Standoff
Masters Finals isn't until the night, so I relax into the midday starting 50 point teams event.
What is 50 points you ask? It's bullshit is what it is. You take a 75 point list and make noticably crapper in some way.
I've got cut down versions of Arkadius and Rask. Arkadius ends up with no units, Rask drops a Bone Swarm, Posse and a solo or two.
My name is apparently ripe for atrocious puns that cause me physical agony, so that apparently defaulted me to being the captain.
Three man teams, one side pics the first matchup and table, other side gets to pick the other two matchups.
We've got my Minions, Mercs with Magnus2/Gorten1 and Convergence with Axis/Orion (That's right. CoC don't get numbers. Because they aren't ever getting an epic caster. My claims along these lines have never been wrong, which is why Orion doesn't actually exist, it's a group mirage we need to overcome).
Opening round is into High Quality Leather Luggages, with Swans (Stryker1 and Stryker3), enemy Minions (Maelok and something) and opposing Convergence (Lucant and something).
I think we win the roll and pick tables, given there was a good table for Magnus and out of the other two was significantly better for our TEP's.
I put myself forward, not super sure what I'll get however the opposing Minions player was the one I had a pretty strong win against in the masters so if worse comes to worse I could try to repeat that.
The opposing team seemed wise to that little thought process, I get offered the Swans and the Cocs. Coc of the Swan if you will.
It works because real life Swans are actually stupidly awful. Like that person that loooks at their phone in the movies.
Lot of Convergence experience in my local land, less so with Cygnar so I take that match.
Matchups end up being:
Arkadius vs Stryker1
Magnus2 vs Lucant1
Orion vs Maelok1
Onto my match:
Minion Army - 50 / 50 points
[Theme] Will Work for Food
(Arkadius 1) Dr. Arkadius [+32]
- Battle Boar [7]
- Gorax Rager [7]
- Gorax Rager [7]
- Razor Boar (2) [7]
- Razor Boar (2) [7]
- Road Hog [16]
- Road Hog [16]
- War Hog [15]
- Targ [0(4)]
Gatorman Witch Doctor [0(4)]
Hutchuck, Ogrun Bounty Hunter [0(6)]
Cygnar Army - 50 / 50 points
[Theme] Heavy Metal
(Stryker 1) Commander Coleman Stryker [+30]
- Hurricane [39]
- Squire [0(5)]
Captain Arlan Strangewayes [0(4)]
Field Mechaniks (max) [5]
Storm Strider [18]
Storm Strider [18]
I've no idea what Stryker3 does, so happy to avoid that nonsense.
Key for me is that the table is of various small forests, so I can use them to advance up to get the jump on the opposing Huge bases. Means the Gator Doc has to be protected, and there is a chance to put Crippling Grasp on the Hurricane. Long game is a concern, Stryker can feat to put off my alpha then I have to fear the Slam guns messing me up.
I win the roll and take first.
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Minions 1: ADVANCE! WE OUTNUMBER THE FOE 10 TO 1 IN BATTLEGROUP MODELS!
....they have a colossal....
SILENCE! 10 TO 1! WE'LL BE FINE!
.....do the Razor Boars really count?
.....shutup.
Razor Boars run around to various spots, two of them move up into Snipe and pew pew range to encourage the Swans to move and shoot instead of running and making it hard for me to score in later turns if we get that far.
Road Hog up either flank with the right one getting Forced Evolution, War Hog goes up the middle in a forest ready to get pathfinder off the objective. Really dislike only having a single one of the heavy hitters, 50pts bah humbug.
Arkadius puts up Aggravator.
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Cygnar 1: Stryker puts Snipe onthe right Strider, Arcane shield on the hurricane and Blur on himself, then walks up to the wall.
Hurricane walks forward, kills a Razor Boar with an AoE, the other Hyper Aggresives forward then dies to the elft Storm Strider, who walks up to a different wall.
At this point SawDru realises he didn't feat and Stryker is going to die, so he runs the right Stormstrider in front of him to salvage the situation.
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Minions 2: Let's kill the red nut with to many nuts in his balls.
Primals get put out on all my heavies. It's time to GO HARD. Gatorman With Doctor puts Ghostly onteh right Road Hog, okay, NOW it's the time to GO HARD.
Arkadius feats, a Gorax, the buffed right Road Hog and the War Hog kill the right Stormstriderwith the feat frenzy attacks. Brutality.
Forced Evo'd Primalled Ghostly Road hog then charges Stryker, assault shot killing three or so of hte mechaniks as well. 'hog boosts to hit with both initials, gets the job done.
Alas for Druster, though the screw up was picked up pretty quick. Exect I'll never got that off him ever again. Sweet dude, need to crash his home town again and derp at a tournament.
