My lists:
Gorten1 - 2x Bashers, 3x Gunners, 2x Blasters, Rorsch + Brine, Wrongeye + Snapjaw, 2x Eliminator units, Acosta, Tinker, Aiyanna and Holt
Objective: Stockpile
MacBain1 - Galleon, Sylyss, Dahlia + Skarath, Alexia2, Ragman, Gorman, Piper, Saxon, 2x Halberdiers
Objective: Effigy of Valor
I draw one of the few Legion players, Marty's eccentric friend, the Lloydster.
Scenario is Extraction/Baseball Diamond.
It's Thags 2 with a bunch of Heavies or Lylth 1 with an Angelius and Ogrun.
I had somewhat of a dilemma, the least of which being that this was one of the factions I had yet to play into in Mark 3.
The largest one was that if I drop Gorten, which is my preference that this thread might, just maybe, have given away, then I will be list locked into MacBain in the last round and there are matchups the main man Mustache just cannot deal with.
The scenario also not being super live but playable settles it and I drop MacBain. It's the Big Messiah Thags man.
I think this pans out two ways, either the Galleon gets popped early and MacBain has to go for the Grievous Wounds assassination (Don't post yet, we'll get to that), or Galleon survives being alphaed and I can snooze my way to a jackhammer win.
Thagrosh2 - Carnivean, 2x Angelius, Seraph, Scythean, 2x Stalkers, 2x Shepherd, Forsaken
Objective: Fuel Cache
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Merc Deploy: I win the roll and frown. Both sides of the table have a trench the Angels can hide in. I elect to go first to get my stuff up the board.
Pikes either side, other stuff in the middle, Alexia on the left flank.
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Legion Deploy: Carni left, pretty much everything else right. Base with the sad remnant of a broken tail is your typical Legion vs floor aftermath alas.
Stalkers sit in the forest in the Legion AD line.
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Merc 1: Stuff all moves up, I put Fortune on the Galleon. It'll need that to land an actual Harpoon shot, then I can cycle Fail Safe on it.
Dahlia throws up her upkeep as well.
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Legion 1: Stuff moves up, Dragons Blood goes on the Carni. Stalkers enjoy picking on poor innocent Steelheads. Sure enough the Angels go into the trench, that clear base behind them in a proxy for the Scythean.
This is the point I finally made the logical leap that had I deployed the Galleon to travel up the other side of my objective the trenches wouldn't have been an issue. Ineptitude at work.
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Merc 2: I wanted to drag in an Angel and kill it, but boosted 13's even with a re-roll are rubbish odds.
Galleon moves up, drags in the Seraph and kills it without issue. It also tries to feed Alexia some souls off the Stalkers and fails at it completely.
MacBain feats to at least make Lloygrosh cast Slaughterhouse. He then backs up a bit and camps to not die to just Beast shooting him.
Halberdiers run around as I scream propoganda at that. It worked for Communism yeah?
Dahlia and Skarath run in front of the Galleon to block up.
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Legion 2: Make or break turn.
My things break.
Thagrosh feats, casts Manifest Destiny and charges up killing Skarath. He takes a Steelhead Freestrike on the way that spawns a Harrier.
Steelheads die in droves to Stalkers and the Carnivean spray.
Angels and Scythean clear off Galleon, on the way repulsing Dahlia out of the way.
Feat moves then has the Beasts move to shield Thagrosh.
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Merc 3: The plan is go!
Gorman walks up, Blinds Thagrosh. Sylyss walks around and gets him in tap range of El' Thagio.
The Steelheads get out of the way, failing to kill a Stalker on the way.
MacBain charges an Angel, then uses Energiser to move across and get into Thagrosh, turning to get the Angel out of Line of Sight and redirect the charge attack into Thagrosh.
MacBain hits, has the Gang bonus from Sylys.
As the damage rolls begin, it becomes evident that Grievous Wounds no longer stops Transfers and I am, in fact, utterly doomed.
Well, might as well have a literal stab.
MacBain does a few more boosted damage rolls, leaves Thags with no Transfers. Saxon charges him in the back, surviving a freestrike from the Shepherd and does nothing. Alexiahas fails to acquire a soul, so rides up a little bit and does a Hellfire.
Thagrosh survives with a comfortable 11 health.
Legion have a third turn, the Angel headbutts MacBain, Thagrosh eats him with ease.
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Me on the left.
Llyeodeon was extremely apologetic about the whole Grievous thing to his credit, though he most certainly didn't need to be. He made the right choices, I did not.
Galleon should have gone up the left side, Skarath should have been kept back. MacBain and Skarath between them can down Legion Heavies, especially with Paralysis on Angels.
Fun game regardless, given the player numbers there is also an extreme outside chance of a 3-1 getting into the next day finals, so there's still technically a chance. More importantly, a chancefor more War Dollies!
