Anyway, our resident part time Hippy has dropped the trees once more for his preferred Vodka Infused Imperialists.
The list was already out, so Sloth wins!:
Haley1 - Stormwall, Gallant, Squire, Harlen Versh, Arlan Strangeways, Gun Mages w/UA + Defender
Objective: Bunker
Stuff about Thunderstrike here.
It's that guy whose sculpt sadly didn't emulate his picture:
Malakov2 - Behemoth, 2x Juggernaught, 2x Kodiak, Mechaniks (Max), Orin, 2x Eliminators, Drakhun
Objective: Fuel Cache
Scenario is Extraction, one my least played. Should work on that.
The most overwhelmingly important piece of terrain is a forest blob that sits in the middle of the board covering a corner of one zone. It provides a place that a caster can sit outside of line of sight while scoring.
I win the roll and pick first anyway. After last game I still field the need to get up the board for Temporal, more to the point that forest will be annoying to deal with but if I put Haley there then I die to Veil of Mists. No thanks.
No pic for Round 1, Khador correctly take the side with said super forest. We run at each other. The Khador Jacks move up in a great flying V of doom, the Eliminators space out in front of the Cygnar zone. I put Arcane Shield on Haley, feeling the pain of last "game".
Behemoth also did a scattering shot that git the Gun Mage UA. Fate was smiling me and he only takes one box of damage, but it was nearly the best of starts for the Reds.
Proxies for Khador are an armless jack that's a Kodiak.
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Cygnar 2: The two jacks on the left are Juggernaughts with Malakov behind the forest, centre jack is a Kodiak, then Behemoth, then the sub Kodiak. Most of the Elimiantors are dead for this pic.
I'm going to give away a defensive score to Khador, which is fine and in line with the plan. Haley is far enough forward that she has scoring potential, the crux of the plan is to Temporal every turn and push back with Gun Mages while the Heavies focus fire. After Malakov's feat Gallant will go into something as he'll out threat all the opposing models.
This turn priorities are killing the Eliminators, bunkering up with Haley and hoping Behemoth gets distracted by said Bunker to put the shots their rather than popping my Gun Mages whoa re precious to my anti-feat plan.
Haley's toes the zones, Lightings the Kodiak. Sadly it only bounces one, so I end up advancing the Gun Mages anyway which I was trying to avoid. The UA falls back to a hill, losing that Jack Marshall would suck hard. The Gun mages push the centre Kodiak back a bit and kill two Eliminators, leaving one survivor. I immediately regretted not casting Deadeye on them and have them doing all the work without the silly Chain Lightning attempt.
Defender and Gallant shield Haley, stay out of Kahdoran jack threat range. Stormwall advances, I save the precious Pod contesting pieces for later turns. The various guns on those jacks hits the centre Kodiak, chisels out the Cortex. Sweetness. Stormwall also puts down Covering Fire, principally to get in the way of the Eliminator who could potentially gak the more annoyingly placed Gun Mages.
Various support pieces run around like headless chickens in the backfield.
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Khador 2: I hadn't considered my Objective, so the right most Kodiak goes in and kills it, popping a cloud to kill a Gun Mage. Surprisingly the Objective lived on 1 box, sot he Eliminator charged it and Combi striked it to death, then went and engaged a Gun Mage off the Sidestep.
Behemoth actually shoots at Gallant per the plan, which was a nice surprise. Until he managed 10 damage points off that shot. Oh well, better than losing multiple Gun Mages at this point and I have Arlen if I need it.
The other Khadoran Jacks limp forward and get in threat range of my Jacks/Haley.
The Drakhun gets Prowl and hides in the Fuel Cache cloud.
Malakov sits content in his foresty bunker and feats.
2 points to the Reds.
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Cygnar 3: The plan is roughly working out, just have to ride the feat out.
I'll move Haley across, Termporal Barrier, use the Gun Mages to knock back anything in range, wait it out, equalise the scoring and use feat to push back/kill enough jacks to get ahead in the attrition, put a pod one round then the Stormwall to stop Khador Dominating for the long win.
Haley moves across in the zone and Temporal Barriers, puts Deadeye on the Gun Mages.
Anastasia, having ambushed from the side, charges the Eliminator and neatly decapitates her.
The Gun Mages then wiggle around and pop Thunderstrikes. The first four go excellently, knocking Behemoth and the right most Kodiak out of charge range on Haley.
I then have a brainwave. If I knock the Kodiak back another two inches, I can put Gallant in front of Haley, in position to both shield her and threaten anything approaching the zone. Brilliance!
Gun Mage shoots. Hits. Pushes back one inch. Does a damage point. Kodiak advances into threat range of Haley.
Well, balls. Good thing I've got another.
Gun Mage shoots, hits, knocks back one inch. Does two damage.
Dammit dudes. They even rolled consistent crits this turn, the mocking was real.
Nought to do now, but prey I core out the Cortex. Defender does a shot, damages the Kodiak a little, he advances after another meagre push into the zone. Own worst enemy over here.
Gallant moves in and does a smack for a few more points.
Stormwall walks back out of the Juggernaught charge range, shoots down the opposing objective and puts a pod down to contest.
Harlen runs up to be in the way and I await my inevitable doom.
Points now 2 to 1 in Khador's favour.
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Khador 3: Time for Haley to die.
Behemoth and Orin clear out the Gun Mages, bar the cowardly Officer on the hill, as well as Versh.
Painted Grey Kodiak gets repaired, charges Gallant and kill him.
Plastic Grey Kodiak walks to Haley, vents Steam, boosts its initials.
Leaves her on 1 box.
Well, damn. Alive but in a terribad position.
Drakhun charges and engages the Stormwall/Defender. One Jugger moves over and kills the Pod, the other runs into my zone for the sake of Surety.
3-1 Khador.
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Cygnar 4: Allright, I have to disrupt as much as possible, advance the Stormwall to get into the Khadoran score to stop the slow grind scenario win.
Haley feats, Scrambles the Painted Kodiak, heals for 2 and camps three with Arcane Shield.
Gun Mage Officer aims, knocks back the Red Juggernaught.
Stormwall advances, throws the Drakhun into said Juggernaught, pods the Khador zone.
Defenders gets Crush, advances, takes out the Red Juggers Cortex with his Hammer.
Arlen tries to get the crit disrupt on Kodiak engaging Haley with his spray, fails.
Squire and Anastasia run to the far right corners of my zone.
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Khador 4: Turns out the Kodiak engaging Haley was out of Malakov's control area and the attempted Disruptions from Arlen were a complete waste of time. Good thing he failed anyway.
Behemoth kills the Defenders, Grey Juggernaught pops half of the Stormwall.
Disrupted jacks stumble around.
The Kodiak on Haley Pops Steam. Does two damage, putting her back on one.
Drakhun charges Haley, misses everything.
Orin tries to lighting the Squire, does some damage.
Malakov gets a Sucker Circle of Mechaniks, kills the pod.
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Cygnar 5: The only win condition now is clock, though 7 minutes should be plenty for the reds. Alas.
Stormwall runs to contest the Khador zone, Haley heals again, scrambles behemoth. Various solos go into my zone.
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Khador 5: Juggernaught kills Stormwall, Malakov Dominates to 5. Alas.
I would have got away with it if not for those damn kids. I mean Gun Mages.
Thought my position was good overall, though I definitely put the Stormwall in the wrong spot, he should have positioned with an eye to getting him into the zone further to the left.
Haley1 will get one more attempt with this list, then changes are a-happening.
