Post by krawat on Nov 22, 2017 14:44:45 GMT
Hi all,
Sort of battle report for one of the major EU cons. I managed to get 2 times 2nd place at masters and invitational.
Last weekend I attended ClogCon – the best mainland EU convention that I have visited so far
. Sankha Amarakoon organizes this event and I can only have a praise for location, organization and people at ClogCon. Good job Sankha.
This year besides WMH there were also GuildBall, Bloodbowl, Wh40k and 9th age tournaments so everyone can find something for them there. If you can visit the event in 2018 go www.clogcon.com for more information.
The WMH event is organized as follows:
Friday
Masters event (64+) players with 2 slots for main event at Sunday
Champions event with 1 slot for main event at Sunday
Saturday
Team tournament with 3 slots for main event at Sunday
Steamroller with 1 slot for main event at Sunday
Hardcore with 1 slot for main event at Sunday
Sunday
Invitational event for 8 persons with winner being ClogCon Champion of all 😀
Besides each day there are steamrollers, team events and a lot more.
Comping back to Cryx topic I intended to play my Coven DH lists from Czech Masters that gave me a win, Skarre1 that was similar to Coven and Denny 1 Satyxis. I also took GF Denny1 to build better list question (do You have enough RFP to kill all those pirates ?)
At the end all plans only survive up to engagement with the enemy and this time was the same. 🙂 On the way to Amsterdam I decided to skip
Coven DH and go for Coven Satyxis. So finally my 3 lists for masters were:
Skarre DH with 2 WE, 2 Cavs, Darragh, 3 Stalkers, Node, Tartarus, Skarlock and Thralls
Coven DH with Big / Small Raiders / 2x Witches, Small Nyss and 2 Captains with 2 Nodes and desecrator
GF Denny 1 full standard
Masters Tournament 70+ players. My lists
Skarre1 DH
2 x BE – 30
3x Stalker – 24
1x Deathripper – 6
1x Bane Raiders Max – 20
1x Bane Raiders Min – 12
Darragh – 9 pts
Skarlock free
Tartarus free
Thralls free
Coven Satyxis
Raiders Max + UA – 19
Raiders Min + UA – 13
Blood Witches Min + UA – 8 (UA Free)
Blood Witches Min+ UA – 8 (UA Free)
Gunslingers – 7
Gunslingers – 7
Desecrator – 14
Stalker – 8
2x Deathripper – 12
Satyxis Raider Captain – 4
Satyxis Raider Captain – 0
My third list was standard Denny1 GF. Nothing special here. I played 6 games during masters including 3 mirrors. Here are there.
1st game I don’t remember much – It may have been Mercs – I won on scenario fast
2nd game Denny2 GF so perfect cryx drop it seems. I played Skarre and attritioned Denny2 badly. He didn’t cast hell mouth at all as I got to much armor. With Hellfire from Skarre and Darragh I managed to kill 2 leaders of Revenants (no coming back ) and brought 3rd unit to the edge of the table. Darragh killed a lot of Blackbanes with his magical scythe and hellfires. The biggest problem was BE but as soon as he committed it I killled it with Cav. Due to dark guidance and impact attacks I could kill a lot of revenants each turn and stalkers killed things that were too far away to get killed by cav. Intresting game and it seems Skarre1 can handle Cryx ok
3rd game Trolls Gunbjorn – His list was Making, Bengine and Bomber, Dozer and 2 units of Firetrolls and some additional beasts I think. Honestly Skarre loves this and she killed it like a champ. Won on scenario and attrition np.
4rd game Don’t remember honestly
5th game Lich1 GF so another list teched for Cryx mirror. Again Standard GF with 1 DE. Game was similar as 2nd one but I forgot about Lich1 feat and his potential 14 focus. It costed me almost a game as I was killing him strongly but he managed to run arcnode near Skarre1 and almost spell assassinated her. He didn’t roll boosted 9 to hit and I survived (was camping 4 and got 10 hp left after feat). Again attrition wise DH is much better then GF If you keep the pressure on.
6th game – Final against Denny1 Satyxis. Player Jonas Brand. Jonas’ list was 2 units of raiders 1 unit of witches, Croes, Ragman, Captain and UAs. He had 2 nodes and 2 stalkers. The game started 1.00 AM and I was really tired. I played again Skarre 1 as I decided not to change the horse during a run. He run and I run. Then he feated and I saw opening for assassination under Denny’s1 feat 
. I managed to clear the place and put BE into Denny. Casted Dark guidance and needed 2 hits on 11+ to kill her as she was camping only 1. Out of 3 rolls I managed to hit once and decided that 1.45 AM is good time to go to bed so w shook hands and I have taken my 2nd place 😀 that gave me spot into Sunday’s Invitational
On Saturday I played in some Steamrollers testing new version of Satyxis.
Coven Satyxis
Raiders Max + UA – 19
Raiders Min + UA – 13
Blood Witches Min + UA – 8 (UA Free)
Blood Witches Min+ UA
Gunslingers – 7
Nyss Hunters – 12
Desecrator – 14
Stalker – 8
2x Deathripper – 12
Satyxis Raider Captain – 4
Satyxis Raider Captain – 0
Ragman – 4
I added Ragman and Nyss to get more Umpf into heavy armor. It seemed it was not enough but this would be a different story. I also played my first ever game against Grymkin with my Skarre1 list and lost soundly due to terrain and not knowing Grymking stuff. That would also come back later. At the end I played 5 games won 3 lost 2, but it was just a warm up before Sunday’s Invitational.
On Sunday the main event started. There were 8 players – 2 Cryx – Me and Jonas with his Denny1 and Coven DH I think, Cygnar with fellow Warroompl player Marcin Nowicki (H3 and Nemo3), 2 times Ret (I know there were Issyria but don’t know much more), Pat Dunford’s Grymkin (Heretic and Old Witch both in Beast theme), Mercs with Ossrum and Damiano and Toby’s Trolls with Madrak1 meat mountain (don’t remember 2nd list) .
1st Game was against Ossrum in Hammerfall with 2xBE , 2x big hammerdwarves, 2 gunners – 3 blasters, 2 x artillery, 2 x Ogrun Bokur, I though it would be easy match up but it wasn’t so. I played Skarre1. I made positioning mistakes and lost 2 stalkers and 2 Cav into shooting early under Ossrums feat. I managed to kill some hammerdwarves and bunnies but he BE kept criting on my BE and I couldn’t do much. I was loosing on time and attrition but he made 1 positioning mistake with Ossrum. With Machine Wraith moving bunny out of the way and BE and 1 Cav guy charging Ossrum I kill him 🙂
2nd Game was against Toby from UK with Madrak1 Meat mountain. He had Bomber and Bouncer, Big unit of Champs, Small unit of champs, UAs for them, Skaldi, small Warders, Kriel Warriors with UA for screen and some solos and the stone. I stared moved forward. He moved forward and feated so I couldn’t charge. I expected this. I counterfeated and went all in with all stalkers 2 BEs and small Cav. It was good. Killed small champs, small warders, some kriel warriors solos. He counterattacked and killed 1 Stalker and Small Cav and Darragh. Then we started the grind. During that I killed more warriors and whole stone and most of the solos so He had left 3 warriors, big champs and bomber and I got 1 BE, 2 Cav models and skarlock. In the meantime I managed to score in one zone for 5:1. His turn he killed BE and 1 Cav guy but I managed to run my Machine Wraith to contest 2 zones and scored in 3rd for final 6 point. I won and was in the finals.
3rd Game – Final against Grymkin – Pat Dunford the one and only. I didn’t know but there was a list lock so I had to play Satyxis. Honestly I didn’t have a plan for this game and Pat just tanked my attacks like a champ. You can see this game on page5.de .
Not much to say here. I need more practice to play into Grymkin, so Pat won. It was well deserved. I need to tweak my Satyxis list better but Skarre1 is a champ. I love the way she plays and I think she may be better suited to my play style then coven.
Results – www.clogcon.com/news/clogcon-2017-results/
Will write some afterthoughts later on the meta and Cryx list pair currently. Besides we talked about ClogCon on our latest podcast at Warroom.pl
warroom.pl/en/cryx-at-clogcon-2017-part-1/
warroom.pl/en/2161-2/
K.
Sort of battle report for one of the major EU cons. I managed to get 2 times 2nd place at masters and invitational.
Last weekend I attended ClogCon – the best mainland EU convention that I have visited so far
. Sankha Amarakoon organizes this event and I can only have a praise for location, organization and people at ClogCon. Good job Sankha.This year besides WMH there were also GuildBall, Bloodbowl, Wh40k and 9th age tournaments so everyone can find something for them there. If you can visit the event in 2018 go www.clogcon.com for more information.
The WMH event is organized as follows:
Friday
Masters event (64+) players with 2 slots for main event at Sunday
Champions event with 1 slot for main event at Sunday
Saturday
Team tournament with 3 slots for main event at Sunday
Steamroller with 1 slot for main event at Sunday
Hardcore with 1 slot for main event at Sunday
Sunday
Invitational event for 8 persons with winner being ClogCon Champion of all 😀
Besides each day there are steamrollers, team events and a lot more.
Comping back to Cryx topic I intended to play my Coven DH lists from Czech Masters that gave me a win, Skarre1 that was similar to Coven and Denny 1 Satyxis. I also took GF Denny1 to build better list question (do You have enough RFP to kill all those pirates ?)
At the end all plans only survive up to engagement with the enemy and this time was the same. 🙂 On the way to Amsterdam I decided to skip
Coven DH and go for Coven Satyxis. So finally my 3 lists for masters were:
Skarre DH with 2 WE, 2 Cavs, Darragh, 3 Stalkers, Node, Tartarus, Skarlock and Thralls
Coven DH with Big / Small Raiders / 2x Witches, Small Nyss and 2 Captains with 2 Nodes and desecrator
GF Denny 1 full standard
Masters Tournament 70+ players. My lists
Skarre1 DH
2 x BE – 30
3x Stalker – 24
1x Deathripper – 6
1x Bane Raiders Max – 20
1x Bane Raiders Min – 12
Darragh – 9 pts
Skarlock free
Tartarus free
Thralls free
Coven Satyxis
Raiders Max + UA – 19
Raiders Min + UA – 13
Blood Witches Min + UA – 8 (UA Free)
Blood Witches Min+ UA – 8 (UA Free)
Gunslingers – 7
Gunslingers – 7
Desecrator – 14
Stalker – 8
2x Deathripper – 12
Satyxis Raider Captain – 4
Satyxis Raider Captain – 0
My third list was standard Denny1 GF. Nothing special here. I played 6 games during masters including 3 mirrors. Here are there.
1st game I don’t remember much – It may have been Mercs – I won on scenario fast
2nd game Denny2 GF so perfect cryx drop it seems. I played Skarre and attritioned Denny2 badly. He didn’t cast hell mouth at all as I got to much armor. With Hellfire from Skarre and Darragh I managed to kill 2 leaders of Revenants (no coming back ) and brought 3rd unit to the edge of the table. Darragh killed a lot of Blackbanes with his magical scythe and hellfires. The biggest problem was BE but as soon as he committed it I killled it with Cav. Due to dark guidance and impact attacks I could kill a lot of revenants each turn and stalkers killed things that were too far away to get killed by cav. Intresting game and it seems Skarre1 can handle Cryx ok
3rd game Trolls Gunbjorn – His list was Making, Bengine and Bomber, Dozer and 2 units of Firetrolls and some additional beasts I think. Honestly Skarre loves this and she killed it like a champ. Won on scenario and attrition np.
4rd game Don’t remember honestly
5th game Lich1 GF so another list teched for Cryx mirror. Again Standard GF with 1 DE. Game was similar as 2nd one but I forgot about Lich1 feat and his potential 14 focus. It costed me almost a game as I was killing him strongly but he managed to run arcnode near Skarre1 and almost spell assassinated her. He didn’t roll boosted 9 to hit and I survived (was camping 4 and got 10 hp left after feat). Again attrition wise DH is much better then GF If you keep the pressure on.
6th game – Final against Denny1 Satyxis. Player Jonas Brand. Jonas’ list was 2 units of raiders 1 unit of witches, Croes, Ragman, Captain and UAs. He had 2 nodes and 2 stalkers. The game started 1.00 AM and I was really tired. I played again Skarre 1 as I decided not to change the horse during a run
. He run and I run. Then he feated and I saw opening for assassination under Denny’s1 feat 
. I managed to clear the place and put BE into Denny. Casted Dark guidance and needed 2 hits on 11+ to kill her as she was camping only 1. Out of 3 rolls I managed to hit once and decided that 1.45 AM is good time to go to bed so w shook hands and I have taken my 2nd place 😀 that gave me spot into Sunday’s InvitationalOn Saturday I played in some Steamrollers testing new version of Satyxis.
Coven Satyxis
Raiders Max + UA – 19
Raiders Min + UA – 13
Blood Witches Min + UA – 8 (UA Free)
Blood Witches Min+ UA
Gunslingers – 7
Nyss Hunters – 12
Desecrator – 14
Stalker – 8
2x Deathripper – 12
Satyxis Raider Captain – 4
Satyxis Raider Captain – 0
Ragman – 4
I added Ragman and Nyss to get more Umpf into heavy armor. It seemed it was not enough but this would be a different story. I also played my first ever game against Grymkin with my Skarre1 list and lost soundly due to terrain and not knowing Grymking stuff. That would also come back later. At the end I played 5 games won 3 lost 2, but it was just a warm up before Sunday’s Invitational.
On Sunday the main event started. There were 8 players – 2 Cryx – Me and Jonas with his Denny1 and Coven DH I think, Cygnar with fellow Warroompl player Marcin Nowicki (H3 and Nemo3), 2 times Ret (I know there were Issyria but don’t know much more), Pat Dunford’s Grymkin (Heretic and Old Witch both in Beast theme), Mercs with Ossrum and Damiano and Toby’s Trolls with Madrak1 meat mountain (don’t remember 2nd list) .
1st Game was against Ossrum in Hammerfall with 2xBE , 2x big hammerdwarves, 2 gunners – 3 blasters, 2 x artillery, 2 x Ogrun Bokur, I though it would be easy match up but it wasn’t so. I played Skarre1. I made positioning mistakes and lost 2 stalkers and 2 Cav into shooting early under Ossrums feat. I managed to kill some hammerdwarves and bunnies but he BE kept criting on my BE and I couldn’t do much. I was loosing on time and attrition but he made 1 positioning mistake with Ossrum. With Machine Wraith moving bunny out of the way and BE and 1 Cav guy charging Ossrum I kill him 🙂
2nd Game was against Toby from UK with Madrak1 Meat mountain. He had Bomber and Bouncer, Big unit of Champs, Small unit of champs, UAs for them, Skaldi, small Warders, Kriel Warriors with UA for screen and some solos and the stone. I stared moved forward. He moved forward and feated so I couldn’t charge. I expected this. I counterfeated and went all in with all stalkers 2 BEs and small Cav. It was good
. Killed small champs, small warders, some kriel warriors solos. He counterattacked and killed 1 Stalker and Small Cav and Darragh. Then we started the grind. During that I killed more warriors and whole stone and most of the solos so He had left 3 warriors, big champs and bomber and I got 1 BE, 2 Cav models and skarlock. In the meantime I managed to score in one zone for 5:1. His turn he killed BE and 1 Cav guy but I managed to run my Machine Wraith to contest 2 zones and scored in 3rd for final 6 point. I won and was in the finals.3rd Game – Final against Grymkin – Pat Dunford the one and only
. I didn’t know but there was a list lock so I had to play Satyxis. Honestly I didn’t have a plan for this game and Pat just tanked my attacks like a champ. You can see this game on page5.de . Not much to say here. I need more practice to play into Grymkin, so Pat won. It was well deserved. I need to tweak my Satyxis list better but Skarre1 is a champ. I love the way she plays and I think she may be better suited to my play style then coven
.Results – www.clogcon.com/news/clogcon-2017-results/
Will write some afterthoughts later on the meta and Cryx list pair currently. Besides we talked about ClogCon on our latest podcast at Warroom.pl
warroom.pl/en/cryx-at-clogcon-2017-part-1/
warroom.pl/en/2161-2/
K.
