Invasion
Alrighty, haven't practicesed the lists for a fortnight and ill the week before, what could go wrong with flying to another states champs tourney?
Everything, but not until round 4.
In the meantime, sweet 5 rounder, throwing down Arkadius triple War hog and Raskalicious with the the 5 Bone Swarms.
Round 1 is into a painting extraordinare with Swans that were damn pretty.
Scenario is Invasion, so playable but not rushable for both lists. I lost the roll and got given second, the table had the return of the Thexus mansion from WTC the year before so I nabbed that side. Basically makes arkadius have a perfect central nook to sit, this will be one of the feew games where Guardian Beast gets to be an absolute rockstar.
It's Stryker2 Storm Division with a mix of the different units, battlegroup of Rowdy/Ironclad and a Junior with a Firefly.
Additional terrain that matters is a big forest in the right zone. Left zone has an intruding forest that slightly comes up.
Basic plan is to just abuse the central building, get that Road Hog sprinting back and forth.
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Round 1: Stormies move forward, infantry blob on left, left of centre battlegroup, Storm Lances out on the right.
Arkadius pops Guardian Beast and gets up to his building safety point, beasts make a triangle outside of Stryker feat advance plus charge of the various dudes. Razor Boars move up on the right side, popping Coutner Charge Animi in case of jamming.
Forced Evo is on the Road Hog, I puppet strings the right War Hog in case he gets to move up and biff something running up to Arkadius.
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Cygnar 2: Left wise the can't-be-charged unit, whichever one that is, move up forward. Guardian Beast procs the Road Hog to spray down a pair of them.
Other infantry on this side sit up at the edge of the zone, warjacks behind.
Centrally Firefly moves up into the rectangle, shoots a Razor Boar.
Cav out on the right shoot at the Razor Boars, coupled with the Firefly shot they kill a pair of them. Alas poor mini-pigs.
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Minion 2: Bit of hemming and hawing on whether to feat, then decide a mediocre feat is fine with the Guardian Beast Building to work with.
Left wise, the Road Hog sprays down four odd dudes. The Battle Boar gets Primalled and frenzies forward, then walks to the non-chargable guys and pac mans the five he can get too.
One of the War Hogs toes the back of the zone beside the intruding forest.
Centrally Orin goes into the building hidey hole, Arkadius pops out to Crippling Grasp a Storm Lancer then repos back. One War Hog toes the corner of the zone to ensure my Objective can't be touched. Another War Hog, now with Forced Evo, frenzies up on a dude then eats a fella to get to teh Firefly. The idea was to oertake to the Objective, unfortunately I made an error and should have Primalled him as he fails to land attacks and ends up only managing to kill the Firefly and stare gormlesly at the load of jacks ready to murder him.
Rightwise Razor Boars were Primalled (Such Priorities, many wows) they end up killing a Storm Lance each.
Otherwise Gorax' just chill up back and lose their fury to the feat.
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Cygnar 3: Leftwise, a dude (last survivor the pac manned unit) runs up to engage the contesting War Hog. The infantry dudez charge the Battle Boar and easily murder it.
Rowdy casually saunters up between the left and centre zone, trying to work it bitch.
Centrally, Ironclad is fully loaded and charges the Forced Evo War Hog. Guardian Beast triggers, get a crit knockdown and spikes damage. Flawless.
Nearby infantry unit piles in, rolls pretty poor. Stryker rolls his eyes and does the Ginger Snap, charging in with a 2 dice Overload. Gets 11 strength and five damage, kills with ease.
Junior puts Arcane Shield on Stryker.
Lances and a couple of the extra infantry pop a forward Gorax and otherwise simper around.
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Minion 3: Plan is to just grind along.
Leftwise the Road Hog gets Ghostly and Forced Evo. Arkadius also pokes it full of Raw Adrenaline.
It Assaults Rowdy, the spray kills the Squire and Junior. Punches Rowdy for some damage, kills a melee dude nearby then sprints backs. Rowdy Coutner Charges. This triggers Guardian Beast, so the Road Hog punches him again, as alas didn't get the full magic and Rowdy still got to punch and knock out the Mind.
The War Hog nearby kills the dude blocking him up, overtakes to Rowdy and easily kills it.
Gorax goes up behind to contest the left zone just in case the heavies get popped.
Right War Hog gets Primalled and goes up to kill the Ironclad, overtaking off an infantry dude. Kills the Ironclad. Overtakes up to Stryker, maxes fury for a fully boosted attack that kills him. Well then. Nevermind.
Rightside of the board was looking a little weak, play going forward was probably shuffle Arkadius to score the left zone and start getting heavies up. Still has some solos and stuff to move, only thing really needed to happen was body blocking to stop Stryker feating on a pair of infantry to move forward and try charging Arkadius.
Round 1 done, hopefully some rust knocked off.
