Durgen - 3x Gunners, 2x Blasters, Rorsh + Brine, Gun Mages + UA, Pressgangers, pAlexia + Risen, eEiryss, Aiyanna + Holt, Piper, Reinholdt, Dougal, Tinker
Objective: Effigy
My old nemesis appeared on Outflank, piloted by Cheebster.
eKrueger - Ghetorix, Stalker, Gorax, 2x Croak Raiders, Stones + UA, Gallows Grove, 2x Blackclads, Una + Griffin
End of deploy, my side has a hill on the left and a forest on the right. Trench in pretty much the exact centre, on the Circle side are a forest and shallow water that don't come into the game in any real way.
Circle Deploy:As per the usual, two AD units are proxied Croaks. Actual Croak models were being used on the table next to us, and I had a moment of genuine confusion on what they were.
Merc Deploy: Stuff. Eiryss went to the right as the only naturally pathfinder model in the list....
Circle 1:Stupid Stormwall spell goes up, it all runs forward. The Croaks taunt me with some extreme bunching up. The Gallows Grove realises it isn't in the list and vaporizes.
Merc 1: That's some glorious bunching, and the -5 range meant I was going to get a better chance to clear stuff out, so I decided to feat and Dougal mini feat.
I forgot that Stormwall also lets Chibili pick scatter directions, so just....eugh.
Durgen caps five Croaks in the centre unit anyway, who fail their morale check, and dings the Gorax, because giving away free charges is just the nice guy thing I like to do.
Gun Mages move around, they all fail to hit anything until the last one caps one of the Blackclads (Booyah).
Rorsh/Brine move up the left, Eiryss moves to the far right (Base just barely in the pic).
Primed Press Gangers jam up.
Really should have re-read Kreuger's card, that surprise was....unpleasant. I think feating/mini-feating was still okay, as Kreuger can hide/camp if I hold it for the assassination and my army will get roflstomped. Likely I should have spent some focus putting Explosivo on the Gun Mages to clear out all the Croaks and maybe both Blackclads.
Circle 2: Gorax kills a Pressganger, who explodes and kills the Stone Keeper.
Glorious.
Ghetorix tries to Sprint, and is stopped by the awesome that is Primed.
Una, Griffin and right unit of Croaks kill off the rest of the Press Gangers, the Griffin gets winged for a good Primed hit.
Krueger toes the left zone and feats, hitting everything except Brine, Eiryss and Piper.
Merc 2: The lists Skornergy continues to strike, as I have no Risen to spawn. Stopped Sprint, so that was something.
Eiryss moves up the board edge, takes out another Croak.
Tinker runs in the right forest to toe that zone.
Primed Risen run around, Durgen hides amongst them.
Gunners form a line, the blasters move to each zone in anticipation of future sprays of awesome.
Rorsh/Brine goes into the left zone, I choose poorly and Brine throws the Griffin at a stone for little reason.
Circle 3: Gorax tries to slam Alexia, misses the boosted 9 (As aussies are want to do).
Stalker goes up and kills her instead.
Ghetorix charges a Gunner, kills it and takes out the right Blaster's Cortex (My dreams!).
The right side Croaks charge Eiryss/Tinker, they kill the Gobber freeing up the zone.
Left Croaks, Griffin, Blackclad hurt Brine but don't take out any aspects. Stones port in the way.
Krueger Stormwalls, gets over to the right zone.
Circle goes to 2 CP.
Merc 3: Brine doesn't frenzy!
Aiyanna/Holt Harm Ghetorix and crank some damage. Gunners get out of the way. Durgen Primes himself, spends all his focus to kill him. Risen form an inept body shield. Blaster toes forest/zone, sprays down two Croaks in the right zone. Eiryss stabs two Croaks dead to my amazement.
Gun Mages kill the Griffin and some Croaks.
Brine goes over and kills the Blackclad, Rorsh does shots on the Stalker that achieve little.
Circle 4: Right Croaks kil the Risen, Krueger flies up and shoots Durgen dead.
Me on the left.
I'd forgotten how I dreaded the Merc match into Krueger, though that went better than I thought. List issues remained with the lack of Corpses. I think I needed to deploy with both Blasters going right and Durgen/Gunners going left, though I I'm not sure there is way for Stormwall to not just be vicious.
In my theoretical pairing the other half is Gorten atm, after game I thought he would be my drop but in hindsight he has a lot of issue against circle as the ubiquitous Stone unit stops his feat murdering the Heavies and they usually have fast enough speed to make a wide scenario like Outflank hard to scenario rush.
