Battle Report
Date: 2/12/2011
League Game at Comics Corner Damansara Jaya
Menoth vs Mercenaries (35 points)
Menoth (Mawi)
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Hierarch Severius 6
Blessing of Vengeance 7
Reckoner 8
Vanquisher 8
Choir of Menoth (Leader and 3 Grunts) 2
Holy Zealots (Leader and 9 Grunts) 6
Holy Zealot Monolith Bearer 2
Anastasia di Bray 2
Rhupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord 2
Vassal of Menoth 2
Vassal of Menoth 2
Mercenaries (Farhan)
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Gorten Grundback 7
Ghordson Avalancher 9
Ghordson Basher 7
Horgenhold Forge Guard (Leader and 5 Grunts) 5
Thor Steinhammer 2
Rutger Shaw 2
Talon 4
Taryn 2
Eiryss 3
Gorman 2
Boomhowler & Co. 6
Pre-game thoughts
Interesting to note that, this is the third game for Hierarch Severius. I wanted to see how he would deal against tougher and harder to kill caster. Gorten’s natural armor of 19 makes him one tough cookie indeed.
Early game
(See pictures for deployment)
Both armies advanced towards the center of the table, while the three solos for the mercs (eiryss, shaw, and taryn + random jack) flanked my left. I decided to ignore the flankers and advanced forward with the zealots blocking charge lanes to the jacks. The boom howlers did the same. Some bomb slinging ensued but not a lot of damage was done. Zealots popped mini feat to buy time for my army to move up the field.
Mid-game
Everything was in place for an assassination run for eSeverius. However the boom howlers decided to engage my jacks and got in the way. The random 4 point jack did too. Annoyance. But I still have my feat which is proving to be useful in these kinds of situation. I took control of 5 grunts and moved them away from my jacks and engaged units. The only downside from this is that eSev would have to activate first. And would no longer be able to arc his gun (not that it would do any damage to Gorten’s thick armour anyway). eSev casted awareness, and the two jacks took a total of 4 shots (another two un-boosted from vassals) Gorten was sitting on arm 21 and the shots did not deal enough damage to kill him. Even the continuous fire afterwards was not enough to cause any damage at -7.
Gorten popped feat and pushed things aside for the basher to slam through. Eiryss took a safety net shot at the menite caster in case he miraculously survived the assassination. The Avalancher shot eSev dealing a total of 11 damage or so. Basher slammed the vanquisher (which was about 2-3 inches in front of the caster). The collateral damage of vanquisher to face was too much to bear for poor old sevvy.
Lessons from this game
eSeverius awareness assassination combo is always possible to pull off and it is not that hard. It is accurate (rat 7+boost) and the range is quite good. In some situations, the reckoner might not need to move giving it a +2 aiming bonus which in turn gives the consequent shots another +2 due to flare. Plus it doesn’t endanger the caster (I should have put eSev further back but I needed to pop feat and we were playing kill box). However, high armor casters will not die from pow 15 / 16 shots. With average boosted rolls 3+3+4 I am only looking at 4 damage from the reckoner, and 5 from the vanquisher. The vassal shots would not be boosted so with some luck I would be dealing 2-3 damage from both shots. Total about 12 tops.
I also played another game afterwards with legion of the everblight and found that although again it is possible to land 3-4 shots on the warlock, the transfer ability totally denies this form of assassination. pThargrosh sat on 4 fury and laughed at assassination attempts lol. Kill my beast? I bring one back. I have to remember that you have to always kill the beasts first. The caster out in the open is a mirage. Unless you are Thyra and shit like that don’t matter. Hope you enjoyed the battle report!
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