Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Game 137 and 138 - Wins - Midas vs eReznik, Carver vs Karchev (15pt)

50 Points
Self Timed Turns
Fire Support (Two neutral flags, two aligned Objectives)

Midas - 2x War Hogs (One deceased), 2x Road Hogs, Targ, 2x Slaughterhousers, 3x Bone Grinders (One max, two min)
eReznik - 2x Reckoner (Flare Guns), Choir, 3x Wracks, 2x Vassal Mechanik, 3x Wracks, Vessel of Judgement (Battle Engine), 2x Knight Exemplar Seneschals, Knight Exemplars (Max), Deliverers

Concerns: eReznik feat causes RFP.


Protectorate won the die roll, went first.eReznik is represented by pReznik on a 120mm base.


Farrow deployment with Advance Moves.


Menoth turn 1: Slow advance. Death March goes on the Errants, Iron Aggression on the Reckoner nearest to Reznik.


 Farrow turn 1: Road Hogs walk and two RaBo's hang back, everything else runs. Midas runs up behind the Linear obstacle.


 Menoth turn 2: Slow advance, Deliverers and Reckoners shoot up the War Hog, knocking out its Spirit.


Farrow turn 2: RaBo on the left walks over next to the flag. Targ heals a point on the War Hog, who runs out of the way. Green Bone Grinders run, one of them going next to the flag. Midas curses the Green Grinders, charges next to the right flag. Kills Grinder. Casts Calamity on Objective. Left Road Hog walks over, casts Lightning Reflexes on the other Road Hog. Right Road Hog damages for speed, charges objective, kills it then walks back to shield Midas. RaBo runs to shield Midas. Everything else runs up.

Farrow on 4 CP.

Left Slaughterhousers ran to far up, should have stayed back and just kept in charge range of the far side of the Flag Radius.
Could also have just controlled the right flag and either hid Midas behind bodies or stayed behind the Linear obstacle, threatening to dominate either side from a safer position.


Menoth turn 3: Exemplars charge in, everything that can shoots Midas. Reznik feats. Road Hog removed from Play, RaBo next to Midas dies, Reckoners charge Midas. One forces out all the transfers, the other charges but falls short.


Farrow turn 3: Midas cuts for four, cashes in his two Bone Tokens, moves around a little bit, Curses and boosted Calamities the left Reckoner, casts Battle Lust on the right unit of Slaughterhousers. Camps one, feats the Tier War Hog and dead RaBo back. Live War Hog hits up the Right Reckoner, maxes on fury but dealing under average damage. Undead War Hog walks around to the left Reckoner, Gore Crit knocks it down and does some medium damage with its two cleaver attacks. Slaughterhousers charge in, kill both Reckoners, game over.

Farrow win on 5 CP.

Alternate actions to deal with: Menoth advance more Exemplars get to the left flag top of two and threaten Vengeance. Battle Engine charges up, places to use Push on models around the right Flag. 
Reznik prepares to feat on three and remove the Heavies with the Reckoners.
Response: On the left, Bone Grinders run in to tarpit and shield future charge by Slaughterhousers. Road Hog gets Lightning Reflexes, Midas puts Calamity on Battle Engine then falls back, said Hog then charges Battle Engine, Assault kills Mechanik, then lays in, if possible get a Deliverer as well to trigger the Sprint.

Player Grading
Time Management: 10, plenty of time on clock each turn, missed no activations and had a plan each turn.
Scenario Awareness: 9, full advantage of scenario taken, though wasteful commitment of Slaughterhousers on left flank near the end.
Spacing and Placement: 6, chocked out the centre of the table, rear Bone Grinder unit functionally irrelevant, could have placed Warlock in safer locations.
Target Priority: 7, made the appropriate target selections when relevant.
Effectiveness: 8, applied necessary and greater force than necessary when required.
Cool: 6, over eagerness caused several order of activation mistakes that opponent forgave.
Grade: Barely scraped A (46)



15 Point Game
Close Quarters

Carver - 2x Road Hogs, Targ
Karchev - Conquest, War Dog










Went second, ran stuff up to flag, Dominated for a CP. Conquest marched up, Carver feated and Road Hogs killed it. Karchev killed a Road Hog, then got put down to one Body Box, failed to Kill Carver.

No grade for 15 point games.