Game 166: Kaelyssa vs Thagrosh1

Game 166 – Vs Dan Jones – Legion – 24/03/18

My list:

Kaelyssa, The Night’s Whisper (Legions of Dawn)

-Helios

Arcanist Mechanik

Arcanist Mechanik

Eiryss, Angel of Retribution

Dawnguard Sentinel Scyir

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

Min Dawnguard Destors

His List:

Thagrosh, Prophet of Everblight (Oracles of Annihilation)

-Carnivean

-Carnivean

-Typhon

Throne of Everblight

Throne of Everblight

Bog Trog Mist Speaker

The Forsaken

The Forsaken

Blighted Nyss Sorceress & Hellion

Ice Witches

The third and final game of the day saw me face off against former Ret player Dan, who has recently switched back to his Legion. He was using the increasingly popular Thagrosh1 with double Throne. I still think that my Kaelyssa list has decent game into Thagrosh so dropped it down to see how it would go. I won the first turn and we got moving.

Blur is cast onto Helios (but dropped pretty quickly) and Refuge on Kaelyssa herself before everything runs up the table. Both units of Destors flank pretty hard which in hindsight was an error as they were only ever going to be able to get to the Thrones that they could only realistically scratch a bit in melee.

Thagrosh’s 3 heavies all put up their respective animi and Trample up the table, with the Thrones flanking and staying out of the majority of my threat ranges. Fog of War is up on Thagrosh along with Draconic Blessing on one of the Carniveans. The Hellion puts up Wind Ravager and gets aggressively into the centre of the table.

I’m pretty sure that I can take Typhon this turn, at least forcing Thagrosh to pop his feat nice and early. 2 Destors charge and kill the Hellion, before Kaelyssa puts up Phantom Hunter on Helios, Feats, and shoots off Excessive Healing with her Dispel shot. Helios pushes Typhon forward twice and the Sentinels on the right charge and destroy it. On the left I mainly just reposition ready for something to come in next turn.

A couple of mistakes in my previous turn mean I lose far more than I should have done under Kaelyssa’s Feat. The Throne on the right gets into my Sentinels and has a field day removing a large number of them with melee attacks and sprays. On the left the Draconic Blessing Carnivean Tramples up to Helios, but doesn’t deal too much damage. He predictably Feats back Typhon who puts up his Animus to protect himself for the next turn.

Thagrosh has positioned himself pretty aggressively, camping just 2 Fury, so I am pretty certain I can get an assassination on him. I would need to shoot him up with Kaelyssa to strip the transfers, before pushing him forward with Helios and charging with 4 Sentinels. I mess it up immediately by killing the Carnivean with Sentinels, giving him a load more Fury. Attrition it is then. Helios charges in and leaves the second Carnivean on just a handful of boxes, and I score on my flag to lead 1-0.

With Kaelyssa left camping nothing after my attempted rescue attempt last turn Dan goes for an assassination of his own. He can get a decent number of Spine Burst damage rolls onto Kaelyssa by targeting my objective, but a small error in order of activations means that she is left alive on 7 boxes. More damage in put into Helios but he is still standing with a Cortex and an arm. Nobody scores.

Despite surviving an assassination run I am still in pretty bad shape attritionally. I am able to get some work done though and take out both the Carnivean and the left Throne, but some bad rolls mean that again Kaelyssa is forced to camp no Focus. I score the left zone to take a 2-0 lead.

Dan finally puts me out of my misery. Thagrosh unengages Typhon before The Forsaken charges and finishes Helios. This clears up Typhon to get into range of Kaelyssa, and his sprays finish her off.

DEFEAT

Too many mistakes in this game from my point of view. I got greedy with Helios early on, had I pushed Typhon forward a third time I would have been able to kill it whilst staying out of range of the Throne, and so only lost a couple of Sentinels to it in the next turn. The assassination mistake was just stupid, I didn’t need to kill the Carnivean as I could have just taken a Free Strike on Helios to get him into position. I still love this list but am going to start looking at ways to shake it up a bit, so stay tuned for that.