So....in the spirit of the firm affirmation of last Batrep to play Thexus, I promptly drop Arkadius.
It was trolls ok! They haven't gone into a CID, they're are the new Skorne rank faction! Your Mum is probably a nice lady!
Arkadius1 - Triple War Hog, Double Road Hog, Battle Boar, Double Gun Boar, Targ
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Ragnar1 - Mauler, Axer, Impaler, Bouncer, War Wagon (Pre-CID), Champions (Max), Fenblades (Max), Stone (Min), Whelps
Foolish Trolls, they only outnumber glorious Bacon by 2v1! Huh!
Scenario is Barbell (Breakdown, flank circle zones for units and a centre rectangle for Warbeasts/Battle Engines)/
Didn't do Cluster, realised I couldn't remember how to do the sector junk so just mimicked what 95% of tourney orgs will do and threw random pieces on the board.
I won the roll and picked first, the primary features of the side I ended up with is an inconvenient forest in front of my deployment, an obstruction on me left and a hill on my right.
Trolls have an inconvenient forest in the top of the left forest and a hill that pokes into the rectangle zone. There's also a trench on the right, it doesn't end up doing much.
Most relevant thing is I once again have no units, making actually getting points problematic. I out threaten the Trolls for days, if they feat early then there's an awkward waiting game while they close distance and probably get some control points, if they don't then I alpha super hard, have a couple turns meandering then probably finish it up pretty easy.
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Round 1: I have a War Hog go up on the far left, no Troll units there so he is my sole commitment to the left zone at this point. The rest of my list splits up to go up either side of my forest of inconvenience, with a Road/War/Battle/Gun blob going up the left toward the centre zone and a Gun/War/Road/Targ bunch going up the right side toward either the centre or right side zone.
Arkadius cowers behind the forest. My basic expectation is that Arkadius won't move very far, but Targ's Herding will be needed for polishing off the Troll Fennblades who are making a beeline for the right zone.
Forced Evo goes on the left Road Hog, there's some Fury Droping, Maltreatment and Psycho Surgery actions to make sure everything in the list can get
Trolls run up, per their deployment it is heavily slanted toward the right side of the board, notably with no real units making a line for the left zone.
The Beasts and Champs make a line above the Rectangle zone, the Battlegroup on the left side with some of them on the hill and the Champs base to base on the right. Ragnar feats and charges up behind this mob, and is joined by the Stone unit popping their Aura.
The War Wagon runs up to be on the trench, essentially nullifying it.
The Fennblades run up in a pair of lines into the top of the right zone.
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Minion 2: Alas, Trolls have completely feated. Alphaing the stuff that matters is now beyond me, the only thing not under the feat and Stone Aura are the Fennblades.
Nearly everything hangs back, with just minor re-positioning. The far left War Hog moves up into the left zone, though not in a position of any danger.
Arkadius moves into the forest and puts up Aggravator, which he should have done in round 1. Oh well.
On the right the Fennblades are attackable and it is unlikely they'll ever be more sprayable. The right Road Hog Pain Dials for speed, fails a charge on one of them to spray across the unit. He doesn't quite get far up enough for the ideal circumstance, but still manages to do pretty well taking out half the unit and touching another couple. The Gun Boars chilling near Targ get some pot shots, one them advancing to toe the zone. The Fennblades are reduced to four members, with one of them knocked down. The right side War Hog also contests the zone and pops up onto the hill.
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Troll 2: Bad photomanship at its best.
The Fennblades Vngeance forward, doing a couple ineffectual stabs on the Road Hog. They then charge around, with one of them coming forward and engaging the Gun Boar and War Hog at my end of the right zone.
The Champs charge the Road Hog. To my immense surprise it lives on 1 box, also knocking a Champ to a tough roll with a Retaliatory Strike. Behind that melee the War Wagon keeps chilling, it shoots the Gun Boar that sits in front of the forest, knocking him down and demolishing its Spirit aspect. How enterprising of it.
The Beasts form a line above the Rectangle zone, with the Axer/Bouncer poking into it, Ragnar and the Stone unit behind them.
Trolls go to 1 CP off the centre zone.
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Minion 3: There was a sudden Earthquake. Totes.
Time to feat for the alpha and murder stuff hard. Planned end point is a dead Mauler, one of the other beasts and the champs. There is, however, a massive spanner in the works, being the Fennblade engaging my stuff in the right zone and worst of all that damn Roadhog not being dead. He's essentially there to create a perfect War Hog landing zone amidst the Champs, doesn't work if he's sodding alive.
The nearly dead Road Hog frenzies, achieves nothing.
Battle Boar activates, throws Primal on the left Road Hog (The one with Forced Evo).
Targ heals the knocked down Gun Boar.
After some wasted time, I end up putting Arkadius in the forest, he boosts a Crippling Grasp into the back of a Champ and hits. He then repo's back into the forest with a couple camp.
Arkadius feats, this pushes the centre Road Hog and War Hogs forward, stands up the knocked down Gun Boar, the Battle Boar frenzies to clear Fury and stays in the backfield by being blocked by said Gun Boar.
On the right, the feat attacks kill the forward engaging Fennblade.
After that, on the right the Gun Boar mooves across, stays toeing the zone and kills a Champ.
The right War hog just walks up and pops a pair of Fennblades, it wasn't the best Heavy activation. Worse would come.
Both Gun Boars shuffle and shoot at the Kriel stone unit, one shot gets Shield Guarded, the other pops a couple Stone grunts.
The Road Hog moves to the left to stop any cheeky scoring from the Trolls, he flamethrowers down the Stone.
One centre War hog goes into the Mauler. First hit is fine, then Whelps start spawning. He buys loads of attacks, the Whelps Annoyance rule turns the balance and the Mauler lives on a few boxes.
The other War Hog, the Primalled one, I opt to pop his Bulldoze animus as I really wanted the mauler dead. He walks up and...the pushes don't clear enough room for him to get to the Mauler. Oh balls. He then walks into the Axer/Bouncer, now without the beneficial side of Primal. It was awful. He attacks the Axer and leaves him also on a bare handful of boxes.
Damn good jumping into a well there. It's going to be a shovel hard time from here.
Troll 3: Missed the pic, can only assume from pre-shovel trauma.
Ragnar heals the Axer a bit, he then....does something? Ends up lower on Fury, but doesn't Hex Blast away Crippling Grasp. To much going on, everything is fading, fading, fading.....
The Mauler eats four of the Whelps, eats the War Hog that tried poorly to kill him. Plus a Regen he ends up on about half health. The Impaler stays next to him, throws a spear into the Road Hog that misses.
The Axer goes, he eats the last Whelp, both him and the Bouncer attack the Primal War hog, they roll less than ideally and don't kill him, though leave him with only body. The Axer, which went first, only got one attack as a Retaliatory strike spiked hard and left him on three boxes of Mind.
The Stone guy hangs behind the Beasts and pops his Aura, sticks in Shield Guard range of the Bouncer.
The Champs shuffle around, one into the damaged as hell road Hog, one into the right War Hog, two into the right most Gun Boar.
War Hog takes a tiny amount, then kills the Champ with a Retaliatory. The Road Hog lives again, missed by both Champ attacks. The Gun Boar gets mauled badly but manages to live.
The Fennblade does a tricky walk around the War Hog, gets into the back of the Road Hog and finally fells him. That was weird.
The War Wagon shoots the back Gun Boar, knocking him and the Battle Boar down. Takes out the Gun Boars Spirit. Stop that! He repos to the left, ending up behind the Axer/Bouncer.
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Minion 4: Well, that could have gone a lot worse.
The War Hog that lived frenzies due to the botched Primal, does sod all due to a missing Mind.
Take 2 of kill the damn Mauler. The Whelps are finished now, unfortunately it has to be the rather weedy P+S 14 Road hog that has to go into him. Well, he is Forced Evo to 16 I guess. Other than that I can't really leverage anything onto the Axer/Bouncer, so the right War Hog will have a go on the remaining Champs.
The Battle Boar moves up, toes the centre zone. Puts Primal on the Road Hog (Can only go better this time I reason).
Arkadius moves out of the forest to the left, Psycho Surgeries everyone's Aspects back. Kills the Stone with a Primal Shock.
On the right side, Targ toes the right zone in the hill. between the Gun Boar and the flank War Hog the remaining Champs all get finished off.
Centre wise, the Gun Boar who has been quite demolished by the War Wagon moves to body block Arkadius.
The Road Hog walks up to the Mauler and Impaler. Maxes his fury, rolls extremely well, kills both targets. Wasn't expecting that. Juicy.
Dice save me from my poorly executed feat! Skillz!
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Troll 4: The Bouncer tries to finish off the War Hog to give the Axer a good activation, it screws up and the Axer has to finish him off. Low on pipeces now, Ragnar sticks behind the hill outside of the Road Hogs future frenzy. The War Wagon aims, knocks down the right War Hog and repositions away from him.
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Minion 5: Well ahead, have to score at least a point so I don't blind side myself into a loss.
The Road hog frenzies into the Axer and kills it. Targ moves up to get his Herding aura up their, the right War Hog charges into the Bouncers Back and kills it.
The Battle Boar and two Gun Boars spread out at the back of the rectangle zone, plus contest the side zone. Arkadius moves up and across the top of the forest, camping four, threatening the right zone score next round.
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Trolls 5: Time to pray for tough rolls and brazen madness.
Ragnor charges into the centre zone, manages to kill the Forced Evo Road Hog. The War Wagon charges the War Hog, takes out his Mind and knocks down the healthier Gun Boar.
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Minion 6: The War hog frenzies into the War Wagon, does sod all.
Arkadius moves up, Crippling Grasps Ragnar and repositions to the right zone.
The Battle Boar Primals the nearest Gun Boar, walks into Ragnar's back arc and whiffs his attacks.
Primalled Gun Boar moves up, takes three attacks to force the tough roll that fails.
Sweet attrition win. Didn't screw up the reserve War Hog at least. Will hopefully remember to change the list the next time I want to brain melt from mid turn frenzy activation's.
