Post by ironjens on May 28, 2018 19:21:41 GMT
So, there was no wooden spoon, but I got a chocolate medal for coming in last.
We were 12 people that showed up for this basement tournament on one of the finest days so far this year, and a fair few are kind of a deal in our meta.
My first game I got to play Oskis. He also plays quite seldom but always new casters. This time he brought Kraye with jacks and a Siege1 gun mage list.
I deduced that my Midas list had no game into Siege, and Oskis correctly surmised that his Siege list had no game into Carver. So Carver vs Kraye.
I followed my battle plan of ramming my list into his grill with everything running. Unfortunately I failed getting out Quagmire on the Thresher due to "misplaced caster" tm. He tried to do smart stuff by putting his Polarity shielded jacks in the zones. Turn two I taught him how far a speed forced Road Hog with Mobility can walk... But In the other zone he simply admonishoned away. So I blew my feat on killing one jack, far from optimal.
Also, it was starting to tell that I hadn't played for six months and my clock was quickly disappearing. A bit of attrition, with Oskis having really lousy dice and mine being on fire, later I clocked out while being ahead on attrition. This game taught me about trampling, a rule I had totally forgotten but is very nice to use to get through forests you can't see through.
Game two saw me matched against Monke rocking Protectorate. He hasn't played very long and had Harbinger and HorseFeora. He admitted he was only going to play Harby and I thought it was time to try out my Rfp-list in the shape of Midas. As soon as I started deploying I realized my error. Carvers beasts wouldn't care that much about a pow14 feat and the Thresher would have had a field day.
His list had a unit of Idrians, a unit of hammer rhuls with priest, a couple of kick monks, a couple of paladins, a couple of dragoons and a heavy jack with a flail and a light jack with a halbeard. As far as I recall.
The scenario was the one in the shape of a boxing champion belt with a forest smack in the middle. I sent Nyss, boneswarm and crocodile left and the battlegroup right with midas and solos in the middle.
He deployed the Idrians on my left together with Harby, the light jack and the monks. On the right the rest were arrayed.
Moving forward with everything I wasn't that positive that things would go my way, but the elves put six damge on Harby after focus. But his retaliation removed just a few Nyss and his dwarfs were blocked by terrain. Turn two saw first the elves attacking and then Wrongeye eating four Idrians because he was starting to get cheap with his martyrdom. On the right our lines clashed and I managed to remove quite a few rhuls. Then he jammed in with his heavy and his horses, just managing to kill a gunboar, leaving the others on a couple of boxes each.
Corpse-fuelled form the pot, Midas took down the heavy (with a little help) and my Valkyries helped with battlelust from the soul slave killed one of the horses. But I was running low on time. He killed some more before turning it over again and letting me lose on time.
It is really obvious that the main problem with playing infrequently is managing time rather thatn going into gotchas from unknown combos...
The third game was against Simon with his retribution. Kaelyssa and something else. I though that against a gunline I'd ram Carver down their elf throats.
He had Kaelyssa, double new light jack (Harpy?), double jack that gets focus from being hit, double sniper teams, a space tic, Eiryss1, and a cool new unit of nyss elves with 2" swords. And their weird highlander tough-no-knockdown solo. And probably something else.
I ran (got to start again) and then he shot a lot and almost killed my Meat Thresher. And feated of course.
I had run through acid in my turn and turned up the heat. At the beginning of my turn two it stood on 2hp, but the corrosion didn't go out. So I turned up the heat and rammed it into his battle engine. Naturally I rolled a double one for my charge attack, and the shooting did nothing. But a feated, Mobility-d, Primalled, full boar-d killed it. I also killed Eiryss. But it had been a pretty uneventful turn so his shooting killed some heavies as is wont when dice are on fire, and score a copule of points. I tried to kill back but his Nyss with Blur proved almost invincible. The only light in the darkness was killing his heavy on the right. But I couldn't stop him from killing my objective and scoring for a win.
And naturally there was no game 4 so I couldn't redeem myself.
All in all a fun saturday, but I realize I have to glue my Maelok together. Midas is cool and everything, but he isn't all that. And otherwise it's simple the old classic that reigns supreme: Play faster!
We were 12 people that showed up for this basement tournament on one of the finest days so far this year, and a fair few are kind of a deal in our meta.
My first game I got to play Oskis. He also plays quite seldom but always new casters. This time he brought Kraye with jacks and a Siege1 gun mage list.
I deduced that my Midas list had no game into Siege, and Oskis correctly surmised that his Siege list had no game into Carver. So Carver vs Kraye.
I followed my battle plan of ramming my list into his grill with everything running. Unfortunately I failed getting out Quagmire on the Thresher due to "misplaced caster" tm. He tried to do smart stuff by putting his Polarity shielded jacks in the zones. Turn two I taught him how far a speed forced Road Hog with Mobility can walk... But In the other zone he simply admonishoned away. So I blew my feat on killing one jack, far from optimal.
Also, it was starting to tell that I hadn't played for six months and my clock was quickly disappearing. A bit of attrition, with Oskis having really lousy dice and mine being on fire, later I clocked out while being ahead on attrition. This game taught me about trampling, a rule I had totally forgotten but is very nice to use to get through forests you can't see through.
Game two saw me matched against Monke rocking Protectorate. He hasn't played very long and had Harbinger and HorseFeora. He admitted he was only going to play Harby and I thought it was time to try out my Rfp-list in the shape of Midas. As soon as I started deploying I realized my error. Carvers beasts wouldn't care that much about a pow14 feat and the Thresher would have had a field day.
His list had a unit of Idrians, a unit of hammer rhuls with priest, a couple of kick monks, a couple of paladins, a couple of dragoons and a heavy jack with a flail and a light jack with a halbeard. As far as I recall.
The scenario was the one in the shape of a boxing champion belt with a forest smack in the middle. I sent Nyss, boneswarm and crocodile left and the battlegroup right with midas and solos in the middle.
He deployed the Idrians on my left together with Harby, the light jack and the monks. On the right the rest were arrayed.
Moving forward with everything I wasn't that positive that things would go my way, but the elves put six damge on Harby after focus. But his retaliation removed just a few Nyss and his dwarfs were blocked by terrain. Turn two saw first the elves attacking and then Wrongeye eating four Idrians because he was starting to get cheap with his martyrdom. On the right our lines clashed and I managed to remove quite a few rhuls. Then he jammed in with his heavy and his horses, just managing to kill a gunboar, leaving the others on a couple of boxes each.
Corpse-fuelled form the pot, Midas took down the heavy (with a little help) and my Valkyries helped with battlelust from the soul slave killed one of the horses. But I was running low on time. He killed some more before turning it over again and letting me lose on time.
It is really obvious that the main problem with playing infrequently is managing time rather thatn going into gotchas from unknown combos...
The third game was against Simon with his retribution. Kaelyssa and something else. I though that against a gunline I'd ram Carver down their elf throats.
He had Kaelyssa, double new light jack (Harpy?), double jack that gets focus from being hit, double sniper teams, a space tic, Eiryss1, and a cool new unit of nyss elves with 2" swords. And their weird highlander tough-no-knockdown solo. And probably something else.
I ran (got to start again) and then he shot a lot and almost killed my Meat Thresher. And feated of course.
I had run through acid in my turn and turned up the heat. At the beginning of my turn two it stood on 2hp, but the corrosion didn't go out. So I turned up the heat and rammed it into his battle engine. Naturally I rolled a double one for my charge attack, and the shooting did nothing. But a feated, Mobility-d, Primalled, full boar-d killed it. I also killed Eiryss. But it had been a pretty uneventful turn so his shooting killed some heavies as is wont when dice are on fire, and score a copule of points. I tried to kill back but his Nyss with Blur proved almost invincible. The only light in the darkness was killing his heavy on the right. But I couldn't stop him from killing my objective and scoring for a win.
And naturally there was no game 4 so I couldn't redeem myself.
All in all a fun saturday, but I realize I have to glue my Maelok together. Midas is cool and everything, but he isn't all that. And otherwise it's simple the old classic that reigns supreme: Play faster!