Epic Recon
Once more into the breach! Specifically that whole in the chest thing! Weird how that isn't viewed as a problem!
I'd planned to tinker with the list, tossing Bone Swarms/Soul Slave for an Arc node and freeing up some points, instead I binged Conquest of Elysium 4 for a bunch. No Traditions were broken. Ergo I ended up arising last minute for a game in the morning hours of the weekend.
It's sweet Proxy city, because that's how Archangels are basically intended to be played. They've just gotten bumped up with some deeptively mobile shenanigans, so we go into Huge Base City of Lylth3, double AA, souble Thrones, two Hellions, two Shepherds and a Forsaken. Allrighty then.
Epic Recon, so opposing lack of units isn't going to be a problem at all. Rats.
I win the roll and take first, end up with some hills and water on my side, principal terrain being there's a central obstruction and a blob of forest around the Legion flag that could be annoying.
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Minion 1: Curse you floating orb of light. Stuff runs up. Left side Croaks halt at the edge of Archangel advance and pew pew range, the right one are more aggressive as the thinking is to push the right side and much around with the building in the way, though more likely the game is decided by whether or not Barny gets to eat a Garg or not.
Totem Hunter Preys the far right Throne for want of a better target.
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Legion 1: Sure enough, it's potshot city. Continuing my current track record of bleeping on things, turns out the AA guns are AoE's and some poor spacing on the elft means a 3 inch AoE kills three Shamblers. Urk. Three odd Croaks die on the right, their corpses shuffle over to the Bokor.
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Minion 2: So the thing about marketing your product via "These people can't believe brand XX tasted so good in a blind test" is that is convinced me your brand is a cheap knock off and they know it.
Anyway, time for Croaks to go in and scorchteh Thrones a bit. Arm 20 is out of hteir comfort zone, alas a Bone Shaker isn't really positioned to get up their and they'll be horribly grouped up for some easy deaths. Good thing we can always make Shamblers out of them.
They actually roll pretty well, leaving both Thrones on lowish boxes.
Bokors run around to collect their corpses, some Shamblers on the right run up to be in the way.
Barny moves up the centre behind the building-ish, puts up Execretion and Spiny Growth, nabs a Fury off the Bone Shrine. Sadly he gets Cursed, so that's not ideal. The Bone Shakers spread out around him to be Sac Pawners.
The Spitter moves up, flings a shot at Lylyth3 in the height of optimism, sadly doesn't magically scatter the way I want onto the Forsaken or Shepherd.
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Legion 2: So, cool story time: Just because you think the Archangel threatens 13 in melee doesn't mean you've mathed correctly. Ergo Thrones commit and achieve basically sod all (the left one had two boxes left. Sad Fire is sad.), right one in particular gets burnt badly by the Croaks being pseudo defence 15. Alas they do manage to pop one of Barny's Sac Pawn dudes, so Lylth then moves in, feats, Stationaries Barny. One of the Arch Angels then gets to fly in, smacks up Barny, comes down to a tough roll that fails. Doh.
Hmmm......yeah, still sodding up that Barny placement. Just had to have the Spitter or a Bone Swarm run in front for more transfers/position blocking. Barny being cursed was also not a great feeling, good odds the Bone Shrine gets dropped just so I don't have that headache of a choice.
Time for the Spitter to go, the gun is a detriment for me using it properly. Kwaak probably in a similar boat, the list doesn't line up with what the two header wants to do.
Tripping on some basic stuff right now vis a vis rules (Battle Engines could be stationaried once upon a time right? RIGHT?!) , should probably buckle down on that.
Weighing up a Jaga list that is built of such garbage compromise it might as well be a weird fetishist tied up in a hopper.
