Andromeda missed her alarm

As always, my local Infinity group is a ton of fun to play with (even when I lose… The list failed miserably). For the record, I don’t blame any of the failure on Andromeda. I do blame my dice, and a couple terrible positioning decisions I made part-way through the game. Rob was also excellent, which meant every mistake I made and failed dice roll was taken advantage of.

My list wasn’t perfect, but I actually grew to like the combination of units I took even if they didn’t perform fantastic.

Andromeda has earned the title of “Sophistes”

She is an expert intelligence agent, interrogator, and covert operative. Alongside her is her big puppy (appearing in game as Guard L3).

In OSS, she has the widest range of profile options:

In Looting and Sabotage close combat weapons with the Anti-materiel trait are vital, and being able to get to the opponent’s side of the board is your main goal. I had Andromeda, and I also had a good number of specialists including the 6–4 MOV Dakini Paramedic.

Sadly, Andromeda must have woken up late because she failed her Superior Infiltration roll to land next to the AC2. I set her up covering one of my flanks instead, hoping she could use the cover and my opponent’s setup to get forward anyways.

The rest of my force was arrayed to the right, hoping to use the dense cover of the walkways to push deep onto the other side of the board.

Looking back, I can’t tell you why I set up the Samekh remote out of cover. I guess I was trusting the +3 link and scary missile launcher to do its job. Either way, the T2 Blackjack Sniper that Rob is putting down made short work of it in the first order of the game.

My Asura took a wound getting away from the Grunt, my link team got pinched moving forward, and my Yadu HMG was mis-played. This is also where I started to realize my luck was going to be bad.

At best, I could say I positioned myself ok to move into the second turn; but I didn’t do any significant damage and I hadn’t really put myself to strike in turn 2.

Looting and Sabotage is brutal, especially as OSS where your options for anti-materiel weapons are so limited. Fortunately for me OSS has some excellent specialists. Sadly for me, I’d put myself in a position to need them to get through USAriadna’s defenses.

My plan was to distract the link team with my Asura and use my Dakini paramedic to grab D-charges and go for the AC2. Andromeda would swing around in a left hook to draw pressure off the link team.

Andromeda was the only one of the three elements that completed her objective.

Rob’s USAriadna won through the two minimum objective points: pulling weapons from panoplies and completing the Classified objective. I didn’t manage either of those tricks, but was at least able to protect my AC2 from being cleared out by Van Zant.

Sadly, my dice had left him with plenty of orders and two specialists in the mid-field. He was able to fuel those specialists into picking up d-charges, sneaking around what defenses I had left from Van Zant, and destroying my AC2.

Rob pulled off a 10–0 victory, but I can safely say that Andromeda was the only useful element of my list.

Andromeda has some major things going for her:

Looting and Sabotage is a rough mission as a limited insertion OSS list… or at least the one I took. My dice didn’t help. I think next time I would drop the Asura for a Dasyu backup, and use the rest of the points to upgrade my Dakini link and Lamdeh.

I would definitely keep Andromeda though.

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