Into the herder of rules and lambs (I'm the innocent lamb in this instance, the one that broke his leg when the family asked what was for dinner that night).
75 points or bust this time around, so threw in some proxies to get this junk heap going:
Sturm and Drang1 - 3x War Hog, Razor Boars, 2x Gremlins, 2x Tinker, 2x Sacral Vault, Targ
Objective: Bunker
It's the arrival of the Hamsters:
Ossrum1 (Hammerstrike Theme) - 3x Driller, Rockram, 2x Gunner, Blaster, Forge Guard, 2x Artilery, Siege Crawler
Objective: Armory (oh yeah, there are more objectives)
Remember the Hamster Dance? It was awful. When Ringtones became hits.
Recon, terrain from last game slightly shuffled for the forests to be more relevant, irritating Rubble still in the centre.
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Round 1: I win the roll, pick first, run stuff up, upkeeps out on War Hogs, Decel up.
Dwarf Heavies trundle up, Forge Guard behind. Snipe on Crawler, Fire for Effect on Artillery piece.
Couple ranging shots go out, don't achieve much. Except one Artillery shot that does 12 damage to a War Hog. Eww.
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Minion 2: Those are Dwarf heavies, the sod are they doing already toeing the zone?
One round in, sold that the theme force is exactly the same as Ossrum, being two qualities. Powerful and Boring. By god I wish one of those would change.
Anyway, I have to give up *something* to try to pull out the feat. I run the Gremlin swarms into the jack line to try to give something to think about, move a War Hog into the zone as a snackrifice, put Polarity Shielded War Hog behind him. Vaults move up, burn their souls boosting damage rolls on the Rockram taking out one arm and the movement.
Sturm TK's the left Vault back, in theory out of threat range (13 on the Drillers with feat/Energiser). Put up Deflection. Don't feat, theorising I'll need that to have a hope of a War Hog surviving when I commit two of them next turn.
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Merc 2: Ossrum feats, punches down a Gremlin, Energisers everything.
Blaster gets magic from the objective, sprays down the other swarm.
I'd make several blunders alas. Artillery and Crawler do shots that hurt the big Hogs a little ont he right snack off half the health of the vault. Forgeguard charge and kill the suicide Hog, a Driller charges my Objective in order to get in on the Polarity Shielded Piggy and smack him down. Sadness.
In shooting the Rockram on an angle, a Driller without extra focus goes in on the left vault and puts it on 9 boxes.
Mercs go to 3 CP.
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Minion 3: I've lost to much to do much. I Drang and Crit Fish for giggles, get nothing, concede.
Blergh. miserable performance. I'd like to blame bad matchup, poor models, inferior skill level and other stuff but ultimately I just played liked rubbish.
Torn on what I want out of the game at the moment. Too Suss to stick with Mercs after Cancon, want powerful stuff that other people don't play because I'm lame. Throwing down some Haley3 becoming more of an option, though I know I'll need another thrashing or two Sturm and Drang wise, because I have issues.
Ah, who am I kidding. Weird insect grymkin whatsit blokes ahoy!
