Spread the Net
Round 3, enemy Winions! So many Gator players. Time to get some Skorne garbage together (In that I will limit myself to bad Skorne lists, not that they are inherently awful, though that was once the case).
We both have Jaga in our pair. Neither of us are nuts enough to think we should drop her into the other. It's Arkadius vs Rask, so Piggy beasts versus Lessers and a Thresher.
I lose the roll and get second. Potentially fine on Spread the Net if I can score the elements properly.
I take a side with a defensive wall, though the main reason is the Rask rectangle has a tiny corner smidge of the zone poking behind an obstruction, so if I plonk a model there it will be a pain in the backside amoeba's to turf it.
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Round 1: Rasks boyos run up, Bear on the left, Snake on the right with the Tresher. Swamp Horror gets Admonitioned.
The Threat ranges involved are super annoying, one of those amtchups where I resent having the triple War Hog instead of an extra Road Hog.
Stuff runs around, mostly starting the dance. A Gorax moves up on the right to try to draw in either the Horror, Thresher of Skarath. Stuff otherwise arrays out the back. Aggravator goes up in case Rasky tries to hide behind feat and do some snipey pew pew damage.
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Rask 2: Rask feats, pops Boundless charge on the Thresher and chills back.
The Swamp Horror comes up, nabs the Gorax and starts munching (When calamari gets revenge! A terribly boring movie coming to you soon from The Asylum!). It overtakes to eat a Razor Boar, alas it pops itself outside of Rasks Control area. Vivid memories of that brief time people thought that Mak2/Molik interaction wasn't bullshit for a solid 12 minutes.
The Thresher comes in, gets to a War Hog and a pair of Razor Boars. Knocks them all down. No worries, this works out fine. Then it roll max shots. Puts them into the War Hog. Kills it to the box.
Did not expect that. Danger Will Arkadius! Danger!
Stuff otherwise chills out, Skarath goes into the centre circle, the Bear and traitor piggies hang out in Rasks rectangle.
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Arkadius 2: Mistyped that as Arkadius2 for a moment. Weirdly not that interested in him going Epic, Carver or Sturm would be more interesting. Yes, just Sturm. Sturm is that awesome person you want to date and make Adventure Wars references with, Drang is their good for nothing actual other half that keeps them depressed. Probably also never cleans.
Rasks feat in other scenarios or if I go first doesn't matter much. In this one instance it's actually effective, making it not worth feating myself (Standard counter is move up a Razor Boar, feat charge with stuff then charge enemies).
Ergo it's wait it out, set up the scenario win ideally, kill the Swamp Horror and Thresher.
Out left stuff mostly falls back, ensuring Brine can't get to something I care about and not triggering the Bears Counter Charge. One Gobber Chef runs to the contesting corner behind the obstruction, the other goes to my flag.
On the right things....sorta happen. As in I do some outright garbage moves.
One War Hog charges the Thresher, while being in in range of the Swamp Horror. This forces the Swamp Horror to try to backpedal through the forest, all good that's part of the plan.
The War Piggy does an appalling job on the Thresher, eventually killing it though damn it made it look like hard work.
Road Hog gets Primal and Ghostly, had Forced Evo upkept on it. hurts for speed, walks up to the Swamp Horror and bins it, then sprints up. I forget how Fury works, Orin lightnings him to do damage to Dahlia that she transfers to the Snake. There's no good reason for doing that at this stage if it wasn't going to be followed by multiple primal shocks or soemthing.
Targ runs around on the right, planning to score/contest the Rask flag in future turns.
Arkadius ends up going to the right zone to score it with the Swamp Gobbers in front, here's hoping he doesn't die. Guardian Beast goes up, because it's magic.
I score my flag and rectangle, 2-0.
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Rask 3: Brun has a gun. Did not know that. Rather unfortunately, the contesting Gobber Chef found this out when his head got blown off. The bear just chilled in the Rask rectangle, while Rorsh and his Battle Boar toed the centre circle and Brine contested my flag.
Centrally Rask chilled up the back and put out Veiled Mist on my Battle Boar, who was in the way of the Snake. Soul Slave puts Boundless charge on said Snake, Wrastler Rages it up.
Dahlia runs up, Snake charges one of the Gobbers in front of Arkadius. Guardian Beast triggers, so one of the War Hogs gets to move up and thwack him. Sadly rolls the wrong colun to take out an aspect, however getting to and killing Arkadius is now very suspect from the freestrike, so instead Skarath kills the hero War Hog. Then maxes Fury for one last attack on the Battle Boar, taking out his body.
The Road Hog still lives to my surprise and is contesting the Rask flag, whic lacks a solo anyway. Rask just scores his rectangle. 2-1.
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Arkadius 3: That's enough screwing around, feat murder time.
On the left the remaining War Hog feats forward, kills Brine and dings up Lug. Razor Boar and two Gorax' go in to hurt the Battle Boar and strip Rorsh of all of his transfers, sadly lives in a couple boxes.
I'd had dreams of the Battle Boar throwing Rask away, alas he instead has to kill the Soul slave to Overtake to Rorsh and finish him off.
On the right Skarath maxed himself out, so Orin goes up to zap my Road Hog and lightning Dahlia away. In the back with a boost, misses. Awkward.
Arkadius gets puppet strings, I wanted him to camp up, instead it's Primal shock time. He misses.
Puppet Strings provies it's worth this time around, the re-roll hits and Dahlia/Skarath go away, which basically saves the attrition for me.
Sadly I just could not maneouvre a beast into my rectangle and Arkadius needed to come across for the control area. The Wrastler contests the Rask flag, so I only score a solitary point on my flag. 3-1.
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Rask 4: Leftwise, Brun runs around to contest my flag. Lug, thankfully, proves my opinion that the Bear sucks, hitting with his Moops Megalith Pillow claws to leave the War Hog on him quite healthy.
The bear killing Rasks vague hopes of a scenario plan, it's try to kill Arkadius once more time. The Bog Trog shuffles forward, puts Boundless charge and Rage on the Wrastler, plus throwing out a Veil of Mists to get past the blocking Road Hog.
Witch Doc puts Ghostly on him to.
Wrastler charges up to the Swamp Gobber, will need to eat him, the Witch Doc then getup and kill the one Fury camp Arkadius.
Or.....or....or..... Guardian Beast pops, the Road Hog walks into his back arc, lands the Crit Knock Down. Best Roadie ever.
That's basically the last gasp for Rask.
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Arkadius 4: Left War Hog kills Lug, falls jsut shy of killing Brun. This will not stand. Brun living means winning straight up scenario is hard, so the Gobber Chef leaves the flag, goes into Bruns back and kills him. Vague glory?
Anyway, the Road Hog gets all the buffs, moves up and kills Rask with ease.
Some bad positioing on my part, enemy Thresher did an embarrasing amount of work. Greuk.
A three round with two udnefeated, I get 2nd off SoS. Good enough, I'll take it! (Other undefeated was some Ossrum/Gorten WTC filth I want nothing to do with in this pair).
