Sayeeda watched the holographic inlay of her card flicker to the two of swords and stabilize. It was an indifferent hand all told, perhaps she would win the round but it would depend heavily on what Neil and drawn in the last randomization. She made a point of frowning slightly at the card, although truthfully it was fairly in offensive. Sayeeda really preferred games where there were partners to play off but no one made it through a decade in the millitary without picking up all sorts of games. Sidereal was a fairly standard game in which one manipulated the trump suit by playing certain combinations. There was an element of card counting to it but the real trick was to keep the opponent guessing as to what your actual endgame was.

"So tell me about these mechs, Valk's you called them?" she asked both in genuine interest and in a effort to distrub his concentration. THe first rule of poker was to get people talking about things they were excited about and she figured it was a pretty fair tactic here.

"We went up against mechs a Forzaged once, tricky bastards, too small to use seeker warheads but armored against the light antipersonnel stuff the redlegs used." Terrain had played a factor too, Forzaged had many small canyons and water courses that made armor difficult to maneuver and were a haven for small lightly armored mechs. THe solution as Sayeeda remembered it was to flush them into kill zones using fuel air mixes. The mobility of mechs meant that their anti artillery capabilities were necessarily slight.  

"You were in a national or planetary army I take it?"

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