So I've had a downturn in enthusiasm for pickup games alas.
Still love the game, however what I want to do is play in tournaments, not practice for them. I'd lined up a rather silly 16 hour round trip drive and playing one on sod all sleep, only to be torpedoed last minute by real life. At the same consideration, reversing a downturn in the local meta isn't achieved by people not answering the call to games.
Ergo, it's a Sunday midday bash into Stovepipe hat man. It's the home turf, so out comes some clockwork. Once again I should run Thexus, but I'm lazy and pulled out the low model count list. I mean...erm....getting generic practice to see how the bad matchups turn out. Yeah.
Gorten1 - Earthbreaker, Siege Crawler, Ninja Pig, 2x Kayazy Eliminators,
Eiryss2, Harlen Versh, Anastasia, Thor, Aiyanna and Holt
vs
Syntherion (Destruction Initiative) - Axiom, Assimialtor, crappy True Sight heavy with the dumb buzzsaw gun, 3x Diffuser, Repair dudes, loads of Reflex bots, Flare bots
Scenario is Recon2. Going to shorthand this one because I'm feeling lazy.
We both run up on our opening rounds, the matchup being awful hits me witht he realisation the realisation the Prime threats 14 sodding inches with magnetic Hold and Flare.
I spend my top of 2 killing a Diffuser and failing hard to pop a second. The Breaker gets a wall to protect it, the Crawler gets fort Eliminator. The Kayazy sadly get mauled and Brine, who is super outflanking, gets Magnetic Held. CoC also go up a couple points.
Top of 3, Gorten has to move up and feat to clear out the right zone to net me some points, plus letting the Earthbreaker move up the board and have a turn of out threating the Axiom.
I stupidly forgot to put a wall in front of Gorten, so Eiryss and the Obejctive get cleared out to let the Axiom drag him in and easily kill him. I've made that mistake before, so.....whoops.
Petty excuses about poor list matchups aside, Abedon played the game correctly, utilising his threat range to make things awkward and grinding on, plus correctly playing out the assassination run. Back on the Thexus Drudge madness from here.