Bplague's Bad Battle Reports

Game 2 vs Menoth: Vindictus Knights Exemplar theme and Sevvy 1. Not sure what to drop here, but I don’t like rask in weapon master spam, so I drop Barny. I get Vindictus in return.

Scenario is Recon II. There is a house in the middle between the 2 objectives that is relevant. I go first.



Vindictus

Revelator

3x Knights Exemplar & UA

Rhoven & Co

2x annoying seneschal that doesn’t die and heals when you kill other dudes around him

Gravus

Can’t remember the rest/wasn’t relevant



Round 1: Super friends in tandem to hold right zone and score my flag. Skarath on inside to get both Execration and star-crossed. Barny in the middle, everything else pushing towards the left. I run up. He deploys colossal towards the right zone, 2 units on left, one unit and rhoven on the right. Runs up and feats to deliver his army. He also flubs an attack on thrullg behind the house.



Round 2: Well I can’t do much. Can’t rebuke this turn, so just re-position barny behind the house on the opposite side of the colossal, angling towards left zone. Totem hunter leaps, kills a couple, sprints back to execration range. Swamp horror clears off thrullg and positions in front of barny. On the right, wrong eye moves on to the flag, snapjaw toes the back corner of the zone out of threat range submerged. Skarath is parked in a trench, sprays a seneschal and KE, kills both. Boneswarm camps behind the house for cover. I score my flag.





Round 3: Wrongeye and Snapjaw continue to hang out, scoring and waiting. Snake moves up, sprays, counterblast. Boneswarm charges, kills a couple, overtakes and jams. On the left, more knights exemplar die, seneschal is knocked down, and I stay bricked up under ExBN. He gets some charges off on the left, but not enough because I rebuked a unit and totem hunter and thrullg live due to ExBN. Crucially, he charges his left seneschal off the flag. On the right, he durdles with the KE and kills the boneswarm since they aren’t in charge range. Revelator shoots at enlivened wrestler, allowing him to move into charge range of revelator and objective.



Round 4: I am winning the attrition fight on the left, and he has positioned too defensively, so I see a scenario play. I clear off the right flag so I score there. I clear a bunch of KE on the left, totem hunter kills and sprints to his flag, barny charges into the left zone, grievous wounding the seneschal so he will die. Wrastler charges the objective. I go to 5-0 on scenario, and the game ends.



My opponent was too defensive, and him feating turn 1 means his defensive play did not allow him to counter-punch properly. I controlled threat ranges and did not give the revelator any good targets, and houses in the middle generally make colossals sad. The revelator is probably not a good fit with that list.

Game 4 vs Cygnar: He has Siege 2 grave-diggers and Stryker 2 storm division. I feel comfortable with rask into both, so I drop rask. I get Stryker 2 since he doesn’t want to play grave-diggers into rask. In hindsight, having Rask may be enough to ward off him choosing the gun-line, and I can drop barny, who is fine against melee cygnar (rebuked storm guys are sad). But rask is the safe drop.



Stryker 2

Stormwall

Storm Strider

Max Lances

Stormblade Boat

Laddermore

3x Stormcallers

Strangeways



An unconventional list, more combined arms. Interesting in certain match-ups, however Rask feels fine against this more combined arms approach. He lets me go first, which is probably a mistake. Scenario is Standoff.





Round 1: I save the husks to ambush, and run everything up pretty much max range. Totem Hunter preyed the lances. He moves up conservatively, keeping the lances too far back, afraid of totem hunter. Stormblades in front of the stormwall. There is a house and a forest funneling him on that side. He also mini-feated the stormblades.



Round 2: I am in range to put the swamp horror B2B on the charge with the storm strider. Boneswarm gets full corpses, goes into stormblades, jamming and killing 2 or 3. Swamp horror gets the full buff treatment (hunter’s mark, rage, fury, boundless charge) and easily smashes the storm strider. Over takes towards the forest and his objective. Husks ambush, one into the back of the lances, the other into a storm caller. Rask feated. He can’t do much, stays defensive, does not contest the right zone much because of terrain and boneswarm, does not kill the swamp horror. Lances turn around to deal with husk, husk sprays one to death before it dies. We each score our rectangle zones.



Round 3: I upkeep fury, put the swamp horror into the objective, kill it and a stormblade. Kwaak positioned very aggressively under feat, and walks up and mudfoots the stormblades, then sprays a couple. Snapjaw goes to contesting stormblade, clears the zone and overtakes away from stormwall. Valks run into right zone to score, also shield-guarding kwaak. Pot also positions to score right zone. Skarath mistakenly moves up to spray a lance, misses, counterblast. Wrastler gets admonition, positions behind veil of mists to charge stormwall after it kills snapjaw. He durdles with the stormblades, they are half gone at this point. They kill a valk I think. Stryker overloads, positive charge on stormwall, charges swamp horror, doesn’t quite kill it, feats. Lances charge skarath, I forget about counterblast, and he is mostly dead. Feat attacks kill skarath, and he repoes into my rectangle. I am up 2 on scenario, nobody scores this turn.



Round 4: Losing skarath is bad, but I can scenario him. Wrastler gets fully buffed, charges and one rounds stormwall (no arcane shield in the list). Bullsnapper and lanyssa kill a lance. Totem Hunter kills another, sprints into his rectangle. Dahlia runs into “suck it” range of the lances, contesting left circle. Feralgeist positions to contest his rectangle if totem hunter dies. I clear my rectangle. I score2, and he has a hard choice. Stryker either has to kill the wrastler, or totem hunter. He kills the wrastler, and does some other stuff, but fails to contest the right zone and I score again, going 7-2 to win on scenario.

Losing skarath was a mistake that almost cost me, but going first and my feat and threat range enable strong scenario play if my opponent does not want to accept a strong alpha.



Overall thoughts: The lists are coming together. I did not get a second chance to test barny into 9 slayers, but I am much happier with how his list feels. Not sure how I feel about the double husk in Rask. They are ok, jam well, and enable scenario play on fast scoring scenarios . However, since it’s not generally my infantry drop, there aren’t a lot of juicy targets for them to jam into, my opponents play around them well enough to avoid cloud creation LOS issues. I will leave them in for now, but I feel like I have 8 points between them and the feralgeist to refine depending on what I want it to drop into. They feel much stronger if I need to play him into grave diggers. Other than that, it is so nice to have a list that just says nope to gunlines pretty well.

Thanks Gaston for the dojo help with Barny. Will probably try out the turtle tech as soon as I own one but the swamp horror feels good there. Chain weapon and over-take mean it does credible work in most games. It’s tough enough to kill that it’s a good piece trade initiator. WWFF fixes it’s problems for the most part, 12” run first turn gets it where it needs to be.