Into the Mass Effect protagonist, going into more Cryx (Clearly not nerfed enough!)
Current lists I'm tinkering with being Bart, Gorten and Fiona. Bart isn't perfect as I don't own a third Nomad, so currently has a non-optimal Talon + solo combo. Fiona's battlegroup is a puzzle that deftly defies me, currently it's a pair of Mules but if I owned Mariners I'd try that (Eugh. That sentence is so wrong to me).
Anyway, dice roll picked Gorten!
Gorten - Earthbreaker, 3x Gunners, 2x Blasters, Wrongeye + Snapjaw, 2x Eliminators, Aiyanna + Holt
Objective: Stockpile
Basic theory is the Bunnies are great self powering attacks, as well as relatively hardy disposable models to block up and keep the Earthbreaker safe.
Crocs and Khadorans are there to run as an independent module, as the Gorten battlegroup lsit is very confined by his tiny weeny control area.
The minder of Sheeps wave of sadness:
Skarre2 - Barathrum, Slayer, Bone Chicken with Gun, Satyxis Raiders + UA. Satyxis Raider Captain x2, Satyxis Gunslingers, Carrion Thralls
Objective: Fuel Cache
Backlash/Feedback for days. Seems bad.
Scenario is Entrenched, a somewhat combo of SR 2015's Two Fronts and Incoming. Two zones, Objective centrally placed in each, typed as friendly/enemy with scoring normative to that (Dominate friendly, control/dominate opposing zone, pop enemy Objective).
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Cryx Deploy: Raiders on the left, Crocs on the right, everything else in the middle.
Proxies!
Drudges = Carrion Thralls
Gun Mages = Satyxis Gunslingers
Erebus = Barathrum
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Merc Deploy: Earthbreaker went behind the forest, near enough to the middle and one of my few (only?) pieces with pathfinder. Secondary battlegroup of Crocs and Kayazy go on the left to contest the opposing zone, Bunnies and Gorten hang around in the middle.
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Cryx 1: Stuff moves forward outside of Bunny pew pew range, the Fuel Cache pops a cloud. Admonition goes on Barathrum.
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Merc 1: Fort Gorten forms towards the right zone. I put up Strength of Granite on the Earthbreaker for......giggles I guess?
Aiyanna and Holt hold back in feat, Team Croc moves up under Star Crossed.
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Cryx 2: Front Gun Bunny gets hit with an arced backlash then winged by a Captain's hand cannon, then demolished by Carrion Thralls (Finisher huh.....that's a thing....). Gorten papercutting begins!
Satyxis Gun twits kill Carrion Thralls to create a cloud wall of sadness.
Raiders and Heavies otherwise hold back just behind the midline.
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Merc 2: Plan is to clear off the jam with a spray bunny, fall back with stuff, start the scoring, hold feat for now.
The forward Bunny moves up, sprays off all the Carrion, leaving one behind the cloud wall. Crocs, Kayazy, Aiyanna/Holt and most of the bunnies go left into the Star Crossed bubble, they shoot the Objective down to one box.
Earthbreaker, one Gunner and Gorten go to the right, Gorten heals some of his papercuts. Earthrbeaker puts down some rough terrain.
Mercs go to 1 CP.
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Cryx 3:Gorman advances forward, Blinds Gorten, the right Bunny and the Earthbreaker.
Barathrum moves up, kills my Snapjaw.
Raiders come up and kill the right most unit of Eliminators, they stab the Blaster down to a box of Movement, Gorten papercuts to 12 health.
Skarres toes the zone.
Cryx go to 1 CP.
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Merc 3:Gorten moves up, feats back a chunk of the world, uses an Eruption to kill three Satyxis Raiders grouped around the Slayer.
One blaster moves up, clears out most of the Raiders.
Earthbreaker fails to kill Ragman, should have activated my colossal first, targetted my own objective with templates to blast damage Rags to death (Alas Sac Pawn). Rough terrain gets placed to slow Snapjaw.
Remaining Eliminators get to Skarre, one charge one run, they miss.
Wrongeye goes way to the left.
Holt finishes off the Cryx Objective.
Mercs go to 3 CP.
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Cryx 4: Ragman contested my zone.
The Jacks move up into aggravating positions.
The Gunslingers fail hard to kill the contesting Eliminator, do blow up his buddy.
Skarre feats on a bunch of my stuff and camps three.
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Merc 4:Gorten heals for a few and falls back.
Admonitioned Barathrum pins down some of the left stuff, everything else tries to fall to the right.
Mercs go to 4 CP.
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Cryx 5: Earthbreaker gets Backlashed, Barathrum goes in and papercuts Gorten to death.
Welp, that's the anti-warjack reaction to a possible warjack heavy meta. It's goddamn terrifying.
Only real list question is the Earthbreaker.
I think it goes away. The Rhulic heavies are so cheap I didn't believe it when it came up in the after game discussion. The rough terrain templates were good, but not enough to save the damn thing.
Don't own Drillers, think first change will be double Bashers, Pig Ninja and Savio.
