Chibix emerges with my old nemesis, the damn tree huggers, on Incursion.
pMorvhana - Stalker, Gorax, Stones, Bokor + Shamblers, Witch Doc, Totem Hunter, Blood Trackers + Nualla, 2x Croak Raiders, Blackclad
I decided screw it, I didn't feel that slow and I'd run a real list instead of the 6 man EB brigade.
Well, for a given value of real I guess.
Arkadius (NotB Tier 4) - 2x Road Hog, 2x War Hog, 2x Gorax, 2x Gun Boar, 6x Rabo, Targ
Circle Deploy: Hippies win the die roll, I can choose a Trench and forest or wall and water. I go with the Forest side.
This is as far as I got before January Errata hilarity emerged, now attempting to type through overwhelming schadenfreude.
Anyway, some proxies, that AD line of Circle infantry is actually two flanking Croak units with the Blood Trackers in the centre.
At the normal deploy line, everything central with beasts more to the left and Shamblers/Totem to the right.
Pig Deploy: The base with an arm on the left is a Warhog who got snapped in transport.
My brain went blank in deployment on how I normally do it, I couldn't recall the last time feating bottom of 1 was a serious possibility, hence the weird block in the middle instead of a strung line along the deployment line.
Symmetrical deployment otherwise.
C1: Prey targets are the Roadhogs, left one by the Bloodtrackers, right one by the Totem Hunter.
Regrowth goes on the Trackers, Harvest on Morvhana.
Left Croaks clump around the left flag, trackers and right Croaks spread out. Totem Hunters run out front to the right.
Centre group pretty much moves straight ahead. Trackers get Zombified.
P1: I've got an assassination chance, but I eyeball it to be about 30%, so sod that (did waste much more time on it than I should've).
The Rabo's run up to frenzy spots.
Arkadius puts Forced Evo on the left Road Hog and feats. I frenzy The Roads, Wars, left Gunboar and most of the RaBo's (I miss #4 left at the top of the trench). The Rabo attacks kill a few Trackers and a glorious spike caps the Totem Hunter.
Arkadius the casts Aggression and walks up.
Left Gun Boar touches the forest and kills three of the left Croaks.
Left Roadie assaults into the Croaks on the left, the spray attack kills his charge target, stopping the sprint option.
Right Roadie advances, kills 8 Shamblers, two Trackers and leaves the Bokur on fire with one box.
War Hogs run around, Gorax' and Gun Boar form a wall of Bacon in front of Arkady.
That was not as well executed as it should have been, my real regret is that I couldn't line up a second melee target for the left Road Hog to get the Sprint going. I also could have boosted another two of the Spray shots on Croaks, but oh well.
C2: Fire kills the last shamblers but leaves the Bokur.
The Trackers and a pair of Shamblers re-emerge.
Left Croaks shoot up the left Roadie, I forget to Hyper Aggressive him, they don't do as much damage as I feared.
Morv feats and does the sensual backrub that is casting a Beasts animus on it for them (Sprint on the Stalker). She then hangs around the wall and has a smoke like all the cool kids do.
The Stalker gets ported forward, kills the Road Hog creating a forest and walks back a bit.
The trackers kill a pair of RaBo's, trigger Hyper Aggresive on the left War and Gun Hogs, then reform to jam that pair of models. The Gun Boar is now their Prey target.
The right Croaks roll appallingly, they cap one Rabo while another and the surviving Roadie Hyper into melee.
P2: I nab my fury back, I need to either kill the left Croaks or contest that flag to stop the scoring. Other than that I want to kill the Bokur, more Croaks and lessen the effectiveness of the Trackers.
Right Gorax moves out of the way.
Arkadius goes into the nearest Tracker, at which point Chibidoaur points out that Zombify means he can't kill it, so the Sprint plan in my head is awful. I hit with a boosted Crippling Grasp, cast Psycho Surgery and do a quick sob.
Left Gorax gets Sprint from the Grinders, kills the Blood Tracker engaging Arkady and Sprints to get in front of Arkady in a less than ideal way.
The right War Hog runs to complete operation Put-Pork-in-Front-of-the-Boss.
The back Gun Boar shoots the left War Hog to clear off the engaging Trackers, they both tough.
Targ ancillary attacks the War Hog, the Tracker toughs again.
The War Hog tramples through the forest to contest the left flag.
Preyed Gun Boar absorbs a freestrike, moves up and shoots down the Bokur.
Rabo on the right clears off Shamblers, Roadie then kills a load of Croaks with a spray.
Good enough turn, though I don't think I quite have the upper hand, Stalker can kill my left Warry, Gorax can pop my Roadie and returned Trackers can keep jamming.
C3: Sure enough, a bunch of trackers return.
Gorax goes to the right Road Hog, throws him into a RaBo (In hindsight an illegal move, but it doesn't do that much.
The Blackclad walks up and sprays at the Gun Boar and War hog. Does sod all damage, but crit Knock downs the War Hog.
It's kill Arkadius time apparently, plan being for Morv to kill the Gun Boar, Prey to cycle over, then the Croaks and Trackers to pew pew him to death.
Morv charges the Gun Boar and does 10 of his remaining 14 boxes, instead the Stalker has to walk up and finish it.
The Trackers and Croaks go, a combination of bad roll, Shield Guard, one transfer and some Hyper Aggresive means Arkady takes a mighty 5 points.
P3: Time to return the favour! Morv has one transfer.
A few RaBo's frenzy in pointless spots. The Road Hog has three Fury but passes the check to my surprise.
The knock downed War Hog lost its Spirit, so it just stands and hobbles out of the way.
The left Gorax throws a Bloodtracker trying to clear up the other Gorax, both tough.
Arkady puts Crippling Grasp on Morv, then fully boosts a Primal Shock, does 10 damage and clears the Transfer. He then flees to the trench.
The Gun Boar kills some Croaks to free a landing spot next to Morv, wings her for about half a dozen points.
Road Hog Flamethrowers, she Sac Pawns to the Druid and I am sad.
Let War Hog tramples to her, buys an attack, hits and auto kills.
Had that failed, I had one unboosted War Hog attack and a Gorax throwing a Bloodtracker left.
War Hog that got the kill has been moved in the pic from next to Morv to being the forest for reasons.
Me on the left, some Clock errors in shipping at the end of game, had more than enough to finish it up.
I was surprised by the assassination, thought his attrition odds were a lot better. Happy with speed of play, Chibosaur was very accommodating with some of my sloppier movements.
