Outlast
Yes, I'm weak. I think this was enough for to finally have the Sturm beaten out of me though, so that's something.
Sturm is basically the same awful list, with Gudrun subbed out for Lannyssa and a Gobber Chef. I wanted either Orin or Eilish, then checked in Warroom at the store and determined that neither choice was legal. Well....dammit.
I won the roll and took first, I get a convoluted wall and a cloud around my flag. When we remembered to put flags down anyway.
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Round 1: I run up, mostly hang left aside from the Visioned and camera shy Meat Thresher that goes hard right.
Circle go super central, with the Sentry Stones guarding the flanks.
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Minion 2: Both Sentry Stones are forested up and thus stealthy, never the less they are the goal to murder. Doing so cuts down teh free infantry losses.
Sturm drops Vision, puts up Decel and TK's the left most Efaarit and the Splatter Boar (Craft Talisman proving it's worth).
The Efaarits both move up, between them they just manage to kill the left Sentry stone then reposition away.
Splatter Boar moves up the guts, he's a suicide piece however this is a chance to break a stone unit and ding Cassius. I opt for the Corrosion shot, as the blast damage is unlikely to pop either the extra stone or Cassius. Primary target Shifting stone dies, Cassius goes down to two boxes, so potentially he'll die to corrosion in a couple turns.
Slaughter Hosuers mostly run around and spread out in pairs, the front two get a free kill from one of the Gallows Grove which was a little odd. They're going to die anyway, so I don't lose anything for throwing them forward.
Right wise another couple Slaughter Hosuers run up to be annoying, Hutchuck charges the right Sentry Stone and sadly falls two boxes short (Needing a 12 on three dice isn't great, really wish the list had extra avenues to finish off these sorts of things). I forwent dropping out the commandos as they wouldn't get shots in range, looks like that might have been one of my opening critical mistakes.
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Circle 2: Circle clumps hard around the flags, Wurmy feats this turn. We test version 1 of the stupid sodding tree tokens, they seemed to work allright. Much less painful than trying to measure that bullshit out.
Prior to that the Splatter Boar gets.....Battled....by Megalith. To a pulp. A horrifying, juicy, porky pulp.
Everything else mostly drifts around and does what ranged attacks are possible, killing the Slaughter housers around the flags. The nearest Battle Boar gets Strangleheld. The remaining Gallows Grove is also well placed to deny any Toughing out from happening.
I thought things were going to be perfectly manageable, when one of the twigmen of the surviving Shifting Stone one shot Hutchuck. Oh dear.
Circle score both flags and the right zone, get up 0-3 and it's looking grave for our crappy sidekick (NO STURM IS NOT A HERO. DRANG ISN'T EVEN A SIDEKICK UNLESS YOU COUNT JASON PRE-RED HOOD SHENANIGANS).
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Minion 3: Sturm hides behind the wall, puts up Decel and TK's some things to be able to get to where they need to go. Sprays down the Feralgeist.
One Efaarit runs in to contest the Circle flag after a Slaughter Hosuer kills off the Gallows Grove, most stuff then jsut futzes around.
Meat Thresher moves up and shoots down the Sentry Stone, plus damages one of the pew pew Wolds. Commands, repped by Cygnar Trenches, swamp in from the right and start moving in.
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Circle 3: It's a simple matter for Circle to clear out the flags and go to 5.
I want to have another hissy fit about Sturm, but reaelly this particular los is all of my own devising.
Late Game, the Meat Thresher needed to run up to contest, as did the Battle Boars. I also completely failed to feat, which would then give the Thresher at least some chance of surviving.
Mid Game the Thresher was to paranoid about Stranglehold, when it needed to contest the right zone to prevent that lazy score.
Anyway, let's put the speed 5 Centaur aside for the moment, we've got new Junior Casters in CID to bemoan! Nah, that might be useful. Let's make Llaelese lists instead.
