initiate charlz his exploits and fumbles.(battlereports)

OK

Game 1

Feora3 vs harby

his list:
harby
-heirophant
-judicator
avatar of menoth
3 initiates of the wall
2 champions of the wall
2 menoth archons
book
min choir
2 monks advanced deployed 

scenario contains 2 rectangle zones and a circle. circle has a flagg in the middle and both rectangle zones have an objective.


i lose the roll but opponent offers me to go first. Prey goes on left most monk
redline on hand. sevy's upkeep on himself. no spells on the BE for shits and giggles. i won't be able to upkeep shite anyway.

My first turn. I run everything up. minus the choir who advances to buff the jacks.

Harby turn 1

the monks walk up and do shifting sands. staying out of "boostable" melee treath ranges.
avatar gazes and runs up. the collosal gets passage aswell and runs up but stays out of range of the vessels gun. (barely)
the champions position themself to either counter charge the players next turn or to be able to contest on his next turn.
the book runs up to contest the flagg. the initiates move up and harby parks in a rather safe location and purges ALL spells.
the archons fly in position to benifit from potential casualties.


(pic taken after focus allocation)

my turn 2.
all jacks get 1 focus with the exception of the redeemers whom i fully load up.
everything advances up but the left flank and objectives are completely ignored due to the difficult terrain and bad foresight on my part.

i end up focusing on that collosal i cannot gun down that i make massive misplays. i don't go and contest zones.
i don't even propperly contest the flagg.

the BE walks up and tiptoes the zone.
it then begins to take shots at the collosal but barely leaves a dent and fails to do anything with the admonisher shots.

the redeemers manage to wound and even kill a few initiates but seeing as how much resources had to be spend to only take out 2 initiates (both of them martyrd)
i began to panic. one of the monks died to the redeemer fire. the other survives pot shots from elias due to a martyr and a miss. out of the entire redeemer and vessel ordeal a single initiate and monk die by choice of my opponent to boost his archons.

having forfeited the left flank i decided to try and get my reckoner ready to go in the right zone, parking it safely behind the wall in hopes to commit it to the collosal under feat.

Harby turn 2.
this is mostly a walk up into the zone. planting the book firmly against the flagg. the initiates walk up into the zone. the avatar claims the left zone and the paladin behind him runs up torwards the center to engage elias.
the collosal gets passage again and charges the objective. planting himself into the right zone and destroying my objective. the paladin behind him runs to engage my reckoner. 2 initias (having lost their third) block charge lanes to the collosal from the other 2 jacks.

the archons and monk charge my BE leaving it on a single hitpoint.
harby walks up and pop feats.

my opponent scored 3CP.
(i already lost, i just didn't know it yet)



My turn.

i load up the hand with a extra focus. putting it on 2 focus. the reckoner on the right gets fully loaded.
the choir gives everyone battle.
the mechanic does his best and manages to heal a FULL whooping 4 hp to the BE.

elias attacks the paladin. does 1 dmg. gets retalitory striked to death.
woops.

the be uses his push miracle and kills the monk. the archons get shoved. shots are made to the paladin on the left.. dismounting it.
the heirophant gives harmonious exaltation to feora and walks into the zone to contest.
the warden charges the initiates. killing one with the shield and halberd. feora pops feat and charges into a archon. her spray avails to naught and she doesn't kill the archon due to snake eyes on the charge. the follow up attack also misses. third attack leaves it at one hp. she doesn't go empty. can't repo away and camps 1 foci.
redeemer manages to shoot down the archon and then wiff everything on the avatar (don't ask me how)

hand of fate walks up trying to block charge lanes and sprays for his life. he doesn't do much and deals 8 damage to harby.

the reckoner that was fully loaded takes out half a judicator. couldn't finish the job. had snake eyes on initial attack.

other reckoner runs to engage.

i forgot about the score tally.

opponent wins 5 CP to 0CP


this fight tought me 2 things.

1: zones man. keep yer eyes on the zones.
2: if you can't do one thing. focus on what you can.

my opponent made sure to keep things out of reach of feora so i couldn't incite without putting her in harms way.
granted this was not a easy match up and my stubborn dumb ass should have just played kreoss3 against this.

Question:

Exactly how did all the opening shooting at the Judicator work out for you?

Did he have Passage up? Etc., etc.

he has passage up the entire GAME.

not once did his choir do anything else.

edit: Seriously why are the pictures missing? i added them in. TWICE now.

oh i have tried. I legit tried. they kept scattering torwards the iniates or backwards to me. he kept his choir 6-9" away from the judicator and i think i got a Single choir member with blast templates.

With only a minimum unit to kill, I think it’s a great plan. I have no pictures to judge from, but Severious0 can hand out a theoretical maximum 24” threat on those rockets, not counting deviation distance. My first thought was “scatter onto the Choir and kill them”, after which my next thought is “Shoot the Judicator off the table with both Redeemers and some help from the Reckoners if possible.” It doesn’t happen in one turn, but (absent shield guards) those Redeemers reliably blow half the grid away on their own.

I know, I know, details of the game, etc., but this combination has ludicrous shooting power...

I’ve owned (and used) Protectorate since 2006, so there.

I just haven’t used them much lately and I rarely talk about anything besides Khador.

But... I dunno. Throw enough deviations and they seem to work out well enough for me, or for any Protectorate players I play against. : p

(“This model is safe here... the only possible way he can get this is with a perfect 1-in-36 deviation... BLAM ... Of course.”)

I mean, sure. Ive done the Menoth mirror match and their judi deviates 6” to the 1 and destroys X top of 1. Thats a thing that can happen. But Ive also had games where judi, 3x redeemers, and deliverers shoot all game and hit exactly nothing with AOEs. And both are just as likely outcomes.