Beginning of the week rumble tumbles!
Its the taking-a-point-too-seriously list:
Durgen1 - Drillerx2, Blaster x2, Gunner x3, Thor, Aiyanna + Holt, Reinholdt, 2x Crawlers
Objective: Bunker
Nominally paired with sweet Thexus Monstrosityhood.
Into Adrak with the dragon of superior servantage (Fluffwise at any rate, read Venny's novella and tell me otherwise with a straight face).
Lylth1 - Scythean, Ravagore, Naga, Bolt Thrower, Angelius, 2x Shepherd, 2x Death Stalkers, Hex hunters + Bayal
Objective: Bunker
HA! KILL MY INFANTRY NOW DEATHSTALKERS!
#NoBitterMemories
I'm expecting Lylth will have to be afraid of the assassination, limits herself to one spell a turn, starting with Pursuit on a Crawler or Durgen, then Parasties a turn. The Scythean doesn't read as a huge concern, both lists can likely delete a heavy a turn, so we'll see how that goes. Hex Hunters are snooze buttons for the short explodium man.
Scenario is Recon, which ended up being played on every table this game night. Weird.
Terrain wise, one flag has a couple trenches, got some scattered hills, most relevant is one side has a safety forest, the other has a cloud that'll annoy just me.
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Merc Deploy: I win the roll, pick first.
Nothing exciting to see here, bases with Brine/Snapjaw are the Crawlers, otherwise roughly symmetrical Dwarfen engineering lump in the middle.
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Legion Deploy: Lylth plonks down on the side with the safety forest, the correct choice.
Death Stalkers go out left, Hex Hunters out right.
Black Undercoat is the Scythean, painted lizard evil thing is the Ravagore.
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Merc 1: Stuff runs forward, Force Field might be relevant. Unless he shoots one of the four Def 9 models, but whatever.
The Blasters Emigrate toward the right, land of the Hex Hunters.
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Legion 1: Lylth goes into the forest, gives herself Snipe, shoots the right Crawler and Parasites it.
The Battlegroup runs up, Angel goes to the back of the trenches, Ravagore in the trees, Scythean behind the Bunker.
One Shepherd runs into the trench, as does a Deathstalker. The other Deathstalker goes camera shy and hides behind that Obstruction on the left.
The Hex Hunters spread out in two rough lines.
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Merc 2: Lylth is about an inch and half out of Durgen walking up and killing her, so sadness.
The weigh up this turn is if I bother to feat. I decide not to, I really want the feat to threaten the assassination and probably don't need it to kill what I want this turn.
First up is the right Parasited Crawler, who charges a Hex Hunter, Bull Dozing one of them to get into position. Then opens up, kills six of them. The Blast on that side then advances and polishes off another two, leaving Bayal and two chumps. Lovely.
The next target is whatever Heavy is nearest, pans out as the Scythean. I measure out the Angels charge range, don't want it to come in and wreck my face. Though really I only care about the Crawler on that end, a couple Gunners for an Angel would be fine.
The Gunners form a wall in front of Durgen in the zone, between them and the left Brine Crawler they do a fair whack. Durgen then toddles up behind, does a pair of armour piercing shots to finish Scythe mo off.
Drillers run around, one goes up in the zone, the other tries to shield Reinholdt from the Deathstalkers.
The Cloud goes away at the end of my turn.
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Legion 2: Lylth keeps the Parasite going, she wonders back behind the forest of safety. The Ravagore and Bolt Thrower smack up the Snapawler, it then gets finished up by Bayal and a Hex Hunter, the other remaining Hexer goes into the Driller in the zone.
The Left most Deathstalker runs into my backfield, is not in the pic. Other Stalker runs into the back corner of the trench.
Angel runs far left, a Shepherd follows behind for some herding.
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Merc 3: Legion has run up and threatened a melee strike, so it's keep the distance and keep killing stuff.
The Gunners walk leftward, they ding the Angel somewhat. The left Crawler moves across, rolls a 7 on every mini-gun round but lands the AoE's and kills it, freeing Durgen to ding the enemy Objective for a few points.
Holt and the right Blaster clear off the Hex Hunters.
Left Blaster moves up and finishes off the circling around Deathstalker.
Drillers run to hide Durgen.
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Legion 3: Shepherd runs into the trench, Deatahstalker walks into the zone.
The beasts hang back, alongside Lylth most wander into the forest, they all shoot the right Driller and Parasite him, remove his legs and left arm.
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Merc 4: Reinholdt walks across, misread Spyglass so waste his activation. Dangit.
Gunners advance and do some shots, killing the Deathstalker. Durgen finishes off the objective, stays toeing the back left of the zone. healthy Driller sits in front of him.
Mercs go to 3 CP.
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Legion 4: Beasts all toe the zone, bar the Naga who walks into it. They all shoot down the Prasites Driller, Lylth walks over to the hill and kill Aiyanna.
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Merc 5: Gunners kill Naga, Crawler runs and bulldozes the other contesting beasts out. Cruise to a scenario win.
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Me on the right.
Huh. That was a lot more conclusive than expected. Mayhap I over value Pursuit? lot of Xekaar players around here, rarely see it cast. Strong Gunline bad for Lylth1 here, Durgen doing double tap Armour Piercing has cropped up every game to great effect. Reinholdt with him is probably my immediate image of face rolling across the table.
Crawlers. Sadly still good. Playing this list is just convincing me to line up purchasing two of them, so this experiment has blown up in my face excellently.
