Game 47: Vyros1 vs Bart

Game 47 – Vs James Hockney – Mercenaries – 18/06/17

My list:

Dawnlord Vyros (Shadows of the Retribution)

-Imperatus

-Griffon

-Manticore

-Manticore

Arcanist Mechanik

Arcanist Mechanik

Narn, Mage Hunter of Ios

Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios

Max Mage Hunter Strike Force

-Mage Hunter Strike Force Commander

-Soulless Escort

Max Mage Hunter Strike Force

-Mage Hunter Strike Force Commander

His List:

Captain Bartolo Montador

-Reinholt, Gobber Speculator

-Galleon

-Nomad

-Nomad

-Rover

Master Gunner Dougal Macnaile

The Commodore Cannon & Crew

Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios

Dirty Meg

Last game of the weekend saw me matched up against James with his Bart list. He had been playing double Galleon the day before but switched it up for the Sunday. I didn’t like the idea of playing Rahn into Batten Down the Hatches and so gave Vyros one last chance to impress me. The +1 helped me to go first and off we went.

I run up with Mobility up and Hallowed Avenger on Imperatus. I want to be ready to punish James if he doesn’t feat bottom of 1. Narn hides behind the central building with Imperatus and Eiryss flanks hard on the right.

James advances up with his forces and starts peppering me with AOEs. He kills a few Mage Hunters but doesn’t trigger Hallowed Avenger or kill anything important. Bart feats and starts moving towards his flag.

His feat takes my assassination off the table this turn so I sit back on my position and shoot into his forces. The mage hunters kill one Nomad, do a decent chunk to the other and take a handful of boxes off the Nomad. A manticore shoots at the cannon but leaves it on a few boxes. Narn just runs to engage Eiryss.

James continues shooting into my forces, killing a decent number this turn and he does trigger Hallowed Avenger. The cannon shoots and knocks down the left Manticore and the Griffon, and the remaining Nobad tramples up to engage a load of Mage Hunters and finish the heavy jack off. Dirty Meg hard rolls the 9 needed to hit and kill Narn.

Assassination time for Imperatus. I spend some time moving my models away to clear a path for Impy, and do some good damage to the Galleon whilst I’m at it. Eiryss runs to engage Bart and trigger Flank. Vyros feats and casts Mobility, setting up the assassination. Imperatus charges the Galleon, Side-steps off into Bart and then has 4 attacks, needing 5s to hit and doing straight Weaponmaster damage. First attack hits and rolls good damage, the second misses, the third misses, the 4^th hits but Bart toughs. He is on fire though.

The fire continues. Bart toughs again. Lame. Galleon drags Vyros in and punches him to death.

DEFEAT

Not a game that I felt I deserved to lose but it is why we play with dice. Oddsmachine puts the assassination at 96% before fire so I don’t think I was wrong to go for it, but every 1 in 20 times that will go wrong. I have a great time playing James and this game was no different.

On the event as a whole I feel pretty mixed. I was pleased with how I played most of the games but on some tables (my 1 and 2) the terrain was unplayably bad. I even bought Vyros on day 2 to be able to play on them really well. I learnt a lot about my lists though and came away even more enthused to try different things out. I am very happy with the Kaelyssa list and feel I’m getting closer to finding a good pair for her.