Outlast
It is Tyr's day! (Yes, by force of habit I originally referenced Monday via the moon. I know it's old. I'm working on it. Narcolepsy.). Got to wonder how ye olde Danes would feel about Thor Ragnarok, do you need to know who Jeff Goldblum is to not love his movies and hate his ads?
Into one of our oldest of foes (In game amounts, damn fiend is younger than me the vain monster that he is), with the accursed Katya's. The pair is Vlad3 and Malakov2 with half a dozen heavies. Outriders are poor for my Rask list, whereas Arkadius probably has game into both?
Scenario being Outlast and favouring units drives the Ruskies into the unit laden choice, and thus we get:
Arkadius (WWfF) - 2x Road Hog, 2x War Hog, 2x Gorax, Battle Boar, 6x Razor Boar, Targ, Orin, Hutchuck, Efaarit, Swamp Gobber Chef, Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew
vs
Vlad3 (WoW) - 2x Juggernaught, Devestator, Fenris, Doomreavers, Nyxx + Valachev, Outriders, War Dog, Greylord Forge Seer
Tangent: I have come to loathe scenario dictating list selection, it's a known factor that I feel should be addressed in design so that list matchups are more easily selected/dictated by you. This does put a burden on a list pair in that both must have capability for the most difficult scenario (Spread The Net), which is a direct reason for both my lists having ambush pieces.
I win the roll and pick first without thinking about it. The terrain isn't onerous enough to force me into a particular side and dash infantry are going to be super annoying without the extra board space.
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Minion 1: So the Efaarit doesn't have advance deploy. Whoops. Back to the regular line with you!
Symetrical deployment from me faces down Nyss on the left, battle group in the centre, Outriders on the right and Doom Reavers out front.
My beasts divide in roughly equal halves, one pushes up the left with backfield swamp gobbers, thinking they will be better positioned to clear the left zone as the right iteration has a forest of contesting powar in it. This glob also has Forced Evolution on its Road Hog.
Other Beast block goes up to my flag, mostly staying shy of Doomreaver range aside from some Razor Boars that go forward to be bait.
Arkadius puts up Aggravator.
Efaarit runs out to the right, anticipating being a contesting model. Or at least being able to survive potentially given the Nyss would just kill it with a small CRA.
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Khador 1: Nyss started with Hand of Fate by dint of the theme list, they advance and shoot down a pair of the Razor Boars, then Zephyr around like jerks, putting their leadership models in the back and toeing with three of the grunts. There's a hill on the Khador side of this zone, one Juggernaut and the Devastator run to this general vicinity.
The Forge Seer moves to jsut contest the Khador flag range, Vlad and the War Doge run behind a defensive wall. The remaining Jack, being the second Juggernaut, runs to be loosely in front of Vlad. Fenris runs between that jack and the right zone forest. The Outriders get hand of Fate shifted to them, they run around behind the forest.
The Doomreavers charge up, I mucked it up and let one get to the Road Hog on the left. The dice save me from my poor positioning as the masked loon misses with his compensation blade. Most of the unit went up toward the Arkadius block, killing one Razor Boar and hurting another, though an awkward column roll meant the damaged mini-pig had all it's aspects.
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Minion 2: Feat time, after this the distances won't matter. Plan is to kill off the right Juggernaut, the Destroyer and clear the left zone.
Argh, the horrible headache that is trying to work out how the hell the Arkadius feat turn went. Um......a step to the left, a jump to the right and an awful sequel?
The Doomreavers get cleared out by the left msot Gorax, the central Road Hog and the damaged as Razor Boar (Getting some snacking in the process. Sometime BACON EATS YOU.). One Doomreaver is left behind the house outside of camera shot.
Of the other Razor Boars, the left most pops his Animus and charges a Nyss, leaving Arkadius' control area. He misses, but oh well. The right most runs up, the plan being to frenzy onto an Outrider. I screw this up, using up all his movement without checking for the 3 inches forest line of sight. Sod.
Hutchuck popped out on the right, a grenade throw kills an Outrider, he then charges another and misses, becoming Stationary from Winters Wind. Not how I thought those attacks would go.
Efaarit gets to aim, kill an Outrider and reposition out of camera shot (He's shy, and cameras steal the essence of the moment).
Lastly pre-feat, the left most War hog had received Primal from the Gorax, hurt himself for damage and charged the Devastator. This was the point I realised I'd mucked up quite badly with my Forced Evo placement, as POW 20 isn't enough in this instance and I take out no systems and wasted a heavy.
Arkadius then starts trying to Shovel and feats. The War Hog that charged in does another attack on the Devastator that bounces off. I don't frenzy my back support pieces to clear extra fury because I am not a smart fella. The Razor Boar that charged into the Nyss kills one. The right most War Hog (Who got hot swapped to have Forced Evolution and Primal) plus the Battle Boar go toward Fenris, who I had just toeing Arkadius' control area.
Said super buffed War Hog dials for strength, walks up to the Juggernaught. I completely space on the Raw Adrenaline I gave him. He kills the Khador Heavy with two Fury to spare, Overtakes up a bit, dismounts Fenris. The Overtake advance was also mucked up, so Fenris dismounts to a position of safety. Imph. The Battle Boar then charges in and kills Fenris.
Orin moves up, Stealths, toes the left zone. Swamp Gobbers run to the back left, as I want them to live to score late game. The left Road Hog moves onto my hill in the left zone, misses a Nyss.
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Khador 2: Gah. Text. So much text.
Leftwise, the Nyss eat the forward Razor Boar. Two also get charges in on the hill based Road Hog and take out his mind. The Juggernaut gets topped to max focus by the Forge Seer, who goes to the Khador flag. Said Jugger eats the left War Hog with minimal effort. The Devastator tries to slam the Gorax on that side and misses.
Right side, the remaining Outriders move around, they spray Hutchuck and leave him toughed out on the ground. He's still Stationary, so he's not having a great day at this point. One Outrider re-positions to take the War hog Primal induced Frenzy attack.
Time for Vlad to be the dude he wants to be (Was going to have a he-asks-Sorscha-out-at-last joke here, the Empress sodding ruined that one).
The War Dog moves up to give Vlad Parry at the appropriate locations.
Vlad puts Hand of Fate on himself, charges the Rabo and kills it with his opening initial, Sidestepping to engage the War Hog and Battle Boar. He buys Flashing Blade attacks on them, doesn't do super great, taking out the Mind of the War Hog and leaving the battle Boar with one box of Spirit. Vlad then Sprints into the centre of the right zone.
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Minion 3: Vlad's aggressiveness is basically a clock response forced by list unfamiliarity. I have to take the assassination attempt out, as my poor Fury management causes a variety of Frenzies. Both Road Hogs Frenzy ineffectually, the remaining War Hog and Razor Boar both miss Frenzy attacks on Outriders.
Gobber Chef charges the War Dog to stop him counter charging into giving Vlad his defence boost (The warcaster sprinted further than originally planned to be out of Road Hog charge range).
That sorted, Arkadius maltreats off the Razor Boar, moves up lands the Crippling Grasp on Vlad, Forced Evo's the Battle Boar, Psycho Surgeries and repo's back.
The Efaarit moves up, shoots Vlad for about half a dozen points.
Battle Boar moves in, 6's to hit, dice minus 1 on damage, positions to be in leap range for Orin to try to finish it if he flubbs it. First attack puts Vlad on 11 boxes remaining, second initial and first buy misses, second buy hits, I boost the damage because unboosted 6's are just, like, the worst. I do 13 damage points and win the game.
Woot woot!
Dammit Efaarit stop doing good things, you're a placeholder model!
Not our best game, I'm really not used to clam jacks. I blame Marauders and Juggernauts for my errors. I mean theirs. It's their fault.
