Game 188: Kaelyssa vs Ossyan

Game 188 – Vs Paul Sheard – Retribution – 06/05/18

My list:

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

-Helios

Arcanist Mechanik

Eiryss, Angel of Retribution

Dawnguard Sentinel Scyir

Dawnguard Destor Thane

Dawnguard Destor Thane

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

His List:

Lord Arcanist Ossyan (Defenders of Ios)

-Harpy

-Hypnos

Arcantrik Force Generator

Arcantrik Force Generator

Arcanist Mechanik

Fane Knight Skyreth Issyen

Heavy Rifle Team

Heavy Rifle Team

Max Houseguard Halberdiers

-Officer & Standard Bearer

Max Houseguard Halberdiers

-Officer & Standard Bearer

Lynus Wesselbaum & Edrea Lloryrr

The final round of the Steamroller put me against club mate Paul. Paul was borrowing some of my models to add to his own Ret for the weekend, so I apologise for any confusion there may be in the photos. I wanted to try my Kaelyssa list out, and thankfully had an opportunity to do so here. I won the first turn and we got moving.

I haven’t played this list for a while but it all comes back to me pretty quickly. Refuge onto Kaelyssa, Blur on Helios and everything runs up the table, being careful to stay out of the AFG threat ranges.

Ossyan puts up Quicken onto the left AFG to get it further up the table, and Admonition on himself. Paul’s army then get up the table, with both Halberdier units advancing in Shield Wall to make them slightly harder to kill.

The plan this turn is to deal what damage I can and Feat to protect against reprisal. My number 1 target is Hypnos, as him Shadow Binding areas of my Sentinels. Kaelyssa advances and uses 2 shots to make it Stationary, before Helios charges a Halberdier to get position, killing it and setting 4 others on fire, before pushing Hypnos towards the Sentinels who charge and kill it. A few other Sentinels and the Destor Thane on the right take out some Halberdiers, whilst the left Thane takes out Lynus and Edrea.

3 of the 4 aflame Halberdiers die to the fire, and Paul tries to plan his way back into the game. He attempts to shoot Helios with Ossyan’s gun but unfortunately misses before Ossyan Feats. All but the right AFG shoot into it, leaving it on a dozen or so boxes. The right AFG is engaged by 2 Sentinels and a Soulless, so does what he can to disengage himself without triggering too much Vengeance. The Halberds try to get some work done but can only take out a few Sentinels. Nobody scores.

Kaelyssa and Eiryss combine to lock down the Harpy before the Destor Thane deals some damage to it. Helios tramples over the Halberdiers before buying 2 attacks to kill the left AFG. On the right, boosted by Tactician the Sentinels and Destors destroy the AFG, one of the Rifle Teams, and most of the remaining Halberdiers, leaving Paul with very little left. It was a pretty brutal turn of attrition that effectively ended the game. Again, nobody scored.

Paul uses his few remaining models to try and take out Helios, but leaves the colossal on a handful of boxes. He isn’t happy about how this game is going. We still don’t score.

I’m on tidy up this turn as the Destor Thane finishes off the Harpy, Helios destroys the objective and my Dawnguard finish off everything else that isn’t Ossyan. I finally start scoring, taking a 3-0 lead.

Ossyan finishes off Helios. I move to 4-0.

Kaelyssa shoots the single Focus off Ossyan, allowing the Destor Thane to charge and kill Ossyan. I finish at 6-0 on scenario.

VICTORY

This was pretty brutal for Paul, and could look extremely one sided, but a couple of dice rolls and one mistake by Paul made a huge difference. When I tried to Stall Hypnos with Kaelyssa Paul decided to Shield Guard it onto Issyen, forgetting that she had Reload. This meant that I could still use all 3 pushes from Helios, had one of those been Shield Guarded my positioning would have been much harder for my Sentinels to get into it. Ossyan missing the boosted 9 to hit Helios was also pretty painful for Paul, as with it Helios would have been only DEF15 and would likely have died on his feat turn. All these things aside though, taking a friend’s army off the table was very satisfying indeed.

I finished the event on 3-1 putting me in 4^th place. A pretty satisfying result especially given the nature of my loss, and I was happy with the changes I’d made to the 2 lists. 2 weeks to go until the Welsh and I am starting to feel pretty well prepared.