Thursday, March 23, 2017

Game 170 - Gorten1 vs Haley3

So I have a few gaping holes in my Warmachine experience, gave our resident gameplay Divinity a light push to throw down one of the undiagnosed nightmares of Mark 3.

Running my most practiced list that has never appeared in the thread before to see how it plays out:
Gorten1 - 2x Driller, 2x Blaster, 2x Gunner, Wrongeye/Snapjaw, Rorsh/Brine, 2x Eliminators, Ragman, Acosta
Objective: Armory
Some of the Incorp spam around has caused some hypothetical issues and Bunker has never really been useful, so I finally select an objective with a specific purpose in mind. Yay Magic!

Meanwhile, voiced by a smooth Tim Curry and set to be remade later on to spawn a brief 3d movie craze for the 4th or so time in history:
Haley3 + Photo album of memories - Thorn, 2x Firefly, Junior + Firefly, Laddermore, Gorman, Ragman, Trenchers (max), Storm Lances (Min) x2

Scenario is Incursion, whose impending demise I look forward to.
Terrain is.....not the best? I go first and get the side with a hill and we're done? There's a wall, cloud and some forests around the place.

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Gorten Jack fort goes up the guts, Ninja Pig goes left, Crocs and Acosta go right. Eliminators are on the extremes of both flanks.

Swannies pop out their ghost leadership, Trenchers do the Tac Supremacy cloud wall deal. Lances go on either flank, one runs up on the extreme right to allow the firefly to throw lightning out and kill an Eliminator.

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Merc 2: My thinking is basically I want a Rockwall out somewhere meaningful and otherwise camp 3-4 every turn to not die.
Left Eliminators jam up on the Storm Lances, Brine goes into the trench and contests the left flag.
Drillers run up on the hill and contest the centre flag, having them near the fort just gets them Force Hammered somewhere awful.
Gorten trundles across with lights in front, puts up a wall to stop Storm Lancers charging Snapjaw, who contests the right flag.
Acosta runs to far right and engages the forward most Stormlance.

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Cygnar 2: So we do some math.
Haley can feat, teen rebel version can force hammer the Rhulic lights (Or Haley2 could Dominate if needed), then between Haley Grandma shooting, Trenchers, Storm Lancer Assaults, Thorn charges, Firefly shots Gorten gets squished. Assuming that happens, we go with a version where I drop the wall and camp 5, which makes the assassination slightly harder but still eminently doable. That's the matchup theory utterly crushed at any rate.

Attrition gets played out instead.
Haley feats, Fluxes, Dominates one Driller to go up to his buddy and hug/stab him.
She then falls back, the Incorporeal diary entries come to life contest the centre and right flag.
Gorman rust bombs the Drillers, Between charging Fireflies and Trenchers both Drillers get crumpled up and dusted.
Juniors Fire fly shoots Brine, electro leaps off him, to the flag, to the Eliminator annoying the left Storm Lance unit. Didn't account for that. Kills her.
Left Lance unit and Moreladders charge Brine and repo back, hurting him a fair amount.
On the right the Storm Lance unit charges Acosta, first one misses, Riposte does two points, second attack hits and kills. Another member charges Snappy and gets an excellent hit.
Four or so Trenchers go into Snappy and kill him.
Thorn moves up, I'm to dispirited at this point and concede. Thorn can stop Gorten getting to a charge location for a potential assassination, plus also disrupt all my lights. I can damage the lights and kills some models with feat, then the ponies finish obliterating me.

Quite the pantsing. To the Ice Cream and Gin recovery couch! Ok, not really. I'm lactose intolerant.