Game 266: Vyros2 vs Siege1

Game 266 – Vs Rudolf Edlmayer – Cygnar – 16/09/18

My list:

Vryos, Incissar of the Dawnguard (Forges of War)

-Sylys Wyshnaylrr, The Seeker

-Griffon

-Griffon

-Griffon

-Griffon

-Griffon      

-Griffon

-Aspis

-Manticore

-Manticore

Arcanist Mechanik

Arcanist Mechanik

Arcanist Mechanik

House Shyeel Artificer

Lanyssa Ryssyl, Nyss Sorceress

House Shyeel Arcanists

House Shyeel Arcanists

His List:

Major Markus “Siege” Brisbane (Heavy Metal)

-Squire

-Defender

-Defender

-Triumph

Journeyman Lieutenant Allister Caine

-Ace

Journeyman Warcaster

-Charger

Lieutenant Allison Jakes

-Charger

-Defender

Max Field Mechaniks

Final round of the WTC and we are up against Hungary, with me matched up against their Cygnar player. I know that Siege has been revitalised by Caine0, but haven’t had a chance to play into him yet. That being said, against a full on gunline on Spread the Net I felt pretty confident. I won the roll to go first and got moving.

Vyros casts Deceleration and everything runs up the table in 2 groups, a pod of 3 on the left and the main bulk of the battlegroup on the right. Solos move up to prepare to dash to flags on later turns.

One Griffon if a bit too far forward and gives Triumph his Maintenance Phase shot, and the rest of the guns open up dealing some decent chunks of damage. The Journeyman puts Arcane Shield on Caine who in turn puts Fire for Effect on Siege.

I think I can start work on some of the Journeymen here to make some jacks inert and remove some of the useful upkeeps. I shoot off the Journeyman and put a shot into Caine, but leave the latter on 3 boxes. I run my 2 damaged jacks on the left to engage as Siege doesn’t have many activations with which to clear it. Vyros’ and Siege’s Feats interact in an interesting way; whilst normally I would Feat this turn with Vyros to take a few Feat moves, Siege wants to damage everything a bit with his Feat, and so mine wouldn’t do much. Holding it until the turn after where Siege will be finishing things off is far more useful.

Siege takes out the 2 engaging jacks and then Feats and opens up with his guns into my jacks, not killing any but damaging them pretty badly. A Defender charges into a Manticore, taking it out. We both score our zones to start at 1-1.

This turn was what I had been planning for all game. I score both flags and my zone, taking out the Defender and the contesting Mechanics from the central zone. I Feat to try and protect my lead and hope I can just survive the turn. Vyros takes out Caine with Lock the Target. I lead 5-1.

Rudolf continues the attrition but even though he gets Vyros knocked down, he never really has enough to threaten an assassination. I manage He contests everything and shoots Lanyssa off the left flag but can still only score his zone, as I do to move to 6-2.

I just need to contest the left zone to win, but I decide to kill Siege with Vyros for style points. I win on assassination and 9-2 on scenario.

VICTORY

Having played this matchup now I don’t think I win it on any other scenario, but with going first on Spread I was just able to score enough points and survive long enough to take the game.

The team won the round 5-0 to finish on 3-3 for the weekend. We were slightly disappointed with the overall result but the three rounds we lost were all incredibly close and could have gone either way.

I loved my first WTC experience, the whole event was incredibly well run and I met so many great people. I can’t recommend it highly enough to anybody. If you don’t make a national team, get into the Solo Masters and just soak up the atmosphere.

Thank you to my team mates Andy, Brett, Ben and Matt – it was a pleasure to be on a team with you guys and despite a few marginal results I think we can all be really proud of how we played. Congratulations too to the England Lions and Knights teams who finished 4^th and 3^rd respectively, showing just how strong Warmachine is in the UK right now.

I’ll be taking a brief break now until the CID drops, but it is the UK Nationals 3 weeks after the WTC, so I’ll need to be back up and running for that. Thank you all for reading, and if you have any questions or comments please don’t hesitate to get in touch.