Breakdown
It's.....hippies? What is this madness? No matter what I was playing Arkadius, it's been two months or something and Cancon is right around the corner.
Arkadius1 (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
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Tannith1 (The Wild Hunt) - Loki, magic werewolf with a spray, not so magic werewolf that needs some manners, a two headed dog that gives Mark for Target, Reeves Max + UA, Reeves Min, Wolf dudes that pierce the thickest armour, Gallows Grove, Reeve solo, teleporty stone things, Feralgeist
I don't comprehend Circle, which has always ended well. Totes. Run up and feat at some point I guessed? I could barely remember Arkadius' spell list at this point.
Scenario is Breakdown, two flanking unit zones which aren't great for me scoring wise. Swamp Gobbers, get me through! Central battle group zone, so that's something. It's not a super quick scenario, so that's not happening. Attrition it is, rush up for attrition and hope the feat hits hard enough.
I win the roll and go first, the terrain doesn't super mesmerize me versus being able to get the pigs up the board, always a more comfortable point to feat on top of 2 versus bottom of 1.
There's a central blob of fog. My side has a hill, wall and forest. Circle gets a forest and a trench on their side of the zones, and a blob of water and a hill in their Advance Deployment line.
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Minion 1: I can contest the back edges of the flank zones, so it's rush up the middle. Plus ambushing Wolves can suck it.
....in the shadow of space....
Realistically not many decision points to make, I opt to put Forced Evo on the Road Hog on the right, don't exactly need the War Hogs to be buffed on hitting power (Future me, take note of what you thought here).
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Circle 1: Reeves flank it up, they pew pew Razor Boars poorly.
...you can find your hero....
Loki and the Feral Warpwold hang back, the Pureblood gets Admonition and moves forward, waves his arm and starts dreaming of the 80's. By which I mean does a spray that messes up one Raxzor Boar and takes out the Body of the Battle Boar.
Tannith hangs back, the Argus sticks with the Reeves on the left.
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Minion 2: Step 1 is kill overpriced Circle heavies. Step 2 is wait?
*Contemplates Phlegm monsters instead of trying to remember how Arkadius feat turns work*
...find your own place...
The objective is to kill the beasts, especially Loki, because being dragged to death is lame.
Four of the five Razor Boars have all their aspects, so move up first.
First little piggy runs up behind the Feral.
Second little Piggy puts up it's Animus and charges said Feral, which is on the verge of being trapped so Admonitions to the side.
Third and Fourth piggies charge the Feral,between them they do some mediocre damage.
Gorax' move up either side, left one Primals a War Hog, right one does the same to the Forced Evolutioned Road Hog.
Arkadius walks up to the left Road Hog, stabs it with a Raw Adrenaline needle, casts Surgery to get heals out, puts Primal on the Battle Boar.Feats.
Feat activations cause the Rabo's to do more fail attacks, everything bar them and the Gorax' move up the board toward the Circle dweebs. I really wanted the Battle Boar to go up the right and attempt to Berserk chain his way through the max Reeve unit, alas Arkadius' position and line of sight issues caused this to not be feasible so it went up the centre of the board. Pro plays.
Begin the madness.
Left most Road Hog with Ghostly assault through the forest, flames down a bunch fo the min reeve unit and damages Loki for a good whack. Melee's a stone to death, Overtakes back, then sprints to behind the forest again toeing the left and centre zone.
Primalled War Hog destroys the Pureblood.
Battle Boar moves up and has a go at mauling the Argus, puts it on two boxes.
In the centre the Primalled Forced Evo'd Road Hog hurts itself for speed to get to walk up to Loki, easily bins him, puts a stone on a box and gets a hit on the Pureblood for not much.
The right War Hog charges into the Primal, booss all it's initials to hit, doesn't do super great and the Feral lives. Doh.
Arkadius gets a gobber cloud, the Chef runs in front of him and Orin stays nearby for Arcane Vortex.
I Primalled to much stuff. The left Road Hog should have been rewarded for it's yo yo with the Chef running up to self cook for a fury strip, oh well.
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Circle 2: The Wolves ambush in from the left, they come in and murder the left most Gorax.
Tannith hangs up the back, shoots the Primalled War Hog, Shadowbinding him and the blob of Razor boars around him. Doh. Still as Death denied.
...in gravity zero...
Argus and left Reeves stab at the Battle Boar, take out his body.
Right side, big Reeve unit moves up, does a big CRA into the right Road Hog. First Shot does a whack of damage. Second misses, re-rolls for melee into the Pureblood, spikes the damage roll and kills it. Not Circles day at all (That Unit can CRA melee targets, this faction is weird and I fundamentally don't understand it).
Gallow Grove and Feralgeist move up in the right zone.
Nothing got to the central Rectangle, so I score and go 1-0.
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Minion 3: I strip Fury off the left Road Hog. Nearly every other beast frenzies and kills basically nothing. The death of all teh Circle heavies means that this is fine.
Said Road Hog gets Adrenallined by Arkadius, who then camps four and chills out.
Road Hog sprays deown most of the ambush Wolves unit. Orin lighting the remaining three, though he is accidentally to good at his job and also zaps Targ, putting him on a box.
Swamp Gobbers run to score the left zone, I get the centre rectangle again so it's 3-0.
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Circle 3: Assassination or bust. If the Argus can get up Arkadius can be spell damaged that attacked by four or so of the right Reeves.
Reeves attack the engaging Battle Boar and basically fail at life. Argus dies to the free strike and that's basically game.
Rolled out the assassination on Tanith's feat, alas her shitty nukes were garbage on the attack rolls after Affliction landed and it doesn't happen.
