Playing into Long Threat Opponents (Bunkers in Particular)
May 28, 2020 11:12:05 GMT
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Post by thebuoyancyofwater on May 28, 2020 11:12:05 GMT
Hi all,
Had a game yesterday that went very badly. Abby2 vs Arkadius on Bunkers. I won the roll off and went first, which initially seemed great, but meant on my turn two I basically had to sacrifice my army or scenario. So a lose-lose situation. While playing a different list is fine (I think either of my other lists would have worked better) it's still useful to have a look at what could be done differently in this type of match up. So I thought I'd put forward a couple ideas and see what others thought and what their ideas were.
Going second initially seems like a terrible idea against a long melee threat army, but I think in this instance maybe isn't. Can choose more favorable terrain for starters. Turn 1 will probably not involve much moving forwards, but the key thing is to keep spell martyrs where the opponent can't get to them and they can run to arc onto flags, plus have ranged beasts who can shoot the flags and other solos (hellions are ideal) that can run to them. Then if the opponent commits fully you can Hex Bolt a solo and go in with the beasts, if he partially commits you can shoot down the solos while claiming the flags yourself and keeping at least some beasts safe and if he doesn't commit you run to the flags and keep beasts safe.
But if the opponent wins the roll and makes you go first what do you do? I pressed forward hard to limit space, but not sure if there's another option?
Anyway, just looking to start a general discussion on the match up. Can also apply to any of our other beast heavy lists playing into a long threat range army really, the example is just the match up that happened.
Cheers,
Dave
Had a game yesterday that went very badly. Abby2 vs Arkadius on Bunkers. I won the roll off and went first, which initially seemed great, but meant on my turn two I basically had to sacrifice my army or scenario. So a lose-lose situation. While playing a different list is fine (I think either of my other lists would have worked better) it's still useful to have a look at what could be done differently in this type of match up. So I thought I'd put forward a couple ideas and see what others thought and what their ideas were.
Going second initially seems like a terrible idea against a long melee threat army, but I think in this instance maybe isn't. Can choose more favorable terrain for starters. Turn 1 will probably not involve much moving forwards, but the key thing is to keep spell martyrs where the opponent can't get to them and they can run to arc onto flags, plus have ranged beasts who can shoot the flags and other solos (hellions are ideal) that can run to them. Then if the opponent commits fully you can Hex Bolt a solo and go in with the beasts, if he partially commits you can shoot down the solos while claiming the flags yourself and keeping at least some beasts safe and if he doesn't commit you run to the flags and keep beasts safe.
But if the opponent wins the roll and makes you go first what do you do? I pressed forward hard to limit space, but not sure if there's another option?
Anyway, just looking to start a general discussion on the match up. Can also apply to any of our other beast heavy lists playing into a long threat range army really, the example is just the match up that happened.
Cheers,
Dave
