Outlast
It's.....Khador.
Goddamit. Why have you forsaken me Bacon Overlords?
Realistically, this is good for me, need to play and see what can be done.
Arkadius (WWfF) - 2x Road Hog, War Hog, 3x Gun Boar, Battle Boar, Gorax, Dahlia and Danger Noodle, Swamp Gobbers, Targ, Alten, Efaarit, Hutchuck
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Vlad2 (AC) - 2x Destroyer, 2x MoW Shocktroopers (Max) + UA, 2x MoW Kovnik, MoW Bombardiers (Max), 2x MoW Drakhuns, Saxon Orrick
The other Khador list was Strakhov with 5 jacks and....some other shit I don't remember. Either way there's beef to chew.
Scenario is Outlast, so Swamp Gobbers value vastly exceeds their measly 2 point expenditure, though normally from when I play it is all about how the flags go down.
I lose the roll and get given second. Sadness.
Went with the side with a back defensive wall. Otherwise there's a central cloud bank, a couple hills and a tiny obstruction on the Khador edge of the right zone. There's also water/trenches on the table, I don't believe they come up in a meaningful way.
Round 1 is the exciting run stuff at each other phase.
Khador is somewhat symmetrical at this point, aside from the Drakhuns going left and centre.
I put Dahlia and snake on the right, otherwise have a disordered mob. Road Hog with Forced Evo moves up to toe the left zone.
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Khador 2: Vlad Feats, which completely throws me. It pops on the left Shocktroopers and Drakhuns, who flood the left zone and killed the Forced Evo Road Hog. Annoying, but not as bad as it probably would have been in a later round.
Bombardiers and the other Shocktrooper unit hang around the Khador flag, the former to the left of it and the latter to the right in Shield Wall, with one buffoon contesting the right zone from behind the small obstruction.
The Destroyers each pop each the back of each zone, with a Kovnik near each where they've just been popping Desperate Paces like meany pants on head people. One of the Jacks also blows away the Efaarit.
Saxon Orrick goes onto the Khador Flag.
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Minion 2: The Khadoran weighting to the left is firmly established by the feat.
I'm not enthused about attacking the feated Shocktroopers this turn, especially with the Drakhuns also being in the vicinity, so plan is to sacrifice a Gun Boar to contest on that side and start the chipping on the right, plus start the CP count.
Leftwise, I back the War Hog up so that he can threaten coming in next turn (Given he's one of the few models that of his own accord can happily pop Shield Walled MoW).
One Gun Boar runs into the zone, engages the right most Drakhun to stop Counter Charge Sillyness.
Arkadius throws Crippling Grasp into the back of a feated Shock Trooper.
The nearest Shockie also dies to a Gun Boar shot later in the turn.
Centre wise, Dahlia moves to my flag and puts Haunting Melody in range of all the opposing units. Snake stays out on the right, throws a spray out at the MoW Shockies next to the Khador Flag for not much (dice -9, didn't exactly have high hopes).
Gorax/Gun Boar/Battle Boar all form a line in front of Arkadius, with Orin and Targ in the vicinity.
The right most Road Hog with Raw Adrenaline, Forced Evo and Primal from the Battle Boar hurts himself for speed and Assaults said Shocktrooper unit, the spray puts fire on a Shockie and Bombardier but more importantly kills Saxon, relegating flag scoring to either Vlad (Who fears the feated assassination run) or the Kovnik who are way out on either flank.
The Road Hog then starts swing and moving forward with Overtake, end of the turn three of the Shocktroopers die including the UA.
Rightside, the Gobbers run across in this portion of the back field to be future turn scorers on the right zone.
A Gun Boar moved up in the zone, pot shotted the contesting Destroyer for a handful of damage.
Hutchuck had ambushed in, he knocks down the Kovnik with a gunshot and kills him with a charge.
Mostly contest with the turn, though I shouldn't have bothered with the Skarath spray and jsut camped three on Dahlia, her safety being paramount at this point.
I score my flag, 1-0.
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Khador 3: Vlad moves up a bit on the left side, getting that Arcane Might goodness field further up. Like a jerk. One of the Drakhuns runs across to be in front of him, like a Peasant buying into the foolish notion that the autocracy must be saved from random assassination runs.
Leftwise, the Crippling Grasped Shockies go into the random contesting Gun Boar, barely break a sweat to poke him into oblivion. The Destroyer pot shots the War Hog, takes out his Mind (Afterwards we'd note that this should have been the first of several Bombards targeting Dahlia/Snakeness).
Around the Khador flag, it takes the Drakhun, some of the Bombardies and the remaining Shocktroopers to kill the Forced Evo'd Road Hog. One Shockie also contests the right zone.
Right side wise, the Destroyer shuffles to be behind the mini Obstruction and pot shots Hutchuck, putting him on three boxes.
Khador score their flag and have the Drakhun contesting, so scores level at 1-1.
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Minion 3: Ah. Drakhuns are solos to and super annoying. Better deal with that.
Left wise, the War Hog moves forward tepidly and gets healed by Psycho Surgery. A Gun Boar moves up behind the wall, shoots a Crippling Grasped Shocktrooper, hits three of them, boosts damage against them all to leave them each on about 3 boxes.
Targ accepts his grim fate, running to contest the left zone.
Centrally, Dahlia moves to the far side of my flag to keep things under Haunting Melody.
Skarath gets Primalled and charges in, eating the Drakhun and a Bombardier, keeps to 3 Fury for Dahlia transfer action.
In my backfield and to the right Arkadius hides behind the Gorax, Battle Boar and small cloud from a Bellows Gobber (The other moved far right out of command in the event the other Gobber got capped.
The right zone is fairly barren as I need to do something about the sodding Destroyer. Hutchuck throws a Rust Bomb and misses badly, then charges in and does three odd points.
The Gun Boar, who is Primalled and Forced Evo'd, then charges in and maxes Fury which rips off the Axe and gets the Cortex. Good little Piggy. Shitty Ogrun.
I get my flag, go up again 2-1.
Not an ideal turn. I wanted Skarath to eat up the regular Man-O-War units around the Khadors flag, the Drakhun threatening the Countercharge however was just to problematic. Ideally Skarath doesn't go in to keep Dahlia's transfer opportunities alive, however I just didn't have beasts in position to do and it still felt like a poor time to feat when holding that was keeping Vlad and for this turn a Drakhun up in the backfield.
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Khador 4: The fire started a couple rounds ago kills a Bombardier. Success!
Out on the right, the three man Shocktroopers scuff up the Gun Boar and kill Hutchuck, the Destroyer attacks with it's broken axe and misses.
Centrally, the Bombardiers and some of the Crippling Grasped Shockies come in and kill Skarath (The first attack from the Chockie UA got the crit Stationary. *Sad trombone*).
The Drakhun moves up to the Khador Flag.
The Destroyer on the left then shoots Dahlia and implodes her. Targ dies to a Crippling Grasped Shock mans.
Vlad stays chilling on that side.
Per the established routine, the active side scores it's flag, Khador also gets the left zone so now 2-3.
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Minion 4: Alright, need to rubber band this crap, feat turn out of desperation.
Both Gun Boars frenzy, one into the wall, the other scratches more paint off the right Destroyer.
Between the War Hog, Gorax and Battle Boar all the Crippling Grasped Shockies and the Bombardiers are killed, with feat clearing out the Fury. Forced Evo ends up on the Battle Boar. In teh midst of these Overtake attacks the Gorax gets Counter Charged by the Drakhun and loses some health.
Orin claims my flag, with Arkadius behind with Guardian Beast up. Swamp Gobbers contest the right zone in case the suicide Gun Boar finally bites it.
Back to 3 all.
Just stabbed my gum with a pretzel I was noming. It sucked.
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Round 5/6 top of 7: Um....it all becomes a blur?
The Destroyer and Vlad kill the War Hog as they get up into the left zone, while the Drakhun and Kovnik fail to do anything to the Gorax who stays contesting the left.
The remaining Shocktroopers leave one fellow contesting the right zone, sending back a pair of fellows to kill the Battle Boar. The Destroyer impotently fails to hit the damaged Gun Boar in teh right zone.
I end up limping ahead in points, using Orin to score while the Gorax kills the Drakhun. Between them (With Crippling Grasp help) the Gun Boars kill the remaining Shocktrooper, on teh bottom of 6 to my surprise the Gun Boar also finishes off the Destroyer.
Unfortunately I was low on clock and make a critical error. Arkadius had to charge in to kill the last Shocktrooper, he then repo'ed to score the top flag, putting him in Vlad murder range, when he should have been placed to Repo to toe the right zone instead out of threat range (The Gobber had to move out of the way and I didn't risk the freestrike).
Ergo, alas, Vlad charged and killed Arkadius on the top of 7.
Khador had Vlad, the Kovnik and the Destroyer, I had Arkadius, the super damaged Gun Boar on the right, a Gobber and Orin. Bizarrely if not for that end position error I think I win this one at games end on 7 on control points. Ah well.
I didn't realise it at the time, but I ought to have put Forced Evo on Skarath. He still gets crit on the boxcars, just wouldn't have been the sounder mechanical play.
This played far better than expected, solely because of Dahlia's effects on the opposing list, doesn't make me feel good about trying to deal with half a dozen plus Khador Jacks.
