New Season of ADR, now with theme restrictions

Yeah, that -5 armor swing is really good and he gets a lot of work done personally too. I might make Skarre 3 the black industries caster and Asphyxious1 the satyxis caster, that does seem like a good call. Though I have been meaning to take Goreshade to a tournament at some point, there always just seems to be better or newer options.

Having shadowmancer on a big battle group sounds really good as well as a free upkeep of lamentation with the withershadow. I will need to look at his spell list and see if there was anything in it worth taking a spell slave for, probably not. Hex Blast and Bleed, interesting, bleed heals goreshade no matter who casts it. Hex blast and lamentations makes some casty groups have a bad day. Free banes outside of theme. Turning men into undead women, whats not to love?

But...13-14 attacks at -5 ARM target sounds really good too, oh, and they don't miss because of sustained attack.

We have nothing available in this format that deals with Krueger2/Wurmwood Bones of Oboros. I don’t see myself playing Champions anytime soon.

Wurmwood’s Feat makes everything a forest, as well as an upkeep to create an additional forest. He also has Hellmouth to wreck Infantry like our Satyxis and Stranglehold + Curse of Shadows to make our Warjacks sad. Since he’s got access to the Bones Theme he gets to bring a ton of Geomancy meaning he can throw out a ton of Strangleholds vs Black Industries. Into Wurmwood you need a ton of terrain mitigation to deal with all the forests that just randomly appear & into Bones of Oboros you need hard hitting Units that can get work done without Charging. We have no Ghost Walk Casters on our roster, nor can we play Dark Host, SFR, or Infernal Machines where our hard hitting Infantry is. He also has Eyeless Sight so Stealth/clouds won’t save you.

Kreuger2 has Teleknisis to screw with a Jack’s ability to charge, Rebuke to shut down orders & a Unit’s ability to charge, a Feat that pushes everything 3” away and gives it -2 speed, Windstorm giving all guns -5 Range & the Kreuger player the ability to detrrmine deviation, and the ability to throw out lightning hazards that deal pow 10s to anyone walking into them. He will also be playing in Bones meaning he’ll have a ton of Geomancys that can cast either Gallows or TK to keep themselves safe from Heavies or vomit out tons of lightning storms to deal auto pow 10s to any units that may walk into them (aka mulch all the Satyxis). Into Kreuger2 you need fast models that don’t require charges, don’t rely on short range guns, & don’t auto die to pow 10s. The only thing we have available to us like this are Stalkers, and we don’t have Skarre1 to make them actually threaten Wolds so the game plan is assassination or bust. 

On top of this even if you manage to somehow find a list pair that can even play list chicken into this the circle player could always just say eff it and just play a Kaya3 Synergy Brick instead.

Wolds (especially if you're spamming geomancers, so woldwardens) have pretty poor armour and terrible defence. Just the shooting from Skarre3 and whatever you take with her (I fancy a Kraken in every theme with her, in Industries I'd include a leviathan, Malice and some nightwretches; In scourge I'd be using the less effective gunslingers plus Severa) will put a huge amount of pressure on the bones list. I'd be very comfortable playing Skarre3 in any configuration into Wurmy Bones.

Krugs2 is a little trickier with Stormwall (I refuse to allow Cygnar to steal the coolest named spell in Circle!), but he's not shutting down your charges the way Wurmy is so I rate your chances at least even. Scourge is probably better than Industries in this matchup though.

Krueger’s not shutting down charges the way Wurmwood is, but he’s still shutting them down. Are you playing BI, prepare to have all your jacks Telekinesis’d around so they begin their activations with no LoS to anything so they can’t charge. Are you playing Scourge, prepare to get a unit of Satyxis Rebuked every turn stopping orders, meaning no charging. 

You know Gallows Groves are allowed in Bones right?