Haley2 (Heavy Metal) - Hurricane, Thorn, Firefly, Squire, Storm Strider, Junior + Firefly, Jakes + Reliant, Arlen Strangeways
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Strakhov3 + Bros (Legion of Steel) - Conquest, 3x Max IFP + UA, 2x IFP Kovnik, Markov
So wall of Pikes against a few innocent robot electric chairs.
Scenario is Spread the Net, I won the roll, dismissed the terrain and picked first.
There's a large house in front of my deploy, a central forest and a hill next to my defensive flag.
Khador basically gets a trench and a moderately aggressive hill.
Oh, because I'm a scrub Cygnar player, behold the Proxy-palozza:
Siege Crawler = Storm Strider
Earthbreaker = Hurricane
Renegade(s) = Firefly(ies)
Mule = Reliant
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Still trying to apply the whole think-about-the-scenario-elements-at-the-start thing, I definitely didn't have to think about it as much for SR2016.
Arlen goes central, him and the Squire are likely the defensive flag scorers. This Swan list works for this scenario as the Central zone being scored only by Haley isn't the worst thing ever, Outflank would be a lot harder. Junior and Jakes have to do work, so no peaceful flag sitting for them, they can go right while the Hurricane and Disco ball make a play for the Khador rectangle.
The Conquest goes opposite my huge bases, looking to be the defensive scorer on the Khador Rectangle, then it's pikemen for days.
The left most Pikemen unit does the Advance Move Dance.
So.....seriously.....the fuck is a Reliant?
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Cygnar 1: The Strider and Hurricane get up the left side of the board, the Battle Engine further left. Figure it'll be more independent and annoying for the Reds to turf, while the Hurricane is more anchory.
Arlen runs up behind my Colossal, in range to get to my defensive flag next turn.
Thorn, Haley and her Firefly get up in front of the house, keeping shy of the Advance Movement units Quickened threat range.
Junior bravely cowers behind the house, his Firefly toeing the left side of my rectangle zone, Jakes puts Sidekick on the Reliant, they chill out on the far right.
Hurricane has Arcane Shield, Force Field is up.
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Khador 1: All the IFP pop their mini feats, running forward with Shield Wall Triggering. The left most unit with the extra distance up the board gets Inviolable Resolve, Quickened meanders over to the colossal. Strakhov Stealths, the solos hang behind the mob.
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Cygnar 2: It's lock down with Feat turn. Otherwise it's ensure I contest, give no models away. Haven't even got a dozen models, losing an early piece would be garbage.
The Storm Strider charges a Pikemen, getting the distance to toe the Khador Rectangle. Bash and one pew pew kills a couple IFP, another shot goes into the Conquest and bounces for a box on the nearby Kovnik. I wanted to put both shots into the Colossal, but that would have been hard/effort to line up while also toeing the zone.
Hurricane saunters up, does a Sweep to crunch four of the Pikies. I intended five, but didn't eyeball the position well enough with Thorn in the way.
Thorn moves up a short wayin the centre, stabs a Pikeman down. Haley then arcs a Time Bomb onto the Conquest so it can't get out of Hurricane threat range and Arcane Bolts down the left most IFP Kovnik. I forget to take his free move for being arced through, so whoops. She feats on 95% of the Khadorans.
Right most is a fairly dead flank really, Junior's Firefly sticks between the circle and Swan rectangle zone, does a body gun shot. The Reliant move up, shoots the lone triangle of Pikemen out of haley's feat range, kills one then gets Energisered back.
Arlan runs to the Swan Flag.
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Khador 2: The Pikement Shield Wall and move up, engaging Junior's Firefly, Thorn and the Hurricane.
The Conquest becomes a Wreck Marker for convenience, moves back and stays toeing the Khador Rectangle.
Strakhov stays back and Stealths, pops Feat.
Markov runs to the Khador flag.
Quicken stays on the Conquest, Inviolable Resolve moves to the centre metal pikemen unit.
Reds go up a point, 0-1.
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Cygnar 3: Plan is to extricate Thorn, kill centre Pikemen with Cannoncs and fire Big Guns into the Conquest.
The Strider moves across, shoots at the four remaining Red Pikemen, sadly leaves on alive engaging Arlen. This messes me up quite a bit, as I don't have a huge amount of attacks around.
I revise my plan, instead the Hurricane moves up a little bit and kills said contesting tosser, then throws Shots to maul the centre IFP unit.
Haley falls back out of sheer bravery, to keep the Hurricane safe has to throw Time Bomb at the Conquest again. Thorn can't get away, so he's toast.
Haley's Fire fly toes the back of the circle, will need him to have models that can fight in the next few rounds while the Colossals bash for a bit.
Juniors Firefly stabs futiley (Couldn't move as it would trigger a countercharge from a Kovnik). Junior also falls back to further behind the house obstruction.
Far right, the Reliant shoots Markov, does a damage point, Energises back. Jakes also does a gun shot that fails to break armour on a Pikemen then gets back out of Quicken charge range.
Both sides score their defensive flags, 1-2 to Khador.
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Khador 3: Centre IFP get Last Stand, Inviolable goes on the right black unit, Conquest remains Quickened.
Conquest aims, boosts to hit Arlen on the hill, leaves him on 2 boxes.
Metal Last Stand IFP charge Thorn, implode him. Take out a column on the Hurricane, unit gets left with a couple members.
The Black Metal IFP move up and Shield Wall, stab Junior's Firefly down to three boxes that the Kovnik has no issues getting rid of.
Strakhov hangs back in the Trench, his dudes go forward, one hits Haley's Firefly for some reasonable damage.
Markov moves out of the Reliant's Electro field, sticks on the flag.
Both sides score their flags, 2-3 Khador advantage.
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Cygnar 4: It's send Hurricane into the Conquest time.
Haley's Firefly moves up, stabs down one of Strakhovs minions and the blocking IFP.
Haley throws out Temporal accelerate, Shelters behind the building toeing out of killbox.
Hurricane charges the Conquest, takes out a side and a bit. Well, that wasn't how I wanted that to go.
Storm Strider shoots Conquest, electro leaps kill the Metal IFP standard bearer (Woot?). I get lucky on the boosted damage rolls and take out the Conquests remaining arm.
Not what I'd hoped, but still pretty good.
I finally get a bit more woke about how needless it is to contest my rectangle when the Flag scorer is right their doing the same thing. Reliant is a mill out of charge range, so he gets Energisers and runs to contest. Markov Counter Charges for some damage becuase I'm a derp captain, low rolls mean poor damage. Jakes stays way back out of control, whatever.
Squire runs far left, it lacks focus points now so it seems more valuable being kept as a contingency scorer.
Lastly Junior moves across, double boosted shot kills the remaining Kovnik, then Repositions back out of threat range. The random solos are now gone, so I'm pretty happy with how that panned out.
I score my flag, scores now level at 3 apiece.
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Khador 4: Strakhov puts Last Stand on the Conquest, then uses move and Repo to get to the Cygnar Rectangle. The Black IFP stumble through the central forest, one gets a stab on the Firefly for some reasonable damage.
Markov flails at the Reliant a bit more.
Conquest takes out half and a touch of the Hurricane.
I score the flag/rectangle on the left side of the board courtesy of the Conquest Last Standing, Strakhov gets the right rectangle.
Now 5-4 to Swans.
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Cygnar 5: Strakhov is finally not Stealth, I can get Junior, Jakes and Haley's ranged attacks/magic on him. He has one camp, it's tempting but feels like a bait play. I have enough time for 7 rounds if I pace correctly and feels like a firm path to winning, so I went with that.
Firefly pops the last metal IFP, Hurricane and Storm Stider toe the centre and left rectangle between them, kill half the Black IFP. Arlen heals the Colossal and falls back.
Squire goes to my flag in case Arlen somehow dies.
Junior shoots a Black IFP, Repo's back.
Reliant kills Markov, Jakes runs up the elft edge and camps three to try to get to the Khador flag next round.
I score on the left flag/rectangle, Strak scores the right rectangle.
7-5 to Swans.
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Khador 5: Black IFP get Last Stand, kill the Firefly and rekill the damaged side of the Hurricane.They end up with a pair of dudes remaining, contesting the left Rectangle.
Strakhov scores the defensive rectangle, I get my flag.
8-6 to Swans.
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Cygnar 6: Hurricane gets repaired, Arlen repo's back to his flag, Colossal kills the Pikemen, everything runs in to score, I win on scenario.
Haley remains.....Haley I guess. Cygnar needs their Skorne/Cryx low already.
