Haley2 (Heavy Metal) - Hurricane, Thorn, Firefly, Squire, Storm Strider, Junior + Firefly, Jakes + Reliant, Arlen Strangeways
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Malakov2 (Legion of Steel) - War Dog, Destroyer, Kodiak, Juggernaught, 2x Marauder, Markov, 2x IFP Kovnik, IFP + Black Dragon UA, Great Bears
This time we have some sweet Outlast, one side gets a trench/forest, other side gets a wall/cloud hill. Also a forest on one far flank.
I win the roll and pick first, content that both sides had something to give cover or a line of sight block. I end up with teh trench/forest.
There's also an obstruction on my right, it had so little effect in the game that I had no memory of it being there.
As last time, I'm captain proxy.
Siege Crawler = Storm Strider
Earthbreaker = Hurricane
Renegade(s) = Firefly(ies)
Mule = Reliant
It's not my primary faction dammit! Money doesn't grow on or as a result of trees here, it's all plastic (Though US money isn't from trees either. Anyway....)
Pointed out by CS, I did screw up last time I played this as Storm Striders are Cygnar models, ergo don't have to deal with that arced gunfire like the rest of us. Sigh.
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Cygnar 1: The IFP advance move forward.
My stuff runs around, the Strider goes super left , Fireflies/Thorn/haley central, Hurricane to the right and jakes/Reliant right flank.
I do the weird move of Arcane Shielding Arlan. He's the most likely piece to be sitting on the flags, and one of the few pieces vulnerable to a one shot by the Destroyer.
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Khador 1: The IFP unit pop their mini-feat and come forward in pairs (Triangles being royally mucked up by the Hurricanes Momentum guns).
Jacks form a rough line, going across the board in order of Marauder/Destroyer/Kodiak/Marauder/Juggernaught. Kodiak and Vel of Mists add to the Cloudness of the table, Malakov Stealthing himself. Markov goes out back right.
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Cygnar 2: I've been short on games, which means I lacked the impetus to get this written in a timely manner. Ergo vaguer memory and shorter points.
Plan is kill IFP, save feat until it can go on Jacks.
Far left, Storm Strider toes the left zone, shoots the nearest Marauder and Lightning pops some IFP.
Fire Flies stay centre near Haley, Hurricane edges up to teh right, Reliant stays far right. All of that shoot IFP aside from teh Hurricane throwing some shots into the right side Marauder. Basically thsoe Jacks have to die, so softening them up is nice.
I have an odd line of Firefly/Arlen/Thorn. This is because I feared I'd left Junior exposed for a gunshot/repo back action and didn't want the Destroyer to be in, I suspected he was out but copping a shot on those models seemed better than losing Junior.
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Khador 2: The few IFP come in, they damage Haley's Firefly and scratch the Hurricane.
Kodiak runs up to the Swan flag, jacks move up both side. Kovnik goes to Khador Flag, Markov ducks right, Malakov, Mechanic and IFP flag bearer hang back amongst clouds and the wall.
Great Bears run up the far left behind a forest.
Khador score to 1 CP.
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Cygnar 3: The Jacks are in my face now, no choice but to feat and start grinding, with the side intents of killing off units and solos to equalise the scoring pieces.
Haley feats, stabs an IFP down, TK's the Kodiak away and turns him around.
The Great Bears are out of Haleys Feat, the Strider retreats away from them toeing the zone. Strider shoots the left Marauder again, plus does a shot into the Khador backfield that kills two Mechanics and the IFP Standard. Haleys Firefly kills the IFP grunt, stays in the trench and contests the left zone.
Centre wise, Juniors Firefly shoots the left Marauder mabe? Thorn goes into the back of the Kodiaks, knocks out his Cortex with the pile o fnonsense Shield.
Something kills the Kovnik on the Khadoran flag, buggered if I can remember how, best guess is Junior's Firefly.
Right wise, the Reliant oves up and shoots down Markov. Hurricane moves up with Temporal Acceleration, kills the Marauder and hurts the Juggernaught, taking out it's Cortex.
Junior runs way over to this side to cower behind a forest.
No scores, so kahdor stays up a point.
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Khador 3: Malakaov goes behind the wall, stealths a Kovnik who goes the Khador flag in Veil of Mists. Mal feats.
Left wise, the Great Bears move up in the forest threatening that sides zone. The Destroyer pot shots the Strider, the damaged Marauder moves up and engages Haley's Firefly.
Centrally, the Kodiak falls backa nd stays contesting the Swan flag. The Juggernaught also shuffles from the right towards the same spot, where the remaining mechanics repair both for two boxes restoring their Cortexes.
Khador scores their flag again, now up 2 zip.
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Cygnar 4: Mal's feat is somewhat annoying. My concerns are not giving an advance that threatens Haley, otherwise it's kill what I can. I'd hoped the Mechanics would repair only one so de-Cortexing was back on the table, oh well. Also I have to start scoring.
Left wise, the Strider backs up a bit, shoots down the Greeat Bears. Both Firefly go into the zone engaging the damaged Marauder to get int eh way of it killing the Battle Engine.
Right end, Hurricane moves up, shoots to kill the Mechanics, does damage on the Jugger who shifts around.
Thorn charges the Jugger, hoping to take out a couple systems with the charging Spear given it's damaged state. This triggers the Kovnik Counter CHarge, he comes in, does 11 points, takes out the movement and ends the activation. Nuts.
Haley is satisfied she'll be safe, Dominates the Kodiak to walk across and kill the Kovnik, then hides behind the Hurricane.
Junior moved Arcane Shield to the Hurricane at this point.
The Squire is drained of focus and feat is expended, so goes the Swan flag.
I score a point on my flag, still down 1-2.
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Khador 4: On the left, the damaged marauder advances and Combo Strikes Juniors Firefly 6 inches out of the zone. The Destroyer moves up and eats haley's Firefly, clearing the left zone. malakov then puts up a Veil at the back of the zone, Stealths himself and moves in to score.
Around the Khador flag, the Kodiak moves up, contests the Swan flag, chews up Thorn and spits him out like he was Sauerkraut.
The Juggernaught moves up to contest my flag as well while toeing the right zone and wailing on the Hurricane. It's been stripped of both arms alas and does does little.
War Doge moves to the Khador Flag.
Khador scores 2 off the left zone and their flag, now in the lead 1-4.
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Round 5/Cygnar 6: It becomes time to knuckle down and get the points back before this end on 7.
My 5th turn:
Hurricane moves up, cops a freestrike from the Jugger for not much. Kills the War Dog, Juggernaught and Kodiak. Squire runs to the Khador Flag, arlen to the Cygnar one. Reliant moves across.
In the left, Strider charges in before Juniors Firefly moves up for the damage boost because I'm dumb. The Strider attacks the Marauder with everything but achieves little, Juniors Firefly moves to contes the left as well.
Haley stays in the forest of the right zone.
I score 3 points off both flags and the right zone, now tied at 4 apiece.
Khador 5th: There's not a lot left after my last turn, there's little Khador can do. malakov stays where he is, shoots down the Squire. The Destroyer kills the Strider, the Marauder is to crippled to get the job done against Junior's Firefly.
I get my flag and the right zone while the Firefly stops Khador from scoring, now 6-4 in my favour.
My 6th turn is just Arlen running to the Khador flag, Jakes running to the Swan one and that's game on points.
Well.....that's Haley. I don't mind her occasionally, would definitely struggle with her in the long term as she feels inherently unsatisfying to me.
