WTC Practice - MOAR GAMES pt.1!

More! A weekend full of Warmachine practice, 5 games in total! I'll probably split them into 2 posts for ease of reading.

Game 4/100
Saeryn (Tier 4) Vs Dominaar Rasheth (Tier 4)
Opponent: Keith Boardman
Scenario: Recon

I'm testing a list taken from a great thread on the Legion of Everblight forums as I've been eyeing up the Fallen Angels Theme Force for a while, and this list seems pretty interesting!

Tiers: 4
Benefits: AD on Spell Martyrs, +1 to the starting die roll, +2" deployment, free Nephilim.
Saeryn, Omen of Everblight (*5pts)
* Harrier (2pts)
* Nephilim Bloodseer (0pts)
* Nephilim Protector (5pts)
* Nephilim Protector (5pts)
* Zuriel (10pts)
* Angelius (9pts)
* Angelius (9pts)
* Seraph (8pts)
Blighted Nyss Shepherd (1pts)
Blighted Nyss Shepherd (1pts)
Blighted Nyss Sorceress and Hellion (4pts)
1 Spell Martyr (1pts)

It has all the best Theme benefits, but it is fairly restricted. This is not the sort of list you want to be dropping into heavy armour, but it's very strong on fast scenarios and excellent against aggressive melee infantry lists.

Keith has Chain Gang, which should be an interesting test!

Tiers: 4
Dominar Rasheth (*5pts)
* Basilisk Krea (4pts)
* Bronzeback Titan (9pts)
* Titan Gladiator (7pts)
* Titan Gladiator (7pts)
Gatormen Posse (Leader and 4 Grunts) (9pts)
Gatormen Posse (Leader and 4 Grunts) (9pts)
Paingiver Beast Handlers (Leader and 3 Grunts) (2pts)
Agonizer (2pts)
Agonizer (2pts)
Paingiver Task Master (2pts)
Paingiver Task Master (2pts)

 

Deployment

Game:

Crocs come up aggressively but a Turn 1 Breathstealer sees one unit slowed, while I shoot a couple of them down. I switch the Battlegroup towards the right hand flag (opposite the debuffed unit) to avoid charges.

Game turns into a slog but I remove both Agonisers on my Feat Turn, which allows me to armour pierce and Zuriel the big elephants down. Once that's done Rasheth is out of toys to play with, and eventually gets pierced.

Assassination WIN!

Game 5/100
Saeryn (Tier 4) Vs Haley2
Opponent: Pat Dunford
Scenario: Destruction

 I volunteered as tribute to play versus Pat, who is an exceptional Haley2 player. His list as below:

 Major Victoria Haley (*5pts)
* Stormclad (10pts)
* Squire (2pts)
Cylena Raefyll & Nyss Hunters (Cylena and 9 Grunts) (10pts)
Storm Lances (Leader and 4 Grunts) (11pts)
Stormblade Infantry (Leader and 5 Grunts) (5pts)
* Stormblade Infantry Officer & Standard (3pts)
* 3 Stormblade Infantry Storm Gunner (3pts)
Anastasia di Bray (2pts)
Gorman di Wulfe, Rogue Alchemist (2pts)
Journeyman Warcaster (3pts)
Ragman (2pts)
Stormblade Captain (2pts)

Bottom of 1 - Saeryn's Turn.

Game:

I lose the roll to go first and Pat comes forward aggressively. I create a screening wall out of the light Nephilim and spread my heavies to try and avoid having them all feated on. Breathstealer hits the Stormlances to stop the assault on Turn 1. Pat's feat removes all 3 lights and catches everything except my support and a single Angelius who's in a poor position. I counter-feat but Pat's able to remove an Angelius through shooting and eventually gets a kill on Saeryn.

Not the best game. Pat's eHaley games are often brutally one-sided - just ask some Irish Masters Bradgius players for corroboration! More experience with the Saeryn list would've seen me do better, but there's too many high-power, auto-hitting (and Deadeyed!) guns for this to deal with.

Assassination LOSS!

Game 6/100 
Absylonia2 Vs Haley2
Opponent: Pat Dunford
Scenario: Two Fronts

Playing against the same list, I wanted to try Absylonia into it this time, to see how it went.

Top of 2.

Game:

This one was better, but not great. I basically armoured up, spread out so not too much would get blinded in a single bomb, and tried to weather the Storm.. lances. One Raek was exceptional, holding the Nyss off for most of the game. Haley's feat saw him take no heavies, but engage everything at reach. My next turn does very little as he doesn't engage the Scythean. On Pat's next turn, he doesn't kill a heavy, then Anastasia gets TK'd, triggers espionage and the extra moves finish off both my Scythean and Carnivean, despite being ARM 22 and ARM 20 respectively. Aby also gets blinded.

I actually get a turn now and between the Ravagore, Absylonia, the Seraph and a Raek, I clear a huge number of models. Aby's Feat and Conferred Rage are really quite great. Aby kills a Stormlance despite being blind. The Stormclad dies to my Ravagore, the Lances lose 3/5 and break, the Seraph kills Gorman and 3 Stormblades, the Raek goes and kills 5 Blades. 

Unfortunately I have no way of killing Anastasia. Pat's retaliation is weak as the impetus is with me now, but double attack and moves are still too strong and he puts Aby in the dirt with a couple of attacks.

 Assassination LOSS!

That's it for Part 1!

Current Stats:

Absylonia2: 4 games played (3/1)
Saeryn: 2 games played (1/1)

Faction Stats:

Skorne: 2 games played (2/0)
Retribution: 1 game played (1/0)
Trollbloods: 1 game played (1/0) 
Cygnar: 2 games played (0/2)