Into Swarley, who we last saw imploding Haley1 so fast I had to include the clock to get to four pics.
Gorten1 - 2x Driller, 2x Blaster, 2x Gunner, Wrongeye w/Snapjaw, Rorsh w/Brine, Tinker, Ragman, Aiyanna + Holt, 2x Eliminators, Acosta
Objective: Bunker
Ayep. That list again. Revelations abound.
It's something something paired with Rahn. Yeah, Thexus was never happening. In any event:
Elara2 - Imperatus, Banshee, Phoenix, Halberdiers w/UA and Soulless Nutbag, Arcanist, 2x Mage Hunter Assassins, Narn, Lannysa
Objective: Effigy of Valor
Entrenched, because I don't play it much and need the practice. Definitely not because it was still out on the table. Perish such thoughts.
One side has a Trench on the left, a centre forest and water on the right. Smack bang in the centre of the table is a trench, the other side then has a hill, a wall and a smaller forest.
He's got threat range of dooooom, so I pick first. Nothing quite like going over your threat range, saying Ninja Pig goes fourteen and being asked without sarcasm "Is that it?".
I pick first, because by god I need to get somewhere before I get threatened the hell away.
Youtube, it's spray paint. God damn spray paint. It's not antique furniture restoration, you're just painting a sodding chair blue. Get over it. Stop advertising non-Alcohol products to me.
Laziness gives me the table side with the more inconvenient forest, probably the right choice anyway.
Is that.....someone bitching about modern music as they listen to some good old classic released in 2013?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!
Alright,I'll try to ignore the internet now.
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Merc 1: There's a blob. It advances. I keep stuff out of the obscene threat range of the Ret solos. I place for a theoretical Goren toss if I need one.
Pigs go left. Flanking Rorsh, truly I'm as inventive as ever.
Acosta runs way to the right, ostensibly to satisfy my flanking urges, probably more likely because I didn't think about him when I moved up fort Gorten.
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Ret 1: We cover Gorten's threat range. Swarley looks at my unpack and says the throw assassinate isn't going to work.
The Ret stuff moves up, Imperatus goes behind the wall, Halberdiers around the hill on the left, other jacks and stuff around Imperatus.
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Merc 2: Elara is within threat range of Gorten (20, because I wanted to camp in case I screwed up somehow). There's a baiting conversation about the assassination happening. Elara isn't positioned behind the wall, so I decide sod it lets make it happen.
I plot out the assassination, now committed by both the successful baiting and the clock time I've invested in plotting it out. Elara is camping a fair chunk (4 or 5 I think).
The Gunners move up, pot shots spike and do some damage to Elara (Def 16 is nothing! NOTHING I SAY!).
Green Eliminators run to positions to stop inconvenient secondary drags.
Gorten gets picked up and thrown forward by a Driller, then walks up and drags Elara in. I nab the Banshee by necessity, which engages and stops the bonus Gun Shot but oh well.
One spray Bunny moves up, does a little.
Holt tries some shots, rolls miserably.
Red Kayazy charge, one gets in with a Combo Strike that rolls obscenely well.
Ancillary stuff moves out of the way.
Wrongeye runs up to a spot to keep the Control area going.
Snapjaw charges Elara, boost the charging Bite, hit and kill without needing to do a damage roll.
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Me on the right, because I guess?
That was just weird. Actually doing the throw and assassinate jank style is rare, so good to try that out I guess? More likely I was just manipulated out of a conspiratorial need to exchange the Haley1 assassination experience.
