Game 61 – Vs Ryan Longthorne – Skorne
– 22/07/17
My list:
Vryos, Incissar of the Dawnguard (Forges of War)
-Sylys Wyshnaylrr, The Seeker
-Griffon
-Griffon
-Griffon
-Griffon
-Manticore
-Manticore
-Imperatus
Arcanist Mechanik
Arcanist Mechanik
Arcanist Mechanik
House Shyeel Artificer
House Shyeel Magister
House Shyeel Arcanists
House Shyeel Arcanists
His List:
Supreme Archdomina Makeda
-Despoiler
-Basilisk Krea
Mortitheurge Willbreaker
Mortitheurge Willbreaker
Tyrant Rhadeim
Orin Midwinter, Rogue Inquisitor
Min Paingiver Beast Handlers
Legends of Halaak
Max Praetorian Ferox
Max Praetorian Ferox
Today was the latest in the series
of Steamrollers at the Wargamestore in The Wirral, and the first of SR2017, so
nobody really knew how the event would go. After my games the previous
Wednesday I felt that something differently needed to be done, so despite
having never used him before I put Vyros 2 in as my pair to Issyria. I knew
that there was going to be a Wurmwood player, a Mak2Cats player, a Legion player
and Rich with the out there list I played on Wednesday, and I felt that Vyros
gave me strong game into all of them.
At most Steamrollers you want a
nice easy round 1 to get into the swing of things but that wasn’t to be the
case today, with me bring drawn against Ryan who has been tearing up the meta
with his Makeda2 list. Not the easiest game to drop a new list but I knew I had
to go with Vyros. Ryan won the roll to go first and off we went.
Ryan casts Storm Rager on Rhadeim and runs up, protecting his cats with the
building in the middle of the table.
I run up in response. 2 Griffons Fleet and run far up to tempt him out
and I feat to take advantage when then die. A single Griffon flanks hard on the
right to put pressure on the right zone.
Ryan leaps the cats in, killing one
Griffon and almost completely crippling the other. On the death of the one
Griffon I feated forward the one on the right flank, only to move him to close
to the Legends, and getting myself Combo-Smited right back again. Best Feat
2017. Makeda sits on 6 fury for Stay
Death.
Lacklustre feat aside my
counter-attack is pretty impressive. Between the 9 Empowers I have on the table and the focus Vyros can afford to give
out I have so many high quality attacks once Synergy starts to kick in. Ryan’s tough dice are super-cold this
turn and I am able to remove 7 cats and the Legends of Halaak. It felt great
having that much focus to throw around, and it seemed like I was in a pretty
strong attrition position.
Ryan feats and attempts to come
back into the game but with so few attacks he has limited success. He takes out
the injured Griffon as well as a fresh one and one of the Manticores, reducing
me to Imperatus, a Manticore and a Griffon to close the game out with. I still
feel in a decent position but have a lot of work to do. He scores the left zone
with Despoiler to start the scoring, and leads 1-0.
I want to use my turn to kill off
both beasts and put some pressure on Makeda. I build up the Synergy chain a bit
and manage to remove the Krea with my Griffon and Despoiler with Imperatus. My
turn order is not ideal and I give Makeda more Stay Death fury half way through my turn, so I only kill a single
cat, leaving 2 on the table.
Ryan realises that the attrition
game is up and he has to go for an assassination. Vyros is camping 3 focus but
has to take 2 cats, Rhadeim and 3 Paingivers to the face. Rhadeim rolled low on
his damage but the rest of his forces rolled pretty well, and when the dust
settled Vyros was left on 2 boxes.
With nothing to transfer to I look
to assassinate Makeda. I build up Synergy using Vyros and the Manticore, do a
load of damage to her with the Griffon, before Imperatus Side-Steps off Rhadeim into her, killing her with a single attack.
VICTORY
Not bad
for a first run with a list. I didn’t play turn 2 particularly well but the
sheer power of the list was enough to make up for it in turn 3, and I was able
to ride the advantage out for the win. I can’t wait to play this list more and
get a good feel for it.
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