Shattergrounds

Hello Citizens of Concilium Prima, This is Sleve McDichael of the Channel 8 6 O'clock News. Breaking News this evening as reports of a terrorist attack occurred at one of the Shipping and Distribution hubs of Huaqiao's Experimental Energy Center. Sources have confirmed a rogue band of Morats sabotaged a power relay and attempted to hold the workers hostage. Local Gubei task forces, lead by a mysterious Masked Woman on Motorcycle deployed Tactical Armored Gear to the area and liberated the site from terrorist control. Representatives from the Combined Army have disavowed this band of renegades, claiming these Morats were acting against the interest of both the Human sphere, and a peaceful coexistence between Humanity and the Ur Hegemony.

JSA Turn 1- Wall of Metal, Engines Roar!
The Suryat HRL is gutting half the table, and with it's MSV I don't have the option to smoke around it. I employ a tactic some may call "Pano Smoke" and reroute my O-Yoroi to block it's most aggressive line. and free up Kuroshi Rider to flank. She makes a run up, grabs 2 Civilians and dashes back into the JSA DZ. The O-Yoroi spends a ton of G1 orders to knock the Suryat down, Yojimbo moves up, and my G2 Keisotsu Duo Rasyat-proofs my DZ.

MAF Turn 1- Glorious Nippon Steel, Folded One Thousand Times
The Oznat reroutes over to the center of the battlefield to provide smoke and allow the Core Team to advance. Rindak picks up the Suryat, and the Link spends a token to reform as a Pure 5Core. Suryat takes a couple shots through smoke, Dartok climbs up to get an angle, lands a Pitcher, and Spotlights the O-Yoroi. The Third Morat token is spent on a Guided Missile attack, which only deals 1 Wound to the O-Yoroi. The Fireteam gets into an entrenched central position, but at the end of the day, O-Yoroi stands strong at 1 STR.

JSA Turn 2- Where did you learn, 'Repulse the Monkey'?
My O-Yoroi is in a sticky situation. 2 Members of a 5man Core team are staring at him and He's only at 1 STR. I start by getting Yojimbo to infiltrate on the Morat left flank to take out the T Drone. I need to do a bit of dancing to force the Rindak back and smoke his line of fire. Yojimbo remounts, takes out the T drone and runs down the Vanguard Paramedic. With the 5man now down to 4, Samsa starts to work on the right flank. Plasma Rifle Templates prove extremely lethal, as Rdrone, Kornak, Dartok, Preta and Suryat all fall. Seeing the Morat force has been thoroughly dismantled, the O-Yoroi aggressively pushes forward, hitting the repeater, Oznat and Kaitok with Heavy Flamethrower, and his ARM7 proves durable enough to remain standing at 1STR.

Morat T2- An attempt was made
3 G1 Regular orders, one irregular Preta, and some Impets to take. Kaitok pushes up to the O-Yoroi and the TAG dodges in to melee. The Rindak attempts to grab a Civilian but fails the roll to Evac. Rasyat shows up to babysit a JSA HVT. The End is Nigh

JSA Turn 3- Cleanup and saving the HVTs
Kuroshi Evacs her two Civilians, Aragoto KHD saves one, O-Yoroi cuts the Kaitok down in CC, Guns down the Rasyat, then the Pilot dismounts to grab the Central HVT. Samsa moves up with the MAF HVT, but doesn't have enough orders to Evac him on the MAF Side Console, so he settles for killing an Ikadron and Rindak. No Enemies remain on the board.

Overview-
Although JSA Spent a ton of orders Turn 1 dealing with the Suryat, Morats lost too much momentum trying to take down the O-Yoroi in response. The game was won almost entirely off the TAG's above average ARM Saves, scalping 5 Short skills from the Suryat HRL, but being ARM7 will do that to you. The Fireteam being left in the midfield proved to be the bigger liability than leaving out the O-Yoroi, because JSA's ability to pick uneven fights on the flanks won the day. Once the Dartok and Suryat fell, the game was functionally over as there was no effective defense left for the Morats.

4-0 for the JSA