List Pairing for tournament

I guess my concern with going min on the stone is that it won't be as effective in supporting the raiders or the WW. I can see your point though.

I'm always afraid to use sluggers as they die to a stiff breeze and their output is still variable but I'll keep it in mind. I would say though that one has to remember that the bone grinders(grievous wounds and weaponmaster against beasts) and the mist speaker(influence) can actually contribute offensively as well. 

Game 2: Ragnor vs Maelok Scenario was Outlast
He had 3 units of posse, two witch doctors, a gobber chef, a soul slave, 2 wrastlers, a blind walker and a bull snapper. I start by running everything straight forward. He sent one posse to each side and one up the middle. Wrastlers went to both sides with the walker behind the one on my right. There's a huge forest in the middle keeping me from seeing the chef he puts on his flag. I run Mulg up behind it, the basher, slag and night troll go to my left and a night troll and basher go to my right alowing for a couple charges to try to draw him in. I keep everything else way out of range. On his second turn he charges what he can, managing to kill a basher with 2 gatormen which I didn't see coming. He hurts the night troll on my right pretty bad but the rest don't do too much. He positions his heavies where Mulg can't see them but within 8 inches and puts up death pact but critically chooses not to feat. At the end of 2 its 0-1 because he got a gatorman to contest my flag.

Turn 3: The night troll on my left kills a gator and puts a bit of damage on another. The axer charges in and threshers the rest of the unit. He does manage to kill any but does decent damage and puts rush on Mulg who walks through the forest to contest his flag and kill a wrastler. Ragnor puts pulverzer and rush on the mauler, the basher on my right clears him a path and he charges the second wrastler, killing it and knocking down the walker with a throw. The runebearer manages to knock down the unit in the right zone with shockwave and the night troll heals and beats on them a bit but doesn't kill any of them. No points are scored. My opponent goes in the tank for a good long while thinking he's done because he lost his heavies. When he finally moves forward he feats and just runs all his gators to contest everything and surround my caster. Critically he manages to get 3 gators on my stone, gets through my self-sac targets and snack him. No more stone and I'm a sad panda. No points are scored. Still 0-1 at the end of 3.

Turn 4: Now I'm actually in big trouble. He didn't hit any of my beasts so no whelps and I've got tons of fury out there. Every single beast besides Mulg, the mauler and a basher frenzies. I actually go in the tank a bit but decide that killing gators is more important than trying to hatch an assassination plan(Mulg was facing the wrong way and couldn't trample because of medium bases and the mauler couldn't see him and still had the walker to deal with). So I knock down most of center posse unit with the runebearer and just engage the rest in the right zone with my basher, Janissa kills one and the mauler kills the walker. Mulg kills several of the knocked down gators and snacks on them. My opponent then starts to beat on Ragnor but can't do much because I kept all my fury to transfer. He doesn't roll super well and just kind of moves stuff around to keep me jammed. Still 0-1 at the end of the turn.

Turn 5: Now incredibly I'm going up against the clock. Mulg frenzies and kills the last solo by his flag. I run the feralgeist to his flag. The mauler kills his snapper and gets up in his face. I decide just to knock down all his gators in the middle so my last stone scribe can run into the left zone to score. I kill everything but 2 gatormen in the right zone. I score 2. My opponent tries one last time to kill Ragnor with gatormen but fails. End of 5(2-1)

Turn 6: The mauler frenzies and put a bit of damage on Maelok. I don't do much else because I'm short on time but clear the zone to score two more. My opponent decides to concede because he can't score and can't contest the flag or the zone. End of 6(6-1).

Man he held out a lot longer than I thought he would. Never think the game is over because you take out the beasts. Arm 22 gators with 8 boxes and snacking are really hard to deal with. I probably could have got the scenario faster if I had recognized it and moved the Knot over in a position to get in a zone. Overall this is what I wanted this list to do. Tank an alpha and then whittle down the opposing force.

Game 4: Grim Vs Haley 3 Scenario was standoff
Haley brought ALL THE TRENCHERS!!!! 1 unit regular, 1 unit of long gunners, 1 unit commandos, 1 express team, 2 grenadiers, 2 busters, Hitch and Finn.
I start for the fourth time of the day. Deploying my raiders and wagon to the left with the FEs in the middle and to the right with the battlegroup following. Grim is in the center. He deploys very strongly to my right(big surprise away from the WW). There is several large obstructions in the center so switch sides is not easy.
Turn 1: I run everything on the left forward as far as I can. On the right I need the stone speed to get my FEs to the only cover on that side. The rest move up behind the building in the middle. My opponent spends most of his turn filling in his back zone and shooting the FEs on the right off the table. Advance deploy on everything sure speeds the game up! He cloud walls in the middle.

Turn 2: I don't play aggressively enough and don't move all the raiders into the zone. I am way to cautious with the WW and don't move it all the way forward. I put eyeless sight on the bomber and set the FEs on fire. They get speed from the stone and walk around the building into the cloud wall. Due to tough I only manage to kill 1-2 trenchers and put some decent damage into the busters. The bomber manages to kill the busters and Finn but dig in stops him from really wrecking the trencher brick. I move the swamp troll into the zone with swarm and say a prayer. He promptly knocks the swamp troll out with the express team and uses the rest of his shots to kill it. He sends a couple trenchers to engage the bomber and toe my back zone. He kills the FEs with baby Haley and some of the remaining trenchers. Thorn runs to stop the WW from advancing. My opponent has given up on the cloud wall. End of round(0-2)

Turn 3: Grim feats and puts MFD on the trenchers and kills on engaging the bomber. Then I realize the only thing the thumper can see is the trenchers and could have killed both, he takes out the second. The WW knocks down Thorn and shoots him a couple times but poor rolling means I don't kill him and I forget the slam on the mount attack. The raiders charge some trenchers and thorn but are limited because I need to stay in the zone. Most just reposition to be able to attack the next turn. Thorn is still almost completely operational but knocked down. The bomber kills the grenadier and toes the right zone. The pyre moves to keep him from being pushed out of the zone. My opponent then proceeds to use everything to kill the pyre(long gunners are now in position and get 2 shots a turn under go to ground). He only has the express team left but that's enough to push the bomber out of the zone and knock him down. He kills the raider I had toeing his back zone. He runs the dog to contest my back zone. Thorn stands up an contests the left zone. End of turn (2-4)

Turn 4: Now I'm feeling some scenario pressure. He's overwhelming me on the right and the obstruction in the middle is stopping me from hitting him hard from the left. The WW knocks down Thorn, kills him with the guns and repos far enough forward I can run the thumper into the left zone. I push hard with the raiders into his back zone and manage to score a huge charge on his objective. Grim finishes it off and I kill the dog with the bone grinders of all things to take the back zone. One of them runs to the right zone. The bomber doesn't get much done because I forgot to drop fury the turn before so he starts the turn with 1. I was also misunderstanding the go to ground rule and thought the long gunners were dug in. My opponent tried to tell me but we talked for a second and decided since we thought GTG gave them dig in we assumed they were. I get 3 points to none for him and take the lead. On the next turn my opponent kills the grinders and knocks the bomber out of the zone and down again but this time takes out his spirit and with GW he's pretty much useless now. The long gunners leave my objective on 5 boxes. He manages to kill all of my raiders in the zone between the remaining grenadier and the Haleys but to do this he has to move prime into threat range. (7-6)

Turn 5: So here is where I make the most critical decision in the game. I can either run away and try to clock him but my right flank is completely collapsing and it quite possible he could choose to just contest me and score and win in 7 rounds without doing anything. I decide that I have to go for the assassination. Haley future is corporeal and I walk forward and shoot her with the snare gun, boosting to hit and knocking her down. I then put MFD on the unit and try to hit Prime with a boosted man trap. No big surprise I miss needing a 10 but the deviation stays on her and knocks her down. No damage on the blast. I then move the WW forward and fire with the big gun, anything but double 1s and she's toast... There's the snake eyes... To rub salt in the wound I shoot her with the spray and roll box cars. The thumper and Braylen are both about 1 inch too far away and the bomber has to give up his movement and is too far away. Grim is sitting out in the open with no tranfers and promptly dies to a billing CRA trencher shots.

This was such a great game and once the salty taste of those double ones left my mouth I realized that I missed a lot of little things that could have helped me. My opponent did go back and read the GTG rule and we found out the long gunners would not have been dug in on some critical turns but that was my fault thinking I still knew the rule. I should have realized he couldn't push my left flank and been far more aggressive. Return fire would have been huge in this game but I completely forgot about it. Between the pyre, swamp, and bomber alone I would have got several more attacks into the tick of his ranks. I had Weald Secrets up for a bit on the WW but when he didn't have any non-dug in targets I let it drop and never thought to put it on the bomber to take out the express team which would have helped tremendously.

All in all, considering how much I forgot to do with Grim over 2 games and still being very much in them, I feel like he is still an extremely powerful caster. If I had maximized both games I have no doubt I would have won the second one easily. KC has some play into the right list and I think they are coming back. Ragnor was solid and I never felt out of a game with him. Spread the net as the first scenario was rough but there were things I could have done to win that one. I was really happy in the end going 2-2 and never being blown out of a game.