Let's just drop the pretence. My "lists":
Gorten1 - 2x Bashers, 3x Gunners, 2x Blasters, Rorsch + Brine, Wrongeye + Snapjaw, 2x Eliminator units, Acosta, Tinker, Aiyanna and Holt
Objective: Stockpile
Into the Pottsinator, who was on the receiving end of my bafflement for my first mark 3 game.
It's the Skornination, Xerxis1 and Makeda3.
I didn't notice it at the time, but after three straight games of Retribution he was locked into the Empress and couldn't use the General. Oh well.
Scenario is Take and Hold which isn't super live, but I was already dedicated at this point to find a new partner for Gorten anyway, so another MacBain game would serve little purpose.
Makeda3 w/her bros - Tiberion Sentry, Gladiator, Brute, Razor Wurm, Agoniser, Paingivers, Paingiver assassiny unit
Tibbers is an issue as always. Will have to delay with feat, kill the pieces that can contest easily and do the slow scenario game. Attrition wise, The Agoniser needs to die then the beasts need to be knocked off one at a time while the others get delayed. Assassination is utterley up to where Makeda goes in relation to Tibbers.
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Mercs Deploy: I think I lost the roll? Ended up with first, which doesn't sound like what I'd want to do.
Akin to round 2, there's a nice blob of water near my flag.
Ninja Bacon is far to the left, Jacks central, Gorten and Croc module to the right.
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Skorne Deploy: UFO's in the shape of arms haunt the Skorne camp, filling them with no fear because no longer are we plagued by the nonsensical psychology rules.
On the AD line, we have Bloodrunners to the left and the Razor Wurm to the far right.
Then there is solid block of the rest of the list.
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Mercs 1: The opposing list has approximately zero guns, so don't need to worry as much about the defence tech this turn. Everything runs, one unit of Eliminators ends up far right to get around the water and in event of the Razor Wurm wandering that way.
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Skorne 1: Persian Vamps spring forward, most of the Bloodrunners and the Brute go to the Skorne flag with some picnicking on the hill. Two of said Bloodrunners leg it in and engage the nearer Eliminator squad.
Razor Wurm moves forward, looks like it's ready to absorb a Kayazy charge.
Sentinel/Tibbers run to be the front line, followed by everything else. Baby Elephant screams.
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Mercs 2: The water is cramping my style a little bit. Plan is to set up pigs to threaten the Skorne flag, stay out of threat range of the heavies and start chip damage.
Ninja Pigs zoom up the left.
On the right the Eliminators charge the Wurm, the first Combo Strike rolls immense damage, taking out two aspects. The other Eliminator has a go, should be able to kill the beast with ease. Unless she misses, which she does.
Centre wise, the Kayazy there charge a pair of the Bloodrunners around the Skorne flag, gut them and side step around.
A spray Bunny then clears off the jamming Paingivers. The Gun Bunnies then shoot the Brute, the first two roll amazingly well, the last one might very well kill it. Unless it misses, which it does.
Acosta saunters up a bit, Gorten then hides behind some jacks and gives Acosta a wall. Not done with trying to keep one solo going, the Crocs move up to give him some Star Crossed.
One Bunny wondes to be 3.5 inches behind Gorten.
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Skorne 2: Pottadon wisely rolls his eyes at the prospect of charging Acosta and doesn't do it.
The Brute charged Rorsh, apparently can't handle Bacon as he misses the little Piggy. Along the way he lightly brushes Brine with his shield.
Right side, Razor Wurm gets healed and swings and misses at Kayazy.
Around the Skorne flag, every other Skorne piece descends, the Eliminators disappear in a whirlwind of death.
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Mercs 3: Positioning looks good, assassination is go!
A Basher goes into the Sentinel, does sod all but is just there to stop him being pulled into an annoying spot.
Gorten wonders up, feats on every Skorne model but the Tycom up the back, the Brute on the left and the Razor Wurm on the far right.
Gun Bunnies shoot Makeda for a bit, Ninja Pig then drops smokes to shift him and his pet and pop some dragged Paingivers.
Brine then Animus' and moves to Makeda, a freestrike on the way from a Paingiver gives him a Fury. Big Pig then gets the job done with his initials.
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Me on the left.
Fairly normal Gortening really, I'd be truly shocked if it worked on Potman again.
That was Masters done for the day, I was happy with my 3-1. Alas, we had four undefeated so no finals for me, strength of schedule put me at 10th out of 50, I'm quite happy with that.
Excellently run tournament by the guys as usual, now to wait a year for the next run at Wintercon Masters.
List wise, completely happy with Gorten. Even if I owned drillers I'd struggle to convince myself to drop the Bashers, super slamming is to good when it works and Strength of Granite lets them kill other heavies in a pinch.
That leads me to trying to work out a new partner.
I think the answer, if I owned the models, would be Durgen, who doesn't give a damn about Satyxis (yay fire!) but the reality is I don't own the jacks, my meta sees enough Durgen and I'm just to Suss enamoured.
In the meantime I intend to try some Magnus 2 and Fiona. Anyone really, though odds are it'll have Dahlia because she's amazing. Couople months down the line will depend on taxes and whether I pick up Cephalyx or Convergence.
