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Thursday 17 January 2019

Game 288: Issyria vs Ossrum


Game 288 – Vs Sean Homan – Mercenaries – 21/12/18

My list:
Issyria, Sibyl of Dawn (Legions of Dawn)
-Imperatus
-Phoenix
Dawnguard Trident
Dawnguard Trident
House Shyeel Artificer
Arcanist Mechanik
Arcanist Mechanik
Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios
Min Dawnguard Destors
Max Dawnguard Sentinels
-Dawnguard Sentinel Officer & Standard Bearer
-Soulless Escort

His List:
General Ossrum (The Irregulars)
-Sylys Wyshnalyrr, the Seeker
-Ghordson Basher
-Ghordson Driller
-Ghordson Driller
-Grundback Blaster
-Grundback Blaster
-Grundback Gunner
-Grundback Gunner
-Grundback Gunner
Anastasia di Bray
Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios
Gorman di Wulfe, Rogue Alchemist
Hutchuk, Ogrun Bounty Hunter
Herne & Jonne
Horgenhold Artillery Corps
Max Horgenhold Forge Guard
Tactical Arcanist Corps
Tactical Arcanist Corps

The Steamrollers that I played earlier in December have really thrown a spanner in the works in terms of my list pair. I wasn’t expecting to like Goreshade so much, nor was I expecting him to have game into such a wide field. As a result, I decided to put my Vyros2/Elara2 pair on hold for a while, and see if I could find a pair for Goreshade that I liked. And then I got a notice that my Tridents were in the UK, and list writing began in earnest. A bit of collaboration with some other Ret players later and I had come up with the above Issyria list. I quick paint job on the Tridents and I was ready to go. Sean was my opponent again, with a slightly modified Ossrum list, and with him going first we got moving.

Ossrum puts up Fire for Effect on the artillery, before everything runs up the table, sped up slightly by Energizer.

I put up Admonition onto the Phoenix, Inviolable Resolve onto the Sentinels and Velocity up into at trench. My deployment and turn 1 are a bit of a mess to be honest, but it’s my first time with the list and my first with some very mobile huge bases, so there’s a bit of a learning curve. I’m also terrified of Gorman, so concentrate on getting my Tridents away from him.



Sean shoots off my Destors and continues to push up the table, with the Basher running aggressively into my lines under Bullet Dodger. Anastasia and Hutchuk ambush on the left and right respectively, the former taking out a badly placed Eiryss.

I have a line onto Gorman with my left Trident, so that becomes my focus for the turn. My Sentinels charge in, taking out one gun bunny and crippling a Blaster, 3 charging and dealing reasonable damage to the Basher. Imperatus takes out Anastasia but unfortunately missed the Basher, allowing it to dodge away. The Trident takes out Gorman and the Cortex of the Basher, the Artificer deals with Hutchuk and the right Trident removes another Gunner. A reasonable turn.



And then Issyria gets shot to death.

DEFEAT

I don’t mean to diminish this game in any way but this was a frustrating way to lose. 3 shots that could get on her needing boosted 13s to hit all hitting and killing her was a bit much. But these things happen I suppose. I liked the feel of the list up to that point, and that was all without Issy’s Feat, so I can’t wait to get it back on the table.


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