Local Steamroller. Game 1 paired against my nemesis Michael an good player. He was rocking Grymkin Dreamer or Wander both in Dark Menagerie. I had Dr A and Midas. I as always when playing Michael choose the wrong list. He drops Dreamer and I Midas.
Midas, WWFF - Soul Slave - Gun Boar - Gun Boar - Gun Boar - Splatter Boar - Splatter Boar - Boneswarm Valkyries Nyss (max) Boomhowler (max) Grinder(min) Boil Master and Spirit Cauldron Totem Hunter Chef | Dreamer - Skin&M - Skin&M - Cage Rager - Cage Rager - Gorehound - Gorehound - Gorehound - Gorehound - Rattler - Crabbit - Crabbit Death Knell 4xGremlins
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Scenario is Recon II. I lose roll opponent wants second turn and gives me the side with lots of terrain. It means I've got a nice forest for Midas to hide behind and take the magic objective. I deploy Nyss to the left Boomies to the right beasts in the middle. He deploys symmetrically with his hounds on the flanks.
My Turn 1 I run the beasts as far as I can up the board. Nyss flood his zone. Boomies dirdle into the other zone and get Death March. Pot gives the swarm 2 corpse. Totem Hunter preys one of the hounds.
Turn 1 He moves his gorehounds aggressively against the boomies and hides the preyed hound.
My Turn 2 He's left one hound in range of two boomies so they go in after the soul slave gives them battle lust. They remove the hound. I blow up a gremlin swam with a magic lucky shot deviation. Then I fail to kill the Rattler leaving it on 2 boxes but thankfully out of range of the nice line of Nyss. Pot delivers last corpse to boneswarm that hides in the forest.
Turn 2 Dreamer Abyssal gate's a gunboar next to splatterboar which are both then eaten by a Skin and Moans, Death cart kills a couple of boomies. Cage Rager also eats a couple. Last skin and moans tramples over and whales on the swarm but even with manifest destiny its struggling to hit def15. Rager and hounds eat another gunboar. He scores his flag 0-1
My Turn 3 Tank time after planning on shooting dreamer to death, I learnt that bone picker RFPs my beasts $%$$. I really want to kill the damn cart but can't quite clear a lane to it for the Valkaries. I instead settle to remove the last gorehound, skin and moans and contesting pieces. Nyss, boneswarm and totem hunter kill another hound, rattler and last skin and moans. 1-1. I'm down to 13mins on clock
Michael has 30mins
Turn 3 He sends in cage rager to clear his flag other cage rager eats all the valkaries. Death Cart hilariously fails impact attack on my boomies. 1-2
My Turn 4 I clear my flag by a cute zap on my gunboar in the back with a hex blast from the soul slave killing the contesting models outside of arcane vortex. Otherwise I'm running out of models in my zone. Boomies do a few points to the cart. Totem hunter finally gets his prey target. 2-2 I'm down to 5mins
Turn 4 He clears of the boomies to score my zone 2-3
My turn 5 I feed him a pig into my zone but can't score. Down to 1:30
Turn 5 He clears my zone 2-4
My turn 6 More of the same; Contest my zone and flag I do finally kill the cage rager in his zone but again can't score. I've got 30 seconds
Turn 6 He clears my zone 2-5 He's down to 5mins
My Turn 7 I finally clear his zone and flag but clock with Midas zapping the last gremlin swarm. 4-5.
Clock lossThoughtsBlimey first game! So other than the wrong list. I needed to kill that damn cart, also showed that not having access to the eyeless sight/guidance tech made scoring difficult with 4 incorp models and lots of arcane vortex. Anyway on the plus I did manage to nulify his arcana. Oh well still waiting to beat Michael....