Special Operative Praalivus readied his boarding shotgun and paused for a steadying breath before dropping his camouflage in order to destroy the heavily armored soldier facing away from him. Two of his Igao assassin cell had been assigned to this operational zone, and command had assigned him to a target rich building on the west side of the zone. The other Igao had been assigned to kill just one human, but that was none of Operative Praalivus' concern. His was a suicide mission, but he would kill many of the barbarians before his life ended this day... Platform: IRL. Mission: Decapitation. Score: 9-0 0: I win the F2F roll, and with the assassins and the SymbioBugs I know I want to go first and leave my units standing up for reactive turn while I shovel all orders into my CC specialists. OpFor deploys with Strategos L2 with only one model out watching, an Epsilon sniper on left building prone, so it sees only my camo token by his designated target. 1a: The Igao on the left moves around the short building, Epsilon fails discover. Spend an order climbing (we don't realize until later that this entire order skill would cancel camo, otherwise I would have used the ladders which are equidistant). Spend orders climbing to the third level to get surprise shot with AP Boarding Shotgun against Gamma with Feuerbach (DataTracker). I ignore the Lambda Doc, who misses against camo and cover and the Epsilon, who fails the change facing dodge. Gamma, now with one wound, uses guts to get cover. Igao now splits burst, blowing up the Lambda and putting the Gamma into NWI while the Epsilon fails to change face. Third shot kills the Gamma outright and the Epsilon now gets his change face. Kerail moves up to first level of building on East and dodges with a Surda beast to dodge a camo token which is close to a TO camo unit (with minelayer skill and 2 mines) who appeared in a failed attempt to discover the Igao at extreme range earlier. The mine fails to damage the beast, and the Kerail and beast watch the corner in case the TO unit comes up. 1b: Cyberghosts put down a white noise template to block my Gao-Rael Triad and a Beta unit climbs up the building. Surda beast and Kerail put the Beta unconscious, but the Kerail is killed by a crit and the beast gets disconnected. OpFor use an engineering remote to bring the Beta back up. Beta moves forward and shoots the Sakiel LRL (DataTracker), critting the symbio armor off him. Aelis is also critted to dead state. The Makaul does get smoke, so I am safe against more for now. 2a: The Igao on the right moves forward and surprise shoots the Cyberghost. We turn out to be just outside 8inches and both miss. Move forward and then toward the ladder leading to the far right building, where the Alpha is waiting prone. Cyberghost goes unconscious and I spend several orders moving the Igao toward the back. Initial plan is to use surprise attack but when I hear about Guard L4 I decide that surprise shot is better. Alpha uses Engage and manages to beat my 1 and 2 roll. 2b: Impetuous Varangian runs forward and shoots my Designated target, but my dodge beats his bullets, and the Gao-Rael kills him with shock. the Beta moves forward and uses climbing plus to get closer to my dense right building (Gao-Rael triad and Makauls). The Beta crits the Sakiel DataTracker to dead, then crits the Gao-Rael to unconscious, breaking the Triad and making the Makauls impetuous again. It's ok because now I've decided I can't let this crit-machine go unopposed. 3a: impetuous moves let one Makaul move into B2B with the Beta without triggering an ARO, he then uses another order to put it in unconscious. The Igao on the left building moves and kills the Designated Target in one order (17 BS vs 11 PH). I decide to risk the Igao on the right against the Alpha and get my crit, killing it with the DA ammo. I spend some orders putzing around and then send the Igao after the remaining unit (Lambda Engineer), who dies to the Boarding Shotgun like everyone else. 3b: there was no turn 3, though OpFor could have used AD Combat jump, he waived his order instead.
They do different jobs IMO. The Clipsos is to be held back for an objective as I only ever use the FO profile. The Igao is a suicide assassin to be used turn 1 or turn 2. Both can be effective, but I bring Igao more often than Clipsos lately, especially with a Libertos for the shell game.
