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Cool, I am heading to a small tournament myself in about two weeks, though I am restricted to Champions lists. I will be taking Iron Lich Asphyxious Ghost Fleet and Horseshade with the bane theme. I got a practice game in with Goreshade 3 and despite my opponent bringing a dedicated infantry removal list, the recursion of the list was pretty strong and held its own with attrition. I ended up winning on scenario.

Looking forward to seeing your write up.

Goreshade Lord of Ruin
- Skarlock (will replace with bane knight UA if done in time for tourney)
- Desecrator
- Inflictor
- Leviathan
Wraith Engine
Darragh Wrathe
Bane Lord Tartarus
Gorman Di Wulfe
Bane Warriors + UA
Bane Knights

Bane knights at armor 20 were pretty hard for my opponent to remove from the zone, especially with the wraith engine and Gorman backing them up. Goreshade was able to keep refilling the unit as my opponent killed a few every turn, even during Reznik 2's feat turn which blows up infantry really well. Bane Thralls faced off against Idrians and I was able to overtake them with good use of positioning, the desecrator and the occultation spell.

Iron Lick Asphyxious
- Cankerworm
- Barathrum
- Inflictor
- Seether
- Ripjaw
Rengrave
Hellslinger Phantom
Pistol Wraith
Pistol Wraith
Agrimony, Crone of the Dying Strands
Blackbane's Ghost Raiders
Revenant Crew
- Rifleman
- Riflemen (need a third)

The idea here is to land a parasite and make a unit disappear under withering fire from the pistol wraiths and the hellslinger phantom. Barathrum, seether and cankerworm handle heavier threats until I can get asphyxious onto the opposing caster and save the feat for assassination. Or just grind out a scenario win with the recursion in the list.

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Well got back from my very small turnout weekend of warmachine gaming. I did pretty average as expected. I pretty much exclusively used the goreshade 3 list above and the first game was into Crucible Guard and Syvestro. He ended up clocking himself out after a very long feat turn. It was anyone's game up to that point, score was 6 him, 5 me, and I still had two intact heavies and a few banes running around with the ability to make more. Though I think he was slowing gaining the advantage on attrition. He had a super buff unit of steel heads with a reinforcement solo that I just couldn't do enough damage to the unit to matter. He probably would have eventually won if he hadn't clocked out.

The second game was against Skorne and Morgoul 3. Unfortunately I learned the hard way that a spell exists that can blind an entire unit, and he had about 3 different guys that could cast it at any given time. Units of banes don't like being blinded. That game did not go well.

The third game was against Circle and Kromak 1. It was a very close game (I was up on scenario 2-0) and I was winning on attrition, until I forgot about Kromak's leap ability in his beast form, he got to goreshade with his feat and after a large number of attacks put me down. My mistake for not remembering and should have won that game.

Day 2 had us doing a caster draft where I brought a smaller (50 pt + 30 jack points) list of the dark host list and proceeded to win every game with my 9 focus/dark guidance caster I drafted. I played against circle twice, one list had a storm raptor, the other was a bones list. That was a lot of fun, ridiculous, but fun.

Thanks for doing that, but I fear there may still be errors in your data. For instance, the Cryx player in Belgium Ensor did not have a 100% win rate (Skarre 1 lost in round 3), and the one in Belgium Van Eyck played each list thrice and lost once with each.

As for myself, I'll do my best to do a proper write-up on the blog at some point, but I can give you the synopsis already:
In round 1, Skarre 1 went first against Madrak 2 on King of the Hill, and inflicted a lot of pain before winning handily on scenario. This was the one and only time I won the roll-off and thus went first.
Next Skarre 3 went second against Kallus 1 on Bunkers. I got pushed back hard and as a result, my opponent won on scenario top of 3. There was not much I could've done, but if he hadn't been able to score those last few points, I probably would've been able to crawl back. Time would've still been an issue though.
After that Skarre 3 went second against another Skarre 3 player, on Spread the Net. That game was a real slug fest, but I eventually won on scenario with 20 seconds on my clock.
Round 4 saw Skarre 1 going second against Dreamer on Invasion. The table had a couple of buildings, which is of course favorable for me. My opponent sent his heavies in in waves, which meant that I could systematically take them apart after baiting both his Clockatrices to charge a Wraith Engine each; without a damage buff, it's unlikely they kill.
Then in round 5 I got the short end of the stick again, playing Skarre 1 second against Child with 5 chickens on Anarchy. Because he got to go first and the table was all clouds, so basically no terrain to Clockatrices, he put an immense amount of pressure on Skarre personally. He got ahead on scenario and picked apart my army.
Finally I played Skarre 3 against Old Witch 3 on Recon II, going second again. I fell a bit behind, mostly on time and tried to bait an assassination run by OW. It worked and I lived on 10 boxes, then had the Kraken tickle her to death.

A personal 4-2 and I don't feel like I did anything horribly wrong in the losing games, so I'm quite happy with how I did in general.