Game One.
I played Joe B. From Vancouver, WA. I drove up with him and had never played him in any game system before.
Joe plays Tohaa, brutal, nasty Tohaa with Nehma , lots of snipers, and plenty of Makual. This was my second game vs. Tohaa, so I do not have a great deal of experience with them or how to play them.
I won WIP and had Joe place first and picked the far side. Mistake. I picked the wrong side. The side I gave Joe had the best fire lanes and a majority of the high ground. Did I mention he had lots of snipers?
Joe took advantage of all the fire lanes, took the first antennae. He raced to the second on top of the tallest building on the table.
Did I mention we were playing on a table filled with Chris Matthews' Top Down Terrain? That means multiple large buildings that are 7-9 inches tall that are large on the top then they are on the bottom.
My Bandit with the Killer Hacker was on the top of that building. He hid to stay alive. Joe bombed the top of the building with eclipse grenades to hid and hit the button.
The bandit engaged the button pusher and won combat.
On my turn, I used my Wildcat haris to spitfire the remainder of the triad off the building top. My bandit went prone and coup de grace a down triad member. Not only did I get my classified, but I scavenged the eclipse grenades. This was the game winner. The Bandit could toss Eclipse Grenades, hit the button, and revert to camo.
I tried to probe up my right flank, but the Gael Rael Viral Sniper with symbiomate and symboit army was too hard to take out. It took out Lupe, an ML, and an HMG......
With my advance thwarted, I squeak out a win.
It was a challenging game with a new opponent and an army I rarely play against: win.
Joe and I spoke in funny voices for half the game. What a hoot!