Gorten - Earthbreaker, Hawk, Madelyn, Anastasia, Rhupert, Gorman, Thor, Reinholdt, ATGM + UA, 2x Press Gangers, pAlexia + Risen
Objective: Effigy of Valor
Durgen - 2x Gunny Bunnies, Gastolleon, Boomhowlers, ATGM + Dude, Dougal, eEiryss, Rockbottom, Reinholdt, Aiyanna + Holt
Objective: Effigy of Valor
Incursion! The reign of Killbox is sadly over and we get back to this old favourite.
Got Traishinator with Winions, Trolls now being so last month.
Fundamentally I get on the inverse situation of my last round, as out of Rask/Barnabus I get the knockdown Croc whose feat is fundamentally cancelled by Solid Ground.
I throw down Gorten, same situation as Frawlinator regarding Rask Feat/Swamp Pits doing a horrible number on the ranged game.
Barnabus - 2x Spitter, 2x Snapper, 2x Vault, 2x Croak Raiders
Merc Deploy: I picked first, as I wanted to move up the board a little before the Croak Raiders did their thing of death. Traishy rightly saddles me with the worse side, my deployment made awkward by an obstruction and large expanse of shallow water. I figure the Croaks will go across from the Earthbreaker so that it and the Gun Mages can move into appropriate positions to kill next turn, using spawned Risen to target with the AoE's if they go into Swamp Pits.
That Risen is on the far right to create an early Thrall to mess around with the right flag as needed.
Minion Deploy:The Croaks end up out wide, so I'm expecting they'll push a flag each while the Sacrals and Beasts meet my block in the middle.
Merc 1: Some quick math tells me I have about 3 inches past my AD line when I'm not in range to be Croaked, with the diagonals involved giving me a little more space out front. I throw Solid Ground and Strength of Granite out while everything shuffles forward.
Minion 1: Nearly everything runs, the left Croaks move to the middle and get Iron Flesh, presumably to not be killed off by the Gun Mages. The Vaults head toward the left and centre flag
Merc 2: Hawk runs into the middle of the Iron Flesh Croaks, engaging three of them, both mobs of Press Gangers spread out behind her to fill out the middle of the board. The Gun Mages manage to cap a pair of the Iron Fleshed Croaks, so that was a bonus.
Gorten/Alexia hide behind a wall, the Earthbreaker moves forward a little and toward the centre again to try to keep distance from the croaks.
Anastasia runs to be in the way of the left Vault, the Thrall goes to distract the right side Croaks, engaging one not in claim range of the flag.
I made a big positioning error this turn in hindsight, the right Vault could have advanced and easily pinged Gorman. It then likely dies to the Earthbreaker, but then Croaks will easily be able to Oil and take out my Colossal, or at least cripple half of it.
Minion 2: The Croaks move in on the right flag but in a scoring capacity, both units kill a bunch of Press Gangers and cap the Thrall Warrior, though some good tough rolls leave four of them merely on fire....
Barney kills Anastasia. Both Vault move in to Contesting Range of the left and centre flag.
Merc 3: Fire kills a few more Press Gangers, a load of Risen become the new frontline. Gorman blinds the right Vault, because errata's are not all reaching. The Earthbreaker gets boosted attack rolls, moves up and to the right and pops off two thirds of that flanking Croak Unit. The Smurfs had failed their command check, so the last surviving three fall back and fail to rally. The Gun Mages mostly sit still, two move to left flag contest range and they ping another Croak. The Commies run up to be in the way as do Risen, then Gorten, Alexia and Madelyn hide behind a new Rock Wall.
Should have popped out a Thrall to nab a point on the right flag.
Minion 3: Barney goes for the feat, gets one Gun Mage not in Solid Ground Range. Spitters clear out the front jamming Commies and Risen, Croaks then killa bunch more of my mook infantry. Left Vault goes to the left flag, clears off the contesting models aside from the Gun Mage Officer who hangs on.
Merc 4: I keep Solid Ground and give two to the Earthrbeaker.
Gorman Blinds the right Vault again, Earthbreaker kills two of the remaining three Croaks on the right unit and knocks down the forward Spitter and shoots it a bit.
Alexia goes into the Spitter and kills it. The Smurfs finally rally. The last Commie screams that Trotsky was right and moves to contest the left flag. The Gun Mages don't achieve anything this turn. Gorman gets a snugly wall. Madelyn runs to the right flag.
Mercs go to 1 CP.
This was the turn I feared being killed, I'd left Gorten on no camp and in the wind, I thought there was more around at the time but it looks like three or so Croaks (two getting free strikes from Risen), the Vault and one Spitter could have shot him. Luckily for me Alexia was enough of a distraction.
Minion 4: Left Vault claims the left flag as he kills the last Commie. The Blind Vault backs up and Barney goes behind him. A Snapper go into Alexia, they pop all the Risen and put her on one box, then she passes a few tough rolls. The Spitter goes in, boosts its to hit rolls and misses each one. The last Croak on the right ducks a Risen and kills Madelyn.
Merc 5: 15 minutes no pic yadda yadda. Gorman walks into the forest and blinds the Vault yet again. The Gun Mages contest the left flag and pop a Croak or two. Earthbreaker mvoes to the right flag, kills the contesting Croak and the Snapper. Alexia stabs around for a little bit at the beasts.
Tinker runs to the centre flag, Gorten walks back somewhat.
Mercs go to 3 CP.
Minion 5: The left Vault kills Alexia, the Blind one moves in and engages Gorman. Spitter walks to contest the middle flag and kills the Tinker. Barney moves up and behind it. The last Snapper runs to contest the right flag.
Merc 6: Gorten walks forward, feat pushes Barney, the Spitter and Snapper back 8 inches. Thor runs to the middle flag and I get to 5 CP.
Me on the left.
That was an awful matchup for Traishy, outside of going for that assassination run mid game I don't think there was a lot he could do.
