Here is my bid to reduce confusion/speed up the ADR process and unpacking the lists onto the table.
Metal = List 1 (Gorten)
Yellow = List 2 (MacBain!)
Metal/Yellow = Shared
Half metal/white = List 1 specialists
Half yellow/white = List 2 Specialists
All three = Shared Specialists
Red = Thralls, creatable in both lists
Into the Ed breach once more! Theoretical pairing of 3Vlad/eButcher Doomreaver spam.
I dropped Gorten, MacBain! is the normal drop against the totally-not-Russians, but Gun Mages and the Rhulic feat handle the Berserk infantry better.
I think this is one of the situations where both lists are playable, but the dwarf is slightly better against Butcher and Mustashio is superior versing Vlad.
Gorten - Earthbreaker, pAlexia + Risen, ATGM + Dude, 2x Press Gangers, Anastasia, Reinholdt, Gorman, Madelyn, Piper, Thor, Hawk
Objective: Effigy of Valor
Lord of Horseys appeared! (One of anyway, more of them are popping up in the Iron Kingdoms these days...)
3Vlad - Beast 09, Doge, Widowmakers, eEiryss, Great Bears, Drakhun (with dismount), Gorman, Ponies, Nyss + Valachev
Scenario is three flags, not one I like with Gorten.
Khador Deploy: I lost the roll and got choice of sides, picked the one with the slightly less aggravating forest. Heavy hitters stare down my colossal, pathfinder ponies sneer at the forest.
Merc Deploy: There they be. Had I applied ADR like I should have Reinholdt and Anastasia would have dropped for the Bokur to come in to stop the evil that is Gorman.
Khador 1: Infernal Machine on the Beast, Hand of Fate on Ponies, Dash goes up and things run at extreme speed.
Merc 1: Press Gangers surge forward for the greater good. Gorten casts Solid Ground, throws down a Rockwall. He then has a fit of rage against a Press Ganger and charges him, but fortunately a wall stopped his impotent dwarf charge rage anger.
Hawk and Madelyn go either side of Gorten, Gorman clouds in front of the line up. Piper puts tough on Alexia, who then runs up.
Earthbreaker marches into the forest, Gun Mages hang back to not get caught up in the sprays of doom about to go on the Press Gangers.
Anastasia way up on the left side.
Khador 2: Hand of Fate/Infernal Machine upkept.
Eliminators kill Anastasia.
The Ponies move up, spray a load of smurfs to death.
Vlad cycles Hand of Fate to the Nyss, casts Dash and falls back. Gorman clouds in front of him.
Widowmakers pew pew some Risen.
Nyss advance, Valachev stays at the back, they do a series of two mans on Alexia which kills most of the battery, at the end Alexia is on full health and one Risen.
Beast lazily kills a Commie.
Drakhun sits on the left flag, Great Bears advance and form their block of three.
Eiryss runs from the right side to the left, staying back.
I was actually happy with this. Alexia got fuelled up and lived, Anastasia drew away the Eliminators instead of them going hunting for the solos in the middle that I valued more.
Merc 2: Intrigue moves Alexia forward, she then spawns a stack of Risen behind the Nyss, four of them glare at Valachev while the next six pair up to take on Ponies.
Solid Ground upkept, the wall goes away and the Earthbreaker gets two.
Gun Mages aim and Snipe a load of Nyss away.
Thor Tunes up Earthbreaker for damage, who then advances, fires a torpedo at the Great Bears, one toughs and another is lightly caressed. Remaining shots go into Beast, knock him down and take out his Movement.
Hawk charges past the middle flag and stabs a Nyss to death.
Madelyn advances, seduces a Nyss to go and flails at Beast.
Piper puts tough on Alexia.
Alexia and co charge, she kills an elf, a four Risen CMA kills Valachev and the Risen on Ponies bounce off, putting three of them on low health.
Reinholdt runs into the Drakhun, because he is all about making mistakes in life.
Three remaining Commies run/charge, two get attacks on Great Bears and another runs up to be a Cheerleader. Both attacks miss.
Gorten bravely advances to be next to the Earthbreaker, plonks a wall to stop Beast getting into the Colossal.
Feating wasn't a great option here, too much was held back on the left and it was all stuff that mattered.
My big error here is how I laid out my Earthbreaker shots, particularly forgetting that the Great Bears had no KD. I should have boosted attack rolls, knocked down Beast to drain a focus when it gets in on the Earthbreaker, used mini shots to kill the Steady Great Bear then knocked down the other two. They likely die if I roll enough shots. Point being going for the fragile target first would have been better.
In a better world the Gun Mages get to pop Ponies instead of Nyss, but dash makes them able to unjam to easily. I would have been better off doing two three man CMA's on Ponies rather than three two mans, got greedy. Odds still aren't great though, we are talking Risen here.
Khador 3: Infernal Machine upkept, Beasts gets two focus and uses one to shake.
Gorman advances and Black Oils the Earthbreaker. Sadness.
Beast advances to the centre flag, uses its imprint for boosted attack rolls versus living, threshes and misses Madelyn. Hawk toughs.
Murder Ponies kill all not one of the Risen, Alexia lives.
Nyss walk around, one misses Alexia, another stabs the last Risen to death and the third misses Madelyn.
Vlad feats. charges the Commies on the Great Bears, kill all three handidly, casts Hand of Fate on the Great Bears and Sprints back.
Bears charge the Earthbreaker, take out the left side and column off the right.
Eliminators kill Reinholdt.
Drakhun tries to charge the Earthbreaker, Eliminators bugger it up for him and he can't get the angle.
Widowmakers do some ping shots, one of them draws a bead on the Piper and does a damage (Armour 14 ooooh yeeeaaaahhh).
Khador go to 1 CP.
Madelyn/Hawk should both totally be dead and Khador up another CP, Ed got diced there.
Merc 3: Solid Ground upkept. Intrigue moves Hawk around. Risen spawn behind the murder Ponies.
Hawk goes, stabs Gorman to death, misses Eiryss.
Alexia and Risen go, they kill two Ponies and leave a third on low health again. She boosts a hit roll and murders a Nyss.
Gorten charges Beast, takes out the Cortex, feats pushes most of the Khador army back toward their deployment zone.
Gun Mages advance, kill the last contesting pony on the right flag.
Earthbreaker walks to contest the left flag.
Piper puts tough on the Risen, Thor walks up a little.
Mercs go to 2 CP.
This turn to me typifies Gortens issues with this scenario, that being his feat and army style isn't spread out enough to get all three flags easily.
A minor point would be that the Earthbreaker should have also turned a little to be engaging the Drakhun and threaten a free strike, but that's a minor deal.
Khador 4: Hand of Fate/Infernal Machine upkept.
Beast walks back into contesting range of the middle flag.
Eliminators charge and kill Hawk.
Eiryss runs up and bombs the Colossal.
Drakhun charges back of Earthbreaker, does a little damage.
Great Bears advance and take out the Earthbreakers Cortex.
Ponies/Widowmakers struggle but kill the relevant Risen on the right flag.
No points scored (M:2, K1)
Merc 4: Pic Missed. A Risen spawns next to the right flag. Solid Ground Upkept.
Alexia aims, shoots down the contesting pony.
Gorten runs toward the right.
Gun Mages advance, kill a pony, an Eliminator and push back Beast.
Thor boosts attacks rolls, Earthbreaker strokes the Drakhun for a bit and misses the Great Bear.
Mercs go to 3.
Alexia should have charged the Pony and more Risen then clump around the flag, for the remainder of the game I kept leaving just Risen that could be knocked off. Urk.
More importantly I decided to do some mediocre attacks with a heavily damaged Earthbreaker rather than sacrificing Thor to the middle flag to get up another CP, at the time with a sever clock advantage I didn't think I would need. Foolishness.
Khador 5: Hand of Fate upkept.
Beast Lumbers forward again. Great Bears kill the Earthbreaker.
Drakhun charges the Gun Mages but falls short.
Nyss move, contest the right flag and kill the scoring Risen.
Eiryss runs to the left flag.
Widowmakers kill two Gun Mages.
Eliminator runs to the middle flag, Vlad runs to the same area with the Doge behind him.
Khador go to 3 CP.
Merc 5: Pic Missed.
Gun Mages kill the Eliminator and Doge and knock back Beast.
Gorten runs to the middle flag.
Alexia charges and kills the Nyss near the right flag.
I fail to consider the Drakhun, he is contesting the middle flag.
Both sides go to 4 CP.
Way to take a slow pitch to the face....
Khador 6: Widows/Beast move in for giggles, Khador wins on CP's.
Mercs on the left.
Had a time advantage the whole game, but failed to capitalise.
Looking back at it, the Vlad list is fairly awful for my iteration of Gorten, lots of important solos and a huge mess of infantry against anti-Cryx level clearing and spot removal. If Ed pops Alexia earlier it's barely even a game.
