Game 300 - Durgen vs Gorten

Limping into round 2, it's Davinomicon, who also rolls ye old Mercs across the table. Let's see now, what's being paid to fight us today...

Gorten - Earthbreaker, Driller, Thor, 2x Eliminators, Kayazy Assassins + UA, Gorman, Ragman, Piper, Orin, Rockbottom, Devil's Shadow Mutineers
Objective: Effigy

Balls. Solid Ground does a lot to counter my feat, but I can hold Durgen back until Gorten moves to try to feat on my army, then Durgen and Bunnies can shoot him to death, so long as there isn't any terrain to help him out. Then I see....

The Trenches I finally got around to completing last week on the table. Why did I bring Trenches AND Durgen?! I would have been one of the lamer Superman's, who did dumb stuff like carry a briefcase of Kryptonite around. At least I wouldn't be in the bearded version in that gritty comic reboot that has to fight the clone twins of Adolf Hitler with mini-guns.

Ah, Two Fronts. Killbox scenario. Hanging back isn't going to work.

Davinoff won the dice roll, picked first. This was a necessity for me, I got to pick the side with the Trenches and not constricted by the large forest in front of the other deployment.

Gorts Deploy: Thor is behind the Earthbreaker, forest forces the list to break down into three parts. Gorten and the Colossal take the middle, the left will be most of the Kayazy, Orin and Piper. Right side will be the Driller, Ragman, Gorman, the Mutineers and one Eliminator unit.

Durgs Deploy: Possibly listening to Oz Machine has given me an inflated fear of the Mutineers, but I counter deployed with the idea of denying Blood Boon and trying to kill them off early.

Same Proxies as last time (2x Blasters/Renegade = 3x Grundback Dunners)

Gort 1: The Four Star Syndicate come forth! Gorten throws up Solid Ground and starts slugging through the forest, both lots of Elimiantors go out ahead of the main pack and start asking for Gastonne's address.

That is a worse pic than normal....

Durg 1: Two each on Gastonne/Galleon, two of the Gunners are blessed with a focus, the last one is shunned.

Prepisode of Merc turns activates! Reinholdt moves up to Durgen, uses Spyglass to confirm that the centre Mutineer is 21.5 away from the Galleon. Dougal puts Artillerist on the Colossal and mini-feats. Durgen puts Primed on the Blue Press Gangers, walks up, puts Explosivo the Gun Bunnies with a focus. Gastonne moves over a little, casts Fire Group.

Blue Press Gang fans out to get out of the way, the Galleon then walks up and rolls shots, he manages to pop the front two Mutineers but the Sabre one rocks out at the back, an Eliminator also goes down on the right side. The Explosivo Gun Bunnies move up but fail at taking out the remaining right Eliminator.

Red Gang run out to the left and populate the forward most Trench. Grogspar and Rockbottom hide behind the Linear.

Gort 2: The Earthbreaker moves up, throws out some rough terrain and pops three of the Blue Gang, Gorten walks up next to him and throws out Strength of Granite on the Rhulic death machine.

On the right zone, Gorten, Ragman and Rockbottom hang at the back of the zone, a cloud blocking LoS to Raggy. The remaining Mutineer moves up behind the Objective, the Eliminator stabs a Bluey, sidestepping back to avoid the potential explosion, which he toughs anyway. The Driller runs up.

Piper puts pathfinder on the Assassins, the Eliminators go in and kill the Lass, the regular Kayazy charge up and leave the Reds at half strength.

Durg 2: Prime sticks around, Galleon gets fully loaded, two of the Gunners get one focus each. The Blues run to get out of the way, go into both zones and one brave stupid soul stands in front of the opposing colossal, the one attack on an Eliminator completely misses.

Durgster puts Artillerist on the Galleon, Aiyanna and Holt move up and Harm the Driller. Galleon moves up, rolls low amount of shots, drags the Driller in. He arrives at such an angle that shots on the last Mutineer aren't viable, so he burns all his junk to kill the Driller without to much trouble.

The Gunners combine to ping the Objective for a bit and miss the last Mutineer, Durgen fails to roll very high on his own shots and only wings her for a bit.

Left side, Rockbottom boosts the Red attack rolls. Grogspar move up, shoots his gun point blank to kill an Eliminator, the other member of the unit fails their command check. The Reds go in and pop a few of the Assassins.

Gort 3: Solid/Strength upkept.

On the left, the Eliminator retreats to the left and fails to rally. The Assassins get stuck into the Reds, leaving them two members strong who make the foolish decision to not run away, Grogspar also gets hit down to three boxes. Orin walks up, toes the left zone, zaps the Objective and the two Blues in the zone to death.

Thor shines up the Earthbreaker, it's shoddy short term memory learns how to boost damage temporarily. It then kills my Objective and the suicide Blue in front of it.

On the right, the Eliminator stabs a Blue then sidesteps to engage a Gunner. Rockbottom puts tough on the Mutineer, who moves into two of the Blues in the Zone, uses Swashbuckler, knocking one down and missing the other. Gorman walks up and throws the Green Acid sticky stuff onto the Mutineer, killing her and forcing both Blues to tough. Raggy walks up and misses the Smurf lass with a Boneshaker.

Blue/Red bore me now, for this Batrep from here on they'll be Smurf/Commie.

Gort goes to 2 CP.

Durg 3: Smurf Bagman dies to Corrosion, two members of the village remain. Galleon gets fully loaded, Primed dropped, two of the Gunners get focus.

Durgen puts Explosivo on two of the Gunners, one crawls a short way and blows up the Eliminator at near point blank range. Durgen kills the Objective and Gorman, the Gun Bunnies kill Rockbottom. Smurfette seduces Ragman has him walk into no mans land and show her his back as a trust exercise.

Rockbottom moves up, gives boosted attack rolls to the Comies. Last pair of Commies nut punch an Assassin, Grogspar flails at hits the empty air.

Galleon crosses to the left zone, rolls up enough shots and boosts to hit to kill Orin, Piper and Ragman.

Aiyanna falls back, Holt sits in a Wreck Marker.

Durg goes to 2 CP.

Gort 4: Pic missed, bugger. Granite gets dropped, Assassins kill another Commie and Grogspar (One Commie left), Earthbreaker toes the right zone and kills a Smurf (Only Smurfette remains) plus one Gun Bunny. Eliminator on the extreme left rallies, Gorten plonks a wall down in front of him.

Durg 4: My clock is running down precipitously, the difference in times is at least twenty minutes. Galleon gets fully loaded. Durgen gives one focus to a Bunny.

Aiyanna and Holt camp in the wreckage of the Driller, do a Harm on the Rhulic Colossal. Bunnies move into the right zone, ping the Earthbreaker for not much.

Galleon moves up, shoots down all but one of the Kayazy and knocks down the last Commie. The Assassin fails his command check. Gastonne cowers eight inches behind his big boy toy. Eiryss sprints forward to bomb the Earthbreaker.

Durgen runs to the left, barely edging into the Killbox.

Gort 5: No upkeeps kept. Gorten moves over, feats for one inch to the right board edge, gets Eiryss, the Lass and one of the Bunnies. He then shoots Eiryss dead and drops a wall in front of himself. Earthbreaker kills another bunny. Assassin rallies.

Durg 5: Rockbottom aims, kills the last Assassin. The Commie stands and blindly marches to where the out of pic Eliminator is. Galleon walks up, fails at doing much to Gorten. Durgen toes the left zone. Reinholdt runs to toe the right zone, Aiyanna/Holt/Gun Bunny do little to the Earthbreaker.

Durgen goes to 3 CP.

Gort 6: Gorten shuffles, puts down a Rockwall to stop the Galleon charging or Harpooning, shoots Galleon fora  bit. The Earthbreaker trundles forward but fails to scatter onto Gastonne and is just out of range of Durgen. Thor actually gets into the photos. The Eliminator runs to tow into the left zone, but is missed in the picture.

Durg 6: Rockbottom moves up and misses the Eliminators. Dougal puts Artillerist on the Galleon. The Bunny misses Thor. Reinholdt toes a Gun Bunny Wreck and stays int eh right zone. Aiyanna harms Thor, Holt kills him. The Galleon walks back (At the time I said forward for...um....reasons...) to shield Durgen, kills the Eliminator.

Durg goes to 4 CP.

Gort 7: No Pic, Gorten tries an eruption that fails to kill Aiyanna or Holt, the Earthbreaker is out of charge range of the Galleon and I get to 5 CP.


My time on the left.

Definitely felt the time pressure on this one, in the last few turns I started going all monotone and measuring sloppily, so I'm not happy about that.

More important than that Dave seemed to not be enjoying his difficult situation at the end, so that's not what I want.

Moving on, that's a Slam down and, because I'm the sort of weirdo that tracks this junk, my 300th game in mark 2.

Durgen/Gunbunny/Gastonne/Galleon is awesome, I already vastly prefer playing this list over the conventional one I was using before.