Gamw 283 - Easter Tourney, Gorten vs Kallus 1/3

Why would you use a price sticker that messes up the book cover?! What did I do to you Beaky? (Beaky books is a second book shop seemingly stuck eternally on its closing down sale, a crack made and acknowledged by the stuff members....).

Going to be limit each game to one post to try to reduce the length of each page, spread the photos out a bit.

Anyway, Easter shenanigans tourney, run by the Chibster. Reasoned it was as good a time as any to try to finalise the lists for the Penrith SS qualifier.

It's all Dwarfs all the time!

Gorten - Earthbreaker, Gun Mages + Dude, 2x Pressgangers, pAlexia + Risen, Tinker, Gorman, Ragman, Hawk, Madelyn, Anastasia, Pendrake, Piper

Durgen - Earthbreaker, Gun Mages + Dude, Steelhead Halberdiers, Nyss, TAC, eEiryss, Thor, Tinker, Dougal, Reinholdt

Objectives not relevant for this tourney, would normally both have effigy.


Game 1

Easter tourney magic: For Objectives we had to pick from a list of four different variants, we both picked the one that gave nearby friendly models leap (Think about the potential evil there...).

Jakester with the vile Legions, running Kallus and eLylth. I default to Gorten, primarily becuase fire doesn't kill him as quickly, and secondly with leap he walks further than he charges.

Kallus - Nephilim Soldier, Shredder, Succubus, Swamp Gobbers, 2x Warspears (Max), Warmongers (Min), Posse (Max), Brightblades (Min)



Merc deploy: I won first turn, plonked away. Courtesy of seeing Krakens on the IG finals vids, I have my colossal ready to run up in a lane that does not go behind the objective.



Legion Deploy: It's the attack of the pale brigade! The Klan have arrived! http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilAlbino When Evil Albinos attack! Allright, that's enough pointing out the base coat, which is better than plain metal/plastic to be fair, Jake wasn't expecting to play so did everyone a solid by evening up the numbers. He was marking arcs with a texta as I was deploying.

The two left units are the Warspears, the Warmongers shield Kallus and his support gang, then the Soldier is between them and the Posse. I had never seen the Soldier before....



Merc 1: Jake definitely got the right side, the forest was somewhat painful, forcing severe congestion on the Highway. Solid Ground goes on Gorten, Strength of Granite plonks on the Earthbreaker.



Legion 1: Ignite and Tenacities go on the Warmonger [s]sacrifical lambs[/s] bodyguards, everything moves up. Gobbers also cloud up the valuable stuff.


Merc 2: Spells upkept. Pressgangers jam, Gun Mages camp on the hill and tell scary stories (This one time, I got engaged. I've never been able to sleep since etc.). I hide Gorten behind Alexia and co, who Fearless and Tough from Piperdoom.



Legion 2: Ignite stays on the warmongers. I discover what Brightblades do as they ambush next to the Gun Mages then stab a couple of them and Ragman to death. Using the objective to leap, the Warmongers pounce on the innocent Pressgangers and Berserk them apart., the blue unit on the right is then finished off by the Posse. For Giggles (The killer clown) Kallus moves up and throws out a random Eruption. It falls short, then scatter onto three Risen and Alexia. The Risen all die to failed tough checks, Alexia takes a boosed damage roll at straight dice that does six points, she goes to one health while another Risen dies (One toughs).



Merc 3: I upkeep Strength of Granite and fully load the Earthbreaker. Alexia gets five Risen that pop in the battery zone. Gorten moves a little, uses the Leap power to move up, feat drags half the Posse, the Warmongers, Kallus, the Swamp Gobbers, Succubus, Shredder and Soldier towards him. He punches a Warmonger for a little. Earthbreaker advances, boosts two knock down shots which ends up knocking down Kallus, Shredder, Succubus, Warmongers, Gorten and killing the Gobbers. His little guns get rid of Kallus' transfer and leave him on five boxes. Hawk charges and finishes him off.

Leap on Gorten, while interesting, wasn't the end of the world. It functionally gives him two extra inches of threat, Kallus was well in Madelyn + Charge feat range anyway, I just lose a little efficiency because Alexia has to activate first, but I still have an Anastasia and Gorman to get the job done.



Mercs on the right.