Thursday, June 5, 2014

Games 133 & 134 - Losses - Midas vs Maelok, pVlad

50 Points
Self timed turns
Incoming (Two aligned zones/objectives)

Midas - 2x War Hogs (One deceased), 2x Road Hogs, Targ, 2x Slaughterhousers, 3x Bone Grinders (One max, two min)

Game 1


Maelok -Wrastler, Bullsnapper, Wrongeye + Snapjaw, 3x Posse, 2 Witch Doc Croc, Feralgeist, Swamp Gobbers


Gators deploy after winning and choosing to go first. The circles are the Shallow Water benefit of the Pact. Bone Grinder sub in for the Feralgeist.


Piggies deploy with advance moves.


Gator turn 1: Everything moves up, Swamp Gobbers put down clouds.


Piggies turn 1: Things move up, Heavies swing to the left.


Gator turn 2: Left Posse charges, eats two RaBo's and damages the left Road Hog a little bit. Said Posse then become undead/tough.


Piggies turn 2: Midas Calamities the left Posse, Battle Lusts the Slaughterhousers and charges the left most Gatorman, misses him.Middles Road Hog charges, kills the front Gatormen, flames and injures Gatormen behind them. Slaughterhouses charge in, remove all but the rear most Gatormen. Left Road Hog charges the Wrastler, hurts it somewhat while the last posse member of the unit toughs out the flames. Two Bone Grinder units move up, Arcane Bolt and kill the last Posse member. Other stuff moves up.


Gator turn 3: Maelok moves up, kills Witch Doc Croc to Sacral strike Midas for a bit, feats. Now Incorporeal Wrastler charges Midas, misses Death Roll, buys, hits, kills.


Player Grading
Time Management: 9, zero issues.
Scenario Awareness: 6, had a plan based on the scenario (clear left, then feat to pressure on Maelok/right zone as required) though couldn't bring enough pressure to bear on the Wrastler.
Target Priority: 3, recognised need to kill Wrastler, but underestimated the consequences for failing.
Effectiveness: 4, plan on taking out a whole Posse at a time was good, plan to only scratch up the Wrastler was not.
Cool: 10
Grade: High C (32)


Game 2:

pVlad - Spriggan, Wardog, Malakav + Grolar, eEiryss, Nyss + Valachev, WGI Deathstar, Kovnik Joe, Aiyana + Holt


Khador win fire roll, go first. Proxies in use:
  • Underboss = Malakov
  • Metal Jack = Grolar
  • Plastic Jack = Spriggan
  • pEiryss  = eEiryss


Piggies deploy and advance moves. Min Bone Grinders on far left.


Khador turn 1: Everything runs up. Grolar has Red Line.


Piggies turn 1: Everything moves up, the left Road Hog charged up, missed boosted shot on Eiryss, Targ moves up and Ancillary attack misses as well.


Khador turn 2: Grolar kills Road Hog on the left. Eiryss and Nyss hunters Zephyr up, kill a Rabo. WGI kill RaBo on the right, front three Slaughterhousers of left hand unit.



Piggies turn 2: Right Road Hog charges WGI, Officer toughs. Rabo and a Slaughterhouser run into the WGI. Midas Calamities WGI, feats back the War Hog/Road Hog, heals them for four. Undead War Hog misses Grolar twice. Grinders run in front of Midas. RaBo runs into Eiryss, other stuff moves up.



Khador turn 3: Vlad Feats, SNP's. Toes zone. Nyss shoot stuff in the zone and Grinders in front of Midas. Malakov charges and finishes off the Undead War Hog. Grolar charges Midas, hordes of damage get flocked around. WGI screw around a bit. Spriggan charges and kills the right Road Hog.

Khador goes to 1 CP.


Piggies turn 3: Midas Battle Lusts Slaughterhousers, upkeeps Calamity. Slaughterhouser unit fails to kill Grolar. Grinders charge and kill Malakov, Grolar powers down. Road Hog charges in, Assault misses Aiyanna (intended target), kills War Dog. War Hog charges Spriggan, crit Gore knocks it down, roll medicre damage. Remnants of Slaughterhouser unit charges Spriggan, does little.

Better way to play out the turn: Blue Grinders move out of the way, Midas does his activation, Curses Malakov, Hex Blasts him. Grinder charges Malakov if he lives, kill him. If Malakov died initially, Grinders just run to block LoS. Slaughterhousers can then position to do something useful.


Khador turn 4: Nyss clear left zone, Zephyring out of melee. Remaining Hog Heavies killed, one by Spriggan, the other by massed fire. Slaughterhousers in right zone get sprayed.

Khador goes to 2 CP's.


Piggies turn 4: Grinnders jam around, miss Valachev alas. Slaughterhousers charge into zone, kill Spriggan and remove some WGI. Midas runs into the Spriggans wreck marker.


Khador turn 5: Grinders all killed, all Slaughterhousers end up toughing.

Khador goes to 3 CP's.


Piggies turn 5: Slaugherhosues move in to engage, Miad charges Holt, misses Vlad with Hex Blasts, Khador can win on scenario from here.


Player Grading
Time Management: 5, in general good but very slow in doing feat turn.
Scenario Awareness: 5, waited for opportunities instead of making them.
Target Priority: 5, knew the important things to attack but couldn't apply appropriate pressure.
Effectiveness: 7, maths was accurate and options taken were reasonable for the game state.
Cool: 9, no issues.
Grade:C (31)