Game 47 – Vs James Hockney –
Mercenaries – 18/06/17
My list:
Dawnlord Vyros (Shadows of the Retribution)
-Imperatus
-Griffon
-Manticore
-Manticore
Arcanist Mechanik
Arcanist Mechanik
Narn, Mage Hunter of Ios
Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios
Max Mage Hunter Strike Force
-Mage Hunter Strike Force Commander
-Soulless Escort
Max Mage Hunter Strike Force
-Mage Hunter Strike Force Commander
His List:
Captain Bartolo Montador
-Reinholt, Gobber Speculator
-Galleon
-Nomad
-Nomad
-Rover
Master Gunner Dougal Macnaile
The Commodore Cannon & Crew
Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios
Dirty Meg
Last game of the weekend saw me
matched up against James with his Bart list. He had been playing double Galleon
the day before but switched it up for the Sunday. I didn’t like the idea of playing
Rahn into Batten Down the Hatches and
so gave Vyros one last chance to impress me. The +1 helped me to go first and
off we went.
I run up with Mobility up and Hallowed
Avenger on Imperatus. I want to be ready to punish James if he doesn’t feat
bottom of 1. Narn hides behind the central building with Imperatus and Eiryss
flanks hard on the right.
James advances up with his forces
and starts peppering me with AOEs. He kills a few Mage Hunters but doesn’t
trigger Hallowed Avenger or kill anything
important. Bart feats and starts moving towards his flag.
His feat takes my assassination off
the table this turn so I sit back on my position and shoot into his forces. The
mage hunters kill one Nomad, do a decent chunk to the other and take a handful
of boxes off the Nomad. A manticore shoots at the cannon but leaves it on a few
boxes. Narn just runs to engage Eiryss.
James continues shooting into my
forces, killing a decent number this turn and he does trigger Hallowed Avenger. The cannon shoots and
knocks down the left Manticore and the Griffon, and the remaining Nobad
tramples up to engage a load of Mage Hunters and finish the heavy jack off.
Dirty Meg hard rolls the 9 needed to hit and kill Narn.
Assassination time for Imperatus. I
spend some time moving my models away to clear a path for Impy, and do some
good damage to the Galleon whilst I’m at it. Eiryss runs to engage Bart and
trigger Flank. Vyros feats and casts Mobility,
setting up the assassination. Imperatus charges the Galleon, Side-steps off into Bart and then has 4
attacks, needing 5s to hit and doing straight Weaponmaster damage. First attack hits and rolls good damage, the
second misses, the third misses, the 4th hits but Bart toughs. He is
on fire though.
The fire continues. Bart toughs
again. Lame. Galleon drags Vyros in and punches him to death.
DEFEAT
Not a
game that I felt I deserved to lose but it is why we play with dice.
Oddsmachine puts the assassination at 96% before fire so I don’t think I was
wrong to go for it, but every 1 in 20 times that will go wrong. I have a great
time playing James and this game was no different.
On the
event as a whole I feel pretty mixed. I was pleased with how I played most of
the games but on some tables (my 1 and 2) the terrain was unplayably bad. I
even bought Vyros on day 2 to be able to play on them really well. I learnt a
lot about my lists though and came away even more enthused to try different
things out. I am very happy with the Kaelyssa list and feel I’m getting closer
to finding a good pair for her.
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