Played a 2 v 1 of Big Team Battles today. I was happy to bring out pretty much all of the brutes and double sword elites. Opponents had 50/50 split of Noble Team (Carter, Jorge, Noble 6) and ODST hot drop. The game was MAC round Incoming…and boy did it.
Game started okay for both players. Elites and bezerkers sprinted forwards to be the harassment units they were designed to be. Noble Team proved to be a pain as Carter and Jorge took 2 zones and Jorge laid down some suppressive fire.
Banished were on the back foot going into turn 2. Some back and forth action held back the UNSC from scoring more than 1 zone, but many brutes were harmed in the making. Picked up a couple kills but the UNSC were able to score another zone.
Turn 3 and 4 was rough for Banished. The ODST Captain decided he had enough of the aliens because he single-handedly smashed an elite and a Bezerker in combat which was unexpected to say the least. Noble 6 finally was able to break away and fire the Laser promptly putting down another Bezerker and trying to tie up a Captain (who hammered him into a wall). But brutes were falling too fast and between the ODST harassment, Noble Team was able to hold all 3 points for a round to push the game hard in their favor.
Turn 5 there was already not much left. With limited respawns, Brutes were running out of options fast. Luckily a sword elite killed the ODST captain and tried to threaten Buck only to be flamed to death. Captain was holding down 1 flank but 2 ODST rolling hot managed to put him down. Final elite managed to get into Jorge and injure him but because of x2 Health Packs (one bought, 1 picked up round 1) was unable to do much actual damage). A few lucky shots from an ODST managed to clear the final elite, just leaving a Chosen Warrior fighting Carter.
Round was scored with UNSC scoring 3 more zones. And then the MAC round hit. Everyone was in the blast zone so literally everyone was hit. The only Survivor was Jorge who managed to stay perfectly okay on the bridge thanks to his back up health pack.
Game and 71 - 29 UNSC