[Theme] The Devourer's Host
(Krueger 1) Krueger the Stormwrath [+28]
- Ghetorix [21]
- Gorax Rager [7]
Bloodweaver Night Witch [4]
Bloodweaver Night Witch [4]
Tharn Ravager Shaman [0(5)]
Tharn Ravager Shaman [0(5)]
Tharn Ravager White Mane [0(5)]
Death Wolves [9]
Tharn Bloodweavers [8]
Tharn Bloodweavers [8]
Tharn Ravagers (max) [16]
- Tharn Ravager Chieftain [5]
Tharn Ravagers (max) [16]
- Tharn Ravager Chieftain [5]
Bunker (Steamroller) [0]
(Kaya 2) Kaya the Moonhunter [+24]
- Feral Warpwolf [18]
- Ghetorix [21]
- Loki [19]
- Pureblood Warpwolf [17]
- Wild Argus [7]
- Druid Wilder [4]
Sentry Stone & Mannikins [5]
Sentry Stone & Mannikins [5]
Shifting Stones [3]
Fuel Cache (Steamroller) [0]
In round 2 I am faced with Steve who's brought Cygnar to the event. He has Haley2 and Maddox and we're playing in Close Quarters. I don't think either of my warlocks have an advantages here in the scenario specifically so no reason to analyze that. I'm again faced with the situation that either of my lists has strengths with the Kaya list probably being a bit stronger into Haley2, and the Krueger list being stronger into Maddox. I do think that as long as I can keep Ghetorix alive though that I have game into Haley2 with it. I select Krueger again and he goes with Haley, his list looked like this:
[Theme] Heavy Metal
(Haley 2) Major Victoria Haley [+25]
- Hammersmith [12]
- Minuteman [9]
- Stormwall [39]
- Thorn [13]
- Squire [0(5)]
Captain Arlan Strangewayes [0(4)]
Journeyman Warcaster [0(4)]
- Charger [9]
Lieutenant Allison Jakes [0(4)]
- Stormclad [18]
Pre-Game:
I'm going to have to play this game very carefully. I need to keep Ghetorix alive as I need him to go into that Stormwall at some point, but I do think that I can do just that between Gale Winds and Spiny Growth. Then I just have to slowly work my way through his things with my infantry. I lose the die roll and my opponent opts to go first.
Round 1:
Standard stuff, he moves up decently aggressively. Haley actually just runs to the position he wants. Jakes puts out Side Kick on the Stormclad and oddly Arcane Shield doesn't go on anything. Thorn isn't anywhere really scary either. Haley is going for a position in the middle of the table and doesn't seem to be angling for her flag.
On my turn I move up, making sure that all of my Tharn are in Hunter's Grace. I have a trench and some rubble in front of my deployment against, so I used those to put things like Death Wolves and Whitemane and so forth into. I make sure to put Lightning Tendrils on one of the units of Bloodweavers and then cast Gale Winds to keep everyone relatively safe from shooting.
Round 2:
He moves up to get he Stormwall, Stormclad and Hammersmith in somewhat threatening spots. Haley feats as well. Some attacks go into some of my pieces because I recall that Vengeance triggers happened.
On my turn I don't do a whole lot because of Haley's feat. I make sure to keep my Tharn in the Hunter's Grace areas. Kill the Stormpod that was in the middle of things. Position so that Krueger is into the Killbox but safely in some rubble. Ghetorix puts up Spiny, Krueger made sure Gale Winds was up. All in all not much happens that turn. I do start to flank pretty hard with my Night Witch.
Round 3:
He comes forward, and I lose some models to he Stormclad, Stormwall and Hammersmith. He uses the Minuteman to go in and Flak Field some of my lighter infantry as well. Importantly he doesn't kill Ghetorix.
On my turn I decide that I need to kill the Minuteman so that he's not in the way for Ghetorix to get to Stormwall. I'm able to kill the Minuteman with some Ravagers, put some damage on the Hammersmith as well. Then I put some other attacks into the Stormwall before sending a Primal Ghetorix into it, and that's plenty to take him down. Pretty ineffective against the Stormclad though. Hammersmith takes some damage, and my Night Witches in his backline are keeping him busy.
Round 4:
Now that he doesn't have a Stormwall he's hoping the remaining heavies can do work, and they do some, but because of the bases being in the way they can only get so many attacks. Somewhere along the way I lost Skoll to electroleaps and Tala I think after she tried to do work into the Stormwall something got her. Thorn starts mixing it up at this point I believe and he tries to turn some stuff to take care of my Night Witches. One of them Arlan does get, the other was missed by his Charger.
On my turn I'm able to take down the Hammersmith and Stormclad, and then put some Bloodweavers to pin Thorn down a bit. Ghetorix kills a Tharn from the frenzy as well. I'm getting a bit spotty trying to remember the details of exactly what happened when in this game, so I'm going to just summarize from here. Thorn was the only thing left contesting, so I put attacks into him. I see that I can run a Shaman to his flag to easily score that because nothing is over there, and I put a bunch of damage on Thorn too. Then I get this idea that I can charge with Krueger which will put me on the flag and with Sustained Attack I can easily hit Thorn if I hit the 10 on the boosted MAT 5. I do, then realize that I was winning and it was a dumb idea.
I talked after the game about what my opponent could try, but what he does do is allocate to his Charger is all, contests his own flag, tries and fails a TK attempt. At that point I'm completely safe from retaliation.
After this, I clear my flag, and his flag to go to 3 control points, and then he's unable to contest either flag on his turn and I win.
Conclusions:
It was quite fortunate that he didn't put Arcane Shield on Stormwall as that made life much easier for sure. I think that this list has game into Haley though, and aside from needing to do better to keep Krueger safe when there's no reason for him to be anywhere else I also should have used my Bloodweavers to flank on each side much harder. Opponent was great fun and I really enjoyed the game!
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