Guess I still just like the same dorf, new edition or no.
Gorten1 - 2x Bashers, 3x Gunners, 2x Blasters, Rorsh + Brine, Wrongeye + Snapjaw, 2x Kayazy Eliminators, Aiyanna + Holt, Acosta, Tinker
Objective: Stockpile
Into Haideosiouses with new swan junk.
Maddox1 - Rowdy, Stormclad, Junior + Firefly, Storm Lances, Laddermore, Gun Mage Adept, Gun Mage....uh.....sniper guy, Storm Blades, tormblade Captain
Objective of regret: Fuel Cache
Scenario is the forums current favourite, Linebreaker. Objective either side, pair of aligned flags, can only score off enemy flags.
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Cygnar Deploy: Swans win the roll and pick first (Starting to get a theme here....). Ponies go left, heavies up the guts, Storm Blades on the right.
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Merc Deploy: Picked this side to avoid trying to get my models to the flag on the left in the forest.
The Pigs went far left, long game being to outflank and start scoring on that flank, as the Ponies are pretty likely to be the pieces that go into my battlegroup.
Gorten and Jacks went central to do the main work.
Crocs went right, eliminators optimistically hoping they'll get to go for the Stormblades. I expected them to be electro leaped to death long before.
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Cygnar 1: Stuff advances! Everything stays behind Gun Bunny range, bar one that goes into range inside a trench.
Stormclad gains Assail, Storm Lances gain Maddox' superior Arcane Shield, Rowdy gains the normal version off Junior.
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Merc 1: Stuff moves up in return, Kayazy space out on the right, Crocs Submerge.
Gorten casts Solid Ground and charges forward, Bashers shield up in front of him.
Rorsh moves Brine up, who knocks him down for his trouble.
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Cygnar 2: Opening positioning errors are joyfully revealed as Rowdy and the Stormclad thunder up and splat the Bashers and a Gunner. It's going bad quick!
The Ponies get up in my face. Stormblade Captain hangs back on the left Cygnar flag and contemplates Disney villainhood.
Storm Blades run, one goes way afield to let the Firefly arc a lightning bounce and kill a pair of Eliminators (Misplaced one, left it in within 4. Dangit.)
Saddest of all, the Gun Mage solos kill Acosta.
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Merc 2: Well, it's gone balls up. Going to have to feat to live and try to rebalance the equation by popping the Swan heavies.
On the right, a Spray Bunny and the remaining Eliminators pop five of the Stormblades, so that was nice.
Gorten feat pulls all the Ponies and Jacks to the right. He then blasts Ol' Rowdy with two Molten Metals for 12 damage. The remaining Spray Bunny then Slams Rowdy into the Clad, knocking them down. Aiyanna Harms Rowdy, Holt causes one of the Stormblades to tough out.
Snapjaw goes in, kills Rowdy and dings the Stormclad. I then let the Crocs go in my brain, as Wrongeye has to charge in to finish the Clad off, which he does.
The remaining Gun Bunnies aim and kill a Storm Lancer.
Rorsh and Brine run up the left near their target.
Tinker runs to stop one Lancer having line of sight to Gorten.
That was a better recovery than I think I had any right to expect.
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Cygnar 3: Maddox feats and moves some spells around, hangs behind the Fuel Cache cloud.
On the right, the Storm Blades get Arcane Shield and go in, killing one Eliminator with a big CMA. The Firefly gets Assail, charge Wrongeye and just kills him.
In the centre, the Storm lancers splat the Tinker and the forward Spray Bunny.
On the left, Laddermore moved over to contest the flag, the Gun Mage Solos shot Brine, after which the Storm Captain charged Brine. Mostly they missed bad.
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Merc 3: Simple enough, start scoring on the left flag, fall Gorten back, kill some of these damn Ponies.
Centre wise, Aiyanna Harms the Ponies, then Holt kills the one box one. Gorten falls back, double a double barreled shot to pop the right Pony.
On the right the Eliminator stabs a pair of Storm Blades. The remaining spray Bunny cops a free strike from the Firefly, which arcs to kill the Eliminator. It then is way short of Junior, because I didn't pre-measure at all like a schlub. It sprays another pair of Blades left, one lives behind the Obstruction courtesy of my feat keeping him out of the line of fire.
Left wise, Rorsh pops smoke, does some points to the Captain, moves the Pigs around him. Rorsh goes to the Flag, Brine goes to Laddermore and throws her away from him, killing both Gun Mage solos.
The Gun Bunnies move up, one kills the Captain, the other bounces off a Pony.
Mercs go to 1 CP.
The Firefly move was just silly. I should have given the Spray Bunny a focus, boosted a head butt on the Firefly. Gorten could then Molten Metal, shoot it and wall up to save himself.
Regardless, I was happy enough. Holt was holding up the Ponies, the Pigs looked quite safe with Laddermore knocked down. The firefly could start scoring, but I still had a pair of Gun Bunnies to pop cav and opposing Objective to score ahead.
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Cygnar 4: Up front, the Firefly aimed and shot Aiyanna, killing her. The electro bounces went for max, from Gorten, to my Objective, to Holt, killing him and freeing up the Cav.
The Cav then charged the Gun Bunnies, splatting one.
In the backfield, Junior moved across and shot Rorsch. Damage dice came up a cruisy 16. Rorsh is stripped of his transfer, which goes to Brine.
Maddox walks over lines up Rorsch. Promptly misses.
Laddermore then comes over and shoots the little Piggy, rolls enough on the damage. I fail the tough roll and it's all bad.
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Merc 4: This is pretty bad. Gorten must Dwarf mode the world!
Gorten charges a Lancer, I boost the to hit roll and hope for a crit. I don't get it. I burn down to a focus, killing the Lancer but failing to Crit Slam to free the Gun Bunny up for a meaningfull activation.
The Gun Bunny cops the freestrike, not like I can afford to have wasted activations with two models. He survives the hit, shoots Laddermore, lands it, puts her on 1 box.
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Cygnar 5: The Firefly, being a model that is apparently the bane of my existence, tots over to the right Merc flag. The last Stormblade runs into the open, because he's a git.
Laddermore charges the Gun Bunny, knocks off the Cortex.
The last Lancer pops my objective.
Maddox gets Arcane Shield, sprints into the trench.
Cygnar goes to 1 CP.
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Merc 5: terribad assassination time!
Gorten charges Laddermore, crit slams her over Maddox. I then cast an eruption on Maddox finishing Laddermore off. The Gun Bunny shoots her. I did some damage points, but ultimately Madox burns her focus each hit and takes about half a dozen points.
The Firefly puts Cygnar on 2 CP.
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Cygnar 6: Junio advances into the Fuel Cache Cloud, shoots down the remaining Gun Bunny. I can't stop Maddox going to the left flag and Cygnar cruising to a scenario win.
That took a while. Well, I like Linebreaker anyway, my positioning not so much. I had no business putting my Bashers there. No idea why I haven't been using Rock Wall or Strength of Granite in this list, need to start doing that. A pair of Bunnies would also have been sufficient cover. One conceivably should have gone to the right of the objective, doesn't need focus to Slam so could have started mucking up the Storm Blades. Acosta waste was just terrible, no reason he also couldn't have been hiding behind Bunnies. He's even immune to the electro leap nonsense.
