The traitors had crudely constructed 90mm long range cannons in concealed pits amongst the ruins of the
city. Repurposed fortification weapons hastily welded into anti-air defenses. The archenemy had revealed
their makeshift firepower all at once in the sector as Imperial landers attempted to abort drop insertion in
the neighboring sector. Many troops lives were saved thanks to quick reactions from escort fighter but not
all landers made it back to orbit. Now understanding the archenemies forces had never actually retreated
from the sector like intelligence had believed, plans were quickly made to disable enemy air defenses.
Jamie and I agreed to play a narrative Kill Team campaign using the Airborne Assault mission pack from
the Hivestorm book. The first mission saw his Tempestus Aquilions drop from up high with one goal,
destroy the traitors anti-air guns. I am using my Blooded and it was my job to disable any bombs that
were planted at any of two locations in the mid-field.
Turning point 1 saw both the Aquilions and Blooded set up forward positions. At the end of turning point
1 and start of turning point 2 saw Jamie's Aquilions make great use of smoke grenades to obscure troopers
that had less than ideal cover from the traitors positioned up on vantage. With both teams trading well in
combat, victory would only be awarded to the Aquilions if they managed to set a bomb. And before the
end of turning point 2 they did just that, setting a timer on the traitors to diffuse the rapidly escalating
situation. At the start of turning point 3 the timer was set to 9 activations, 5 for Jamie and 4 for me. During
Turning point 3 I saw an opportunity to charge my Flenser into combat with two Aquilion, this was a
misplay and didn’t further my goal of diffusing the bomb but didn’t actually cost me the game. Jamie's
clever use of the Drop and Secure strategy ploy as well as bringing his Grenadier forward to reinforce the
bomb location sealed his victory. This game was an absolute blast in more ways than one!
