A last ditch practice game in Canberra against Eadan, once more it's Gorten vs Vlad2. The Gorten list isn't as good in the match at this point, as it's there to fight Menites and normal Khadoran lists without sodding Outriders.
It's Standoff, I win the roll as a desultory single digit appears on Khadoran dice. Yay Anastasia!
I pick first, because we've played this game before and I need some friggin board presence.
It's our WTC lists that will change dramatically afterward due to theme releases.
There's a central forest, a wall poking between the Khador Rectangle and the right zone plus a laod of other terrain that doesn't come up.
Early Game: I advance, they advance, I kill most of the Rifle Corp with the Earthbreaker. I fail to ambush Anastasia as she was .5 out of charging Kovnik Joe, should have run her on anyway.
left wise I position my Eliminators to block charges on Versh/Eiryss, this is a mistake. The right Elimiantors go in and kill their Khadoran counterparts. Silly.
Mid Game: Vlad feats, sends the relevant things in. Drakhuns come forward into the heavy bases, Outriders kill Eiryss and the left Eliminators, lose two of their number to Versh (They had Hand of Fate). Ruin kills my other Eliminators. The last Khador Eliminator murders Aiyanna. Manhuntress kills my Objective.
Vlad has started scoring on his zone.
I get super greedy in reply, not expending Gorten's feat but failing to kill the Manhuntress on a 75%ish play (She's vlad feated, Charged by Brine with Animus up and boosting all attack rolls). I otherwise kill all bar one Outrider and Dismount the left Drakhun, the Earthbreaker fails Dismally to kill the right Drakhun as I made an error in my order of activations (Gorten should have placed a wall first. Net result leads to....
Late Game: The Marauder gets into the Earthbreaker and kills most of it. A misplay stops Ruin getting in, after other pieces attack the colossal is left with 6 boxes of corte and movement, so I'm still potentially ok. Then a lone rifle shot kills Thor, stopping the repair and I'm pretty sunk.
I feat at this point to try to get back into it, killing off the Drakhuns and Marauder, alas my earlier mistkes come to the for and I concede as Vlad cruises to an easy scenario win off scoring his own rectangle.
The end state:
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Fun game into competent opponent as always from Edon, though minorly dispiriting to make so many mistakes in a game pre-WTC. After this I made some desperate attempts at weekend games to try to get some prep and rust shaking off.
