Game 297/8 - Durgen vs Scaverous (Twice)

No ones reading here right? You know this is the draft spot? Your meant to be on Wargamer AU for the slightly improved version...


Well, here's that Cryx test for the revised Durgen list!

Durgen - Earthbreaker, Gun Mages + Dude, Press Gangers (Max), Nyss, eEiryss, Thor, Tinker, Dougal, Reinholdt, Aiyanna + Holt
Objective: Effigy of Valor

Steelheads have been kicked to the curb, Press Gangers are in! Take that Milan!

Scaverous Theme - Deathjack, Deathripper, Withershadow Combine, 2x Necrosurgeon + Stitchthralls, 2x Mechanithralls, Darryl Wrathe, Iron Lich Overseer + Helldiver, Skarlock, Pistol Wrathe, 2x Warwitch Sirens

Kieranos  of Cryx land wins the die roll. I think. I don't remember that bit to well. I ended up with second, choosing the side that possessed less problems for me forest wise (I would describe this table as Circle friendly and Menoth mean).

Here, in alternate colour, are the adventures of the mighty battle clock!

Sleek. Red. Fresh. A newborn clock is spawned into the LGS, freed from its Bubble Wrap cocoon. It's ambitions are young, its status unproven. It could be the greatest chess clock in the world.

Instead it is put in the hands of a bumbling idiot who after five minutes screwing around finally sets it to a one hour clock.

Cryx Deploy: Potato pic! I did have a 2 minute go at fixing the overexposure, most of the photos are better, will need to look into that more. The potato ain't being replaced any time soon :P

Mechanithrall blobs either side of Scavy, Darragh and Combine, Arcnode, Helldiver, Overseer, Warwitch and Pistol Wrathe on the right side.

Merc Deploy: Hoping to take the Nyss Hunter through trees for a spin. Eiryss held back to knock Death Ward off the Deathjack in future turns.

Such a promising life period of activation, and it all went wrong. One of the meat sacks faced our hero, it's initial uttered words quickly stifled due to the potential presence of miny-meat sacks in the vicinity.

"Why the hell is your side of the clock counting up?!" stated our incredulous antagonist, who evidently fails at turning Chess Clocks on without screwing them up.

"I'll lose at the two hour mark" His common sense imbued foe proclaimed, and they left our hero in peace once more.

Cryx 1: It all runs forth, Ghostly gets spammed out to stop Pathfinder mattering. DJ Death Wards himself.

Merc 1: Primed goes on the Pressgangers, Redlined on the Earthbreaker, I make a very bad plan involving forgetting the existence of the Arcnode. Durgen gets Artillerist and moves forward, but I had forgotten to activate Aiyanna so instead of blowing up the Pistol Wraith facing my Colossal he killed a few Mechanithralls. Earthbreaker trundles forward, Gun Mages move up, one snipes at the Pistol Wrath and misses.

Cryx 2: This photo left worse than the other not deliberately, which given how it went I'm OK with. The memories....the horrible, brutal, ghastly, photosynthesis memories.

Arc Node runs up, Scaverous feats, Durgen gets Excarnated then TKed around, then shot by Deathjack, Combine and the Pistol Wraith to death.

......

Ow.

Cryx 1 (Reset): Desiring an actual game, the serene Kieran-san resets to the top of one.

Merc 1: I need distance and LoS blocking to stop a repeat of this madness, Durgen puts Redline on the Earthbreaker, walks to the side and back a little, casts Inhospitable Ground. Pressgangers fan out and plan to die.

Dougal Mini-feats, the Gun Mages walk forward and Snipe out the Pistol Wraith and the right side Warwith Siren. Earthbreaker trundles around to the left a bit. Nyss spread out behind the forest, Eiryss moves up to knock Deathward off next turn.

Cryx 2: Deathward upkept. Left Mechanithralls flood the zone in front of them, right Mechanithralls move into the Press Gangers and blat most of them. Arcnode runs up, Scaverous arcs a Feast of Worms that kills all the Gun Mages bar the Officer.

It was only now that the vile foes realised that grand battle clock was working at peak efficiency and counting down! Truly, the greatest heroes are the unremembered.

Merc 2: Redline upkept, Earthbreaker gets one focus. Reinholdt Reloads, Dougal puts Artillerist on the Earthbreaker, Thor does Tune up for Damage.

Durgen aims, feats, shoots the left most Mechanithralls he can see, kills three of them and one Nyss. The dangers of scatters are not many and varied, but they sure are there. He then puts out four Explosivo's, one on Eiryss and three on Nyss. Red Pressgangers get out of the way, they bop a pair of Mechanithralls in the right unit and engage the Arcnode.

Nyss move in, they kill a few of the Mechanithralls, Explosivo one kill the War witch but fails to get the Necrosurgeon or the Combine.

Eiryss walks into the forest, gets a bead on the Deathjack and shoots him knocking off Deathward and disrupting. Aiyanna and Holt move up, she sticks the harm on Deathjack and Holt shoots down a pair of Mechanithralls. Earthbreaker walks up, boosts the left Knockdown shot into the DJ, knocking down Darryl, Scaverous and Admonia. Admonia dies to the blast. After the Nipple shots are done DJ is dead and the Darryl is dismounted. Right side blast goes on the right Necrosurgeon, sadly hits triggering Sac Pawn on a Stitch Thrall.

Gun Mage Officer walks up, misses the Necrosurgeon. Tinker fails to repair the Earthbreaker's Redline damage.

Cryx 3: Necrosurgeons add Mechanithralls to both units. Left Mechanithralls engage the Nyss and miss every attack. Right Mechanithralls charge, they finish off the Pressgangers, kill the Gun Mage and do a few points to the Earthbreaker.

The Arcnode walks to block the Earthbreaker moving into the right zone. The Withshadow Combine put Puppet Strings on the Earthbreaker. Skarlock puts Feast of Worms on the Earthbreaker.

Scaverous runs to the right zone.

Cryx go to 2 CP.

Merc 3: Red Line drops, Earthbreaker gets two focus. Reinholdt Reloads, Dougal puts Artillerist on the Earthbreaker. Aiyanna and Holt walk into the forest, the Mechanithrall misses his free strike. Aiyanna Harms the Mechanithralls, Holt injures Darryl.

Durgen aims, kills the Mechanithralls on the Earthbreaker. Nyss stabs loads of Mechanithralls to death on the left zone and shoot the last Necrosurgeon away.

Earthbreaker trundles into the zone, left torpedo pops some Mechanithralls and the Necrosurgeon in the right zone, left Torpedo hits a Mechanithrall to knock down the Arc Node. Nipple shots on the left miss the Combine members, the right side hurts the Arcnode, though Puppetstrings stops it dying. Eiryss walks up, shoots the Arc Node, cranks the damage to kill it.

I forgot to activate the Tinker. Genius.

Cryx 4: Feast of Worms upkept. Necrotech creates a scrapthrall from the Death Jacks corpse. Withershadow go into the Earthrbeaker, do tons of damage, Helldiver charges and kills it. The Mechanithralls blink in surprise, walk up into cover/blocking positions.

Darragh charges Aiyanna and kills her. Left pair of Mechanithralls whistle a jaunty tune and miss the Nyss (In an "trying to assault you" way, not in the "Please come home Jonny; we're worried; we're sorry; what is wrong in my life that I must get drunk every night style". 

Skaverous chills out.

Cryx go to 4 CP.

Merc 4: Durgen gets Reloaded. He shuffles up, puts Primed on the Nyss, hits the Helldiver with a Case Cracker for some damage, pops a Mechanithrall and hurts the Overseer. Holt aims, takes out two Mechanithralls in the centre. Thor walks up and flamethrowers the Overseer to death. The Nyss run/charge, they trigger a couple free strikes which kill the Combine, two get into the right zone. Charge attacks kill all but one of the left Mechanithralls, Darryl and the Skarlock. Eiryss runs into the right zone, Dougal runs into the right zone and engages the Helldiver.

Cryx 5: Scrapthrall runs to engage some Nyss in the left zone. Necrotech swings and misses at a Nyss. Scaverous feats, Excarnate one Nyss and Eiryss, fails to kill the one in the centre of the zone. The Helldiver causes Dougal to tough. Primed upkept.

Merc 5: Durgen aims, Case Cracker hits the Helldiver for a decent amount. Holt kills the Necrotech. Nyss Run/Charge, one gets into Scavy, another two touch the zone. Thor charges the Helldiver and misses. Dougal stands, swings and misses the Helldiver.

Our glorious hero suffered an end of countdown crisis of mechanical faith (Schism over whether or not agreement could be reached on the superiority of the cog over the belt. Our hero wisely researched the matter and concluded that Belts were more subject to wear and breakage.), the real effect was to reset to the 5 minute mark and paused.

Noticing this fractious behaviour, one of the antagonists attacked! Our Hero was turned off, but summoned his mighty technocramancy to turn back on. Twice. It was heroic.

Cryx 6: Scaverous puts Icy Grip on the Nyss, TK's two on the edge out of the zone and kills the one engaging him. Helldiver misses Dougal. Scrapthrall chill out.

Merc 6: Prime upkept, Durgen charges the Scrapthrall and kills him, is now in the left zone. One Nyss charges Scaverous, one charges the Helldiver, the rest just charge toward him to get into the zone. Both Nyss hit and do about eightish damage to each. Dougal swings and misses the Helldiver, Thor punches and kills it.

Mercs go to 3 CP.

Cryx 7: Scaverous can't get into the left zone to get the win, so swings at some Nyss, exploding two of them.

Mercs go to 6 CP.

The battle done, the cursing over, the sighs given over to reverent silence, our hero is placed back into stasis.