SR Round 1 - Outlast
Other gaming occasions being lacking and lacking better half supervision, I went for a joy ride through some fun Google Maps for some tounry-ness a few hours away.
The day before I constructed an ugly Barnabas list with the Vault, double min croaks, Posse, couple Spitters. It was basically a self face roll if I went up against Cryx, given I'm not eager to drop the Doc into them and Jaga/Maelok are hard to build when there rules are pending a major update. Yes, I should be doing some Calaban. I'm not, probably out of the normal SUSS nonsense, though the lie I tell myself is he just doesn't click with me.
Round 1 is Khador. Blergh. Harkevbich with double Colossal in Jaws or a Vlad list that hurt my eyebrow, so fast did it rise. Thankfully Harky doesn't get dropped, which would have been a struggle (Throw everything at the jack wall!Woot!).
Arkadius1 (WWfF) - 4x Road Hogs, 2x Gorax, 6x Razor Boars, Battle Boar, Orin, Hutchuck, Targ, Efaarit, Swamp Gobber Chef
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Vlad2 (WoW) - War Dog, Destroyer, Marauder, Fenris, 5x Max Doomreaver
There's a forest bang set in the centre of the table, dividing the sides central flags. There's walls and other stuff around, they don't really matter.
I lose the roll, Ze Khadorans have ways of making you talk. And taking the side your stuff was sitting on. I'm not sure on the logic used for the table side, I didn't really give it a second thought as going first is super sweet for me with minimal terrain irritants other than the standard "look at me int eh middle" tree.
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Round 1: Arkadius moves up the middle, pops Guardian Beast as Aggravator doesn't look super useful against so few guns.
One Road Hog moves up the left with Forced Evo on it, the other free crowd around Arkadius and desperately rub their butts in his face, begging for a hit of some Adrenaline next round.
Yeah, I had an immediate paragraph appear in my brain about Arkadius being an extremely lonely mad scientist who can modify pig people into what he wants. We are all better off the inner mental slamming of a vault door on that thought.
The Razor Boars split into two packs of three, one to the left of centre in front of the Battle Boar, who is salivating at the infantry masses before him. The right one go into the right zone.
Courtesy of a hasty measurement while advancing, a Doomreaver gets in on one of the right Razor Boars after Apparition, promptly misses. Most of the Doomreavers run up, in ordered ranks.
Fenris, Vlad with Arcane Might, the jacks and one unit move up behind the forest.
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Minion 2: Well, the Khadorans have presented themselves and Vlad is no where near. Attrition it is.
Gorax' put Primal on a Razor and the Battle Boar.
Razor Boars then go in and oink there way through some Reavers, the Battle Boar cleans up about 6ish on the left (Curse you tough rolls! My dreams! Will I never get to 11 models in one kill spree?).
Arkadius goes, stabs two of the Road Hogs next to him with Adrenal, pops feat.
The Razor Boars, Goraxi and Battle Boar all frenzy and clear their fury, popping more Reavers.
Forced Evo Road Hog frenzies forward into a Reaver and eats it.
He then repositions back to optimistic safety. One Road Hog lacks any form of buff, as the most basic of Pigitches (Future questionable STD name?) he gets body block duties, moving in front of the warlock. The Gobber Chef and Orin run up to complete the not-great-wall (Ah, such glorious paranoia).
The two Adrenalled Road Hogs charge up, their Assault sprays kill some back doomreavers, set the jacks on fire and kill the War Doge.
Forced Evo Hog charges in, kills Fenris, then Sprints backward.
All up 24 Doom Reavers, Fenris and the War Dog get killed. That was pretty good.
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Khador 2: Vlad feats, rolls max of six models. Conveniently there are that many Doom Reavers remaining. He moves around the flag.
The Doom Reavers move around, by dint of who survived it's mostly on the right of the forest.
They kill two Razor Boars, a Gorax and one Road Hog out on the right.
One Doomie in the forest stabs a Razor Boar, then they both die to a drift from the Destroyer.
The Marauder runs in front of Vlad.
Khador go to 1 CP, a far away Razor Boar contests the right zone and stops the Reavers scoring.
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Minion 3: Well, scoring is going to be a slow go, might as well start it and continue the grind at this point.
Arkadius jabs some Adrenaline in the Road Hog in front of him, Repositions to the left where Targ and Razor Boars run in front of him (TWISTER IS A THING OK).
That Road Hog hurts himself for speed, assaults over most of the remaining Doom Reavers. Alas needing 11's isn't great, it kills the Assault target and roughs another out on fire. Good work Roadie, the only person you killed was the potential Sprint target. Sigh.
The right Razor Boar moves across, Orin uses it to arc a lightning and kill another Doom Reaver.
Efaarit dings the Destroyer, it then gets killed by a Primalled Road Hog who Overtakes to not have other Piggies in line of sight.
Last Road Hog with Forced Evo goes into the Marauder, gets a crit Knockdown, puts a good whack of damage, only takes out the Movement alas.
I score my flag, 1 all.
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Khador 3: The toughed out Doomreaver burns to death, only two of the loonies remain.
One Doomie kills the last Razor Boar on the right, the other does some damage to the Road Hog on my flag.
The Marauder goes to Combo Smite the Road Hogs into each other. Misses. Bought attacks don't do much.
Vlad walks back a bit.
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Minion 4: Two of the Road Hogs were Primalled, so Frenzy time!
One goes into Vlad for some scratch damage, the other misses a Doomreaver.
Hutchuck pops up and kills the right most Reaver with a Grenade.
Forced Evo Hog kills the Marauder.
A Reaver contests my flag. Frenzying Road Hog, a Razor Boar and Orin all fail to kill it, so the Swamp Gobber has to forgo scoring to walk up and stab him in the back.
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Khador 4/Minion 5: Vlad is alone. He puts the Road Hog that frenzied on him to one box. Road Hogs then munch him.
Not much after thought here, Arkadius was new and wonderful.
I do like playing into Vlad2 a lot more with no damn Eliminators around to harass me. Keep those ladies away.
This game is probably a hallmark of what of my flaws as a person, in a tourney setting I do not have the ability to modulate my play. It's maximise win chance or bust, which is poor behaviour at a less cut throat meta (More on this in a couple games....).
