Our local game store celebrated International Tabletop Games Day so we went along to show off Warmachine/Hordes and help raise some money for 3 children's charities. Each game was 35 points which is a level at which I haven't played much so it was an interesting day. We were also going for the wow factor hence why my lists all had a colossal in.
Anson Durst, Rock of the Faith vs. Lylyth, Herald of Everblight (Legion of Everblight)
Loss: Assassination (Scenario 4/0) The first list was the smallest list I could put together, 35 points = 11 models! Facing me was a fairly large Legion force with only a single colossal. I actually fancied my chances till I got pinned back and then assassinated. My fairly epic failure was not getting Durst base to base with a jack for most of the game to keep him safe. I also struggled with not having anything to jam the Legion infantry meaning that my squishy support pieces got pretty heavily shot up when the couldn't hide behind anything.
The lesson from this game is that colossals aren't great in a 35 point match-up and that I definitely needed some troops to help out!
Anson Durst, Rock of the Faith vs. Warwitch Deneghra (Cryx)
Loss: Scenario (5/0) No photos for the next two I'm afraid!
This game was one of those really blah games that I lost mainly through stupidity and trying to be to clever. The mission was the same but the board was laid out with a building in the middle meaning that I was trying to keep the colossal central and send the Zealots (in place of a Templar) at one whilst the Reckoner and Durst went for the other. I went first so had a bit more ground to cover too which didn't help me much.
The game started well with various shooting picking of a few Cryx pieces (including Stompy trying to snipe points of Deathjack), in response I didn't lose a model but the Cryx horde surged forward into both the objectives. My turn and I bombed and burned where I could killing a few more models and again forcing Deathjack to keep out of my way. Cryx turn 2 and a blitz on my right destroyed my objective, and put Deneghra toeing my zone. I hadn't got anything that far forward for fear of getting attacked by Deathjack so went 3/0 down on scenario. In my turn I new I had to challenge the zone but was so intent on destroying things that half way through my turn I forgot. In my defence things didn't go my way, a fully charged Reckoner smashed into Deathjack (when assigning focus my intention was to put him toeing the zone whilst in combat, when i moved I put him at 2" reach for no reason and so gave away the game). However despite rolling 9 dice for damage 7 of them were 1's leaving him still standing. I feated at the end of my turn but it didn't matter as I gave the win away in my turn - FFS!!!!!
Anson Durst, Rock of the Faith vs. Captain E. Dominic Darius (Cygnar)
Loss: Scenario (5/0) This game was my best of the day, it was a fairly relaxed affair vs a small Cygnar army (also with a Stormwall). It turned into a cat and mouse affair with Stompy out-threating the Stormwall by 1". So every time that I moved forward 1" the stormwall would move back an inch. Between this and spending a turn assassinating the Black 13th with Stompy it meant that I didn't really contest the zone very solidly. I was also very scared of losing Stompy so didn't really make the most of my feat. I should have shoved him down the Cygnar throat into the zone before feating and then forcing him to deal with it. Instead each turn I contested the zone with chaff (first Zealots, then a Reckoner, then Choir and a Vassal). This piecemeal attacking was simply killed of each turn to mean the clock was slowly ticking over in the Cygnar favour. Eventually, with the scenario counter at 4/0 all I could do was run a choirman and Durst into the zone to find that the choir was blown into next week by the Stormwall and like an idiot I forgot Casters can't contest!! Doh
After the last game we went through how to use Durst's feat and I now feel much more confident on what I'm looking to do and being the one to ask the question rather than being really reactive.
2016 Win/Loss record to date: 8/27 (Protectorate 8/26 - Circle 0/1)
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