Game 245 - C - MacBain! vs eButcher

Versed Ed of the Grolarioans (1)


No Clocks

Fire Support

MacBain - Galleon, 2x Pressgangers, TAC, ATGM + UA, Hawk, Bosun Grogspar, eEiryss, Anastasia
Objective: Effigy of Valor

eButcher - Beast 09, War Doge, Malakov + Grolar, Nyss + Valachev, Fenris, Reinholdt, Widowmakers, Drakhun
Objective: Arcane Wonder

Merc Deploy: Playing the part of the Galleon will be an Earthbreaker base. The Risen to the right of the Galleon were theoretically for spawning Thralls to run up the side, though that was unrealistic. The Widowmakers are not yet deployed...

Khador deploy: Playing the part of the Grolar today is an armless Jugger. 09 is repped by the Proxy base he's standing in front of.

Merc 1: Everything runs up, Fortune on the Gun MAges, Failsalfe on the Galleon.

Let us play spot the misplaced Risen! (2)

Khador 1: Between Nyss and Widowmakers, six of the Blue Pressgangers tap out. 09 gets Fury, Grolar gets Redline and walks up. The proxy base is now the Grolar (3).
Fenris runs up, Effigy does its thing to stop the Abomination checks.

Pretty much as soon as his turn ended Ed lamented that he didn't Fleet the Grolar, walk up and Arm Lock 09. Hard to disagree with the following turn.

Merc 2:
Risen pop out the front. Fortune upkept, two get put on the Galleon.
What remains of the Blue Pressganger unit Runs/Charges, the first goes up to the Drakhun, the others fail to hit an Eliminator.
Hawk runs to the left to give Object of Desire against Fenris. I mistakenly claim she has pathfinder, which is thankfully pointed out before I try it in a tourney.
Red Pressgangers pile into Fenris and dismount him.
Gun Mages aim or shuffle a bit, one of them pings an Eliminator blocking the Beast drag, doing a couple points. Two of them aim and kill the engaging dismounted Fenris.
Grogspar moves to get inside Stealth range on the blocking Eliminator. His shot misses, scatters to hit both unengaged Eliminators instead, killing them both. (4)
Galleon moves up, AoE shot on Beast hits, killing the Nyss in front blocking the drag. 09 Hyper aggressives forward, remaining shots kill another Nyss. Boosted Drag shot hits and pulls Beast in, free melee attack misses, because Defence 9 is op.
MacBain feats for eight, gets Grogspar, Alexia and six Risen. Casts Jackhammer three times on the Galleon, kills it exactly.
Alexia and Risen run up. I only just left enough of a gap for her to run through, I was sweating bullets (5). They jam around Butcher and a couple of the Nyss, the Battery shuffle forward. The out of position Risen gets forgotten about, because he is a goober.
Anastasia moves up, hiding behind some Gangers.
TAC move up and throw some Random clouds down, because they are the TAC.

Khador 2:
Grolar gets loaded. (6)
Drakhun rides by, killing the Pressganger engaging him, then moving over onto Eiryss.
Reinholdt reloads Butcher.
War Doge barks, charges a Risen and knocks it down.
Butcher feats, shoots a Pressganger.
The Grolar punches the Risen in front of him forward, shoots Alexia for nothing (Flicked to the feated Risen), then guns down a Ganger in front of Anastasia.
Nyss move up, with Zephyr they unengaged if they want, they rain down some shots.
Eliminator charges Eiryss, misses twice.
Widowmakers shoot at the remaining Blue Pressgangers, they cause them to flee and do two points of damage to the Drakhun.
Buthcer sadly only generates two feat tokens, they go on the most forward Nyss.
Feat Nyss moves up to Anastasia, boosted hit roll misses.

Merc 3: This was a long turn with a bunch of stuff happening, may have some errors in the order.
Risen spawned behind the Nyss.
Spells dropped, one allocated to Galleon.
Blue Pressgangers rally.
Red Pressgangers walk up, kill a bunch of the Nyss, the Lass Seduces the Nyss on Anastasia, causing her to move up next to a fellow Nyss presenting her back.
Gun Mages move up, push the Grolar back and shoot a few of the Nyss.
TAC move up, the first one blasts the two Nyss blocking Anastasias Esponiage, the other two do a little dance and get down tonight.
Anastasia walks up, gets in Esponiage range by about a mill. Esponiage stuff:
Galleon shoots an AoE at the objective, doing two points and killing a Widowmaker.
Anastasia gets out of the way.
Red Pressgangers move into the Nyss, box most of them.
TAC walk over.
Grogspar moves out of the way. Risen move up, a few swing at Valachev. Alexia herself does a Handcannon shot on the War Doge, double boosting to kill it.
Esponiage done (Didn't bother to activate the Blue Pressganger)
Gun Mages advance, first Thunderbolt shot into Buthcer crit knockdowns. The rest don't do anything meaningful.
Alexia charges Butcher, as does one Risen. The three Risen on Valachev charge him. Valachev lives without issue. Risen charging Butcher (Camping Three) does two points! Alexia burns sixteen Risen to make nine damage boosted attacks to kill Butcher.

Had Alexia failed, I still had the Galleon to run in and get Jackhammered five times.

This wasn't Ed nor mines best game, positing wasn't great, in particular I dislike how much I muddled my units together. I'm not confident Anastasia is really good for me, in a timed game I'd be under a lot of pressure not to time out in this list.

There's a tiny bit of Skornergy in that the Pressgangers RFP living models, but that isn't really an issue, I bring enough potential casualties to fuel Alexia.

I didn't really do anything with Eiryss, I'd planned on feating on her and running her next to the jacks, but just plain forgot her while she was behind the building.


Player Grading
Time Management: 4, slow.
Scenario Awareness: 5, not really in a position to do much.
Spacing and Placement:  6, workable but messy.
Target Priority: 6, should have leveraged attacks on Valachev.
Effectiveness:  8, dice math on attacks quite good, executed the assassination well.
Cool:  8, Sykadelic.
Grade: C(37)


1 - The faction of Khador players doomed to travel the desert in search of the Grolar model.

2 - It's behind the Gun Mages. I think on some level I planned to move up and Thrall for Fenris, but my unit placement wasn't great this day.

3 - PP, you're game is great. Making models that can stand base to base though.....

4 - I crap talked Grogspar about two seconds before rolling the shot. I apologised right after the damage rolls.

5 - Which would have made me smell like cordite. Mmmm.....cordite.....

6 - With focus, though given his status as an amputee model wise I would understand if he was awarded damages.