GankieMuniz's Journey through Cryx

Hey all! Here is my first Battle Report against a good Legion opponent. No pictures this time since I forgot to take them but I will try from now on to have an Imgur album with them. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

BatRep1: Gankie vs Legion:

Lists:

Gankie:

Denny 1

-Slayer

-Inflictor

-deathripper

Max Mechanithralls

-3 x brute thralls

-UA

Max Bane Warriors

-UA

Aiakos 1

-Slayer

-Reaper

Necrosurgeon + stitch thralls

Total: 74pts



Legion:

Lylyth 3

-Typhon

-Ravagore

-Raek

-Naga Nightlurker

-Nephilim Bolt Thrower

-Seraph

-Succubus

2x Blighted Nyss Shepherd

2x The Forsaken

Hellmouth

Total: 75pts



Scenario: Take and Hold



I won the roll and decided to go first. My opponent chose the side with a forest, house, and wall. I had a wall, forest, trench. There was water in the middle of the board as well as a hill slightly to my right towards the middle.



Round 1:

Gankie:

I run my Mechanithralls up to get half on the hill and half off. I anticipated he would start shooting them bottom of 1 but I just needed them to jam while I moved into position to score or assassinate. I ran my Aiakos and his slayer into the trench, and the reaper slightly further. My opponent had put his Hellmouth on that side and I needed to take it out if I wanted to reliably score that flag. I run Denny up to the wall and cast nothing since nothing was in range of my arc node. I camp 7. I run my Banes up behind my Mechanithralls. I use the Slayer and Inflictor to block line of site to Denny. I end my turn.

Legion:

He moves his Seraph and takes a few shots at my Brute thrall. Kills it. Moves his Ravagore up slightly behind the house and shoots another Brute. Kills and gets 2 of my mechanithralls as well. He moves typhon up and manages to miss a spray on a mechanithrall. Lylyth moves up and shoots down my other brute thrall in 2 shots and takes out a third mechanithrall.

Thoughts after round 1: I knew some of my Mcthralls and Brutes would die. I am pleased with the placement going into round 2. I plan on jamming Mcthralls down his throat and positioning for scenario.

Round 2:

Gankie:

I notice my opponent messed up in the placement of his Hellmouth tentacles. He left enough room for my Reaper to charge the Maw. I am thinking this is my only chance to kill it and lose basically nothing since all he really has on that side is a Naga, Bolt Thrower, and Raek which all need to be hunting Aiakos or shooting other targets so the Reaper should be fine. I run my arcnode up to cast Parasite on the hellmouth to make sure I kill it. Denny goes and stays where she is behind the wall and casts parasite. It hits. I charge one of the tentacles so I am in range of the Maw. Kill the tentacle with my charge and attack the Maw killing it. My opponent is sad. I run my mcthralls forward again. I engage his Typhon and Seraph. I run forward with my Banes. I move my Inflictor and Slayer up a bit still blocking line of site to Denny. I run Aiakos out of range of his Raek since I know he is going to try to get him. I run the Slayer that is attached to Aiakos touching the flag. Necrosurgeons move up as well. I end my turn Denny camping 4 focus.

Legion:

My opponent really wants Aiakos dead. He has told me that lol. He is thinking about feating but is unsure. He puts wraithbane on his bolt thrower so he can get past the extra armor Aiakos has from Escort. He shoots at Aiakos with the Naga, boosts to hit, and misses. He walks up with the bolt thrower, shoots at Aiakos, boosts to hit and misses again. At this point he decides that he is not going to feat and just that he needs to kill some of my Mcthralls and banes. The Raek runs up toward the flag in range of Aiakos’ slayer. He hits him in the back arc a few times and takes out his right arm. He then decides to get in a better position with Typhon to spray more of my Mcthralls. He moves and takes a freestrike from the Mcthrall engaging him. This Mcthrall looks at Typhon right in his non existent Eyes and says, “Not today my friend…not today.” I roll to hit. I hit. I roll damage. The Mcthrall punches Typhon in his dragon nuts hard. I roll a 6, 6, 5 for dmg plus my base of 10 does 9 dmg to the beast. He laughs, I laugh, he goes on with Typhon’s activation. Typhon sprays a few Mcthralls and kills them. Ravagore goes and kills off my Mcthrall UA. Seraph goes and kills off more Mcthralls. Lylyth goes and kills off my Necrosurgeon. I am left with only one Mcthrall. He ends his turn. No one scores since he is contesting with his Raek.

Thoughts after Round 2: I think he would have feated if he managed to kill Aiakos. I know that I am going to feat this turn since I can score. I know I have to move Denny up which means he will likely feat and try to kill me since he ignores stealth. I plan to win on scenario by just not letting him do anything next turn.

Round 3:

Gankie:

This is the money turn. I allocate some focus from Aiakos to his 2 warjacks. I don’t allocate any from Denny. I turn around and punch the Raek with my Slayer. I roll poorly and do not kill it. I move Aiakos in and kill it. I move my reaper in range to pull his Naga. I shoot it and pull it in. I take the free melee from the pull and I don’t kill it. I forget at this point that I am allowed to keep making melee attacks since it says that on the Reapers card, O well. I run my arc node in range to Crippling Grasp Lylyth since with my feat and that I am pretty sure she can’t kill me. I boost to hit and I hit her. Threat of assassination is sort of gone now. I move Denny toward my flag but cannot quite reach it to score and I Feat catching most of his important models in it minus the Ravagore. I run my banes behind the house knowing that I can walk through next turn with ghostly. I move my inflictor and Slayer again to block line of site to Denny. I run my last Mcthrall just outside of melee with lylyth. I end my turn and score 1 point.

Legion:

He has to feat this turn, but cannot assassinate me. He weighs his options and decides to just feat and try to stationary as many things as he can. He goes with lylyth. Feats and misses his first show on Denny’s Slayer. He hits the next shot and does decent damage. He then takes his last shot at the inflictor and hits that as well, doing no damage. He uses Typhon and ravagore to take out most of my banes including my UA so no tough on them. He ends his turn with a lot of my things stationary and hoping he can outlast me. I score another point bringing my total to 2.

Thoughts after round 3: I basically have this game as long as I can keep him from assassinating me. I will score 2 more on my turn and then if he can’t kill me I will win. All I need to do is engage his things and camp a decent amount on denny.

Round 4:

Gankie:

I start by allocating focus and spending one to get rid of stationary on my warjacks. I walk a bane over and hit his typhon doing about 3 dmg. I charge in my inflictor and my slayer to try and take care of typhon. I can’t do it, but then again I don’t really need to. If I don’t do this Typhon can walk up and spray them hitting Denny and helping his assassination chances so at this point all I need to do is stay alive. I move to the flag with Denny. I charge in Aiakos’ slayer on his Naga and kill it. I then swing at the bolt thrower by the wall and miss. I end my turn and score 2 going up to 4.

Legion:

My opponent has a chance, but it is slim. He only has about 1 minute on his clock. He starts his run on Denny with his Bolt thrower. Hoping for a crit knockdown he boosts to hit. He hits but does not get the crit knockdown. He ends up doing a few points of damage to Denny. He then starts to attack with his Seraph. He rolls for his shots and gets only 1 shot. He takes it and does a decent amount of damage but luckily I have focus so I negate 5 and take about 6 damage. His clock runs out and he loses on Death Clock.

After Thoughts: I made a few mistakes but over all I executed my plan well. Run my guys at him until I can position for the scenario win. I knew he did not have the volume of attacks to take out all of my infantry and I had my warjacks as my second wave to take out his beasts later. We talked after the game and he agreed that since I just kept running things in at him there was not much he could do. He also was upset about his misplacement of the tentacles on the hellmouth. Overall it was a fun game and I am happy to have pulled out the win.



My next Battle Report will be next week after my last league game. I am currently in 3rd place in our league and if I win I will finish in 2nd place! Thanks for reading guys, until next time!