Game 151 – Vs Jonny Jennings – Khador
– 24/02/18
My list:
Kaelyssa, The Night’s Whisper (Legions of Dawn)
-Helios
Arcanist Mechanik
Arcanist Mechanik
Eiryss, Angel of Retribution
Dawnguard Sentinel Scyir
Max Dawnguard Sentinels
-Dawnguard Sentinel Officer and
Standard Bearer
-Soulless Escort
Max Dawnguard Sentinels
-Dawnguard Sentinel Officer and
Standard Bearer
-Soulless Escort
Min Dawnguard Destors
Min Dawnguard Destors
His List:
Koldun Kommander Aleksandra Zerkova
(Legion of Steel)
-Marauder
-Juggernaut
-Juggernaut
Iron Fang Kovnik
Iron Fang Kovnik
Uhlan Kovnik Markov
Kapitan Sofya Skirova
Min Iron Fang Uhlans
Min Iron Fang Uhlans
Max Iron Fang Pikemen
-Officer & Standard Bearer
Max Iron Fang Pikemen
-Officer & Standard Bearer
For the second Steamroller in a row
I am drawn against Jonny in the last round, though sadly not in a top table
final like the last time. This time Jonny had remembered how bad a match up
Vlad1 is into Kaelyssa, and wisely dropped Zerkova instead. I dropped Kaelyssa,
won the roll to go first, and got moving.
I run up the table, with only Refuge cast on Kaelyssa. I spread out as
wide as possible with the Destors on the flanks in order to make it difficult
for Zerkova to cover her entire force with a cloud wall.
Jonny pushes up with his forces,
also flanking with his Uhlans, and keeping the Jacks behind the main forces,
with the Marauder pressing forward on the left. Zerkova puts out 4 clouds,
leaving her camping nothing just behind her objective.
I quickly measure and it turns out
Zerkova is within 18” of Kaelyssa, so I look at going for an assassination. I
upkeep Refuge so that at least I
wasn’t going all in, and plan my angle. Kaelyssa goes first and deals around 8
damage with 2 gun shots, before Helios advances to start pulling her in.
Unfortunately I only hit 1 out of 3 10s (2 would have pulled her into range of
a lot) and so the other guns I can put into her can only reduce her to 8 boxes.
Kaelyssa Feats and I just run everything into his face under Mini-Feats and
leave Jonny to work it all out.
A significant part of Jonny’s turn
is spent working out how to get Zerkova safe. She is engaged by 3 Sentinels and
a singly Free Strike could easily kill her, so they have to be removed,
triggering Vengeance on both units.
The Uhlans on the left flank very aggressively, whilst the unit on the right
hold back a bit more. The Pikemen grind against Sentinels, killing a decent
number of them. Zerkova Feats and Jonny scores his flag to lead 1-0.
My Sentinels press through and kill
a huge amount of Jonny’s forces. Vengeance
allows the left officer and 3 grunts to move out of Zerkova’s Feat,
allowing them a Charge order to get into and kill the 3 Uhlans on the left. The
rest of the unit and the blues just kill Pikemen, removing a huge number of
them from the table. Kaelyssa Stalls both
the Marauder and central Juggernaut. The former is Disrupted by Eiryss, whilst the latter is smashed to bits by
Helios, who also destroys the objective. I don’t contest Jonny’s flag so the
score moves to 2-2.
Jonny continues the grind and it is
looking pretty close. He kills a number of Sentinels including clearing out the
left zone to score 2 more CPs. The remaining Juggernaut charges Helios and
deals pretty significant damage, but without removing any systems. The score
moves to 4-3 in Jonny’s favour.
Time to complete the assassination
that I started 2 rounds ago. Helios pushes up Zerkova into range of Kaelyssa
and Eiryss, with the latter being surplus to requirements as Kaelyssa fires Siphon Bolts into her until she died.
VICTORY
Having
played this match up twice now I feel that it is a pretty decent one for
Kaelyssa. Feating first doesn’t feel as crippling as it usually does when 2
control feats play into each other, as my list if far more capable of getting
work don under his feat than he is under mine. I finished the event with a
respectable record of 3-1, but my strength of schedule was pretty poor putting
me in 9th place out of 26 (I think). I’m going to put these lists to
one side for a bit as I know what they can do now, and need to test some other
bits and pieces for future events.
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