Game 188 – Vs Paul Sheard – Retribution
– 06/05/18
My list:
Kaelyssa, The Night’s Whisper (Legions of Dawn)
-Helios
Arcanist Mechanik
Eiryss, Angel of Retribution
Dawnguard Sentinel Scyir
Dawnguard Destor Thane
Dawnguard Destor Thane
Max Dawnguard Sentinels
-Dawnguard Sentinel Officer and
Standard Bearer
-Soulless Escort
Max Dawnguard Sentinels
-Dawnguard Sentinel Officer and
Standard Bearer
-Soulless Escort
Min Dawnguard Destors
His List:
Lord Arcanist Ossyan (Defenders of Ios)
-Harpy
-Hypnos
Arcantrik Force Generator
Arcantrik Force Generator
Arcanist Mechanik
Fane Knight Skyreth Issyen
Heavy Rifle Team
Heavy Rifle Team
Max Houseguard Halberdiers
-Officer & Standard Bearer
Max Houseguard Halberdiers
-Officer & Standard Bearer
Lynus Wesselbaum & Edrea
Lloryrr
The final round of the Steamroller
put me against club mate Paul. Paul was borrowing some of my models to add to
his own Ret for the weekend, so I apologise for any confusion there may be in
the photos. I wanted to try my Kaelyssa list out, and thankfully had an
opportunity to do so here. I won the first turn and we got moving.
I haven’t played this list for a
while but it all comes back to me pretty quickly. Refuge onto Kaelyssa, Blur on
Helios and everything runs up the table, being careful to stay out of the AFG
threat ranges.
Ossyan puts up Quicken onto the left AFG to get it further up the table, and Admonition on himself. Paul’s army then
get up the table, with both Halberdier units advancing in Shield Wall to make them slightly harder to kill.
The plan this turn is to deal what
damage I can and Feat to protect against reprisal. My number 1 target is
Hypnos, as him Shadow Binding areas
of my Sentinels. Kaelyssa advances and uses 2 shots to make it Stationary, before Helios charges a
Halberdier to get position, killing it and setting 4 others on fire, before
pushing Hypnos towards the Sentinels who charge and kill it. A few other
Sentinels and the Destor Thane on the right take out some Halberdiers, whilst
the left Thane takes out Lynus and Edrea.
3 of the 4 aflame Halberdiers die
to the fire, and Paul tries to plan his way back into the game. He attempts to
shoot Helios with Ossyan’s gun but unfortunately misses before Ossyan Feats.
All but the right AFG shoot into it, leaving it on a dozen or so boxes. The
right AFG is engaged by 2 Sentinels and a Soulless, so does what he can to
disengage himself without triggering too much Vengeance. The Halberds try to get some work done but can only take
out a few Sentinels. Nobody scores.
Kaelyssa and Eiryss combine to lock
down the Harpy before the Destor Thane deals some damage to it. Helios tramples
over the Halberdiers before buying 2 attacks to kill the left AFG. On the
right, boosted by Tactician the
Sentinels and Destors destroy the AFG, one of the Rifle Teams, and most of the
remaining Halberdiers, leaving Paul with very little left. It was a pretty
brutal turn of attrition that effectively ended the game. Again, nobody scored.
Paul uses his few remaining models
to try and take out Helios, but leaves the colossal on a handful of boxes. He
isn’t happy about how this game is going. We still don’t score.
I’m on tidy up this turn as the
Destor Thane finishes off the Harpy, Helios destroys the objective and my
Dawnguard finish off everything else that isn’t Ossyan. I finally start
scoring, taking a 3-0 lead.
Ossyan finishes off Helios. I move
to 4-0.
Kaelyssa shoots the single Focus off
Ossyan, allowing the Destor Thane to charge and kill Ossyan. I finish at 6-0 on
scenario.
VICTORY
This was
pretty brutal for Paul, and could look extremely one sided, but a couple of
dice rolls and one mistake by Paul made a huge difference. When I tried to Stall Hypnos with Kaelyssa Paul decided
to Shield Guard it onto Issyen,
forgetting that she had Reload. This
meant that I could still use all 3 pushes from Helios, had one of those been Shield Guarded my positioning would have
been much harder for my Sentinels to get into it. Ossyan missing the boosted 9
to hit Helios was also pretty painful for Paul, as with it Helios would have
been only DEF15 and would likely have died on his feat turn. All these things
aside though, taking a friend’s army off the table was very satisfying indeed.
I
finished the event on 3-1 putting me in 4th place. A pretty satisfying
result especially given the nature of my loss, and I was happy with the changes
I’d made to the 2 lists. 2 weeks to go until the Welsh and I am starting to
feel pretty well prepared.
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