Got in on some Slammin!
Laziness ensured that the current list wasn't changing.
Ossrum - 2x EB, Thor + 2x Bashers
Opening round is into Edudo, with, alas, Butcher 3. Sound the alarm.
uButcher with Dogs - Ruin, Beast 09, War Doge, 2x Press Gangers, Hawk, Gorman, Saxon, Widowmakers, Great Bears, Bokur, Madelyn.
This isn't good, unless there's a horrible misplay the Reds trade up pretty well and 3Butcher with a Shield Guard/cloud are fairly resistant to my assassination.
Good old Close Quarters reports in.
Khador Deploy: Reds win the roll for an ominous beginning. The centre of the table quite open, I pick the side which has an obstruction I can hide behind in the killbox.
That's the widowmakers AD-ing on the left; then Pressgangers to the right of them. The central group is Beast, Gorman, Butcher, animal brigade, Madelyn, Ogrunite. Group on the right is Ruin and the Bears (Grrrr).
Mercenaries Deploy: Blank bases of power. Metal figure is Ossrum, painted bloke is Thor.
K1: The makers of Widows ran into the forest on the left, Pressgangers spread out. Butcher hides behind the cloud from the worst two points in the game.
M1: Things I really needed to die: Saxon, Argii and Gorman.
Alas, Edudo knows that and has kept them in way back spot. I decide to settle for trying to pop as many Pressgangers as I can and Beast.
Left EB gets Sniped and Tuned up for damage, knocks down the left unit lass (KD's Beast without risking damage to the Argii behind him or a Shield Guard from the Bokor). Nip guns go in to the jack, I roll pretty low and only do some cursory paint chipping.
Right EB throws out terrain and kills some Press Gangers.
I mess up the right EB positioning here, forgetting Ruins affinity bonus when I mathed the safe distance.
K2: Pressgangers get up in my grill and scratch my imaginary paintwork. Ruin, with full focus, gets Energisered forward, charges and takes the left side of the right EB. Everything else stands around in the centre, Butcher stays hidden behind the cloud.
M2: Simple enough, kill the heavy hitters and try to out Butcher, if I can keep both Breakers alive I can sacrifice one to get Butcher in death range of the remainder.
Plan is to have each EB down a jack, left Basher to Madelyn, right Basher to slam a Press Ganger and try to get in the way of the Great Bears.
Bashers get Prontoed to be base to base with Press Gangers, left EB gets Tuned up. Thor moves up as far as he can to be in command of the Left Basher going forward.
Ossrum feats and plinks a right side Press Ganger.
Left Basher uses his explosion, an unfortunate tough roll stops him being able to slam the Lass into Madelyn. He walks up instead, but is just out of melee and kills the Lass instead.
Left EB then goes, knocks down and kills Beast with ancillary damage on an Argii. Shoots the Basher with rough terrain to kill Madelyn bypassing Sucker!.
Right EB has three focus, attacks Ruin, leaves him with Cortex and Club.
I attempt to summon Scooby Doo for help, summon attempt fails.
Right Basher explodes, again a Ganger toughs in the way of a Slam attack, so he walks over to Hawk, boosts the to hit and pulps her.
I'm content with my choices, in spite of the failures. Or at least, I fail to spot better ideas.
K3: Butcher kills the left Basher, Energisers back and feats to camp. Bears go into the right EB as does Ruin, it is left with 7 boxes. Gorman Blinds the other Basher.The Widowmakers move behind the left EB and plink Thor, the first three a single in total, the last one does exactly 4 boxes to get the kill.
Forgot combat bonus, Gorman should have missed from Bears engaging. Cogsarnet.
Khador go to 1 CP.
M3: That's some straight up X-files style photography there.
Ossrum plinks a Widow, the EB's flail ineffectually.
Khador goes to 2 CP.
K4: Gorman blinds the left EB, Bears and Ruin wreck the right EB.
Khador goes to 3 CP.
M 4: I push stuff around, but ultimately can't stop Butcher getting the 5 CP so forfeit out.
Me on the left.
While bad, it wasn't as nightmarish a match as I thought. The trading on my end is delicate and I wouldn't pick this out of a pairing, but.....um....yeah. *insert insightful commentary here*
