Yada yada I should just could the next blog iteration "The Journey's of Gorten and some other infrequent muppets".
Gorten1 (GIVE ME AN EPIC SO I HAVE A LIST PAIR DAMMIT) - Drillers, Bunnies, Crocs, Pigs, Kayazy, Acosta, Support
Objective: Bunker
vs
Feora1 - Judicator, Hand of Judgement, Tristan w/Vigilant, Flame Bringers, Nicia, 2x Wracks, Choir, Vassal of Menoth, Hierophant, Piper
Objective: Fuel
So, here's an irrelevant shout out to Battle College. it's great for all those models I get a quick gist of the rules of and have no sodding idea what its name is. The shout is irrelevant because if you are reading this you'll likely have an established opinion of that site, but really, it's a good reference tool these days.
Looking at the opposing list, the things that jumped out to me were Feora1's feat is garbage, but would be a hassle on all my support junk, so I should pull it out with an Eliminator/Acosta sacrifice (Though it on average doesn't kill Savio, so it isn't a complete waste as other attacks will likely be needed then she'll be in Vengeance/charge range of MAT 9 POW 13 Weaponmaster attacks).
The anti Upkeep spell will be annoying, particularly for the Crocs, though that distance game means she'll likely have to hug the Judicator to stay safe.
I also really like Tristan with a Vigilant, throwing Fortify on that could be really annoying. Spoiler, it was.
I won the roll, took first. Big thing in Recon with Gorten versus immovable stuff is you can get the auto win against the uninitiated by feating and using a wall to block movement, giving an easy scenario win.
Terrain wise, I ended up with a hill and a huuuuuuge forest on my side, neither super relevant.
The midline is mostly Barren, aside from another largish forest on the right flag/flank.
The Menites nab all the terrain, getting quite relevantly a blob of water at the end of the zone that will impede me getting to those end contest pieces, some fog right behind the objective that looks irrelevant, then to the left is a pair of walls and a trench to the right.
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Merc 1: Dorf and Jack buddies run up the centre, Crocs on the left go up on the hill, because elevation is super relevant with Submerge.
Out on the extreme left is squad "Please pop your feat", of one unit of Kayazy and Acosta.
On the far right is the other kayazy and the Pigs.
Ragman goes super smug, showing off his pathfinder by walking into the forest. Alas for the evil nobleman turned weird-relationship-with-bodies-guy, he was more than three inches from the edge and none of the Menites saw him. Plus his face is covered and stuff.
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Menoth 1: Feora has deployed and stays far more flanky than I expected, as she ends up hovering between both walls. Joining her on the left is Tristan, the Vigilant with Fortify up, Hand of Judgement and the random support models. She also throws down fiery walls.
Piper stays in the cloud, puts Dirge on the Flame Bringers.
Judicator moves up on the right, shoots down the green Kayazy (Damnable 10 inch control area!), Flame Bringers spread out on that flank, Nicia goes up on the extreme edge.
The cloud goes away at the end of this turn, it gets removed when it's convenient.
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Merc 2: Feora is so far left, I don't have to fear her trying to go for the right flag at all. The pigs will be relegated to distraction duty while I push for the left flag and leave a Bunny or two toeing the back of the zone to contest, if the Judicator comes up and tries to clear I'll counter kill with Drillers.
Starting on the left with team distraction Alpha. They can't do weird side steppy nonsense due to the wall of fire, though given I expected them to kill no models that's all good.
Acosta goes behind the top left wall, Eliminators go back to his left in Vengeance trigger range.
At my end of the zone, we start with a Gunner moving up and shooting down the Piper, so that was nice. The other Gunner goes to the back right corner of the zone and tries to shoots down a Daughter, but misses hard.
The other Dwarf jacks advance in a rough line, one Driller walks into threat range of the Hand of Judgement, so I plonk down a wall. Because walls are great.
The Crocs hand behind said Driller, intending to threaten toward Feora if she doesn't skedaddle and give me the left flag.
Team distraction beat on the right just has the Pigs fall back a little to draw the Flame Bringers in.
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Menoth 2: Feora feats, sets Snapjaw, Gorten, a bunch of my jacks and team distraction on fire. Sadly fire isn't trusted, so she then charges into Acosta, lands the stab and puts down a fire wall against the Red Eliminators. Well, team distraction worked a lot better than expected.
Hand of Judgement and the Judicator toe the top of the zone, shoot up my jacks for a bit.
The Flamebringers run in, one goes and finishes off the right most Gun Bunny, another engages Aiyanna/Holt. Two hang out in the open next to the right flag, the last runs up and engages the Pigs.
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Merc 3: Fire kills the Red Kayazy.
I've got a half hearted assassination and some sweet attrition plays, so lets do that. PLan is to kill Tristan, Hand of Judgement and if lucky Feora.
Spray Bunnies move up, ping Tristan though don't roll great.
Gorten moves up, feats selecting the left board edge and pushing about three inches. I get Tristant, Hand and the Judicator, not being able to get across enough to get Feora and the Vigilant.
Gunner goes to finish Tristan off, misses. Bugger.
Driller goes to charge Hand of Judgement. I screwed up the pre-measurement and he's out of charge range. Well, this is going suuuuuuper bad.
Wrongeye moves up and pops his magic stuff. Snapjaw charges Feora, gets burned a little by the wall. Boosts to hit the charging tail, lands it, misses claw, second boosted tail attack puts her down to a couple boxes.
Ho hum. Better kill some other stuff and see what happens.
Between Ragman, Aiyanna's Harm and Holt the two left most Flame Bringers die.
Rorsh pops smoke, lets Brine get up and go into the two Horses next to the right flag. Brine misses a bunch of boosted attacks, ends up maxing all his fury to kill them. The remaining Flame Bringer might kill Rorsh, which'll leave Holt and co to kill it next turn.
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Menoth 3: Feora's on sod all, so the assassination attempts come in.
Vigilant, Feora and Tristan manage to kill Snapjaw. She ends up hiding behind the jack.
Hand of Judgement runs forward, the Judicator then moves up and tries to shoot Gorten down, burns a couple focus and thats about it. The Flame Bringer manages to pop Rorsh, Nicia runs across.
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Merc 4: Fire does little to Gorten and Feora didn't run the hell away, so time to finish her off.
Gunner kills Tristan, one Driller moves up and headbutts Hand of Judgement. One Spray Bunny shoots at Feora, burns a focus, the other is pretty damaged so limps into the middle of the zone.
Now able to get in without a Free Strike, the left Driller Charges Feora, hits the charging Drill attack and its done.
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Me on the right, a good lead. Would have aimed for a clock win if the assassination failed.
That's two up, two more to go.
