Spread the Net
Travelling from a picturesque country town to my glorified hovel for politicans, it's a Drubear game with......Circle? Is this the real life?
Kaya2 in Call of the Wild, with angry Garou that don't yet have pathfinder. Dropped Rask, given I played Arkady into Circle previously. Opposing list is fast yet expensive heavies, so just have to trade it out and should be reasonably comfortable.
I lose the roll and get choice of table side, important terrain is primarily in the centre zone, in which I take an obstacle side for Rask to cower behind. Circle get a fog bank in the same region, there's a central wall to contest with as well.
Otherwise Circle get a big trench in their rectangle zone on the left, I have a small forest in my rectangle on the right that allows some interplay. Notably neither flag has any terrain around it.
Those Circle trenches mean I go in thinking that gun shots on the left aren't super relevant, while the right forest can be pretty handy to block LoS until Circle get up in my face, which seems unlikely.
Shadowpact is annoying, however there are Shifting stones and bit pieces to pop at I guess.
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Round 1: I forget to pick a Prey. Smeg. Had the Token ready and waiting as well. Good at life.
Circle run forward with a lean toward the right, all the heavies sitting in Shifting Stone triangles.
Lord of the Feast goes out left.
Rask feels his typicaly going second awkwardness, I opt to feat given the threat ranges involved. I get first chance to score anyway.
Dahlia/Skarath and a pair of Bone Swarms go out left.
Most other stuff out on the right. Eilish goes more flanky than normal, intent being that if need be he can move up and nuke the Feralgeist if it threatens to score the Circle flag.
Alten pot shots an opposing Gobber Bellows Crew down.
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Circle 2: Turns out rask is about half an inch out of Laris running up to engage and Kaya porting to him, so that could have been pretty bad. For the most part Circle backs off, like ya do.
Couple exceptions, most aggressive being the sole griffon that gets Forced Evolution and flies right up to engage Rask, it's back to the house. Didn't expect that one.
The Feralgeist runs up on the right, allowing the Pureblood to port up and do a spray that clips a Pot, Bone Swarm and Brine. They all take damage, the Swarm losing its mind. Feralgeist also pops.
Shadowpact is up.
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Minion 2: With feat popped Circle have threat ranges worth caring about again. Quite the nuisance. The Pureblood is a free get, otherwise it's a matter of ensuring Rask gets away from the Griffon. I'll start the scoring pops and that can be that.
Math issue is that unlike shlubby Merc heavies, MAT 6 doesn't cut it for a 3 Fury beast to off the Defence 14 Warpwolves, so that has to be fixed before the kill happens.
Leftwise Dahlia sits with Haunting Melody on the flag, no Circle Beasts are toeing their rectangle so I don't have to care about the throwaway contesting. Skarath sits out of Warpwolf threat range and puts up Counterblast.
One Boneswarm toes the central zone in front of the house with Swarm up, expecting it to die but be problematic in doing so, his 'swarm bud backs up a smidge to be safe.
Rask gets Ghostly and Puppet Strings, backs up from the Griffon and hits it with a Paralysis bolt. The Wrastler then eats it with ease.
On the Circle side of the......I guess make that the Oboros side of the circle zone the Fury'd Bone Swarm charges up, eats a Shifting stone to break one o fhte units, then pops a Gallows and a Blackclad. I wanted to make a go of it on both blackclads, alas that would be 8's to hit so I instead I boosted the attack roll and took the one certain kill rather than the dubious pair.
Rightways, the Admonitioned Boneswarm gets Puppet Strings, slams the Pureblood down. Brine pops Animus, charges in and eats it without issue, gets Souie'd back.
Extreme right gets the Totem Hunter, plus the epic duel of my Gobber Chef engaging the remaining enemy Swamp Gobber.
I score my flag and rectangle, 2-0.
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Circle 3: Brine is still in range of the Feral if all the range increease buffs land. Dangit.
Kaya arcs Dogpile through the Gallows at Brine, misses the first attempt so has to try again, landing it but now unable to Shadowpact. Happy days. She then falls back from murder range of my things, which is rude and clearly pursuing an anti-Winion agenda.
Out left, Lord of the Feast shoots Skarath and ports into his back arc, takes out half the spirit.
One of the Stalkers charges the Bone Swarm with its Animus up, boosts it's attack rolls and maxes fury to kill it then sprints around the house to engage a bunch of stuff.
Laris runs to toe the Circle rectangle.
Centrally a Stalker kills the Furyed Bone Swarm, however his advance triggers the Admonition Boney Beast who moves across and now vlocks the Feral getting in on Big Pig.
The Stalker sprints to be behind the wall.
Gallows Grove ports to contest my rectangle.
Rightside, Feral pops Primal, goes in on the once Admo Swarm, kills it and ports back to Kaya with her feat.
Shifting Stones shuffle around, the Blackclad runs to the Circle flag.
Circle scores their flag and rectangle, now 2-2.
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Minion 3: Just a matter of killing the Stalkers and riding the attrition coaster at this point, given how well the Bone Swarms have traded around this match.
Out left, the Pot gets Ghostly and Puppet Strings to try to clear Skarath. Blipped on him having Stealth, so that was a poor move.
Skarath just walks to the nearby Stalker, LotF freestrike takes out it's Mind. Dahlia's bond and boosting the opening attack makes that not matter, Snek fills up Fury but comfortably kills the Circle heavy.
I've run out of attacks in the vicinity to kill the Lord of the Feast, so Dahlia just goes up into the Circle rectangle to contest, hiding out in the trench.
Centrally, Brine gets Boundless Charge and Raged as Rask pops a shot to Paralyse the Stalker behind the Wall. Big Pig is smoked forward by little pig, goes in and easily eats the Stalker.
Rask has Admonition on himself now, he hides behind a Boneswarm, Wrastler and Gobber Cloud deal lest shenanigans be attempted.
Rightside Totem Hunter pops in and kills the Blackclad on teh Circle flag, Sprints back.
The duelling Gobbers continue missing their attacks.
I score my rectangle and the circle, now 4-2.
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Round 4: Feral frenzy kills a Shifting Stone. Circle stuff moves in to contest, Kaya kills Brine. Ultimately nothing can score and it's relatively trivial for me to clear stuff out and score three points.
Well that worked out alright. Seems hard for Kaya2 at the moment, got the tools to get the job done in the Raskilous icecream. Sort of amtchup that makes me wish I had a Mist Speaker, just one of the compromises to live with in a list aimed at non-Stealth matchups.
