Game
276 – Vs Jonny Jennings – Khador – 21/10/18
My
list:
Elara,
Death's Shadow (Shadows
of the Retribution)
-Siren
-Siren
-Chimera
-Aspis
Arcanist
Mechanik
Max
Mage Hunter Infiltrators
Max
Mage Hunter Infiltrators
-Eiryss,
Mage Hunter Commander
Max
Mage Hunter Strike Force
-Commander
Max
Mage Hunter Strike Force
-Commander
Spears
of Scyrah
His
List:
Vladimir
Tzepesci, the Dark Champion (Armoured
Corps)
-Devastator
-Juggernaut
Man-O-War
Kovnik
Man-O-War
Strike Tanker
Man-O-War
Strike Tanker
Man-O-War
Suppression Tanker
Man-O-War
Suppression Tanker
Kayazy
Eliminators
Kommandant
Atanas Arconovich & Standard
Max
Man-O-War Demolition Corps
-Sergeant
Dragos Dragadovich
Max
Man-O-War Shocktroopers
-
Man-O-War Shocktrooper Officer
Man-O-War
Siege Chariot
Back
to my Elara list for a game into Khador. Can Man-O-Wars be taken down
with pow 9 melee attacks. As suggested in my last Elara report I’ve
made a few tweaks to my list, dropping Moros and Narn for an Aspis
and the Spears of Scyrah. Having 3 Reach models in the list gives me
some great targets for Scything
Touch and
some shield guards for the turns where I overcommit. I win the first
turn and after Jonny’s Advance
Moves we
get going.
Scything
Touch goes
onto the Leader of the Spears and everything presses up the table,
being careful to stay out of the threat ranges of the Advanced
Moved troops.
Jonny
mainly moves up and takes a few pot shots into my army. He puts down
a Covering
Fire in
front of my infiltrators. After doing this to other people for around
a year I am finding it pretty annoying.
Ambush
time. I switch Scything
Touch onto
an Infiltrator and between a couple from the AD unit and most of the
Ambushers I am able to take out both of the tankers on the right
flank and the Chariot. It was a pretty good turn.
Jonny
Feats and manages to dig pretty deep into my army, setting me a
tricky puzzle to solve with surprisingly high defence Demolition
Corps.
I
counter this by putting out Marked
for Death onto
the unit and proceed to deal as much damage as possible. I got pretty
luck removing the Eliminators, one of which required a hard 9, and
was pushing up pretty well until a huge swing of luck for me. I had
removed 4 of the Demo Corps which was pretty decent, but a last
minute Siren shot into the Kovnik rolled the boosted 14 to kill him,
allowing the Kovnik to walk up and take out another Demo Corp. It was
a huge swing on a dice roll. I had crushed the right flank at this
point and was just trying to retain control on the left. Nobody
scores.
Jonny
pushes up as much as he can to stop me turning my attrition advantage
into a scenario one as well, but isn’t able to do too much damage
to my forces. The Shocktroopers are down to a 9 inch threat now which
it pretty sad. Jonny scores the left zone to lead 1-0.
I
continue to push hard on the right, taking out the Juggernaut and
last Demo Corp. I deal some damage to Jonny’s objective and
generally spread around the zone to make it difficult for him to
score. 1-1.
Jonny
goes through a handful of activations before deciding that the game
has gone and conceding.
VICTORY
This
list plays so nicely when you can crush a flank like this. Yes, Jonny
played into my ambushers too much, but even if the Infiltrators had
just come on and run he would really have struggled to deal with them
with so few meaningful activations. I think the change to the Spears
was a great move, as it allowed me to cover say, the whole unit of
Demo Corps rather than just a couple of models with Scything
Touch.
There is a real weakness in terms of scoring flags in the list now,
but if you can take the table and attrition game the scenario will
tick over through other means.
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