Final Round!
NSW have locked in the overall win, so it's plays for fun and a slightly improved win record at this point. I'm 3 - 3, so here's hoping for a positive record at the end.
Last round is into the Maroon disciples of Banana Bender land.
For whatever reason our grids were very friendly to this team, more than any other I think. After the Ret face punch I was expecting anything, then they had two Legion players so that was that.
Into Legion I went!
This time it's Skillyths theme force, so slightly faster triple Ravagores and weird stealth infantry I'd never seen before.
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Legion Deploy: After a surreal conversation about what winning the dice roll meant (It'd been a long weekend for most people at this point), I picked the side that was vaguely less annoying. Really I wanted to score first and having 5 inches of safety on turn 1 movement didn't enthuse me.
Beasts to the left, everything else Advance Deployed way forward.
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Merc Deploy: Stuff ready to die.
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Legion 1: It all moves up, optimistic Scathers went down from the Gorebots. Infantry spread around.
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Merc 1: Press Gangers run forward into the zones. Gun Mages stay away from the beasts and miss every shot on the ranger dudes. Only half were in range to be fair, but it didn't instil a sense of confidence in their ability.
The Gorten bunker deployed.
Anastasia ran out of camera shot to the far left of the board and started making distraction noises.
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Legion 2: After some pointed questions about how the Gorten Bunker worked, Lylth feated and elected to shoot not that.
The infantry and Lylth killed a load of Press Gangers, she herself moved up, Pincushioned the Earthbreaker and walked back.
The Naga, presumably suffering a headache from her at this point, moved into the left zone and blew apart Anastasia.
The Ravagores all shot the Earthbreaker, did about 75% of it and left a big stack of Scather templates on it.
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Merc 2: Simple enough, Gun Mages clear out the right zone. If they fail Gorten has to go up the middle of the board and feat on as many beasts as possible, if they succeed I hold feat for the full scenario rush next turn.
Risen spawn aggressively forward.
Gun Magges move up, sure enough they make up for last turn by clearing out most of the zone.
Press Gangers go into the Rangers on both sides, they clear out the last chump in the right zone.
The right Ranger unit fails its command check.
The Gorten Bunker reassembles in the right zone, Risen run out of command to be annoying.
Tinker repairs the Earthbreaker.
it then moves and kills a couple Rangers, then gets unrepaired by the Scathers.
Mercs go to 2 CP.
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Legion 3: Henroner, having run his beasts hot, leaves them all on one Fury. The Naga and one Ravagore frenzy and munch on things.
Lylth clears out Risen and goes into the left zone. The beasts and left Rangers mulch more of the unit.
Late in the turn, El Wagono realises he hasn't contested the right zone. The unit on that side rallies but can't move in, the last Deathstalker to activate tries to clear off the remaining Ravagore, but the Lass toughs away. Ravagore then charges into the left zone for some ancillary points.
legion go to 2 CP, Mercs go to 4 CP.
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Merc 3: Allocate one, Tinker runs into the left zone. I take a minute, having learnt from the Clash of Titans match against the Elminster, to ensure I do in fact win without further activations. I end up cruising to my only win on scenario (Bad Gorten player! Bad!)
And the weekend was done. The team alas went 2-5, doesn't matter, had cider and meant a series of vague friendly faces. Would hang out again, have to do anyway to remember who the hell I drank with this time around.
Personally went 4-3, playing Gorten all around. I'd like to say average dice would make it 6-1, but the reality is the losses were eminently controllable, though outside of the Issyria derp I had the right idea.
Not a lot of value to posting the last few MK 2 games since OTC, last post from this thread will hopefully be my MK 2 games breakdown.
Big thanks to el Chibster, for driving me to and from the event and graciously saving the rest of us from the ACT Team Anchor "award", Edster for Captaining the pack of cats, Southron for making us look like shit guys, Haidos Barbados for not rightfully blowing up at me over the clock mishap and in general being good teamies.
