Bathurst SR - Epic Recon
Round 2, into the Tank Engine Dru-Bear. Last time we played was Wintercon, Thexus vs Nemo3 in which Drudges managed to cut out the electricity by just piling on enough writhing flesh and living emat to arc it out. It's still Swans on teh other end, so that's not good. It was Nemo3 and Stryker3, thankfully the one I have a clue about got dropped, much as Pig Heavies are susceptible to getting fried.
Arkadius1 (WWfF) - 4x Road Hogs, 2x Gorax, 6x Razor Boars, Battle Boar, Orin, Hutchuck, Targ, Efaarit, Swamp Gobber Chef
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Nemo3 + Finch (HM) - Dynamo, Centurion, 2x Firefly, Junior + Firefly, 2x Storm Striders, max Mechanics, Arlen
Humbug I say to your compromise of having a unit!
I lose the roll, alas the Swans make the correct choice of picking first. I'd picked the pathfinder objective just in case anyway, it ended up not being a great decision.
There was a centralbuilding with a small footprint, then both sides had a long wall, corrosive water, a building and a blob of rubble. I did have a valid table side choice, so that was good (Note: The deployment side buildings where the 40k style ones without a footprint, basically ran it as being a solid piece so no hiding under the raised floor nonsense), specifically one side had super inconvenient central rubble and the opposite had a more central building for Arkadius to potentially hide behind, so that was a pretty easy choice.
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Round 1: The Striders run up either flank, the right side one getting arcane Shield off Junior, who then skedalles away to the centre. Dammit! Come back to Hutchuck range!
The Heavies and Nemo go centre left, mechanics and Firefly centre right. Juniors Firefly (The Black one) is on the far right flank.
This round is the highest spike in regret and having to use the Efaarit instead of the CID version Gator Doc. Had I been able to Ghostly the left most Road Hog, Arkadius could have feated it forward over the wall and and into the left Strider. Two others would have gone into the Arcane Shielded Strider, and boom, that's the attrition straight out the gate.
Alas, it was not to be and it didn't feel worth feating to kill one. Ergo I'll have to knuckle under Nemo's feat and see how well it goes.
I stroke out on how to use the Efaarit, sending way off up the centre of the baord to waste a lightning shot and do some damage to the left Strider.
Three RaBo's go extreme left, as does the Battle Boar and the Forced Evo'd Road Hog. Targ goes this side as well, as it is highly likely I'll have to use some herding action to extend the control area.
Arkadius puts up Aggravator, hides behind the objective and a wall of the other three Road Hogs, a Gorax and one Razor Boar. In hindsight Arkadius should have been further left and the weaker beasts spaced between the heavies to better ground out lightning.
One Gorax runs up the right in front of that sides Strider as a distraction/backup beater if he gets ignored. Two Rabo run up on the far right on flanking duties.
lastly Orin hides up the back under Stealth, the Gobber Chef runs to be in position to run to my flag next turn.
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Swan 2: Pain time! Nemo hovers in the back field, pops feat, misses the Forced Evo Road Hog with a gun shot. Camps three. Some spell shuffling happened, the relevant one being the Armour Buff going on the Centurion.
Centurion advances, toes the left zone with its Imprint up.
Dynamo stays up the back, shoots at the Road Hog. Hits the first attack, I stupidly advance into the 10 inch bubble of the Strider, only to be saved by the not-duo not-Superhero Jack misses the next attack (Even with Nemo's Re-roll. Forced Evo for the win).
One of Nemo's Fireflies walks over the Cygnar Obejctive and ends up behind the centre obstruction, shoots down the Efaarit.
The other Firefly runs up the right to be behind my forward advanced Gorax for the annoying 5 inch pain bubble.
Left most Strider charges the Forced Evo Road Hog, takes out his Body. Does his Gun shots into the Road Hog blob in front of Arkadius, suitably messes them up.
Right side Strider charges the sacrifice Gorax, hitting for some damage but not taking out any aspects. Gun shots kill one Road Hog, cause another to Hyper Aggresive into melee with the Firefly, mess up the last Road Hog and causes some damage to Arkadius that gets thrown over to a Razor Boar on the right flank.
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Minion 2: Time to clock out, it's feat time!
Later Edit: TLDR version, I kill the Striders, the forward most Firefly, hurt the Centurion and other Firefly, get Road Hogs up in the Swans grill and score some points.
The three remaining Road Hogs are all quite messed up, though one near Arkadius has all it's aspects. The plan is to activate all the healthy beasts, get their Fury dialled, feat it off, send the Road Hogs forward, then have the heavies activate and kill other stuff.
To start off with, Hutchuck ambushes in off the right and misses his knockdown Grenade on Juniors Firefly. Sadness. Said Jack was half an inch shy of the ambush charge, so the Ogrun just chills in the back.
Battle Boar and the advanced Gorax Primal two of the Road Hogs. Gorax also pounds on the Firefly next to him, though doesn't do that great.
Targ moves up to get Herding up on the left, this lets the RaBo's on the left pop Animi and go into the Strider (Two get charges, one has to walk into herd range and boost damage). They do a bit.
Right wise, RaBo's charge into the Arcane Shielded Strider, roll poorly for the most part.
I then flubb my plans, sending the healthy Road Hog into the Strider way to early. He gets his two attacks then is repulsed away from poor placement as well. He then buys a pair of attacks to kill the Firefly and sprints to the left of the centre obstruction.
Arkadius goes, puts out Psycho Surgery to restore everyone. Puts Crippling Grasp on the right Strider. Feats.
Between the RaBo's, Battle Boar and Forced Evo heavy the left Strider dies.
Gorax and Rabo's go for the right Strider, they scratch it a tiny bit.
The Road Hog still near Arkadius feat charges the Strider, does reasonably.
Road Hog that I activated to early frenzies forward into the Firefly behind the centre obstruction, knocking it down with a crit and doing some damage.
Arkady repo's back a bit after to much thinking, the second Gorax runs in front of him.
The Road Hog on the right moves to a spot he can't be repulsed from, kills the Shielded/Grasped Strider, spints to be in front of Arkadius.
Forced Evo Road Hog on the left goes into the Centurion, dice off 4 isn't great, he does manage to take out the Shield so that's good for the late game.
Swamp Gobber Chef runs to my flag on the right, I score that flag and the right zone to be up 2-0 (left zone is contested by the Centurion).
Standard Arkadius feat turn. I had to reverse engineer some positions to work out what I even did.
Dammit, this isn't easier than Thexus at all!
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Swan 3: Nemo stays back, misses a shot on Targ.
The Centurion shuffles around, completely fails at murder, as the Forced Evo Hog gets hits once. Suck those 7's!
Dynamo then aims and kills the Forced Evo Road Hog, hurts the other forward representative and takes out his Mind and Spirit.
Arlen runs to the swan flag, triggers two Razor Boar Coutnercharges which kill him to the box. As....expected.....yeah.....
On the right Junior's Firefly goes in and stabs the two Razor Boars scoring that side, hurting both of them. The Mechanics run in to contest the zone.
Chef scores my flag, I go up 3-0.
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Minion 3: I only need to clear the right zone for the scenario win. Hutchuck, Razor Boars, a Gorax and a Road Hog spray get it done.
The scenario win somewhat through me, I wasn't expecting things to fold in like that. Things wre going pretty well for me regardless, I can hold the right side and contest the left much better than Cygnar. Dynamo will kill loads of stuff, however not at a rate I'd consider threatening to my chances of winning. Also Psycho Surgery good.
This is my favourite game of the tourney, Choo choo man being pretty swell.
