Spread the Net
Alrighty, round 2! Into the branches of Whitlam's number 11.
It's some churchy bois, with Thyra and a super interesting Reznick2 with battle Engines thing. Was enver going to see the latter though, dropping that list when Arkadius is in play is the height of madness (Huge bases with minimal screening? Don't mind if I do!).
If Rask was in the pairing he'd be the drop, once again though I'm not yet in the fluffier bracket so down went the tried and tested.
Spread the Net, lost the roll and got second turn, mildly annoying as the board will be flooded by the opposing double Idrians. Otherwise the Faithful Masses has a pair of jacks and a load of mounted solos, including a proxy for Hand of Silence.
There's a central forest, so Arkadius is happy for that regardless. I take the side with an obstruction on the right side, given I can ghostly it up pretty well and the Road Hog can potentially just sprint back through it which is sweet when the yo yo works out.
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Round 1: The Idrians Prey different War Hogs, then proceed to (sigh) run up and spread around, so even the Battle Boar murder spree will be difficult this game.
Hand of Silence goes right up behind the central forest.
Minor ettiquette note: Allowed one takeback in the opening close out (Thyra Gate of Deathed at the end of the activation, which nominally would have ended the turn before anything else had really advanced. Aka the game becomes a non-contest.), after which we developed a clear "no more backsies" thing. Noteworthy to me because I've historically been bad at communicating this, so nice for that to be resolved without grief on either side, makes the games a lot easier to manage with ownership of errors. Opponent was super understanding of that position.
Thyra'sadding to opposing threat ranges is somewhat aggravating, makes it very hard to get good positions.
I end up opting for Arkadius to go up behind the forest and assemble FORT BACON around him. The Preyed War hogs run to opposing sides to make Prey irrelevant until they die, by which time hopefully the Idrians will be quite reduced.
Couple Razor Boars run out on either flank, ready to be throwaway contestors for the Menoth rectangle/flag.
Solos hang back, stealth up or go behind hte obstruction. Would be quite awful if the Idrians decided to move up and knock out all the support, just makes life hard.
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Menoth 2: F)*&#^)#*ing Firefox crashed. Attempt #2.
Thrya moves up and feats, letting most of her boyos pop forward a bit. The Idrians, Champions of the Wall and Hand of Silence charge up, with about half the Idrians spreading out on the flanks.
On the left they manage to scrag one War Hog and badly hurt a Gorax, on the right they leave a War Hog on a couple of boxes.
Didn't really get a good Guardian Beast trigger so ended up just smacking a Champ for some points. ideally the Road Hog would have got a spray on the Idrians as they came in, alas is never lined up well, a lot of that do to models going base to base to ensure Arkadius didn't get unduly attacked.
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Minion 2: Menoth have moved up reasonably effectively, hit pretty hard and spaced well to try to get the early score advantage by having models in the way to contest. Unfortunately Thyra's head honcho was out of practice, so at this point had 8 minutes left on the clock to my 55.
It'd be very easy to just move stuff around, contest/score a point on the flag and wait it out. However that would still give them a turn, and sometimes stuff happens and you lose without expecting. Thyra had Gates of Deathed into the Menoth Rectangle behind her special friends jack, well in range of a War Hog to get in on so Assassination is a better bet.
Razor Boars position around and kill some Idrians. left War Hog gets Forced Evo, Puppet Strings, Primalled and Ghostly. Idrans engaging the Goraz are blocking the way, so they get killed by the Road Hog spraying them down.
Feat pushes the War Hog forward after a Razor Boar feated attack kills the last Idrian blocking his charge lane to Thrya, boosts his first two attack rolls to hit and kills her with ease.
Two rounds down, things are looking alright. Accept for Banabus, that mofo is looking more and more unlikely to be a drop. Menoth soul shuffling to be a future headache to deal with.
