Learning Druze

A few weeks back, HATE was lucky enough to get some visitors from St Albans and I arranged a game with Laina, their Warcor. I wanted to get some practice with my Druze, while she was looking to get a bit of a better understanding of her Aleph force.

Here you can see my deployment, with the Druze HMG taking advantage of an excellent diagonal firelane, while leaving a massive blind spot open to a warband sneaking up on it, while my Brawler MSV2 Sniper sits in a stupid position unable to see more than eight inches in any useful direction.

Various figures are scattered about, including another Druze in case the link needs reinforcing, a Total Reaction remote in the middle, a baggage bot ready to head forward to score some points for Quadrant Control later, and then a bounty hunter sniper being another annoying ARO piece.

Here you can see Laina's lovely Aleph. I think these are Myrmidions.

Saito Togan hid out in the middle to do some damage to whatever tried to advance.

It turns out when you don't leave a good line of fire for your MSV2, a Myrmidion (with ODD) will ruin your link.

LOOK AT THESE TERRIBLE FIRE ARC PLACEMENTS! NEVER DO THIS AGAIN, TRO!!

Saito Togan ran up to the Asura in Suppression Fire and was promptly critted in the face and down he went. That was awkward.

One of the hackers deals with the annoying Myrmidion by shooting it repeatedly in the back until it dies. But it's all gone pretty badly wrong.

The baggage bot tries to make a break for it.

It does not do so successfully, and the Druze are roundly defeated.

Laina was a great opponent, and having not faced Vanilla Aleph much before, it was definitely a learning experience. 16 orders isn't something you expect to see from Aleph! I think there's a lot I still need to learn for Druze. They can hit really hard, but despite taking a list designed to be really strong in ARO, poor placement meant they were taken apart piecemeal.