Game 278: Goreshade4 vs Kromac1

Game 278 – Vs Paul Sheard – Circle – 28/10/18

My list:

Lord Ghyrrshyld, the Forgiven (Legions of Dawn)

-Chimera

-Harpy

-Harpy

Arcanist Mechanik

Dawnguard Sentinel Scyir

House Shyeel Artificer

Max Dawnguard Sentinels

-Dawnguard Sentinels Officer & Standard Bearer

-Soulless Escort

Max Dawnguard Sentinels

-Dawnguard Sentinels Officer & Standard Bearer

-Soulless Escort

Max Dawnguard Invictors

-Dawnguard Invictors Officer & Standard Bearer

Min Dawnguard Destors

His List:

Kromac the Ravenous (Call of the Wild)

-Ghetorix

-Pureblood Warpwolf

-Rip Horn Satyr

-Storm Raptor

-Warpwolf Stalker

Bog Trog Mist Speaker

Blackclad Wayfarer

Blackclad Wayfarer

Lord of the Feast

Second game into the new Circle and Paul is trying out Kromac1 with the new Storm Raptor. I’m sure my infantry will do much better this time! I win the roll to go first.

Lack of Ambushers means my deployment feels a lot better than last time. Inviolable Resolve goes on the unit nearest the big bird and everything runs up.

Kromac puts up Road to War and Bestial and everything runs up, with the Raptor taking up position on the right flank.

Again I’m not completely sure how to play from this point, so I put some clouds down on the left flank and press quite aggressively. On the right I run up the Invictors and my fairly useless Arc Node and hold the Sentinels back to retaliate.

And once again I lose basically my whole army. In hindsight I should have Feated and forced Paul to come into the zones, but that’s all a learning curve. Between Road to War and sprays, jumps, the Lord of the Feast’s utter nonsense and the Storm Raptor I lose an enormous amount, including my objectve. And its all in my face. I tilt again for a couple of minutes and then get my game face on. 1-0 to Paul

Priorities are the Feasty Boy and Ghetorix, and from there anything is a bonus really. I manage to take both out before Combo Smiting down the Pureblood and taking it out with a Harpy. The Rip Horn remains alive but pretty badly hurt. I feel that I have a bit of a way back into the game. Goreshade Feats, a turn too late. 1-0

This turn it’s my Sentinels on the right that take the brunt of the Storm Raptor, reducing them to just a few left before taking the right zone. The Riphorn moves in slightly and the Stalker prepares to be the next wave. 2-0

I am really starting to feel that I can get back into this game, but need to start turning around the scenario game. I take out the objective and Riphorn, consolidating my forces on the left flank. A Harpy pushes the Stalker out of the central zone, and 3 Sentinels charge it but deal minimal damage. 3-2 to me.

The Stalker is cleared off by the Raptor who moves up through the right zone and then charges the Harpy, rolling poorly to not kill it, preventing it from Sprinting away. We both score “our” zones to move to 4-3.

I capitalise on my luck by taking out the Stalkers with Destors, and continue to push through. I camp loads with Goreshade which is definitely a mistake as I should have Revived a Sentinel. Its amazing how often that spell gets forgotten. 6-3 to me and Paul is rapidly running out of contesting models.

Paul kills the Scyir and runs the Raptor into my zone. Now I’m going to have to kill it. 6-4 to me.

Goreshade can finally use a spell and puts the armour debuff onto the Raptor, cancelling out Inviolable Resolve. Everything I have left charges into it apart from one Destor to contest the right zone. The last charge is from the lowly Arcaist, who rolls well, but leaves the bird on one box. Had I revived a Sentinel last turn I would have taken it out. 6-4

Paul has to back out of my left zone to get everyone in arc, pulsing to remove all the single wound infantry, but successful tough checks on the Dauntless Destors means they both live. Raptor is healed up to a handful of boxes. We both score our zones again to move to 7-5.

Top of 7 for me now, and I’m pretty confident that I win if I kill the bird. Both Destors take the shots with their guns and just about bring it down. I score all three zones to win the game 10-5.

VICTORY

Well that was certainly a game. I’m still far from being in love with Goreshade but having played a long grindy game with him I was really impressed by his ability to just keep going. My thinking is that he will probably suit me better in Defenders, so that’s something that I will be testing in the future.