This battle report is actually blatantly copied directly from an email. Often times when there's a game in our small gaming group there will be an email the next day capturing the amusement of the game for the others that weren't there. This one was pretty amusing, but even more so was the write up by my buddy (and opponent for the game) Lance. I'll let you read his version of the battle.
Some quick notes about terminology. "Paper clip mode" is a term we use to mean being helpful sportsmans to each other. We use this for situations like when someone hasn't played for a few weeks, or we're playing something completely new, or just generally helping each other remember features of our army. I also built my list with no knowledge at all about his list, despite what appears to be helpful match ups for me.
This was an extreme paper clip mode game. Things like me going "uh, i'm moving them back and not activing that unit, the MK base is F'ing huge" and scott forgetting he could boost the shots from the battle engine on the first shot, which we retroactively fixed. There may have been another round of scott applying damage and me trying not to die between actions in round 2 and 3, but I think this is the turn flow. Scott was sporting; feora f'ing battle engine f'ing nicea (sp, the daughter character solo) mechanic? gorman two light jacks, the arc node and the spell protection one full zealots with monolith bearer aiyana and holt I was running; pDoomshaper tier 3 2x runeshapers janissa mountain king earthborn min kriel stone unit When we plunked the stuff down there were a few interesting observations. - hex hammer from feora does d3 damage when you cast spells, runeshapers were in danger - the mountain king is huge, I had problems initially placing my bonus wall from the tier - 35 point lists are hard - zealots + aiyana damage boost + zealot prayer is a crap load of damage output we played the three control point, one vanishes objective. scott won the roll, i picked the side with a forest in the deployment zone. the central area of the board was fairly clear. scott - round 1! Zealots take the lead, the battle engine and aiyana/holt go on one flank. an arc node jack takes the other. me - round 1! I throw elemental communion on the MK so it can run 14". I pretty much shove it out there so it can contest the center point and be within 2" of the tier bonus wall. I know it can get blinded but I'm just attempting to anchor down the scenario. Janissa receives elemental communion and parks behind the wall, off to the side behind the mountain king. Janissa, arm 19, cover. I smugly prepare to give scott the finger if he tries to whack her. we roll. middle control point, aka the one the mountain king would have been contesting, vanishes. scott - round 2! nicea charges janissa and melee-kills her over the wall. Giant foam middle finger is returned to the case. He uses sprint to engage doomshaper from behind. OMGWTF. To be fair it was still 8's to hit, and weapon master charges are violent. zealots roll into position and pop greater destiny. a few pop bombs on the MK and set it on fire. Scott misses the earthborn with the damage boost. If he had hit he would have cleaned it's clock by putting more zealots on it and a battle engine shot. me - round 2! runeshapers on one side move up to take the control point. lob magic templates and aiyana and holt, decimating them and freeing the troll people from their tyranny. Mountain king moves up 5" to engage feora, gorman and a bunch of zealots. doomshaper and the kriel stone folk fail to kill nicea. earthborn chills, barely moving and staying where it can get +2spd and +2 arm from terrain. runeshapers on the flank with the light jack are largely ineffective, running up to engage zealots and contest the point. I feat to try and keep feora from slaying the MK. scott - round 3! battle engine contests the point the runeshapers had taken, uses repulse and shoots two runshapers down. nicea jabs doomshaper for 8. I take it because I want to hang onto my other three transfers. The zealots, in a feat of bravery, walk out of melee with the mountain king. Many zealots were eaten. One remained behind so I could push forward. This opened a hole for his light jack to walk in mostly between the MK and gorman. He pushes gorman 1", out of melee with the king. Gorman then proceeds to blind the Mountain King. feora pops engine of destruction and charges the earthborn for a ton of damage. He was in range to try a flamethrower assassination, but three fury allowed for too much damage shunting. He took 4(?) points of damage on his caster due to the doomshaper feat. feora sets my army on fire. me - round 3! the entire kriel stone unit is knocked down from fire/tough checks. Bad things happened to runeshapers. Doomshaper took 2 or 3 damage from fire. Due to bad fury management, I only have 5 to work with. Go time! doomshaper slays nicea in melee and puts fortune on the earthborn. I'm sitting on 1 fury, aka dead if it doesn't work. The earthborn boosts to hit on a two handed throw, needing a 9 or 10 to hit feora. It hits, and I win the str check (12 vs 11 due to engine or destruction). Feora is hurled into the zealot that is engaging the mountain king. The blind mountain king starts making pow 19 auto-hit attacks. Three licks to the center of the feora. Summary! In grand warmachine style, I think both scott and I were riding the edge of "how to hold this together". He had me wrapped up if I hadn't of pulled out the assassination. Feora could have easily survived a round of attacks from the earthborn and then could have dispatched it or moved on to doomshaper. The battle engine by itself could have probably finished off doomshaper. Swapping out mulg, an axer and whelps for the MK in my normal tier list lineup felt like an ok point trade because the MK takes slams and power attacks out of scotts portfolio of destruction.
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