There's actually a time skip here, as we had some proper games amongst the random testing.
Ergo, a game that took place after some others. I like to think of myself as a Looper, rather than the real alternative which is a broken VCR tape.
The test is Thexus (You saw that coming right? Left? Upper Middle? Split Lip?) versus Skarre2.
I've no idea what we thought would happen, because it's sodding non-theme Skarre2 so...yeah.....slightly outside my normal considerations.
Early Game: Skarre gets first and sets her junk barreling forward. I run stuff forward as well.
Skarre then feats on herself, Barathrum, an Arc Node, the Kraken and some other junk. Bathroom gets forward and kills a Warden who was further forward then the others. Ghost Caine follows behind, the rest of the Cryx forces hang back. Black Spot shots maul some Drudges. Ghosty Caine begins his horrific work, or would accept he rolls as well as North Korean Diplomacy.
Bathroom has Admonition, so Thexus spins him around with a TK, then an aimed Instigated Subduer shot knocks him down, drags him in and easily kills him. MAT 12ish Drudges surround Caine and alas fail to land a blow. Otherwise I easily claim the right zone while Skarre have the centre area for the moment.
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Mid Game: The Kraken knuckles down in the middle, while Cryx tries and fails to clear the left. Lots of Drudges die, alas for the...I guess more Evil of the smucks....Caine tries to kill Alexia, only to be undone by Shield Guard and Hyper Aggressiving into engagement range. Sweet. I continue to chill out on the right, while Thexus keeps playing footsies with the Krakens threat range. I slowly take the scenario lead.
Late Game: Having kept them in reserve, the ambush Drudges push in on the left zone. Thexus feat lines up excellent Overlord Sprays. Drudges go into the Kraken, taking off half of it and contesting the centre zone hard. Enough stuff dies in this period for a victory by Skarre to be super untenable, a last ditch assassination by Kraken blasts and Skarre throwing nukes falling well short.
Strong game for Thexus. Skarre in this particular matchup needed a far better assassination potential, I'd hypothesize that a feated on Kraken barreling toward him would have been the right move, though realistically I doubt I'll ever see this list again. Bah. I'll think about it then.
