Alright, I'm home from WTC after 20-ish hours of flight and a multi hour bus ride. Shower happened. Garbage junk food happened.
Photo sorting and Game report writing/posting wasn't going to happen, then leg cramp after an hours sleep said get the fuck up and do that. So here we are, with what everyone really wants: More pre-WTC test stuff.
He-Who-Deafens-With-A-Whisper wanted to try out Karchev vs Thexus. I.....didn't really want to? It basically takes to much time and effort to chew through everything and it's what the Gorten list is for, so I swallowed some Concrete and got on with it (It was only later I released I could have just swallowed down beer at this store and fixed such lame mental screw ups).
Ergo, it's Thexus dude swarm vs Karchev Jack bloat.
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Early Game: I get first and push up the board. A Kodiak gets drawn in to my rectangle zone, Khador can't push the early score on the bottom of 2 due to contesting Overlords in zone corners with few ranged attacks that can try to kill them, while the ambushers pop in on the right and annoy a Marauder.
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Mid Game: It's fairly clear to me that my best play is scenario, hence the deliberate effort to not allow Khador to get those early points. Thexus pushes to get the models toeing the centre zone out, while Alexia goes into a far forward jack and spends Risen outside the zone relatively inefficiently in order to remove all the models that would stop her scoring.
It falls apart quite quickly alas, as a Thrall Warrior, three Adrenal Drudges and an Instigated Warden fail to kill the Jack in my rectangle. Bugger. 20 Armours is plentiful armours.
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Late Game: After that Khador jacks fling themselves forward, though a second Marauder gets distracted attacking the ambushers who don't matter.
I slowly get ground down whilst scoring. I end up 3 to 1 at the start of my 5th turn, and seemingly revert to SR2016 as I put my final pieces into suicide positions to get five control points total instead of five ahead. Well.....thank god I didn't repeat that mistake on the weekend. Right? Future Angry Norway? WHY WON'T YOU TELL ME?!
