Thursday game w new stormnoun

Played a 50 pt game of process of elimination v Charlie.

I wanted to test the new storm blade solo. My list was:

War Room Army

Cygnar - Constanxe Storm

56 / 56 (50+6) Warcaster(s) : 1/1 Warjack(s) : 1 Battle Engines : 0 Solos : 7 Units : 4

Constance Blaize, Knight of the Prophet - WJ: +6
- Squire
- Gallant - PC: 9

Journeyman Warcaster - PC: 3
Anastasia di Bray - PC: 2
Harlan Versh, Illuminated One - PC: 2
Stormblade Captain - PC: 2
Stormblade Captain - PC: 2
Lanyssa Ryssyl, Nyss Sorceress - PC: 2
Rhupert Carvolo, Piper of Ord - PC: 2

Storm Lances - Leader & 4 Grunts: 11
Stormguard - Leader & 9 Grunts: 9
Rangers - Leader & Grunts: 5
Rangers - Leader & Grunts: 5

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GENERATED : 06/13/2013 23:50:21

Charlie played
Reznik
Hierophant
Reckoner
Guardian
Avatar
Min choir
Vassal
Mechanic
Saxon
Rupert
Knights exemplar
Knights errant w UA and seneschal

I won the die roll and went first. My rangers on left got banishing ward and ran up a bit (out of errant aiming range), the ones on the right took a forest. Lanyssa ran behind them.

My stormguard ran up the middle and my lances split, half behind and half in front of the guard. Everything else hung back a bit.

Constance put up banishing ward and jr put arc shield on the ponies.

Charlie moved his errants up and they shot a couple rangers, but he missed a lot of 8s. He put ignite on the errants and iron aggression on the avatar.

My alpha was great. Despite tough on his errants my rangers killed 4 and my lances did ride-by attacks to reposition and kill 5 more, leaving him the UA and one errant to hang with the seneschal. The stormguard ran through the storm lances with tough from piper. Constance got arcane shield and feated over everything but two rangers. Anastasia ambushed in but just for positioning.

Charlie was jammed and low on attacks without the errants. He managed to kill 4 rangers (failed their command check), a handful of stormguard, and a storm lance. His reckoner failed to kill a pony on a boosted gun shot under feat, which brought me joy.



I counter attacked by cleaning out the left-hand zone and breaking the objective in it. Gallant managed to scrap the guardian (one stormguard got an assist with a 6-6-4 charge damage roll). I moved Constance back to keep her safe and one storm lance managed an assault on reznik himself, doing 9 damage.

Reznik wracked a storm lance and cleaved another. The exemplars missed a ranger and finished a stormguard. The avatar rolled minimum focus, took two free strikes and failed to kill gallant (17 damage across a charge and two additionals at dice+2? Bad dice). The reckoner killed a ranger and tied up my remaining rangers. Charlie said he was worried about their guns bc reznik was empty. In hindsight that wasn't the best use of 3 focus on a reckoner. Saxon managed to roll the hard 9 and hard 9 to kill Anastasia (boo!).



I assess my options, realize that I might be able to win on scenario if Gallant can mug the avatar and my rangers can kill super-men knights exemplar. In that scenario Constance has to also kill an objective, maybe without flank. Seems bad.

I have a reckoner in the other zone and not much to kill it with. Ooooooor I can try to assassinate reznik, who's up in the mix and camping zero. I move Constance up, cast crusaders call, and cast transference. My rangers move up for potshots but don't do much. My lone stormguard moves up and slaps reznik for 1. Then my final storm lance assaults reznik and I boost the charge attack with transference, killing him.

I also had a stormblade captain ready to charge in as well, and a focus left to boost that attack.

Charlie's a bit rusty, so the game was looser than we'd like, but overall I'm happy with the list. It works well and it should be able to put some hurt on larger targets.

I think a similar list with rowdy instead of gallant would work well with stryker1 as well. Maybe the same with Stryker2.

-Merlin out


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