Journeyman League with pBarnabus

First league games were yesterday. I found out that everyone at the store is really new and they are doing the casual league schedule to try and build up more of a base of players. This pretty much invalidates all the lists I built above since the casual schedule only gets to a 30 point list. Oh well, still had fun and was able to get two games in and help teach a couple others how to play. They also aren't only using the starter box casters, just as long as your lists comes out to match the points for the week. Probably going to still stay with pbarnabus.

First game was against the skorne starter box: Xekaar, gladiator, savage, raider, mangled metal scenario.

Game summary: I pushed forward with swamp pits covering my advance, planned to take the alpha from the gladiator with the bull snapper. Gladiator goes into a spiny growthed snapper and his dice fail him completely. He misses the charge attack, and most damage rolls are abysmal and the snapper lives by several boxes. Barnabus charges the gladiator and feats then he and the wrastler kill the gladiator, warpath-ing the boneswarm forward. Healed snapper and swarm kill the savage. Next turn the raider and Xekaar kill the snapper and swarm and he feats. Wrastler gets rage from barnabus and charges xekaar and burns through his fury to leave him on about 1/3rd life. Raider charges the wrastler in the back, gets counter charged by Barnabus who spikes the damage roll and takes out its mind and causing it to miss (it had 1 fury on it from last turn and he didn't want to max it out for transfers). Xekaar puts all his attack into the wrastler and can't kill it with low dice. He calls it there. Victory to minions!

Thoughts: He had some abysmal dice, the bull snapper should have died and we talked it through and he feated a turn too late. This was against a new player and we talked through his list and some tactics about running it. Next game against him should be much better.

Second game was against a legion 0 point list: pThag, Carnivean, harrier x2, shredder, Mangled metal scenario. This player was fairly experienced and it showed. I won the roll and got first turn.

Round 1)Swamp pit goes down and the wrastler and snapper dive in while Barnabus and the swarm hang back a bit. Legion pushes a harrier to each flank wide, shredder up the center with pthags and the carni getting SG, carni also gets DB and heads up the center.

Round 2)B1 pushes forward, drop a swamp pit and put up SG. Boneswarm puts up swarm and walks into the pit. Snapper pushes to the left harrier, wrastler sits in the back of the swamp. Both harriers move up the field a bit, shredder tries to hit the swarm but misses. Carni puts up SG and advances to spray the swarm and wratler, misses the swarm and does decent damage to the wrastler. Thags moves up behind the carni and puts up SG.

Round 3)Upkeep warpath, Barnabus walks up and rages the boneswarm and wrastler and feats hitting everything. Snapper charges and kills the left harrier, warpath-ing the wrastler forward. Swarm walks around the shredder and kills it, warpath-ing itself forward and putting up swarm. Wrastler charges the carni, but only manages about 2/3rds of its life between death shroud and SG. He responds by the carni killing the wrastler, thags killing the swarm and the harrier moving to block B1's charge lane but ends within counter charge range. B1 counter charges and kills the harrier. Next turn B1 is just barely able to take down the carnivean on his very last damage roll. Victory to minions!

Thoughts: This was a much harder game, arm 22 is about the point were this list seems to come apart, my dice went fairly cold against the carnivean but made it up to me by letting B1 kill his last beast. With all the snacking/rfp in this list it actually neutered pthag surprisingly well.