In this battle report we see the classic battle of Kira Yamato in the Strike and Mwu La Fraga in the Moebius Zero vs the remaining GAT series Gundams, Aegis, Blitz, Buster and Duel piloted by Athrun Zala, Nicol Amalfi, Dearka Elsman and Yzak Joule. Both sides squared off with 1000pts in a space battle. Keep reading to see the outcome of these two battles!
Round 1
Kira starts off in the Launcher strike and fires the Agni Impulse Cannon at Buster.
*Current Song: Meteor – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UEaAYp8AJk&list=RD2UEaAYp8AJk
Buster retaliates by combining its weapons into a hyper impulse sniper rifle and returning fire. Mwu moves into cover and fires his railgun and gunpods into Buster, further draining Buster’s phase shift battery. Duel moves forward to cover Buster.
Meanwhile Aegis Gundam captures the center control point.
Round 2
Kira’s player decides to be bold, switches to Sword Strike and charges into Aegis on the center control point. Athrun fends off Kira’s sudden charge.
Mwu continues to batter Buster draining the battery, then pushes to the center control point so his team wins control of it. Buster captures the right control point and fires its shotgun at Mwu. Duel uses accelerate to get to the center and finish off Mwu with vulcans and gets the center control point.
Nichol captures the left control point.
With a huge momentum bank, Kira is unable to destroy anyone, despite his hardest efforts.
Well that was a fast game (full of terrible rolls for Mwu and Kira).
*Current Song: Anni ni issho ni datta no ni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDBhUaSSJIE&list=RDJDBhUaSSJIE
GAME 2 – REMATCH
Let’s play smarter this time. Aegis takes the center point again, Kira blasts Buster again, Buster returns fire, Mwu takes one flank’s control point and uses his remote gunpods to hammer Buster. Duel forward while firing but Mwu makes the imposssible possible and dodges it all this time.
Nichol takes the other control point.
Round 2
Aegis is up first, fires the Scylla cannon at Mwu who avoids it, then melee’s Kira. Flash meets Valor and Kira barely survives, his HP gets plunged below 50% activating SEED.
Mwu is up next, first he hammers buster & duel with railgun and gunpods then retreats back to the home control point. Duel chases but can’t land any hits.
Kira is up and switches to Strike, he hacks at Athrun in melee who luckily survives. Kira breaks away and throws the beam boomerang but Athrun survives. Nichol in the Blitz fires at Kira.
Round 3
Kira is up first, and nails a Finishing blow on Nichol
*Current Song: Find the Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3nr8rkoKQA&list=RDy3nr8rkoKQA
Athrun tries to avenge our piano player
Mwu continues to play hit and run with Dearka and Yzak.
Buster is out of EN and phase shift powers down.
Mwu contests the control point again (deja vu) but this time Duel is too far away for a rapid fire onslaught and Buster can no longer use [E] weapons.
Round 4
Buster takes the the enemy home control point while Mwu takes their home control point, now hammering Duel and burning through it’s phase shift.
Athrun tries to revengeance but Kira finishes him on a counterattack. Kira switches to Aile because with 200HP left he needs to survive somehow.
Duel unloads with Zeal but Strike narrowly lives thanks to SEED + Booster.
Round 5
Kira wins initiative, accelerates backwards and saves Boost to survive Duel’s final attack.
The battle ends with 4 units surviving but a victory for Kira and Mwu.
After Action Report
The first battle we played was before we settled on a HP rebalance, the GAT series Gundam’s were low enough on HP that any bad roll on Armor Saves would be instant death, which we saw often. Even with dropping -1 Hit across the board, the luck of the dice meant that first game was over before we know it. (A change in tactics would have helped some but not all).
The second game you see depicted here (actually game 7 in the series) was after the HP rebalance and it felt perfect. We had our various GAT series Gundams firing across the battlefield, phase shift keeping them in contact while Mwu rockets around the battlefield. Even when Athrun had 5 unblocked hits get through on Kira, he survived, something only possible with the HP revamp that heavily benefited high Frame units.
Overall we had a lot of fun with these battles, and even more fun with a subsequent series of Freedom and Justice vs Calamity, Raider and Forbidden. Stay tuned for that battle report later, as well as a cross universe battle between Freedom & Justice vs GP02 Physalis and The O.
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