Legion.....less woo....
Recon......woo has left the building.
Saeryn or Lylth2 are the Legion Warlocks, no way it isn't the pew pew lady of death.
MacBain! dies to one Ravagore shot and two rounds of fire, so Gorten is the usual Legion drop.
Gorten - Earthbreaker, pAlexia + Risen, ATGM + Dude, 2x Press Gangers, Anastasia, Tinker, Gorman, Madelyn, Piper, Thor, Hawk
Objective: Effigy of Valor
eLylth - 3x Ravagore, Angelus, Harrier, Naga, Shredder, 2x Beast Shepherd, Spell Martyr, 2x Death Stalker
Objective: Bunker
Merc Deploy: Won the roll and picked first. Anastasia is on the far right to contest that flanks flag if I need to.
Legion Deploy: How is this nonsense 50 points of such evil?
Merc 1: The Press Gangers march to their imminent demise. Madelyn/Hawk both stay near Gorman, who hangs back, and in Sucker! range of a few Press Gangers each. The Earthbreaker runs up 7 inches to stay out of Ravagore death range. Alexia/Risen gets tough. Gorten charges a Risen and plonks down a wall in front of Hawk, casts Solid Ground. The Gun Mages run a short distance and duck to the left a bit.
Now to see if OzMachine was help enough. I've got a load of tough bodies out ready to jam, though really what I was hoping for was to draw the feat out. My Objective can't be targetted yet and gives cover, a meaningful feat turn for legion would be to kill Hawk, Gorman, Madelyn and Alexia.
The way this happens is feat goes off to my mind:
1) Lylth Shadowpacts, feats, does whatever (Possibly the Harrier gets out of the way first so she can move up).
2) The left Deathstalker and possibly a Ravagore kill four Press Grangers, specifically the ones who are Sucker targets for Madelyn and Hawk.
3) The Naga moves up, shoots Madelyn Twice. I either lose Gorman or Sucker onto Alexia and lose a stack of Risen or her. Right Deathstalker moves up and finishes off the job.
4) Remaining Ravagores either finish those jobs (Hawk isn't important in the same vein as Madelyn/Gorman/Alexia) then kill the front line Press Gangers to create a Scather wall.
That would hamper me, but then it's down to the Earthbreaker surviving long enough over several turns with a wall to mess around with to pop multiple Legion Heavies.
Legion 1: Both Deathstalkers live the opposing model dream (Def 13 one wound?! Paradise!) and kill some Press Gangers. The left Ravagore tries to kill Hawk, 19 is a stretch to far for him. The first Ravagore on the right tries and fails to kill Madelyn, but sets her and the two nearby Press Gangers on fire. The Naga and last Ravagore kill some Press Gangers. The Angel walks up, tries to shoot Madelyn and is two mill out. The Spell Martyr hovers forward. Shredder puts Tenacity on Lylth.
Merc 2: Fire goes out on Madelyn! (Haapppy daaayyyys!) The Lass also stops, drops and rolls, the other Press Ganger on fire goes Denethor style. No Intrigue, all the Risen pop out as far as possible up in the zone.
The Rockwall and Solid Ground are upkept, Earthbreaker gets a focus.
Piper puts tough on Alexia and her humanoid ponies. Alexia sprints forward, engaging the Naga and the right Ravagore. Madelyn moves out of the way, Gorman shelters behind the wall, the Smurfs being on the left side for once space around, one engages the left Death Stalker and another goes to the Harrier nearby. The Commies on the left engage the Martyr and go into the Angel, I get two attacks that do reasonable damage but don't remove an aspect sadly. Anastasia runs up to the building on the far right. Earthbreaker runs into the zone, Gorten runs to be behind it and shares a drink with the Tinker.
Legion 2: Shadowpact drops (Arcane Interference for the win). Left Deathstalker ducks the free strike and kills a Risen on the engagement line. The Harrier stabs the Smurf on him. Lylth walks back a little, pincushions a Risen, then shoots a load of engaging Risen to death. Angel and Naga try to feast on Commies but are somewhat inept at it. The Shredder kills another Risen. The Ravagore smove around a little, one touches the base of the Legion Objective, the left most toes the zone. Between them they kill Alexia, leaving half a dozen Risen, two are on fire as is Madelyn. Spell Martyr kills the commie on it. Right Deathstalker tries and fails to kill Anastasia.
Merc 3: One of the Risen burns to death. Madelyn against makes the fire save.
I um and arr on the Intrigue move for long enough that I drop it to get on with my turn.
Solid Ground is kept, Rockwall drops, Earthbreaker gets two. Gorman walks up, Blinds the contesting Ravagore.
Madelyn moves to the left side of the zone.
Thor Tunes up for damage. Earthbreaker walks up, knocks down the other Ravagores, the Shredder and the Naga with boosted to hit torpedoes. Mini-guns then use all their shots to kill the Naga.
The remaining Risen go into two groups, the leaderless trio rabble head to the left flag area of the table, the Grunt with ideas above his station takes a trio to limply sit on the Blind Ravagore.
The Gun Mages walks into the back of the zone, fail to hit the Deathstalker off three attempts, two attacks miss the left Shepherd but the Officer pings off the right Shepherd.
Four smurfs remain, one gets a charge on the left Deathstalker with gang and misses, the Lass misses the Harrier. The remaining pair of Commies scratch futilely at the Angel.
Piper puts Fearless/Tough on the Gun Mages.
Anastasia goes all Amazon and charges the right Deathstalker, lopping off her head with a mighty POW 8 attack.
Gorten walks up behind the Earthbreaker, distracts the Tinker from fixing the Scather damage.
Mostly happy with this turn, the only glaring issues is that I didn't re-plonk the wall in front of the Earthbreaker to stop the Angel charging, because I literally forgot that Legion beasts could do melee stuff. Like Armour Piercing.
This was the turn that Bunker messed me up, the perfect Objective choice to stop my normal plans. If it was a non-Impervious flesh variety:
1) Gorman moves up with Intrigue, Solid Ground Upkept
2) The Earthbreaker gets a damage tune up and kills the Objective comfortably even if I roll minimal shots
3) Gun Mages Thundershot the Naga and Ravagore out of the zone (Some trickyness there, likely have to do Commies first to make room).
4) Gorman is moved up, Blinds two Ravagores and the Shredder.
Gorten stays hiding behind the Earthbreaker, I go to 3 CP, next turn doesn't matter if my Colossal is dead because I charge up and feat everything out of the zone and win.
Legion 3: Blind Ravagore frenzies and kill a Risen.
Lylth feats, Pin Cushions the Earthbreaker and buys a couple shots killing some Smurfs, freeing up the Harrier. Harrier kills a smurf and knock another down to clear up the Deathstalker. The Deathstalker walks up and kill Gorman.
Both remaining Ravagores shoot the Earthrbeaker and take out a side. Spell Martyr knocks down a Smurf on the Angel. The angel charges, gets missed by the Lass' free strike and Armour Pierces the Earthbreaker.
When all is said and done the Earthbreaker stays alive on eleven boxes.
Merc 4: Madelyn Intrigues Gorten forward around the Earthbreaker.
I upkeep Solid Ground out of a sense of whimsy, Earthbreaker gets two focus.
Madelyn seduces the Deathstalker to turn around. Gun Mages move out of Gortens way, they kill the Deathstalker and the remaining Shredder.
Risen run around, one goes to a charge spot. Gorten then charges him and butchers him for his trouble, then feats on all the Legion models, the only relevant models moved is Lylth into base contact with the Ravagore.
Thor Tune ups the Earthbreaker for damage. Tinker repairs three boxes on the left side.
The Colossal then activates, knock down torpedo hits the Ravagore to make Lylth sit down, nipple guns shoot her to death comfortably.
Had the Earthbreaker died, Gorten instead charges up through the Wreck marker which still gets him into feat range. The Legion stuff then gets dragged to the left table edge for 5 inches, leaving Lylth in the open with -3 defence and no transfers. I then have seven gun mages move up and crit Brutal, in theory it is slightly better than a coin flip to kill her.
If that doesn't work I'm buggered and the Heavies kill Gorten no worries.
Three games to me, the first tournament I've ever won. Better than that they were all good games were I didn't super derp to badly and had fun each round (I successfully dodged James' Circle when he went down in an epic round one fight against his pillow).
