In other words, I actually got to play in another Slam. Wonders never cease.
I've been consumed of late trying to find solutions in my pairing, which wasn't going anywhere, so instead I just dropped down some nonsense to present a problem instead.
Thexus1 (Operating Theatre) - 2x Wrecker, 2x Agitator, 3x Mind Slavers + Drudges, 2x Mind Benders + Drudges, Alexia1 + "Undesired Adult", 2x Overlords
Objective: Bunker
Round 1, it's Gerrah with some pyromaniacs:
Reznik1 - Scourge of Heresy, Crusader, Reckoner, Devout, 3x Redeemer, 2x Choir (Min), Rhoven and Co, Wrack, Hierophant
Scenario is Incursion, for once that doesn't bother me. I've got more than enough equivalents of schlubby sitcom dad's to just throw into the contesting Grinder.
I lose the roll, get choice of side. The Menites end up with some walls/trench that don't matter, the left flag is in the midst of a forest, the centre one is somewhat open with an obstruction and double cloud deal between the centre and right flag, an arrangement which is basically the bunker THexus has always dreamed of.
Going in, this matchup seemed favourable to me. Redeemer blast damage struggles against Deflection buffed Drudges and it's a small list, though Witchhound can be difficult for my more interesting plays.
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Round 1: The Menites compress to the centre somewhat, wary of my ambushing Slaver unit. The Heavies are dead centre (Green Templar is subbing in for Scourge of Heresy), Rhoven and buds on the left amidst the walls and Redeemers on the right.
Right unit of Overlords repped by some colourful Ternions, with a few metal models subbing in for various Drudges and a brown Kreuger model as the Green Slaver unit Cephalyx (Alas IKRPG, how dare running that and being lazy force me to proxy!).
Overlords run on both flanks to an extreme extent.
Drudge horde goes up the guts with a left side leaning, Slavers out front and Benders behind. Thexus, Agitators and Alexia go up behind the Cloud/Obstruction formation on the right. A Thrall runs up behind the cloud nearest the line of flags.
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Menoth 2: Reznik throws Brand of Heresy on the front Pink Slaver unit. Redeemers/Reckoner shoot the front line, I roll outrageously well on tough, end up losing half the unit which is chump change for the amount of fire power used.
Rhoven and co hang weirdly back and spread out.
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Merc 2: Thexus hangs back and casts Deflection again, the fuelled up Wreckers just chill. One goes behind the Obstruction to potentially try to crunch something next turn if required.
Each Overlord unit runs to the flanking flags to score.
The Reckoner is sadly just in contesting range of the centre flag, so that's the extent of the scoring I'll get this turn.
I Adrenal three of the Pink Slavers, Thexus TK's a couple of them up as well. This lets three of them charge the Devout and with some high spiking damage rolls manage to bin it.
Slaver Drudges and Risen run up as a mob around the centre.
The Ambush unit crops up from the top right of the board, because Rhoven doesn't matter to me but distracting the Redeemers is useful.
Mercs go to 2 CP.
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Menoth 3: Deep into the Tank we go, as the Menites try to find Dora.
After some futzing around and clearing out Drudge chumps into the centre, a Gotcha moment strikes me like a battering Ram going up my nose as Reznik kills a Drudge and Scourge advances, then moves up again from a Perdition. Into charge range of Thexus. Oh god.
Fortunately, an attack shortage meant that Risen were still blocking the way, so Scourge has to trample to Thexus, misses the first attack, hits with the second. Its Dice + 6 because in over 400 years of life Thexus has never considered his physical form anything less than invulnerable. Good to know where PP sits on the question of Willpower equating to Intellect (i.e in no practical way whatsoever).
Thexus goes down to four boxes, starts telepathically screaming for someone to fix it.
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Merc 3: I screw around with some Overlord Sprays, because I'm dumb. Once that's finished with, Thexus trundles up, stays in melee of Scourge, feats pushes the relevant models away from flags as they were only barely contesting and I go to 5 CP.
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Well, I remembered to look at Rezniks card, almost got horribly swiped by Sourges' Bond, so that was something. Scraped through in any event, the learnings continue.
Very happy with how the timing worked out, moved the list with reasonable speed, made quick decisions when it didn't matter and spaced correctly for the rules I was aware of.
