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shicato
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Some Jaga Jaga battle reports Mar 7, 2020 18:09:00 GMT via mobile

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Post by shicato on Mar 7, 2020 18:09:00 GMT

I've played quite a few games with Jaga Jaga now and have written a couple of my more recent games up on my local Facebook group and figured I might as well cross pollinate them.

Played a game against Andy on Monday:

We both just wanted to drop specific lists so we just checked that it wasn't a hard counter for either of us and then went ahead. I was playing Jaga Jaga

Jaga-Jaga, the Death Charmer - WB: +27 - Gatorman Soul Slave - PC: 0 - Swamp Horror - PC: 15 (Battlegroup Points Used: 15) - Swamp Horror - PC: 15 (Battlegroup Points Used: 12) - Swamp Horror - PC: 15 Underchief Mire - PC: 4 - Blackhide Wrastler - PC: 16 Feralgeist - PC: 0 Feralgeist - PC: 0 Feralgeist - PC: 0 Void Archon - PC: 8 Void Archon - PC: 8 Lanyssa Ryssyl, Nyss Sorceress - PC: 4 Swamp Gobber River Raider - PC: 1 Dhunian Archon - PC: 0 Farrow Valkyries - Leader & 2 Grunts: 8 Farrow Valkyries - Leader & 2 Grunts: 8 THEME: Will Work For Food

And Andy was playing Cyrenia with the Shrine in Guardians of the Temple.

The scenario was Bunkers with a scattering of forests and obstructions across the board.

I won the roll off and as the terrain felt reasonable even for me on either side chose to go first. Andy chose the side with slightly less terrain to allow him easier pathing for the number of models he was going to have to deploy.

I changed up my deployment slightly for this deploying the valkyries in the front with the hope that they would be able to get a bit more involved, Everything else was evenly split across the sides with my squids holding the center.

Andy deployed his infantry across one flank and his cavalry across the other with his warjacks suport and caster in the centre. The Shrine was front and centre threatening anything that moved significantly up the board.

On my first turn I ran everything up carefully keeping the valks and the voids out of the 14 inch threat from the shrine as the idea of allowing Andy to trigger crevasse was not something I wanted to give him trivially. I left a couple of the squids in range of the shrine so they could charge it next turn if I wanted but kept them withing shield guard range of the valks (as the Dhunian would mitigate at least one of those hits.) I also wanted to make sure that Lanyssa was in range of the shrine for next turn as that gives me a nice anchor to extend my threat range.

Andy formed up one unit of temple flameguard in front of the shrine and generally moved models up. Crucially he put up Enliven on both his heavies. (second photo)

On my second turn I saw that I could potentially kill off quite a chunk of the front line of TFG with a void and then leave him and his entropic aura enabling my squids to manuevre forward. Jaga cast S+P and then the void killed off a fair amount with the spray before teleporting forward to kill off another model and leave the entropic force up. Lanyssa applied hunters mark and two raged squids charged forward, the first one chunked the shrine and removed a bunch of flameguard and the second one tried to kill off the heavies but I underestimated how much Enliven would ruin my plan here and Andy managed to tuck both of his heavies just behind other models so I was reduced to tentacles which even under S+P just don't do the damage

I foolishly engaged hard on the flank as well and rather than teleporting my void back I sent it forward to get some more kills.

Andy's response was pretty brutal, putting up Positive charge on his crippled jack he took apart my squids (I had a brief moment of hope when the Death Rage attack looked like ti might end the jack but alas I would have needed a huge spike for that. He also killed both voids and a few valks although it turns out that they are very resilient under even just a single Dhunian Archon;s aura. (he also feated)

My third turn I tried to use my feat to remove the TFG that were blocking my path only to realise that my feat did not get around tough (sad times) and so tough no knockdown happened a few times. My remaining squid and wrastler were able to remove some more warjacks but at that point I just didn't have enough models to contest so we called it there.

A good game and one that reminded me that I really need to watch out my stuff like enliven when I'm sending in my squids (I could probably have moved the squid further out and denied him the tuck spot). Also how much I should hold onto the Voids as late game pieces rather than throwing them away cavalierly.In retrospect I could possibly have played this with more of an eye on attrition by killing off the frontline with squids quite possibly without exposing too much to his jacks. I'm definitely keen to investigate more Valkyrie and Dhunian interaction as that does feel very strong

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Some Jaga Jaga battle reports Mar 7, 2020 18:10:21 GMT via mobile

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Post by shicato on Mar 7, 2020 18:10:21 GMT

After my last game with Jaga Jaga I was pretty impressed by quite how hard to remove Valkyries were with a Dhunian Archon so for my next game I dropped one swamp horror to add in another unit and another archon and by dropping Lanyssa I was able to fit in Scythe as well leaving my list looking like this

Jaga-Jaga, the Death Charmer - WB: +27 -

Gatorman Soul Slave - PC: 5 -

Swamp Horror - PC: 15 (Battlegroup Points Used: 15) - Swamp Horror - PC: 15 (Battlegroup Points Used: 12) Underchief Mire - PC: 4 -

Blackhide Wrastler - PC: 16

Feralgeist - PC: 0 Feralgeist - PC: 0 Feralgeist - PC: 0

Void Archon - PC: 8 Void Archon - PC: 8

Swamp Gobber River Raider - PC: 1

Dhunian Archon - PC: 0 Dhunian Archon - PC: 0

Scythe - PC: 6

Farrow Valkyries - Leader & 2 Grunts: 8 Farrow Valkyries - Leader & 2 Grunts: 8 Farrow Valkyries - Leader & 2 Grunts: 8

I played a game into Jon running Zaal2 Immortals with two units of Immortals, 2 Ancestral Guardians, one Supreme Guardian, a Mammoth and some support pieces.

I won the roll as as the list can handle terrain pretty easily and I wanted to avoid being forced to contest chose to go first. Jon took the side with less awkward terrain.

I deployed with a fairly even spread and Valkyries to the front and for once Jaga Jaga at the back. While JOn had his MAmmoth and SG deployed centrally and one unit on each flank. In retrospect I think given the house blocking one side I should have deployed my voids closer to the centre so I could force them both onto one side.as with the recursion and vengeance in Jon's army I would be much better off focus firing down one unit of immortals.

Nick Turn 1 On my first turn I just ran most stuff up with a clump of models behind the house on the left (including a Grave Winded Void which proved to be a mistake as the house was plenty of protection already) I also really needed to watch the positioning of Scythe as I had thought she was in range of both Dhunians but turns out it was only 1.

Jon Turn 1 Jon responded by running stuff up threatening all the flags so I would have to trigger vengeance or just get swung into. He also nearly killed off Scythe but she was saved by a timely intervention from a Dhunian. Jon could have tried again for a second spell but he hadn't realised that the Dhunian ability was only once per turn so just put up some buffs instead.

Nick Turn 2 During my next turn I eliminated most of the immortals on the right side of the board with a combination of Scythe and the Void Archon.I then carefully spaced out my valks so that if there was one single big shot they could take it without a lot of other stuff dying. I dithered a bit with the left flank before deciding that the one or two immortals I could kill on that flank were not worth giving them vengeance.

JON Turn 2 Jon's counter punch killed off some of the valkyries and set him up to threaten me next turn with his feat protecting his army. I also had to deal with a flood of immortals in my right flank with a void and a SG threatening my zone.

Nick Turn 3 - AT this point I decided it would be a good idea to try and kill a supreme guardian under feat heavily shielded by immortals. It took a fair amount of effort but between my Dhunians my Valks on the right, the void and Scythe, I managed to clear a path to the Supreme Guardian for a swamp horror who was promptly Raged and Weald Secreted and sent in. I had previously managed to bait out the defensive strike with some Valkyries so it got them in one piece and then ... failed to do much as it was out of range of it's bite and obviously could not drag the SG. On the left flank I just tried to be annoying and kill as little as possible. I finally moved the second swamp horror across to the right to give me some more threat on that side

Jon Turn 3 - the SG killed both the Swamp Horror and the Void while almost everything else cleared out flags and the mammoth blew up my objective allowing Jon to go up by 3 points. (I think it was at this stage that Jon's clock ran out but we agreed to just play on regardless and I only had 3 minutes left as well)

Nick Turn 4 - Using the valkryies and Jaga's feat I cleared out most of Jon;s immortals here including some spicy rolls to take out Hakaar and an Ancestral guardian (but that's kind of how Signs and Portents works

) I also killed off the SG and started scoring the flags while not leaving much for the mammoth and as the shop was about to close we called it there. Jon had a shot at killing Jaga with the Mammoth as Jaga was only camping one at this stage but he would have needed some hot rolls I think

All in all a really fun game and I definitely am going to trying out this version again. For my next game I'm aiming to work on better positioning of the Dhunians as their coverage is vital and not just sending in a Swamp Horror at a target because it's in range.

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Some Jaga Jaga battle reports Mar 9, 2020 0:12:57 GMT

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Post by Azahul on Mar 9, 2020 0:12:57 GMT

It looks like your army lists are copying over a little strangely from Facebook, but thanks for posting these reports

It's always good to see other people doing these write-ups. Void Archons with Jaga-Jaga really do seem like a treat.

Last Edit: Mar 9, 2020 0:15:26 GMT by Azahul

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Some Jaga Jaga battle reports Mar 14, 2020 1:34:06 GMT

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Post by shicato on Mar 14, 2020 1:34:06 GMT

Played another Jaga Jaga game against Menoth.

[Theme] Will Work For Food
[Jaga-Jaga 1] Jaga-Jaga, the Death Charmer [+27]
- Swamp Horror [15]
- Swamp Horror [15]
- Gatorman Soul Slave [5]
Dhunian Archon [0(6)]
Dhunian Archon [0(6)] (proxied by Dhunian Knot)
Feralgeist [2]
Feralgeist [2]
Feralgeist [2]
Scythe [0(6)]
Void Archon [8]
Void Archon [8]
Farrow Valkyries [8]
Farrow Valkyries [8]
Farrow Valkyries [8]

My opponent was playing Cyrenia in Faithful Masses
[Cyrenia 1] High Exemplar Cyrenia [+28]
- Castigator [12]
- Castigator [12]
- Dervish [7]
- Hierophant [3]
Avatar of Menoth [18]
Allegiant of the Order of the Fist [3]
Allegiant of the Order of the Fist [3]
Champion of the Order of the Wall [8]
Champion of the Order of the Wall [8]
High Paladin Dartan Vilmon [0(6)]
Menite Archon [8]
Menite Archon [8]
Vassal Mechanik [1]
Vassal Mechanik [1]
Vassal of Menoth [3]
Vassal of Menoth [3]
Wrack [1]
Choir of Menoth (min) [4]
Initiates of the Wall [0(7)]
Initiates of the Wall [0(7)]

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I won the roll off and as I wanted to try to see how well I could receive the alpha and see how the list fares when I go second, I decided to pick second. The board was quite heavy on terrain and I thought I would try to take advantage of the hooked wall in front of my zone to dictate the flow of the game (a decision that I later on came to regret due to the fairly heavy pathfinder requirements). In retrospect, this side forced me to clump up heavily in the centre and made unpacking a bit of a nightmare.

We both deployed fairly evenly with my Dhunians in the centre to spread the bubble of safety as much as possible and my Voids on the sides to hopefully kill off his archons. Everything else was deployed opposite his with the intention of using my Valkyries to gum up the centre and absorb his feat and then follow up with my heavies.

TURN 1

Menoth
He ran everything up in a V formation with his jacks and support in the centre and the archons + cavalry champions pressuring the flags on the side.

Minions
I moved everything up leaving the Valkyries behind the wall close enough that he should be able to get about 4 attacks onto them if he went deep with both the initiates, the archon and the champion on the right (2 of which I could cancel with the Dhunians). I put up Weald Secrets on Scythe so she could either shoot stuff in the trench or ignore concealment on the Menoth Archon. Grave Wind went on the more central Void Archon and Battle Host on Jaga Jaga.

TURN 2

Menoth
He moved up punch monks onto each of the flags at the sides and while he elected not to take most of the four attacks offered but the champion did manage to scalpel out the poor river raider who was just hanging out with the front Valkyries on the right before repoing onto the centre flag. He then moved up into the centre layered up his models and feated so that anything I killed would generate vengeance and set him up for a counter strike.

Minions
I thought that I could take advantage of the time he had spent setting up this layer of threats and ran a feralgeist onto each of the flags and then passed the clock. (score 1-1)
(No photo I’m afraid)

TURN 3

Menoth
My opponent decided to punish me for not moving up and killed off all the feralgeists and controlled all the flags. He then charged in the Avatar (with Enliven and Inviolable Resolve) and took out 2 of the unpainted Valkyries before putting up a wall between the Avatar and my zone. He then ran up the Initiates on the right up against the original wall. (score 5-2)

Minions
I was under quite a lot of scenario pressure here and was just way too clumped in my zone. I tripped all over all my own models constantly this turn and had to spend way too much time just clearing space so I could get models to where they were needed just to try to stop from losing on scenario. As is tradition with Jaga Jaga I started with her and put up Signs and Portents.

On the centre/left flank, I then used the central Dhunian to knock off Inviolable Resolve from the Avatar and trigger Enliven. My Soul Slave put up Ghost Walk on the Void Archon in the centre so I could avoid free strikes from the Initiates behind the wall. The Void Archon then charged the Avatar and did some damage before spraying down at Cyrenia but failed to hit her, I did hit and kill a choir member but totally spaced on the fact that I would need to trigger my Void Walk now as I wasn’t going to be finishing anything off with my melee.
On the right flank, Scythe managed to kill off the Menoth Archon but missed the punch monk. The Void Archon then followed up and killed the punch monk before teleporting onto the flag. I sprayed down the castigator and killed off the Heirophant and one of the vassals which turned out to be an error as I really should have triggered Enliven on the other Castigator to stop him from being able to position away from my swamp horror later.
Mire then hot swapped Weald Secrets onto the purple Valkyries so that they could take on the Initiates and Raged the Swamp Horror so it could take out the heavies. I then realised that I had managed to block off the Swamp Horror’s path with my Valkyries and that meant that his heavy was going to be able to Enliven away.so that only the tentacles would be able to hit him. Despite this, the Swamp Horror was able to finish off the Castigator but wasn’t able to finish off the Avatar as well.

I then moved up some Valkyries and the other Swamp Horror to contest the flag on the left. I scored the right flag and my zone and my opponent scored his own zone. (6-4)

TURN 4

Menoth
My opponent knew that he only had to score 3 points and with vengeance moves and the fairly insane MAT and damage buffs he got from my killing off his models, he was able to kill off Scythe, the two Void Archons, and the purple Valkyries who were contesting the centre and right flag and then ran up an Initiate into my zone to contest. We both ended the game with about 2 minutes left on the clock. (score 9-4)

Recap
This was a good game but I really need to get batter with my early placement as I was just constantly tripping over my own models in this game. I’ve been working on making sure my warrior models are all covered by the Dhunians and I’m just finding myself with models in awkward places because I’m trying too hard to keep everything clumped up.