Still this nonsense:
Gorten1 - Basher, Driller, 3x Gunner, Blaster, Sylyss, Dahlia w/Skarath, Eiryss1, Orin1, Taryn1
Going into some Dwarves piloted by Niallus, whomaintains faith witht eh Dwarven nation in a way I'm to lazy to do.
Ossrum1 - Basher, Driller, 2x Blaster, 2x Gunner, Hammer dorfs, TAC, Herne + Jonne, Ogrun Bokur (Ossrum is client)
Scenario these days is the pit, table basically defined by forests on the outer edges of the fight area with a trench and wall in the zone.
I go second and pick the side with a trench, in hindsight this was the wrong call, particualrly given the way the wall messes with the Dwarf Heavies melee weapon ranges.
Ossrum significantly out threats me, as well as his jacks being immune to my feat shenanigans. I'm more likely to be assassinated than vice versa, it'll be all about how the feat trade goes.
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Round 1: Dwarfs run at each other.
I charge Gorten up and hide him behind the Gunner wall, alongside Eiryss who disrupts the opposing Basher who is leading the charge.
Taryn runs out far left, the Snake goes out right. Dahlia has the unenviable position of needing to be more than 22 inches away from the Gun Bunnies to be safe, shes so far back that the photo doesn't capture her.
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Ossrum 2: Ossrum moves up, Energizers, feats, the assassination attempt goes in.
The Basher goes to Slam the Gunner into Gorten, misses that glorious defence 12. A Gunner and Blaster move up, the spray kills Eiryss, Gorten burns his focus camp. Herne then does a shot at Gorten, doing another five damage.
That's it for the assassination run, I wasn't particularly worried. Even if the Slam lands the disruption stops the Basher from moving and doing attacks, which is what was needed for the run to be credible.
Still poor positioning on my chart, there was no reason for Gorten to charge bottom of 1, he could have just walked and been in range to get to the flag in my next turn. Oh well.
The Driller and Bokur stay behind the wall, the TAC advance out left and head toward Taryn. They cloud up. On the right the Hammer Dwarves, with a Gunner/Blaster behind, run up to the forest, staying shy of Counterblast range on Skarath.
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Gorten 2: I'm going to have to Counterfeat, it won't be very impressive.
On the right, Dahlia runs up to be hiding from most of the guns with the right side forest and get the Hammer leader in Haunting Melody range. The Snake back pedals to be out of range of their walk and swing range, sprays to corrode four of them. The Blaster has a go as well, though fails to break armour.
Centre wise, the Basher runs back behind Gorten to get out of the way, allowing the Drillerto charge the opposing Basher and kill it to the box. The Gunners then huddle around and do some shots, taking out the movement of one of the opposing bunnies. Taryn aims and pops a pair of TAC.
Good enough recovery, even with Energiser the Driller can't get to me and the Hammer Dwarves are essentially wasted space against the Elf and Snake combo.
Gorten goes to 1 CP.
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Ossrum 3: Corrosion does its job, all four corroded Hamerererers melt Wicked Witch style.
The Ogrun Bokur runs forward, every gun in the list shoots my Driller. The rolls are appalling, he loses a chunk of armour points but has no issues. The Hammer Dwarves move up in general and are dismayed.
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Gorten 3: Push the advantage time, I want to polish off the Bunnies in front of my and pop the enemy Driller.
The Gun Bunnies struggle to remove one, so Taryn shoes them how it's done and kill the Bunny blovking my Driller, who goes in and easily polishes off his evil twin.
The Basher slams the Bunny in front of him and misses. Apparently that's how Bashers slam these days. He buys an attack, but rolls badly.
On the right the Snake sprays more hammer dwarves and otherwise lives the dream. Dahlia goes into the forest.
Orin walks up, lightnings Herne and Jonne, puts the Ogrun on 3 boxes and the Dwarf on 1. Imph.
The Bashers failure means Gorten can't score, so he falls back into the forest.
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Ossrum 4: The TAC advances, hits Gorten with boxcars to set him on fire. Blergh.
Herne and Jonne shoots Gorten, a focus point renders that null.
The Driller gets charged by the Bokur, then Ossrum kills it. Ossrum then Energises back.
The last Hammer Dwarf goes into Skarath, hits him for some damage.
A Gun Bunny shoots Orin, hits, then embarrassingly fails to kill him. Can't keep a good 60 year old Inquisitor down....
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Gorten 4: Keep removing pieces!
Blaster pops the last Hammer Dwarf, Skarath then charges and eats the Bokur.
Orin moves up, finishes off Herne and Jonne.
The Gunners and Basher finish off the contesting Gunner at last, Taryn pops the final TAC.
Gorten heals for a couple, advances to my flag.
Gorten goes to 2.
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Round 5: The opposing Bunnies fail to kill Dahlia, Ossrum uses Strangle hold on Skarath.
At the end of Ossrums turn I go to 3, then use all my guns to finish off the Bunny contesting the zone to run Gorten in and get the final CP's.
Ossrums feat is so much more interesting to play into then use. That's probably just me though.
Assassination goal never happened, giving that wall away was the height of foolishness.
Orin Lightning was amusing, as was Taryn pew pewing things, though neither was sufficiently amazing at this point to warrant going full time with Gorten.
Struggling with my next Journeyman list inclusions starting tomorrow, I suspect my interest in Journeymanship has probably run its course. If I'm going to play near 75 points level lists, I'd rather use my normal stuff then work with the Journeyman constraints. I expect newer players will want to keep going so I'll keep the models on hand, but for now I'm more invested in getting back to the normal game limits.
There is also a lols Legion list I'm contemplating (Rhyas + tentacle monsters), might start working toward that.
