Invasion
Game Twoneru, saving me the agony of following through on the faint impetus to try to sort out where the fluff is at.
Having gotten the multiple Colossal thing out of my system, time to knuckle down for a more normal game.
Blockader sticks around, as do the pair of Vanguards and Choir. Gibbs and Anastasia also make the cut.
Pair of Menite Archons go in because they are severely underpriced and buff the Blockader spray damage.
Second Menoth unit was the source of umming and arring (Not in a pirate way). Ended up with Vengers, wanted to try some Cav. Less models makes feat slightly fulcrumed technically, stops the trampling to bypass the invulnerable models, seems worth a shot.
Awkward points left over means the Thorn Gunmages make the cut. They get Fire Shots, so that might do something? Another unit that can score seems good anyway, CHoir won't ever really be positioned to do that well.
Ultimately I ended up going into a Fiona Flames that I feel is best described as optimistic. Flames with three Colossals. Blockader, Hurricane, Jakes + Victor, Ragman, Hengehold Scroll holdy dude.
Yeah, not to invested in making this rep go super detailed, it's a three colossal list that I doubt can kill enough to not get jammed out or leave Fiona vulnerable. Or something. That something being multiple rule screw ups, such as Archons not being living, letting one get befuddled, us both playing without considering Chasten mucks up Counter Measures. Eugh.
Ultimately the triple colossal list moves up, I pop feat on the bottom of one to jam in.
Round 2 sees Fiona counter feat and toe in the left and centre zones with a Colossal in each. I retaliate by backing my Blockader up and rolling like berserk to take out three quarters of its health, then finish it off with bit attacks (Archons/Vanguards).
Round 3 the colossals make attempts at attacks that don't go great. I then kill the Victor and have an unassailable scenario position, leading to....
Top of 4: The Hurricane makes a bid to assassinate MacBain, hiding in Llael ruins behind the Blockader. Befuddle opens up a position to get to for line of sight, the opening shot crit knockdowns to stop the dodge, he then gets shot down to 5-ish health and Fiona makes an obscene gesture on where she wants to ram her staff. Game ends on scenario.
Yikes, I'm so out of practice. Do feel more enthused for games now though. Archons not being Hot mealable is sound, sane and not what I want. Further tinkering would be trying Flame Bringers in place of Vengers which also fits a Tinker in, ultimately I'm feeling more inclined to try out some Winion stuff until the Mercs call to me again (i.e. I get push/pull pangs and make a Gorten list I like once more or the Void Archons are released and do cool things in Operating Theatre).
