Guild Ball. Loads of Guild Ball.
Dangit people, there's a limit to the amount of hobbies I have the time and energy to pursue :-(
Got a round in with Damonazon, who was shaking off Warmachine rust from Cancon while I had the motivative power of a Delorean (Back to the future or not, they were sucky cars).
Cryx of some description, so I rolled my eyes at the Ginger and brought out the fun caster.
Playing on Recon, which I think I've come around to by thinking of it as the bastard hybrid of Destruction and Incursion (Mostly got Destruction's genes).
eCaine - 'Ol Rowdy, Squire, Rangers, Boomhowlers, Gun Mages + Dude, pAlexia + Risen, Aiyanna + Holt, TAC, Piper, Reinholdt, eEiryss, Journeyman Warcaster
Objective: Effigy
pDeneghra - 3x Bonejack nodes, Aikos + Leviathan, Mechanithralls + Skarlock Commander, Skarlock, Withershadow Combine, Necrosurgeon, Bane Thralls + UA, 2x Witch Siren
Objective: Arcane Wonder
Cygnar Deploy: Damonthon won the roll and picked the side his models were waiting on, a hard argument to refute. Eiryss went on the flanking duty, the rangers stared at teh nearby forest ont eh left with great avarice.
Cryx Deploy: The scourge of Immorren. The melding of at least a dozen styles, subcultures and themes with a Dragon drooped sloppily on top. You know the ones.
The Bone Nodes were spread out amongst everything else, Aikos and his Leviathan took the far right opposing Eiryss. Bane Thrall took the right half of the centre, Mechanithralls took the left. Denny sat in the middle and pondered the innter mysteries of life (She'll ponder this less after her sister divorces her lower limbs from torso).
Cygnar 1: Gibbering hopefully out of the way, turn 1 and everything runs up. The Rangers surround the forest, Eiryss edges up a short distance. Blur goes on the TAC, Heightened Reflexes on the the Boomies, True Shot on Caine and Arcane Shield on the Centurion.
My thinking was that Boomies would get Crippling Grasped, Eiryss would clear it off them, they jam while Magic Bullet kills the Necro Surgeon and the regular guns pop off one Cryx unit at a time.
Cryx 1: Aikos throws up Escort, everything moves up. Sure enough, Denny arcs a Crippling Grasp and lands it on the Boomies. Aikos ducking into the forest surprised me, but was likely inevitable given he controlled the Cryx heavy. Eiryss was happier anyway.
Cygnar 2: Simple enough, plan is to pop the Necrosurgeon, kill a bunch of the Mechanithralls and drop Crippling Grasp to get those Boomies.
I upkeep True Shot and drop the rest.
Eiryss moved across a bit and shot a Boomhowler. By which I mean, shot an imaginary Boomhowler serving as the invisible friend she desperately needs. Stupid snake eyes.
The Boomhowlers limp forward and do some random shots, one of them actually lands the shot on the forward most Bone Jack.
Caine gives out two Magic Bullets and kills a Bane Thrall. I buggered up the positioning, should have set him to blow up that Bonejack.
The Rangers move up and kill a bunch of the Mechanithralls, then the Gun Mages Magic Bullet the Necro Surgeon and devastate the Mechanithralls. Holt goes into the trench, leaves the Bone Jack on one Movement Box.
Centurion toes the zone and Polarity Fields. TAC cloud up.
Cryx 2: Denny goes into the zone and feats on most of my stuff.
I was sweating bullets, thinking a Bone Jack would toe the clouds and kill Caine with a few Venoms. Damwhals spent a bit of time contemplating spells, until finally the whole "He activated Denny first" thing penetrated my skull.
The pair of Mechanithralls and Banes went into the Boomhowlers, a few die but tough saves a few of them. The Harrower does a pot shot at the Centurion, achieves nothing. Stitch Thralls tie up the Rangers.
Cygnar 3: Plan is to get rid of Crippling Grasp (For sure this time!), keep junk in the zone and pop some Withershadow.
Risen spawn up the field. Caine drops back, throws out a pair of Magic Bullets The Centurion lumbers forward and Polarity Fields. I've mucked up my order of activations, so the Risen can't get to the right spot for Magic Bullet's to go where I planned.
Instead the Gun Mages and Rangers kill off one more Mechanithrall, ping the Objective for a few points and it takes both Magic Bullets to kill off one of the Warwitch Siren. Eiryss strips off Crippling Grasp, The Boomhowlers move around and swing a bit for not much.
TAC cloud away.
Cryx 3: Denny hides behind the Objective, arcs Crippling Grasp back onto the Boomhowlers. The fully loaded Harrower walks across to the left side of the zone and does some shots, the rolls are appalling. Aikos leaps forward on the right and Harpoons Eiryss to death.
Thralls swing again into Boomhowlers, another couple go down.
Cygna 4: Denny is out of sight on full camp, clock is about even. Plan is to clear the zone, pop the Objective and get the scenario win rolling. I have to get rid of the Harrower, a Bone jack, the last Mechanithrall and three Thralls.
Holt moves up and kills Aikos, deactivating the Harrower. Alexia spawns a Thrall as a backup to kill anything I fail to.
Boomies kill a Banes and the Mechanithrall. Rangers and Gun Mages move up and shoot down the Bone Jack Node.
Centurion moves up, kills the two Thralls left in the zone. Caine walks to toe the back left of the zone, shoots the Objective and blows it up.
TAC Cloud. Thrall charges Denny for the lols, misses the attack by one.
Cygnar goes to 3 CP.
Cryx 4: Bone Jack on the left moves over. Banes charge in yet again, they take out a column on the Centurion. Denny throws out a few Venoms and mauls the Rangers and some Gun Mages.
Cygnar 5: Centurion gets focus, kills the Banes in the zone and done, Cygnar goes to 5 CP.
Me on the left. Not the sharpest example of play or anything, but I'm happy enough. Needing to Magic Bullet so much is eh. The thing to do early on was still get the Necrosurgeon, but use Caine's attacks to chew up the Nodes then the Thralls, using the Cloud to hide and the Centurion with Reach to stop the Nodes toeing the cloud and Venoming Caine to death.
I'd planned on one more game with Stryker, but I've decided sod the angry Ginger, I want a caster I'm more enthused about using with a list that isn't forty plus infantry models. Time for Haley, the other Haley or Darius.
