It was a time of peace and tranquility. Some magic cards flicked back and forth between a pair of amicable intelligence's, whilst dulcet tones echoed through the store as it calmly explained that custom dice needed to be bulk ordered, something something Nurgle sucks.
Or in other words, I nabbed in a surprise Thursday game and discovered people made their way to Jolt a bit later than they do at 3D6 :-/
Hadules arrived and there was battle.
Scenario is Outflank, by the power of Circles! (SR2015 is an official statement by PP that Triangles are awful)
Ended up with eHexeris vs eStryker. Both my lists have loads of dudes, so either way Ashes to Ashes was going to get some money printed.
eStryker - 'Ol Rowdy, Lancer, Squire, 2x Sword Knights + 1x UA, Hammer Dwarves + Murdoch, Gun Mages + UA, Journeyman, Runewood, Tinker
Objective: Effigy of Valor
eHexeris - 2x Aradus, Drake, Raider, Brute (Bonded), The Crushinator, And Sally (That is, 2x Animantaraxes). 2x Will Breaker, 2x Paingivers
White boards, unfortunately, aren't conducive to photos, so they're worst than normal (Mayhaps we can call them Sweet Potato pics?)
Skorne Deploy: I lost the roll, picked the side with a slightly better Linear to hide behind. The Traitor Storm Lance Models are in place of the Aradus. Otherwise it's a flanking Animantarax, Beetles out front and everything else lumped in the middle.
Cygnar Deploy: Gun Mages went wide, as they weren't going to get good targets early in the game I reasoned they'd go up a flank then start killing the support/pushing models out of the zone. Hammer Dorfs went in the dead centre, Sword Knights went to either side. Stryker leaned toward the right side to hide behind the small Linear.
Skorne 1: It all runs up. Such tactics. Such wow. Paingivers whip it good on the Animantaraxes.
Cygnar 1: It all runs up. Not as good Tactics. less wow. The Gun Mages are so far left that only one is in the pic. Runewood gave Pathfinder to the left unit of Sword Knights, who also got Arcane Shield and run up and clump into threes. The Hammer Dwarves run up, Murdoch charges and backstabs one to tell them to go to Ground (Hindsight: Should have runt eh dwarf 2.9 inches from Murdoch, stopped the charge bonus and probably not killed him with a POW 9 attack). Stryker/Rowdy hide behind the wall with Deflection up, right Sword Knights spread out in the right zone.
Skorne 2: The cascade of death begins. Aradii, Animantarax and the Brute channeling an Ashes to Ashes splat eight of the right Sword Knights and the most forward three on the left. The Raider chips Rowdy for a few points.
Cygnar 2: Welp, Andrew didn't advance in nearly as much as I thought. Shooty Skorne isn't a thing in my head space yet. Plan was to run everything up, then feat to get attacks in. Arcane Shield flips to the Hammer Dwarves.
The Sword Knights, Hammer Dwarves and Positive Charged Rowdy go in and achieve little. The left Animantarax is hurt a bit, but otherwise it's mostly an attempt for the Swans to give the Skorne models a pleasant shave.
Whether or not there is a better plan that I didn't see, my execution left a lot to be desired. I kept my models so far back that there was minimal disincentive for the Aradus/Battle Engines to not tow the zones, so I didn't double up with regular attacks before the feat, the Lancer/Rowdy were badly placed the turn prior and couldn't give the Knights the bonus they need to actually do real damage.
Skorne 3: Animantaraxes get whipped, Beasts shoot, Hexy feats and throws out a bunch of Ashes to Ashes. I end up with the Gun Mages, the Lancer, 3 Hammer Dorfs and a few bits and pieces left alive.
Cygnar 3: Well, it's either run Stryker in at full camp, prey he doesn't die or try to clear out the left. I try to clear out the left, but it's looking bad either way.
Gun Mages push the left Aridus out of the zone, fail to take off the last few boxes of the Animantarax. Stryker arcs a Lightning storm at him, leaving And Sally on two boxes. I sigh.
Skorne 4: Stryker gets gunned down with ease.
Stryker currently feels like a colour I've never seen, so that's annoying. I'll hold off on list changes for another couple games, though so far literally everyone has decried the poor Sword Knights....
