Post by redcathal on Jan 29, 2018 17:11:09 GMT
So this past weekend warpcon happened in cork and I went down to do my best and hopefully not to clock myself. Ended up winning 1 and losing 2 see how I did below
My lists
War Room Army
Circle Orboros - Grayle
Theme: The Wild Hunt
2 / 2 Free Cards 75 / 75 Army
Grayle the Farstrider - WB: +29
- Feral Warpwolf - PC: 18 (Battlegroup Points Used: 18)
- Rip Horn Satyr - PC: 14 (Battlegroup Points Used: 11)
- Gnarlhorn Satyr - PC: 12
Wolf Lord Morraig - PC: 8
- Wolf Lord Morraig (Continued)
War Wolf - PC: 2
War Wolf - PC: 2
War Wolf - PC: 2
Reeves of Orboros - Leader & 9 Grunts: 16
- Reeve of Orboros Chieftain & Standard - Chieftain & Standard: 4
Wolves of Orboros - Leader & 9 Grunts: 11
- Wolves of Orboros Chieftain & Standard - Chieftain & Standard Bearer: 0
Warpborn Skinwalkers - Leader & 4 Grunts: 15
- Warpborn Skinwalker Alpha - PC: 0
THEME: The Wild Hunt
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GENERATED : 01/29/2018 17:10:19
BUILD ID : 2059.17-12-30
War Room Army
Circle Orboros - Kaya
Theme: Call of the Wild
4 / 4 Free Cards 75 / 75 Army
Kaya the Wildborne - WB: +32
- Druid Wilder - PC: 0
- Gnarlhorn Satyr - PC: 12 (Battlegroup Points Used: 12)
- Rip Horn Satyr - PC: 14 (Battlegroup Points Used: 14)
- Warpwolf Stalker - PC: 19 (Battlegroup Points Used: 6)
- Feral Warpwolf - PC: 18
- Pureblood Warpwolf - PC: 17
- Gorax Rager - PC: 7
- Wild Argus - PC: 7
- Wild Argus - PC: 7
Lord of the Feast - PC: 0
Blackclad Wayfarer - PC: 0
Blackclad Wayfarer - PC: 0
Shifting Stones - Leader & 2 Grunts: 3
Shifting Stones - Leader & 2 Grunts: 3
THEME: Call of the Wild
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GENERATED : 01/29/2018 17:10:45
BUILD ID : 2059.17-12-30
R1 played pKaya into pthags in cotd
His list (from memory)
Pthags
Typhon
Zuriel
Azrael
Hexhunters w bayal
Swordsman w ua
Craelix
2 Shepherds
Spell martyr
Scenario: the pit 2
Notable terrain: forest in the left zone and centre zone. Trench just behind centre zone where kaya hid for most of the game.
Went first ran forward- he ran forward spaced out with his infantry keeping bayal on a hill. typhon and zuriel head toward the zone with my objective
I take out bayal and some infantry with a ported pure blood spray, 1 wayfarer charged a hexhunter and failed. Other Stones port into my zone to try and contest - spoiler they dont. He destroys my objective and scores 2.
My feral was just in range of zuriel (warping speed) and could be herded by the wilder so went for it. Between the wolves argus bark, combo bite and the primalled feral zuriel dies (lucky typhon was just outside) Then I was able to get the stalker and another argus and a bunch of other stuff into the objective and his contesting infantry so I went to 3 to his 2. Typhon kills the feral in revenge but not the wild argus. So I think I may have scored my zone again? Memory gets fuzzy here.
I spend the next turn try to clear the circle zone but it just doesn't work out after that thags feats back zuriel and it goes down hill. I eventually get assassinated with just some shifting stones left after what appeared to be a good position.
Ended up 8-6 on scenario to me being an amazingly close game on clock as well, this player was the eventual winner and I think I learned quite a bit. I.e. Shouldn't have primaled the feral into zuriel, he did it on the first bought, and should have positioned kaya better so that I could have spirit doored him back. Should have sprinted the stalker after killing stuff in the zone etc.
Game 2 was against a friend of mine playin khador with legion of steel run by pbutcher or a weird sorscha1 list, he had never played grayle so I played that and we decided pbutcher would probably be a good game.
His list
Pbutcher
Juggernaut
Marauder
Ruin
Black dragons w ua
Regular iron fangs w ua
Great bears
Kovnik
Markov
Sofya
Min uhlans
Scenario: spread the net
Relevant terrain
Forest on the left between my flag and his zone, building near his side of circle, forest near my side of middle zone (all three of these creating a brilliant choke point for me), pond near his flag and trench between his flag and my zone
T1 I go first and run people forward, then he goes and runs things forward 😱
T2 ok things start to happen now, I don't ambush as I well forget, but also there were no great targets so that's fine. The reeves walk so that his iron fangs can't get into my zone and shoot like half the unit off the board with CRAs 👍the riphorn walks to get in the zone to score it for me, a sacrificial skinwalker goes into the centre zone with the rest behind salivating at the thought of black dragon for lunch. Morraig scores my flag. Grayle and the feral hide behind the central forest went for something to do. Gnarly move up to Counterslam things away from my flag. 2 War wolves run around to make sure he can't score his flag and 1 gets into the circle zone. His iron fangs get fury and 1 gets into the riphorn taking out his mind (guess he was a little too far forward) the rest kill the front rank of reeves but don't get in my zone. 2 black dragons go contest my flag and they kill the sacrificed skinwalker. Uhlans, great bears (who score zone) and solos run to be annoying. His juggernaut scores his zone, marauder moves near the flag and into the pond. Ruin and butcher hang out behind the house in the middle
Score 1-2 to khador
Turn 3 I remember to ambush and my wolves lift the juggernaut thanks to powerswell and some nice spikes, gnarlhorn runs out of control to get in the zone (although he had one pikeman in the zone to stop me from scoring 😐) morraig kills the 2 black dragons hiding behind the forest and repos back to his flag. The skinwalkers with vengeance and actual activations get two in the zone and and kill a bunch of black dragons. Grayle kills another 3 and sprints behind the forest again. Feral continues to hide near grayle. Riphorn the activates, Grayle forgetting to have healed him, so rather than killed a few more pikeman he flailed ineffectually against someone's back arc before realising he's dead next turn. Reeves shoot the kovnik and sofya "dead" and the warwolf makes sure she can't score the flag or countercharge. I score the flag and my zone
Score 3-2 to circle
He puts a lot of effort into killing off my skinwalkers and scoring the centre zone. So much so that he actually moves the contesting model out of his original zone. He can't get anything back into that zone (ruin facing the wrong way and butcher not being able to contest)
I go up to 5-3
I realise I just need to score my rectangle zone to win, and possibly clear off the flag after vengeance triggered countercharge, so I run the feral and morraig deals with the pesky great bear and I win 8-3.
At this point I felt like I was in a good place as I have removed most of the infantry and a juggernaut, my opponent still had his feat but I think I had enough to grind him down. Once again I learned important lessons (heal your beasts!) but I think I played a nice controlled game unlike my next...
Game 3 was against a guy playing ret and the choice was offered between rahn and thyron, someone said grayle and rahn would be ok so that's what we went with. It was not ok.
Now my usual schtick with grayle is cast storm rager on him and death march of the wolves, this time I also feated and yet...and yet. I accounted for the walk and shoot, I did not account for the run and tk and arc tk but it ended up with a Phoenix stabbing grayle in the back til he died. Ouch.
We played another game as if grayle had just been out and it was fun and I think I won on scenario but I was quite tilted by the whole thing so I don't remember much of it but yeah I learned to avoid rahn or at least check the run and arc of jacks...
Anyway that was my warpcon and I came 8th outta 12 and had a great time. Next steamroller is on the 10th so hopefully get some more practice and do better next time 🙂👍
My lists
War Room Army
Circle Orboros - Grayle
Theme: The Wild Hunt
2 / 2 Free Cards 75 / 75 Army
Grayle the Farstrider - WB: +29
- Feral Warpwolf - PC: 18 (Battlegroup Points Used: 18)
- Rip Horn Satyr - PC: 14 (Battlegroup Points Used: 11)
- Gnarlhorn Satyr - PC: 12
Wolf Lord Morraig - PC: 8
- Wolf Lord Morraig (Continued)
War Wolf - PC: 2
War Wolf - PC: 2
War Wolf - PC: 2
Reeves of Orboros - Leader & 9 Grunts: 16
- Reeve of Orboros Chieftain & Standard - Chieftain & Standard: 4
Wolves of Orboros - Leader & 9 Grunts: 11
- Wolves of Orboros Chieftain & Standard - Chieftain & Standard Bearer: 0
Warpborn Skinwalkers - Leader & 4 Grunts: 15
- Warpborn Skinwalker Alpha - PC: 0
THEME: The Wild Hunt
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GENERATED : 01/29/2018 17:10:19
BUILD ID : 2059.17-12-30
War Room Army
Circle Orboros - Kaya
Theme: Call of the Wild
4 / 4 Free Cards 75 / 75 Army
Kaya the Wildborne - WB: +32
- Druid Wilder - PC: 0
- Gnarlhorn Satyr - PC: 12 (Battlegroup Points Used: 12)
- Rip Horn Satyr - PC: 14 (Battlegroup Points Used: 14)
- Warpwolf Stalker - PC: 19 (Battlegroup Points Used: 6)
- Feral Warpwolf - PC: 18
- Pureblood Warpwolf - PC: 17
- Gorax Rager - PC: 7
- Wild Argus - PC: 7
- Wild Argus - PC: 7
Lord of the Feast - PC: 0
Blackclad Wayfarer - PC: 0
Blackclad Wayfarer - PC: 0
Shifting Stones - Leader & 2 Grunts: 3
Shifting Stones - Leader & 2 Grunts: 3
THEME: Call of the Wild
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GENERATED : 01/29/2018 17:10:45
BUILD ID : 2059.17-12-30
R1 played pKaya into pthags in cotd
His list (from memory)
Pthags
Typhon
Zuriel
Azrael
Hexhunters w bayal
Swordsman w ua
Craelix
2 Shepherds
Spell martyr
Scenario: the pit 2
Notable terrain: forest in the left zone and centre zone. Trench just behind centre zone where kaya hid for most of the game.
Went first ran forward- he ran forward spaced out with his infantry keeping bayal on a hill. typhon and zuriel head toward the zone with my objective
I take out bayal and some infantry with a ported pure blood spray, 1 wayfarer charged a hexhunter and failed. Other Stones port into my zone to try and contest - spoiler they dont. He destroys my objective and scores 2.
My feral was just in range of zuriel (warping speed) and could be herded by the wilder so went for it. Between the wolves argus bark, combo bite and the primalled feral zuriel dies (lucky typhon was just outside) Then I was able to get the stalker and another argus and a bunch of other stuff into the objective and his contesting infantry so I went to 3 to his 2. Typhon kills the feral in revenge but not the wild argus. So I think I may have scored my zone again? Memory gets fuzzy here.
I spend the next turn try to clear the circle zone but it just doesn't work out after that thags feats back zuriel and it goes down hill. I eventually get assassinated with just some shifting stones left after what appeared to be a good position.
Ended up 8-6 on scenario to me being an amazingly close game on clock as well, this player was the eventual winner and I think I learned quite a bit. I.e. Shouldn't have primaled the feral into zuriel, he did it on the first bought, and should have positioned kaya better so that I could have spirit doored him back. Should have sprinted the stalker after killing stuff in the zone etc.
Game 2 was against a friend of mine playin khador with legion of steel run by pbutcher or a weird sorscha1 list, he had never played grayle so I played that and we decided pbutcher would probably be a good game.
His list
Pbutcher
Juggernaut
Marauder
Ruin
Black dragons w ua
Regular iron fangs w ua
Great bears
Kovnik
Markov
Sofya
Min uhlans
Scenario: spread the net
Relevant terrain
Forest on the left between my flag and his zone, building near his side of circle, forest near my side of middle zone (all three of these creating a brilliant choke point for me), pond near his flag and trench between his flag and my zone
T1 I go first and run people forward, then he goes and runs things forward 😱
T2 ok things start to happen now, I don't ambush as I well forget, but also there were no great targets so that's fine. The reeves walk so that his iron fangs can't get into my zone and shoot like half the unit off the board with CRAs 👍the riphorn walks to get in the zone to score it for me, a sacrificial skinwalker goes into the centre zone with the rest behind salivating at the thought of black dragon for lunch. Morraig scores my flag. Grayle and the feral hide behind the central forest went for something to do. Gnarly move up to Counterslam things away from my flag. 2 War wolves run around to make sure he can't score his flag and 1 gets into the circle zone. His iron fangs get fury and 1 gets into the riphorn taking out his mind (guess he was a little too far forward) the rest kill the front rank of reeves but don't get in my zone. 2 black dragons go contest my flag and they kill the sacrificed skinwalker. Uhlans, great bears (who score zone) and solos run to be annoying. His juggernaut scores his zone, marauder moves near the flag and into the pond. Ruin and butcher hang out behind the house in the middle
Score 1-2 to khador
Turn 3 I remember to ambush and my wolves lift the juggernaut thanks to powerswell and some nice spikes, gnarlhorn runs out of control to get in the zone (although he had one pikeman in the zone to stop me from scoring 😐) morraig kills the 2 black dragons hiding behind the forest and repos back to his flag. The skinwalkers with vengeance and actual activations get two in the zone and and kill a bunch of black dragons. Grayle kills another 3 and sprints behind the forest again. Feral continues to hide near grayle. Riphorn the activates, Grayle forgetting to have healed him, so rather than killed a few more pikeman he flailed ineffectually against someone's back arc before realising he's dead next turn. Reeves shoot the kovnik and sofya "dead" and the warwolf makes sure she can't score the flag or countercharge. I score the flag and my zone
Score 3-2 to circle
He puts a lot of effort into killing off my skinwalkers and scoring the centre zone. So much so that he actually moves the contesting model out of his original zone. He can't get anything back into that zone (ruin facing the wrong way and butcher not being able to contest)
I go up to 5-3
I realise I just need to score my rectangle zone to win, and possibly clear off the flag after vengeance triggered countercharge, so I run the feral and morraig deals with the pesky great bear and I win 8-3.
At this point I felt like I was in a good place as I have removed most of the infantry and a juggernaut, my opponent still had his feat but I think I had enough to grind him down. Once again I learned important lessons (heal your beasts!) but I think I played a nice controlled game unlike my next...
Game 3 was against a guy playing ret and the choice was offered between rahn and thyron, someone said grayle and rahn would be ok so that's what we went with. It was not ok.
Now my usual schtick with grayle is cast storm rager on him and death march of the wolves, this time I also feated and yet...and yet. I accounted for the walk and shoot, I did not account for the run and tk and arc tk but it ended up with a Phoenix stabbing grayle in the back til he died. Ouch.
We played another game as if grayle had just been out and it was fun and I think I won on scenario but I was quite tilted by the whole thing so I don't remember much of it but yeah I learned to avoid rahn or at least check the run and arc of jacks...
Anyway that was my warpcon and I came 8th outta 12 and had a great time. Next steamroller is on the 10th so hopefully get some more practice and do better next time 🙂👍
