Epic Pit/Championship Belt
Rumour on the street has it that I have a problem with this caster see. This pseudo french person with a toothpick. Name of Ashlynn.
This time around we went into the rural team, composed of some of the loveliest blokes in the game.
Sadly they've bought into Ashlynn's hype, or more specifically my vendetta with her. Ergo they supposedly set everything up so that I'd go into their Merc player, which sure enough worked out as they intended.
The actual issue here is that she is paired with Ossrum. My Gorten list is hot garbage into the Ossrum build,as it was 90% unpushable stuff and my screening models die trivially to bunnies. Cyphon, however, might have a chance to push through and kill the relevant pieces on feat turn.
However, Ashlynn has two units of Rocketmen. Breathstealer be damned, Cyphon can't do squat to that.
At the end of the day, I gambled on the meme being stronger than the desire to win. Thankfully I was correct. Well, except now if I lose to Ashlynn I'll be mocked for it until the end of time.
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I picked the table with Championship Belt, basic plan being to feat clear out one side and scenario it. very likely this will be one of the rare games where the conveyor belt of doom is required (Place Eruption on the board, push Rocketman into so they can become shitty versions of the human torch).
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(Sidebar: all the Human Torch iterations suck).
Opening die roll features an Anastasia off, thankfully mine is a bit more sneaky sneaky sneak sneak. I opt to go first for the yada yada board presence.
Both sides have a defensive rubble circle (Ashlynns is actually the Llaelese Resistance theme terrain), I have a pair of small forests on the outer rim of the centre circle zone of questionable. Ashlynn has a burning cloud, a forest and some water.
Gorten 1: My stuff runs up the board. Half a dozen Pressgangers deliberately run into range of the enemy models for Alexia Soul feeding.
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Ashlynn1: The Rocketman move up both sides, not super aggressively as expected (The local meta is more gun focused that my list is, so default caution was in place), they do pew pew my suicide Press Gangers so that's going well.
Ashlynn moves into the Llaelese rubble, unfortunately her dad remains dead from the Russkis.
The Jacks move up either side of her (A Toro and.....uh.....Rover? Something with Shieldguard).
Gorten 2: Well.....my caster is 17.5 inches from Ashlynn. Guess we'll see how this goes?
Acosta shuffles out of the way with a Vengeance move.
Grogspar punches Gorten forward 4 inches. 'tis on!Left Press Ganger unit runs forward to stop the enemy Warjacks coming with.
Gorten walks forward, pulls Ashlynn 4 inches forward through the rubble, the jacks ping into the suicide gangers.
I do a screw up here, doing a shot with Gorten that he couldn't do after the Grogspar Pitch. It gets Shield Guarded by the jack, thankfully it doesn't change the end result.
Ashlynn has one focus, it gets removed from a spiked Gun Bunny shot. I then remember Eiryss and do the Disruptor bolt, so....good at the game is me?
Other Gun Bunnies pop shots, one misses and the other does half a dozen shots.
Acosta charges in, opening attack kills Ash to the box. Had his second attack and Ashlynns Thralls to go.
Welp safe from the meme again.
I our team also take the round, though damned if I remember the margin (3-2 or 4-1, one of those).
