Living in a glorified country town, I dragged myself out of bad at the sweet sweet time of 4am. Fortunately I was spared the greater part of driving by Adam Fortuitous-Compass-Point, who did the glorious 3 and half hours to get to Clash.
Ended up as about forty or so contenders, so it was going to be five rounds rolling into each other without breaks. Alas poor Troll players?
Rocked out my pairing, the caster I'm good with and the one I should have had more practice at.
Gorten - Earthbreaker, Thor, Hawk, Madelyn, Gorman, Tinker, Anastasia, 2x Press Gangers, pAlexia + Risen, Gun Mages + The Dude
Objective: Effigy of Valor
Durgen - Gunner, Blaster, eEiryss, Rorsh + Brine, Dougal, Reinholdt, Rockbottom, Ragman, eAlexia, Acosta, Gun Mages + UA, Aiyanna + Holt, 2x Press Gangers
Objective: Effigy of Raw
Hoping to go 3-2.
Round 1, into Tom Guan!
Bugger.
Running Lylth2 and Saeryn, out of those it was going to be the pew pew master for sure.
Scenario is Close Quarters, I drop Gorten because he survives much better than Durgen. This really comes down to how Lylth feats, either the early assassination, popping the Earthbreaker or completely styming/mauling my infantry, that choice dictating how I then play it, somewhat ameliorated by the fact that Close Quarters isn't super live for me here.
eLylth - 3x Ravagore, Naga, Succubus, Warspears + UA, 2x Shepherds, 2x Death Stalkers
I lose the roll and get given second. There's a convenient looking obstruction on wide side, so I take that. Rest of the terrain isn't going to be relevant.
Legion Deploy: Ravagores and Naga lean to the right side with a single Heavy on the left, Warspears in the middle.
Merc Deploy: Gorten lined up to get to that Obstruction.
Legion 1: Shadowpact up, everything moves up.
Merc 1: Bit of a dilemma here. If I throw out my upkeeps a single Ravagore will probably pop Gorten, if I don't I short change my long game.
Given the obstruction, and the fact that if my blocking scrubs get knocked down it's irrelevant if they tough or not as they won't block line of sight, I cast Solid Ground and run the Earthbreaker. Press Gangers spread out, important stuff tries to bravely hide behind the rock safety.
Legion 2: Lylth feats, moves up, kills a few of the Press Gangers in inconvenient spots. The Warspears assault and ping a few of the Gangers. The left Ravagore tries but fails to get Line of SIght to Gorten and kills some random stuff. The other two Ravagores advance and manage to get a bead on him, the first leaves him on 6 boxes.
There's a brief laser frenzy as we try to assess whether the middle Ravagore can both see Gorten and bypass the Cover, at some point I bump the terrain so we go with the Ravagore is in happyville.
Said Ravagore then misses both boosted shots, needing eights.
Technical survival!
Merc 2: Gorten is on fire, but it does sod all. It's virtually academic at this point, Lylth had to advance way up the field to get the job done, it's counter assassinate time. Lylth has three Transfers and Tenacity.
Madelyn intrigues him forward, Gorten feats Lylth in (Hits a bunch of other stuff that doesn't matter much). Gorten shoots her with a combo shot for some points. Thorbreaker gets Tuned up, advances into Stealth range after Press Gangers get out of the way, knocks the Elf down, strips of all her transfers and leaves her knockdown on a couple health. Hawk charges and gets the job done.
Me on the left, Clocks were counting in reverse (So we both had 45 minutes left).
In the morning walk around I'd seen a lot of Menoth, Skorne and Trolls, this wasn't a minority match that I expected. Normally Lylth2 easily gets the job done, Legion not being the best thing ever for Mercs, but sometimes dice happen.
You can ride luck to a tourney win right?
