Vs. Cryx and Scyrah

Ahhhhh... I love the smell of Menoth's fury in the morning.

Although the games netted me two losses, I actually won one by default, and lost the other with my flag held high. :)

First battle was against pGoreshade with my brand new Testament-list, where I had him by the balls up until he got help, advice, guidelines, tactics, tips and tricks (basically everything but rolling his dice) from one of the 1337-players we had invited...
He managed to get a slam on my Reckoner, rolling enough to reach the Testament, knocking him over, charging his own models with Goreshade, popping his feat and then charging my sleeping warcaster with the Bane Thralls.

"Game over man, game over!"

... but it turned out he had used a list with 43p and not 35 like I had... meaning I actually won the game by default, but I wont take any credit for it (except pointing it out to him every time I meet him from now on). :)

My next game was 50p of Harbringer against 50p Ossyan.

Prior to the game I thought to myself not to get too stressed up and dismayed over this game, since he was, after all, a much more experienced WM-player than I am, and had built his lists for the Swedish Masters taking place this coming weekend on Gothcon.

We got the "Sacrifice-scenario" (or rather, I rolled for it), which was totally new to me.

I sent my Errants + Vilmon + Nicia + Rhupert + Covenant up towards the control zone. Which was something that turned out fairly effective. :)

In fact, I barely missed one attack roll (I know I missed the first one with Nicia though, otherwise I would've gotten the first point and might've won by CP, but nevertheless) or any of my many, many damage rolls.

My opponent on the other hand missed with more or less everything he threw at me, and when he actually did take my models down, I had tough and no knockdown to celebrate his deeds with.

In the end, he couldn't clear me out of the zone so he had to go for the casterkill, which he succeeded in with 2 jacks, 3 bow-dudes, his caster and a sniper.

So victory was his, and rightly so. :)

After-match thoughts:

• Full Errants + UA + Tough and no KD is pretty freaking silly and hard to get rid off, especially when you throw in Nicia in the mix. Not that she brings any buffs or anything like that, but she is INCREDIBLE. Love the little girl already.

• Bring Vassals. I should've just left the Knights Exemplars at home for this fight, and taken two Vassals to go all-out on shooting with the Vanquisher and Reckoner.

• A 6p Crusader is a perfect "throw away" jack, I had him a bit back to try and use him as a counter-charge-jack in case my opponent played aggressively, but he didn't do anything for the whole game.

• Harby is so much fun to play. :) She needs to be a bit more centered though, even if she at least was way out of range of the Mage Hunters, I might've used her spells a lot more if I didn't play her so overly defensively.

All in all, a great game, and a game where I learned about how other opponents think and act.

He was obviously a bit more experienced than me, both regarding his own list, the scenario and the game as a whole (I have only played Harbringer once before), but it didn't feel like I was totally bashed away.

Given that I rolled very good with my Errants and Nicia, but on the other hand he blasted two of my heavy warjacks in one turn with just 4 Mage Hunters. But it just feels good to know that even if me and my gaming group are still rather new to the game, we are by no means push-overs and totally lost.

:D

Yay!

Moar games!

A few of us from my gaming group decided to hook up and play a few games. 11p painted was what we settled for, and still 2 out of 5 had unpainted figures and proxy'd a few models.
But it was ok, we are only just starting so its understandable that not everyone is a paintlover like me.

So we had:
- Circle Orboros (starting box + Gorax, - one of the Argus).
- Protectorate of Menoth (me with the starting box).
- Cryx (with starting box).
- Khador (with Butcher and dawg and two heavy jacks).
- Retribution of Scyrah (a supertweaked list, perfect for low point games against jack-heavy lists... I'll get to this below).

Since I had to visit the midwife to check up on my son's hearing and seeing (they were both perfect) I arrived a bit later than the others.
They had decided to play the games on 2x4ft, which was just as good since we only had the starting sets. My Circle-friend went up against Khador in what seemed to be a great game, ending with Butcher down to 3 boxes due to a semi-failed assassination attempt, but he snapped the victory after butchering (har-har) pKaya in the following turn. The game switched sides a few times and I wish I hadn't played my game and witnessed theirs instead.

My first game was pure disaster. I went up against a mega-tweaked list, perfect for killing warjack-lists (like all starting sets are) and got my ass handed to me, in pieces.
He had:

- Kaelyssa (I think)
- 1 Phoenix
- Mage Hunters Unit
- Assassin Mage Hunter

After killing his Mage Hunter Solo with my Repenter I was basically owned for the rest of the game, his combo of the spell that makes one model stationary + the one that transfers damage to my warcaster for every box my warjack is damaged + the Mage Hunters made fairly quick work with me. Failing the rolls on my feat-turn didn't help either.
Anyway, I bet he had a blast, me not so much.
It reminded me in some ways of when an old friend of mine taught me how to play Magic the Gathering by giving me a red deck, and himself having a white deck with circle of protection: red.
All I really learned was that I will never play against that fellow again.
Ok, it was not that harsh, since his list will not be this overpowered when we reach higher point games, so I will definately play him again, no hard feelings even if he claimed that he just chose with the looks in regard.... (yahh.. right...).

My next game was against Cryx and it was a much closer game than the one before.
He charged his little chickenjacks at me with the bigger one following behind them and his Warcaster behind that.
The game was mostly distinguished by the feeble dice rolls from both of us with nothing dying in the first two-three turns.
After a few turns I got to taste the danger of ghostwalk. He kicked his feat off and walked his big Bonejack right through my Repenter and Crusader and up to my Warcaster. Once again feeble rolls snuck in and after getting Kreoss down to just 5 boxes he missed with his headbutt-powerattack so my Caster survived. I beat his Bonejack up seriously (only a few boxes remaining) with my Caster in the next turn, and missed with both a boosted attack AND my extra attack with my Repenter. His next turn he once again used ghostwalk but this time on one of the smaller chickenjacks but failed to do any damage with it, and thanks to his Bonejack being massively damaged he didn't take any boxes either.
In my final turn my Warcaster killed his Bonejack and my fully boosted Crusader and a Repenter and took out his Warcaster once and for all.

The best part in that battle was when I forgot my feat. Twice. During the feat turn.

Uberfail.




Otherwise I would probably have gotten his smaller jacks down. But hey, I still won and it was a much more satisfying game (not only because I won) than the first one.