Spread Your Legs
All weekdays with no games makes me sad.
At some point I drank to much and rambled online
https://angrynorway.podbean.com/e/fyd-ep1-ashlynn-sucks-and-i-have-a-drinking-problem/
Mainly so I wouldn't ramble to much when I went to despoil a better product
http://museonminis.com/dark-guidance-30-jahns-abcs/
And yes, I did then listen to the podcast I was on. I'd forgotten there was a specific reason for the title. It's super weird to be able to track my stages of inebriation (Tipsy > Offensive > Minor recovery).
Ye old Lockster came to my rescue, providing some dollies time as the clouds grew angry and tried to drown us.
Rask1 (BC) - Wrastler, 3x Boneswarms, Posse (Max), Croak Raiders (Max), Bokor + Shamblers, Sacral Vault, Bog Trog Mist Speaker, Totem Hunter, 2x Bog Trog Trawler
vs
Borka2 (BoH) - Rok, Mauler, Bomber, Basher, Krielstone unit + Northkin UA, Champs + Skaldi, Longriders
The Basher being proxied by a Bouncer. PP, can you crowd source some names? Everytime it got brought up I had momentary discombobulation from suddenly thinking I should be looking for a Rhulic Slam bot on the field.
Matchwise, I don't like how these feats are matching up. The way I hypothesized it plays out is we feat trade, however mine being based on a 5inch distance versus melee attacks likely forces it to be used first which feels not so good. More guns that get stuffed by Stealth would fix the issue, encouraging an early Troll feat pop, alas we'll just have to see how it plays it with low expectations.
Scenario is Spread The Net. Let the scores RISE FOR GALLIFREY. Rasillon was a much nicer dude before the time hissy fit lark.
I lost the roll and get given first, biggest factor for my side is a large forest making an awkward divide for me in the middle of the board. Otherwise no other terrain really affects the game.
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Round 1: Stuff runs at each other.
Totem Hunter Preys the Long Riders, who are clearly going to be an annoying flanking piece so I want something with equitable melee threat range to hassle and threaten them.
Trolls go hard refused flank, I opt to not go for super redeploys, much as I'd like the Posse to go up the left instead to combat the Troll Cav.
Two of the Boneswarms; one with Admonition; the Totem Hunter and the Sacral Vault go left. The Battle Engine is their anchoring and dealing with the forest slowing up the Bone masses.
Sidebar, Boneswarms are awesome to paint. Cause I'm lazy.
Rask, Wrastler, Bokor/Shamblers and Mist Speaker take centre rear position as the support module.
Posse, Bone Swarm with Fury and Croak Raiders go up on the right, these models basically facing off against the block of Troll Beasts and the Champs on the far right.
To my surprise Trolls do pop feat with the intent to deprive Minions of the Alpha. I also lose a Croak to a Borka bomb throw.
I've already made a bad mistake, I've not really assigned a throwaway solo to score the friendly flag. Awkward.
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Minion 2: Well, lets counter feat and backup, start chipping at the Cav to push scoring on that side.
For the left module, the Sacral Vault generates a couple souls and toughs out a Long Rider. The Totem Hunter then charges and kill him, then Sprints into the forest to be closer to the Troll board edge than any of the Trolls.
Bone Swarms over here spread out in contesting flag distance.
Far right, the Croaks intend to split up to put fire on the Champs and get some damage spread amongst them, keep some back to apply fire over the next few rounds.
I misplay quite badly as I seemingly forget how Croaks work, applying Oil super late and missing a few attacks. One is on regular fire, two are Oiled and burning.
The Fury'd Boneswarm toes the right zone.
Rask/Wrastler/Shamblers/Posse all chill in the middle. Feat gets thrown out.
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Troll 2: The photo was a lie. To me anyway, somehow I doubt my photography track record is inspiring many positive expectations for any other meat sacks. That I am one of. Don't question citizen, Democracy was proven to fail and the movie point was missed.
Ok, after writing that it turned out I did have a photo. Genius.
Tuffalos just run way up on the left, ignoring the Totem Hunter enticement.
Borka goes to the Troll flag. The beasts and Stone unit go in front of him, Rok eats a few Croaks. The assault spray killing a Raider is one of the few friendly Corpses I'm going to gain with the load of RFP on the side of the theoretically-Blue boys.
Champs on the right take some spread out fire damage, they move up and kill a few Raiders.
Rok sadly didn't come quite far enough forward, so I score the right rectangle while Borka gets the Troll flag. 1 all.
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Minion 3: Alright, feat burning is done. Now to suicide pieces on the right to get damage out and start chipping on the warbeast health. Primary target this turn is to pop Rok, add more fire to the Champs and throw Posse forward to hold the Troll Beasts back.
Right side, my one spawned Shanmbler appears at a place to mess up Counter Charges from teh Troll beasts, as Borka put up Battle Charged the previous turn.
Croaks put another Champ on fire, oil the some of the already burning models in the unit and makes the Krielstone tough out.
The Wrastler shuffles in the back, puts Rage on this flanks Bone Swarm. Said Swarm already has Fury, so it charges into Rok and maxes fury to chew into his health.
Rask cycles Fury onto the Bokor/Shamblers, shuffles to the left and shoots a Long Rider for some damage. A couple Shamblers hang outside of command area for call to sacrifice, as does the Mist Speaker.
The Bokor charges Rok, burns all the Shamblers in command to fall short leaving Rok on two boxes. Doh.
Posse go, two hang back. Three charge into the non-Rok beasts and fling some pretty good damage out for -7 attacks.
Left wise, I ambush in with a Trawler. List designing for your deployment fuck ups success!
He runs to the left flag. The Vault Aims, kills a Long Rider and toughs out another. Sadness, in this instance with an irrelevant amount of single wound models or offensive spells carrying one soul in far worse than randomly generating d3 at the start of the turn.
Rask shuffling over lets a Bone Swarm be in Control, he goes in and eats one Long Rider and toughs out another.
The Swarm with Admonition wonders into the top left rectangle zone.
Totem Hunter runs in the back field, basically awaits the Riders dying to cycle Prey opportunistically.
I fail to contest the Troll Flag, however I Manage to get both Rectangle zone and my own flag.
Now 4-2 to me.
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Troll 3: Alas, to much Fury there is, the Bomber frenzies and does some damage to a Posse. Also a Champ burns to death, fire on the stone goes out.
Borka sits on his flag, pops the Far Strike Animus, heals Rok and kills the furthest away Croak that is contesting the right Rectangle.
The Champs kill more of the Croaks, leaving two left, plus the Bokor.
Rok Regenerates, smacks down the Bone Swarm that dared to try to slap him up.
Mauler and (sigh) Basher maul a couple Posse. Well, the Mauler does, Basher is king of the Participation trophy.
Far left, one Long Rider moves and contests my flag, the toughed out one sits up and smack the Bone Swarm, a bad column roll stops it losing an aspect.
I get the left rectangle, Trolls score their flag and the right rectangle. Now 6-4.
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Minion 4: We're one shaved chimp away from the handsome orange coat of victory. The Trolls are to slow to deal with me scoring on the left, so wipe out the Cav and it's pretty much coat. I mean game.
Left wise, the Trawler, Vault and Bone swarm finish off the Long Riders. A Bone Swarm with three corpses it gained by it's own hard work, a rare sight. Prey cycles to the Bomber.
Rask Throws Rage and Boundless Charge on the Wrastler, throws Fury on the Posse.
Wrastler charges Rok, misses his attack. Hmph. Claw initials scratch up the Mauler. Bought attacks kill Rok and hurt the Mauler a fair bit.
Posse charges kill the Mauler and hurt the Bomber.
Croaks back up, put Fire on two more of the champs.
The second Trawler ambushed in to contest the Troll flag, he also shoots and kills the Northkin Elder in the Stone unit.
I score the left side elements, 8-4.
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Troll 4: The Posse get put down to a single Croc, the Champs attack the Wrastler and thoroughly embarrass themselves.
Borka kills the Trawler and repositions backs to his flag, I win on scenario 10-5.
Posse continue to not be bad and give nice board presence. Probably going to be revoltingly bad when I actually try a Cryx match.
