’s response were both ineffective. At the end of turn three, Michael had lost his Puma and all his remaining CAV’s were damaged. Brian had taken damage on his Scorpion only. Turn Three Brian drew the black card to start turn 3. He first activated his Specter to fire at Michael’s Vanquisher. The Specter scored one damage point. Michael did not retaliate, saying he would hold his shot for the Scorpion if it attacked. Brian then activated his Starhawk and fired on Michael’s Tyrant again. As last time, neither CAV damaged the other. Finally, Brian activated the Scorpion and fired on Michael’s Vanquisher. He achieved TL and scored 3 more damage points, destroying the Vanquisher. In its last act, the Vanquisher returned fire and man-
aged to score a single point of damage against the Scorpion. It was now Michael’s half of turn three. He activated his Specter and brought indirect fire down on Brian’s Scorpion. He achieved TL and chain locked in the Tyrant’s IDM pack. The missiles of the two CAV’s did not damage the Scorpion. Michael moved the Tyrant toward the cover of the large hill on his right flank. At the end of turn three, Michael has lost two CAV and the others are seriously wounded. Brian has lost one CAV and had one damaged with two unscratched. Turn Four Michael drew the black card and Brian started the fourth turn. He first activates his Specter to target Michael’s Tyrant. It is just within range. Brian achieves TL and scores I damage point on the CAV. Next, Brian advances the Starhawk up the hill and fires upon Michael’s Specter. He gains TL and destroys the Specter with two damage points. The Specter’s return fire is ineffective. Brian then withdraws the Starhawk back behind the hill. Finally, Brian fails the Scorpion’s repair roll. Michael activates his last CAV, and sends the Tyrant up the hill. Due to power restrictions, he is only able to fire one LBG at the Starhawk. Michael does no damage. The return fire of the Starhawk fails to damage the Tyrant. At this point Michael concedes the game. 71 And the award for taking it in the shorts…goes to Michael! Well, that could have gone better. There are two points to discuss about this battle, and the first is what I did wrong. Looking back, I should have brought more Suppression CAV’s. The Vanquisher did all right, but a Dictator or even another Tyrant would have increased my chances to kill Brian’s mechs. With the Puma and the Vanquisher, I was not able to bring enough firepower to bear to pull down the Scorpion. Other than that, I think my force list was good for a very small point game. The Specter provided support and the Puma was there for “soft targets” – like the disappearing Whisper missile. I flubbed my setup – deploying my CAV such that (1) they could be caught in the area of effect of Brian’s Specter and (2) Brain could focus on a small frontage. Through good dice rolls, I avoided #1 but #2 lead to two of my CAV getting damaged early on. So much for what I did wrong – now let’s talk about the other part. The game was unbalanced from the outset. This was because Brian’ purchased his models from the point in the CAV rulebook while I used the points in the Journal of Recognition. We both used Army Builder. This is a great program and makes force building very easy. I love using it to tweak my forces before battles. However, AB is only as good as its data files. As of now, the official data file available from Lone Wolf development is based on the CAV rulebook. There is a second version floating around, but I had to and ask for it on Mil-Net (http://www.mil-net.net/). The only reason I knew to ask for it was I originally wanted to include a Duelist – which is only available in the JOR version of the file. As nice as AB is, it’s still not the official rulebook. When using it, remember to double check what it creates. The folks who do the data files do a great service to the hobby at large, but they’re still human. Now, all that being said, I still had a great time. Yes, sometimes I did feel like Polish cavalry in the fall of 1939, but hey, not all scenarios are balanced – this is the norm for historical games. When you play a lot of point-based games, this fact tends to be forgotten.
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