Game 305: Garryth2 vs Old Witch 2

Game 305 – Vs Jonny Jennings – Khador – 10/02/19

My list:

Garryth, Eye of Vengeance (Defenders of Ios)

-Harpy

-Harpy

-Moros

Arcantrik Force Generator

Arcantrik Force Generator

Arcanist Mechanik

Lys Healer

Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios

Heavy Rifle Team

Max House Ellowuyr Swordsmen

-House Ellowuyr Swordsman Officer & Standard

Max House Ellowuyr Swordsmen

-House Ellowuyr Swordsman Officer & Standard

His List:

Zevanna Agha, the Fate Keeper (Wolves of Winter)

-Rager

-Ruin

Greylord Forge Seer

Koldun Lord

Koldun Lord

Doom Reaver Swordsmen

-Greylord Escort

Doom Reaver Swordsmen

-Greylord Escort

Doom Reaver Swordsmen

-Greylord Escort

Doom Reaver Swordsmen

-Greylord Escort

Doom Reaver Swordsmen

-Greylord Escort

Min Greylord Outriders

Second game with Garryth2, and my first against the new reworked Doom Reavers, played by Jonny and led by Old Witch 2. Jonny won the roll to go first and we got moving.

Witch puts up her 18” Wind Wall and the everything runs up the table. It is a pretty daunting sight to be honest.

I am far more scared of the Outriders than I am of the Reavers due to their magical sprays, so I push up on the right flank whilst holding back on the left, hoping that things would look better over there next turn. Garryth casts Road to War allowing him to kill on Doom Reaver and a Harpy to kill a second. It’s a start I guess. The Ellowuyr on the right use their Mini-Feat.

I was so pre-occupied with the sprays from the Outriders that I completely forgot that UAs have them as well. I lose 8 Ellowuyr from my right unit to the mistake. Aside from that Jonny pushes up, not wanting to commit too much into my guns, and the Outriders run hard up the left flank, putting my in real danger next turn.

I have to deal with them, so the left AFG turns to see two of the unit, hitting one of the 8s required to kill them. My Ellowuyr go pretty crazy this turn, Cleaving through a lot of Doom Reavers, and (along with shooting from the Harpies and right AFG) removing 3 of the UAs to reduce the incoming sprays. Garryth Feats to make it very difficult for Jonny to deal with my forward models. I don’t score the zone I cleared, because I’m great at this game. 0-0.

My Feat stops most of Jonny’s retaliation on the right with Garryth even shooting off one of the Doom Reavers. Ruin is pushed out of the zone by a Harpy but still kills a couple of Ellowuyr. On the left Jonny casually reduces the armour of the AFG by 4, and reduces it to 7 boxes with a couple of attacks. Nobody scores 0-0

Doom Reavers are one of those opponents where it is difficult to see how well the game is going, but I definitely feel that I’m in a good position at this point. I take out the Rager, making Witch very scared of Eiryss, and keep everything important out of range of Ruin. On the left I continue to grind through the infantry, and in the centre Moros does great work working through the support solos. I score the right zone to lead 1-0

Jonny clears the left zone by finishing off the AFG, and runs his last Outrider into my backfield to threaten my support next turn. Ruin continues killing what he can, but Jonny’s momentum has gone now. 1-1

The game is really a clearup from this point. Garryth and the AFG take out Ruin, my HRT turns round to finish off the Outrider and the Harpies shoot the objective. At the end of the turn I have a 4-1 lead and Jonny has the Witch, a Koldun Lord and one Doom Reaver. He concedes.

VICTORY

Going into this game I thought the matchup was pretty good, but then when Jonny started pulling magical sprays out of every orifice I realised I was in real trouble. But the list worked, you don’t need a lot of Ellowuyr to survive in order to grind through the Reavers and Cleave is almost equivalent to Berserk once you have two players spacing properly. The difference was that I had enough guns to make the difference, and Road to War was huge in making up the range deficit created by Wind Wall. I definitely don’t think that this list is the finished article, Ellowuyr just aren’t worth 21 points in their current state, but as a framework I’m really happy with the list.