Game 289: Issyria vs Grim2

Game 289 – Vs Nick Hancox – Trollbloods – 21/12/18

My list:

Issyria, Sibyl of Dawn (Legions of Dawn)

-Imperatus

-Phoenix

Dawnguard Trident

Dawnguard Trident

House Shyeel Artificer

Arcanist Mechanik

Arcanist Mechanik

Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios

Min Dawnguard Destors

Max Dawnguard Sentinels

-Dawnguard Sentinel Officer & Standard Bearer

-Soulless Escort

His List:

Hunters Grim (The Power of Dhunia)

-Muggs & Krump

-Trollkin Runebearer

-Dire Troll Blitzer

-Dire Troll Bomber

-Dire Troll Mauler

-Earthborn Dire Troll

-Ice Troll

-Troll Axer

-Troll Impaler

Janissa Stonetide

Troll Whelps

Dhunian Knot

My second game with Issyria after being range assassinated in my first was against Nick and his Grim2 list, so I would need to be on my guard again. I won the first turn and we got moving.

Again, Admonition goes on the Phoenix and Inviolable Resolve on the Sentinels, who also gain Force Barrier from the Artificer to protect against any blasts from the Bomber. Everything runs up.

The Trolls run up the table, the Earthborn finding a position between a wall and forest to trigger 2 of his abilities. Krump’s trap goes down near the objective to make it difficult for me to advance aggressively into him.

Everything is still too far away for it to be Feat turn, so I just take out what I can at range and prepare to Feat next turn. Eiryss takes out a member of the Knot, a Destor goes in to take out Krump and my Trident on the right starts to deal some damage to the Earthborn. The Sentinels use their mini-feat, as all they really need to do is survive through this turn.

Nick decides to hold on to his Feat as an assassination threat, and instead focusses on taking out what he can. The Bomber and Blitzer combine to take out 4 Sentinels, whilst other Beasts take out 2 of the 3 Destors. We both score our own zones to start scoring at 1-1.

Issyria fills up the 2 heavies and Feats. Pretty much my entire army charges in. Phoenix takes out the Earthborn, Sentinels and Imperatus remove the Blitzer, Bomber and objective, the right Trident takes out the Ice Troll and some of the support and the left leaves the Mauler on a single box. It is a pretty devastating turn. I lead 4-1.

Things only get worse for Nick as the Axer frenzies and finishes off the Mauler. He goes for the longest of long shot assassinations, but it fails, and I score 2 more CPs to win 6-1.

VICTORY

That’s a bit more like it. I will admit this is pretty much an ideal thing for this list to go up against. 12/18 is a statline that will melt pretty quickly to Issyria’s Feat, and Nick didn’t layer his forces in the way you need to against her, but this was still really useful to see. I like this list a lot, and the Tridents are great fun to play with so many options.