Then the next round into Garropolous, who'd rocked up for pickup games and been gracious enough to even the numbers.
He also had the misfortune of being the first list matchup that favoured my list.
Ye old Outflank circles appear.
pGrissel - Slag, Impaler, Kriel Warriors + all the trimings, Burrowers, Champs, Long Riders, Gobbers, Stone Bearer and droobs
Merc Deploy: Iwin the roll and go first for the first time, gloriously fixing up my potential scenario weakness.
We'd had a chat about what his best plans were, we settled on he could go for a scenario jam or surround me to open up the Ossrum assassination from having enough angles.
Troll Deploy: Burrowers out front, Champs central, Kriels left, Long Riders on the right.
I agree with the side selection, the convenient Linear on my side does nothing to stop an Earthbreaker assassination.
M1: Snipe on left EB, Bullet Dodger on Ossrum, EB's toe a zone each.
T1: Burrowers dig, Kriels hoof it up the left, everything else goes to the right, Grissel hides behind the Champs in the forest. Gobbers cloud up (Didn't have an appropriate 5 inch token, so no board representation).
M2: Grissel is hidden for now, so plan is to slow the Kriels and kill the Slag.
Left EB rolls minimum shots, kills a few Kriels and puts out rough terrain but is otherwise unimpressive.
Ossrum cycles Snipe to the right EB, who gets Tuned for damage. I screw up my eyeball, and the left torpedo knock down shot is a couple mill short of the Slag. I roll minimal shots again anyway, and kill a pair of Long Riders.
Bashers wall up in front of my small models.
Sillyness on my part, should have fired the torpedo at the Champ next to the slag, though given the paltry amount of shots it wouldn't have done much anyway.
T2: Slag gets Far strike and shoots the right EB, which also gets hit by all the Burrowers. The damage rolls are abysmal and the EB sits pretty good.
Everything else runs up, Grissel tops up the stone so is in the forest with 2 transfers.
M3: Finally, a chance to assassinate the way the list is designed to.
Bashers Pronto out of the way, Ossrum feats, the EB's knock down the Stone, Grissel and champs, between Tune up, max focus on the other and rolling 5 shots apiece on the nip guns they get the job done comfortably.
Me on the left.
I think this could be played to stifle me better, but it still isn't great for the Trolls. I'd run Kriels up the guts, Champs behind, Burrowers to the left planning to dig in for a turn 4 pop out, Riders extreme outflank on the right and Grissel staying behind the forest to live.
