It's the dreaded Circle matchup. Dangit. Maybe Round 3 Circle is just my future for the next 6 months?
Let's not beat around the bush. It'll be Una2 vs Gorten1.
Just realised the pun above. I hate myself.
Gorten1 - Do you really need the list again? Suck it up. Dorf Jacks. Bacon. Handbags. Femme Fatales. Thamarite wanker.
vs
Una2 - 10x Scarsfell Griffons, Gorax,Druid Wilder, 2x Sentry Stones, Shifting Stones
Objective: Bunker
It's Extraction, I win the die roll and pick first, as both sides had something Gorten could use to save himself (yay!) and a blob of something that'd slow me up really badly (Boo!).
I end up with a side with a vertical wall, a fog and a huuuuge blob of water I wanted nothing to do with.
Other side has a trench, an obstruction centrally and a forest on the right. There's also a way back trench, I didn't even know it was there during he game so mayyyyybe it isn't relevant.
This game was into Bobliness of various points of merit fame. Dudes super fun, everyone should get a game (Though odds of winning the game are.....not great?).
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Merc 1: Stuff runs up. Pigs go extreme left to pop the opposing Objective top of 3. Gorten and jacks go up to the left of the centre with the Kayazy, plan being for Gorten to hug the wall and pop up his own to be safe from the Griffon rush. Crocs go to contest the Merc zone, an artifact of them being some of the few models aim to traverse the water. Acosta goes extreme right, because hoping to wing it off Dodge and Riposte can only end well.
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Circle 1: Griffons swarm forward in a rough line, keep short of the Kayazy threat range. Various stones move up with. Hand of Fate and Mirage go on two of the centre caw caw things, Una and Gorax play footsies in the back.
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Merc 2: Feats incoming, so it's set up and wait time. This is the point I realise I don't have a reliable means to contest the Merc zone....
Snapjaw goes in, Wrongeye goes behind and Star Crosses. I run Acosta far right, I guess on the futile hope he gets missed? Probably should have run him back in the board to run into the merc zone next turn, though it's all optimism at this point.
Otherwise, Gorten sits between some walls, Gunners crack the Shifting Stone unit. Pigs stay back, hoping to not get hacked down in the next turn.
I run Kayazy forward to try to impede things a little.
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Circle 2: Una feats, ponders if the Gorax actually has legitimate feelings or just doesn't want to die.
Three Griffons go in, one with Primal, and kill the Gunners, then a few more hang out in the Circle stone in front of Manikins.
On the right the Mannikins kill Acosta, sadness.
Griffons go into the Merc zone, effortlessly pop the Objective, one with Hand of Fate gets Primal and pops Snapjaw.
Una, Gorax and Stones stay back out of my feat range. The Eliminators easily get killed by bit attacks.
Circle goes to 2.
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Merc 3: Christ in Cream Cheese Sauce (Counts as a swear because lactose).
Have to feat, or have nothing left next turn. I should have planned for scoring on the defensive zone, but it is what it is.
Gorten feat pushes things back, only gets things around the left zone alas. Spray Bunnies move up and do some pew pewing on the left Griffons with Dark Field, knock out some aspects and otherwise don't do much.
Brine goes in and pops the Objective, Rorsh hangs waaaaay back, as Big Pig is gonna die.
On the right zone a Driller, Wrongeye and the one remaining Eliminator contests the zone.
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Circle 3: In the Circle zone, the feated Griffons limp forward, maul the crap out of Brine and the Driller/
Una chills out behind the Gorax/Sontes/Obstruction, throws out some Primals and otherwise chills.
On the right, the Griffons don't suffer to many impediments, Hand of Fated Primalled caw caw bird takes the Driller by the ear and forces it into a soup can, wasn't pretty.
Manikins spray down the Eliminator, for some insult to injury manages to put Wrongeye on one box, so a single Griffon has no issue popping him.
Circle goes to 3.
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Merc 4: There's nothing I can see to do. Una is well out of my attacks, nothing can reliably contest the right zone.
I'd like to put down even a convoluted low odds play, but I got nothin. It was kill random stuff for giggles time, so Gunners spray, Brine swings around wildly, Holt pew pews, Gorten misses some attacks and that's that.
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Me on the right, my worst clock lead thus far, no threat of winning on time.
Yeah yeah, not my best work, got a back log of games so all the details are hazy. I actually didn't mind the matchup in list terms too much, spray bunnies still do work and bit pieces are useful when not thrown away on the top of 2. Definitely putting too much Onus on the water terrain in my head, could have been worked around, I also haven't been that wall blind in some time.
And thus we parade from the fun game to the last round in the funsies bracket :-)
