Tom's 2018 Minions Log

So I recently, went to a local steamroller with minions and went 3-1 on the day. My pairing was Maelok and Calaban with the below lists. Sorry for the lack of pictures it was my first tournament in a while and it was too hectic of a day and I just forgot.

Minion Army - 75 / 75 points
[Theme] The Blindwater Congregation

(Calaban 1) Calaban, the Grave Walker [+29]
- Blackhide Wrastler [16]
- Blind Walker [10]
- Bull Snapper [0(5)]
- Ironback Spitter [14]
- Gatorman Soul Slave [5]
Gatorman Witch Doctor [4]
Kwaak Slickspine & Gub, Croak Sorcerers [4]
Totem Hunter [0(6)]
Croak Raiders (max) [16]
Croak Raiders (max) [16]
Swamp Gobbers Bellows Crew [2]
Sacral Vault [17]

Minion Army - 75 / 75 points
[Theme] The Blindwater Congregation

(Maelok 1) Maelok the Dreadbound [+28]
- Blackhide Wrastler [16]
- Blind Walker [10]
- Bull Snapper [5]
- Gatorman Soul Slave [0(5)]
Gatorman Witch Doctor [4]
Gatorman Witch Doctor [4]
Kwaak Slickspine & Gub, Croak Sorcerers [0(4)]
Totem Hunter [0(6)]
Gatorman Posse (max) [16]
Gatorman Posse (max) [16]
Gatorman Posse (max) [16]
Gatorman Posse (max) [16]

Round 1: I was up against a merc player who was running Osrrum with gunner/blaster spam paired with Ahsynn in the resistance theme force on Recon II. I dropped Maelok in order to try and take up as much board space as possible and he dropped his Ashlynn army. I won the roll off and chose to go first. Turn one basically everything ran, Maelok death packed and charged for the distance and the croc docs used death ride. My opponent ran everything for the most part except for a few models that got assault charges off. My turn two worked the exact same as turn one except for the fact that Mealok also feated. A few of the Posse were able to charge but everything else ran to engage on his side of the zones. His turn two we wasn't able to do anything. POW 9 trencher knives don't do much to armor 22 Posse. His nomads killed 2-3 but that was about all he was able to do before dropping distraction on my two center units of posse and feating hoping that I wouldn't be able to accomplish much either. Top of three and the score is now 1-0 as the soul slave had been able to camp my own flag on his turn. I had never played against Ashlynn before and the combination of -2 MAT and four dice drop two high meant that even with rerolls my posse weren't able to hit anything. about half way through my turn I realized that my soul slave could back out of feat and land a mortality on his trencher unit and that was actually able to swing it for me. The game was a grind from there that ended with my opponent clocking bottom of 6 with me ahead 5-4.

Round 2: This time I went up against a circle player. I don't quite remember what his pairing was but he ultimately dropped Bragidus in Bones and I once again dropped Maelok. This is the game where I really felt the lack of armor cracking in this list. I had no way to deal with ARM 23 Wolds. First two turns were basically the same for me. I won the roll off and just ran screaming up the board feating top of turn two. With synergy and the Wold Wights he burned through the posse (pun intended) continuous fire really sucks for posse as they are only ARM 16 against it and even though they were mostly there to stack synergy I lost 5-6 posse over the course of the game to Continuous Fire. Ultimately my opponent should have won this game as I was down to 5-6 posse out of 20 and he had a unit of shifting stones just camping in the far zone with nothing I could do about it but he lost track of time and clocked himself. He still had 2 of his 3 heavies and 3-4 of his 8 lights to my half dead wrastler and single posse unit the game was basically over for me. The real MVP of the game for me was the Totem Hunter. He one shot a Wold Wight on the charge before sprinting away and doing it again the next turn. All in all another win for Maelok

Round 3: This round was a really short round and was kinda disappointing. I got paired against my brother who was at the event with me and was 2-0 as well. I of course dropped Maelok again and he drop his jack heavy sons of tempest army lead by Kraye. I actually really liked the army and was looking forward to the match because even though he has only been playing for less than half a year he is a strong player. The game went south fast for him though. He has set a great feat turn to get a massive charge off with all of his jacks as well as sweep in with his ponies from the side but half was through the turn he realized that he had completely forgotten to allocate and his jacks landed with disappointing impact. It was his first time attending an event and it seems the pressure got to him. Finished out to a quick 5-0 scenario win bottom of 3.

Round 4: The final round of the event and I am up against trolls. I once again drop Maelok since he has gotten me this far and my opponent takes Kolgrima with a eclectic group of Champs, Fen Blades, and Buffalo. I win the dice off and I feel like I make my biggest mistake of the day electing to go second to avoid a massive match of burning earth right outside of the deployment zone on one of the sides. Ultimately the same thing happens to me that I did to my opponent round one and I was completely blocked out of scenario. Kolgrima's feat was and her cloud was turned it into a scenario loss 6-1 top of 4.


As a whole it was still a good day, a couple great games and I ended up coming in second which was better than I had anticipated considered this was my first event with Maelok. I discovered how hard it is to play into high armor with Maelok, I was expecting to do a little better but POW13s against armor 20-23 doesn't do much at all and Bradigus's spell protection made landing a mortality all but impossible. My next event is first part of march and I am likely going to be swapping out the Calaban list for something that can handle armor a little better. Rask and Super Friends seems like my current thought. Thanks for sticking around this long and reading all of this.