Game 225 – Vs Rob McCormick -
Khador – 15/07/18
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:
Xevanna Agha, the Fate Keeper (Jaws of the Wolf)
-Juggernaut
-Kodiak
-Spriggan
Greylord Forge Seer
-Behemoth
Greylord Forge Seer
-Rager
Kovnik Andrei Malakov
-Marauder
Min Battle Mechaniks
Kayazy Eliminators
Kayazy Eliminators
The second day of the NWTC saw us
in the top group against the other 2 England teams and the Scottish team we had
played the day before. We would be playing each of them over the course of the
day so it promised to be a tough day. First up was England Knights, with me
into a match up I felt reasonably happy with against Rob with his Khador. The
match up came down as Kaelyssa vs Old Witch 2, with Rob winning the roll to go
first.
Reconstruct
goes up onto the Spriggan and everything gets up the table.
Kaelyssa puts Refuge on herself and everything moves up in response. I consider a
turn 1 Feat, but need to get the “no charges” benefit from it to really gain an
advantage.
Rob’s list doesn’t have many guns,
but the ones it does open up and deal some decent damage to my left Sentinels,
with the right unit being blocked off by a crow cloud from OW.
I have a very confused turn,
focussing on one plan before being forced to change tack, and as a result I
didn’t get anywhere near enough done. I deal some damage to the Spriggan but it
does not feel good. 0-0
As part of my really poor turn 2 I
had some models outside of Feat, so Rob takes advantage of that, killing 2
Destors and 2 Sentinels on the left. On the right he reblinds some of my
Sentinels. 0-0
I finally have a strong turn and
start to turn the game around. I stationary both marshalled jacks, and
stationary/disrupt the spriggan, taking them all out of action for the next
turn. Sentinels on the right take out the Juggernaut and Helios narrowly misses
out on taking out the Marauder. 0-0
Rob commits OW to take out a load
of the Sentinels on the right, killing a decent number. The Marauder goes into
Helios and does a little over half damage to it. 0-0
I think I have a pretty decent
assassination on here, so pull the trigger and go for it. Kae puts up Phantom Hunter on Helios before shooting
off OW’s 3 Focus. Helios pushes the Kodiak out of the way of the Sentinels,
then I have 5 Sentinel charges and Eiryss to take her out. I leave her on one
box. 0-0.
I wasn’t all in on the
assassination so Rob still has work to do to get himself safe. He handles it
well, taking out the Sentinels and getting the Rager over to him to absorb one
of my gun shots next turn, using the rest of his focus to heal. The Marauder
finishes off Helios.
I have a very long shot to kill OW
with Kaelyssa’s gun, but it fails, and I concede the game.
DEFEAT
- Bit of a sting after that one, even assuming that Kaelyssa does no damage
with her gun at all the Sentinels had an 80% chance of taking OW out, so for
that to fail was a bit gutting
- A really interesting matchup, as we have so many things good at taking
out the focus of the other’s army, so positioning was really important. Had I
not made a huge mess of turn 2 I’d probably have been in a much better place.
- Team ended up losing the round 4-1, so I was quietly relieved that my bad
luck hadn’t cost the team
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