Morg 2 list and pairing

I only have 1 turtle, so I was running a hexy 2 winds list that looks like this as my pairing

War Room Army

Skorne - hexy

Theme: Winds of Death
2 / 2 Free Cards 75 / 75 Army


Lord Arbiter Hexeris - WB: +27
- Aptimus Marketh - PC: 0
- Cyclops Shaman - PC: 8 (Battlegroup Points Used: 8)
- Razor Worm - PC: 7 (Battlegroup Points Used: 7)
- Titan Cannoneer - PC: 17 (Battlegroup Points Used: 12)
- Basilisk Drake - PC: 8

Siege Animantarax - PC: 17

Venator Dakar - PC: 4
Extoller Soulward - PC: 3
Swamp Gobber Chef - PC: 1

Venator Reivers - Leader & 9 Grunts: 15
- Venator Reiver Officer & Standard - Officer & Standard: 4
Venator Slingers - Leader & 9 Grunts: 13
Paingiver Beast Handlers - Leader & 3 Grunts: 5
Venator Flayer Cannon Crew - Gunner & Grunt: 0


THEME: Winds of Death
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GENERATED : 01/16/2018 20:03:41
BUILD ID : 2059.17-12-30

I ran this because I like the quick assassination vectors that my beasts provide via arcnodes. I am not 100% sure on how arcing and eyeless sight work in mk3 but I run extoller and the wurm for eyeless sight arcing. Marketh offers another vector and extra shot on 2 very good offensive spells. Drake is for Animus and is actually awesome with swift Hunter and blind spot. (Granted that can be accomplished in fatty)

Can you give me any insight on how to better run a fatty winds list?

I'm planning to use Morg2 DOA as my 2nd list. Zaal1 is my primary but still has a few variations being tested before I call it "done" for this year (I seem to settle into 3 casters/lists and mostly play those with a few silly casual games thrown in throughout the year - like my Naaresh+Dracodile list I'm building.) The core behavior of the list works a treat tho. I need to make a few purchases to try this Morghoul2 out but so far my pair for the next tourney will hopefully be:

The Void Battery
Zaal1 - Exalted
- Kovaas
- Cannoneer
- Cannoneer
- Shaman

Soulward
Soulward
Void Spirit
Void Spirit
Guardian
Guardian (free)
Hakaar (free)

max Immortals + CA
max Immortals + CA
Bellows Crew


Double Trouble
Morghoul2 - Disciples
- Archidon
- Archidon
- Blind Walker
- Blind Walker

Master Tormentor (free)
Master Tormentor (free)
Task Master (free)
Task Master

max Brigands + CA
max Brigands + CA
Bloodrunners
Bloodrunners
min Beast Handlers

These are some nice lists, glad to see the variation out there, its giving me a lot of ideas. Especially with the Wrastler, I think I am going to pick one up (or go wild and just buy that army box with him in it). I dont own croaks yet either but they look like a lot of fun.

I played a game against my friend who dropped b3 and I already had decided I was running my Morg list. Butcher 3 is an pain, and they actually have a theme that removes ambush from our units. My entire morg2 list is all about that ambush! Well it was going to be good practice any way I look at it. It was actually really good for me to have to AD them instead of Ambush as I just learned 2 games prior exactly how ambush works (you can AD them, or opt to ambush, you need not decide prior to your AD phase). Bog trogs are pretty bad not ambushing, but they absorbed a lot of gunfire, which kept his units busy and back. my pigs preyed his Ruin withe the thoughts that 10 effective pow 16 shots would ruin his day, but it didnt. in fact, my dice were pretty bad all game. However he got greedy with B3 and some decent placement on my part and feating meant his assassination run left me 1 one hp and morg took him down.

Things I learned. This list can handle a few hard targets, but it cannot handle a lot of hard targets. Though it does have some decent jamming potential and could win on scenario against a list like this ( If I killed one widowmaker id have won on scenario as well.)

In previous games I did arc through the shaman though I feel like it may be a bit of a gimmick. With proper placement I think it'll work much better. Something where you have an initial set up like this

(S) (B) (M)

Where the shaman activates first and uses Animus and then moves into position. This allows your nodes to spread out a bit better, otherwise he needs to be within 7 of the blind Walker and restrics your angles of threat.

In my game against b3 it was nice to have morg out of ruin's threat range and instead have a big tanky node to take the hit.

Game last night with my Morghoul 2 list:

Skorne - HSquad
Theme: Disciples of Agony

2 / 2 Free Cards 75 / 75 Army
Armory - Steamroller Objective

Lord Assassin Morghoul - WB: +29
- Blackhide Wrastler - PC: 16 (Battlegroup Points Used: 16)
- Titan Gladiator - PC: 15 (Battlegroup Points Used: 13)
- War Hog - PC: 15
- Archidon - PC: 10

Paingiver Bloodrunner Master Tormentor - PC: 0
Paingiver Bloodrunner Master Tormentor - PC: 0
Paingiver Task Master - PC: 3

Croak Raiders - Leader & 9 Grunts: 16
Nihilators - Leader & 9 Grunts: 15
Paingiver Bloodrunners - Leader & 5 Grunts: 9
Paingiver Beast Handlers - Leader & 3 Grunts: 5

I wanted a list that could could clear infantry, heavies that trade well and present an assassination option. Its paired with a arm skew X1 list. My opponent was rocking a Una2 Tharn list (Pureblood, 4xScarsfell, Bloodweavers, Ravagers+UA, Min Wolf Riders, Night Witch, Shaman, White Mane, Tree)

We agreed that my X1 armskew list was uphill for his single list and I wanted to try my list into some serious anti-infantry so I dropped Morghoul. The scenario was the wrestling belt. Forest to the center my opponent went first I chose the side with a handy trench.

Setup
My opponent puts his Ravagers to my left wolf riders to my right. Griffins paired up and Pureblood keeping Una warm. Bloodweavers setup center board behind the woods in AD. I Ambush my bloodrunners put my nihilators on my right (I didn't fancy them against the Ravagers) and beasts all in the middle. Finally I AD my croaks against the Ravagers with a PGTM on each flank.

Turn 1
My opponent runs, keeps his bloodweavers out of threat of the croaks who are their prey target. Ravagers run up making sure the UA and white mane are out of danger. Una gives the bloodweavers hand of fate and mirage on the Ravagers.
My Turn 1
TaskMaster gives croaks scutter, croaks oil and dart the ravagers and after all's done I've got 2 on fire one dead. They scutter away to avoid being packmaned. The left PGTM goes in to finish off a ravager but flubs his attack, leaving him staring death in the eyes. Right PGTM whips two bloodweavers off the table and sprints back. Nihlators flood up the table and the beasts toe the zone. Morghoul hands out shadow play onto the archidon and camps lots up on the edge of the zone.

Turn 2
Fire goes out on all the ravagers... they mirage about. His Shaman zaps the PGTM but fails to kill it lighting bounces onto one of the ravagers killing him(lol). The rest of the ravagers packman through some croaks and white mane takes off the PGTM. His bloodweavers tag a few more croaks and one lands a spiked damage roll on the archidon..  His riders take down the last PGMT and some Nihalators then jam in. Couple of Scarsfell get up the board and put up animi. Una dirdles in the back with her pureblood chum.
My Turn 2 
Morghoul apparitions into the zone feats catching all the weavers couple of Scarsfell (ones with dodge) and 2  of the riders. He walks forward and kills 3 weavers sprints back camping 3. Bloodrunners ambush into the Tharn and the objective. Gladiator rushes the Hog and charges some bloodweavers slapping 3 into the dirt thanks to blind. Hog charges a Scarsfell in the back of the zone (not blind) but within melee of a blind scaresfell, he take both off the table. Archidon gets onto the other blinded scarsfell and eats it. Nihlators clear off the wolf riders and finally Wrastler positions to score .  Score 0-1 to me

Turn 3
White mane packmans through all the bloodrunners!  Pureblood eats the hog, last scaresfell kills the archidon. Una backs up while the unblinded night witch beats ineffectively on the gladiator he contests my zone score 0-1
My Turn 3
Morghoul apparitions into the scarefell, nihlators soften it up and he then flashing blades it death. Walks over to stab the nightwitch and attempts to boost a mortailty into Una2 (Mistake) and misses. Wrastler charges pureblood and just manages to kill it. Gladiator rushes itself and charges Una. I boosted my first two attacks, they both connect, and are enough to kill her.

Thoughts
Mortality ergh, 3 fury and 1 to boost. I should have rushed the gladiator with Morghoul thus leaving it with 3 fully boosted hits and a potential boost on damage. 4 fury to only have it miss is just crazy... anyway otherwise list did okay into his infantry clearing. Croaks did a job again. I think I wimped out not putting my nihaltors against his Ravagers.. My opponent was to aggressive with his griffins giving me 3 in my turn. Hog was okay although my thinking with him is ARM20+ killer but he traded well against the griffins. 

I've run Morghoul2 in winds a lot and found that an arc node is nice but not critical. With high def, steady, incorp and access to stuff like Sprint and craft talisman he's pretty good at tagging a target and scuttling back to safety. Granted I'm usually just using mortality as an armor debuf or to stop a battle engine/collosal from repairing so I usually don't need to boost to hit.