Game 175: Elara2 vs Vayl2

Game 175 – Vs Mark Ellis – Legion – 09/04/18

My list:

Elara, Death’s Shadow (Shadows of the Retribution)

-Chimera

-Siren

-Siren

-Aspis

Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios

Arcanist Mechanik

Narn, Mage Hunter of Ios

Mage Hunter Assassin

Min Mage Hunter Infiltrators

Max Mage Hunter Infiltrators

Max Mage Hunter Strike Force

-Commander

Max Mage Hunter Strike Force

-Commander

Spears of Scyrah

-Soulless Escort

His List:

Vayl, Consul of Everblight (Oracles of Annihilation)

-Succubus

-Scythean

-Scythean

-Naga Nightlurker

-Seraph

Throne of Everblight

Throne of Everblight

Blighted Nyss Sorceress & Hellion

Blighted Nyss Sorceress & Hellion

Bog Trog Mist Speaker

Blackfrost Shard

Another couple of homemachine games against Mark this week saw both of my lists go up against his Vayl2 as he attempts to find an off-list for Thagrosh. The first was the Elara list I tested at the weekend, and with me winning the first turn we get moving.

Elara’s first turns are not a particularly exciting affair. Scything Touch goes onto a central Infiltrator and everything runs up to just outside of threat ranges.

Mark puts Admonition up onto one of the Scytheans and Occultation onto one of the Hellions, before both Hellions advance and put up Wind Ravager. The rest of the Legion forces get up the table and threaten pretty deep into my forces.

Not too much is in threat this turn, so the main task is to remove the two Hellions to allow more freedom next turn. This doesn’t go particularly well though as I miss a lot of attacks, meaning that only one of the Hellions go down. I reconsider my plan and decide to just run up into his face and jam as deep as possible, putting the onus onto Mark to sort the mess out.

Mark starts making attacks into my forces, but Def14 holds up reasonably well against the MAT7 attacks. The Scytheans get a load of work done with Murderous but even they aren’t able to get through the Spears. All in all I lose around 12 models. I score the right zone to take a 1-0 scenario lead.

I vaguely eye up an assassination with the Spears this turn but can’t get Marked for Death onto her and so abandon the plan. Instead I play for attrition, taking out one Scythean and rolling slightly under average to leave the other alive on 3 boxes, as well as dealing decent damage into the left Throne. I score the right zone again to lead 2-0.

Mark feels that it is assassination time and it is what Vayl does best. He can get the Throne attacks and Vayl’s spells onto a 2 camping Elara, and despite a slight miscalculation in attack order (casting Deadly Storm too early in the run) he takes her out with his last attack.

DEFEAT

A pretty rough match up for me I think, but I could have done things better. The Thrones aren’t any harder to kill than the Cage Ragers were a couple of games ago, and yet I looked at them as unkillable monsters. Had I committed to them I would have removed a lot of the damage output of his list and could have played a much safer attrition game with Elara never leaving cover. I still like the list a lot though, and it doesn’t need to be able to play into Legion as I have Vyros for that.