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I'm just going to keep the preramble short so unto the games...

1st Game vs Italy White's Dario Stabellini

Dario had Saeryn and eVayl. Saeryn is usually considered an anti-cryx drop in Legion and I was expecting her. I chose pDeneghra for this matchup as she is tested as a really good matchup against Saeryn and should do well against eVayl as well. Dario dropped eVayl, which wasn't a problem because he would have to commit to the scenario anyway so I could get to his beasts with my army.

He went first and I got to pick as side with a central building for Deneghra to feat behind.

He ran first turn, while I got some shots off to no effect. Mainly I just stayed out of his threat ranges with my important stuff and advanced ready to feat next turn.

He luckily got rid of gorman and one of my sirens and a few other models which was not nice but could've been so much worse. He's legionnaires moved to a central position ready to threaten my forces. Also he killed a bunch of them to spawn a shredder.

On my second turn I moved my arcnode up to block LOS from the other side of the building and within 8" of his other ravagore. Denny moved up, feated and got the 3 to hit the ravagore with a parasite. She camped 4 behind a building. I got everything in the feat except for Vayl who was keeping way back. My skarlock was just out of range to put a grippling grasp on an angelius, who would've probably died. I proceeded to kill the ravagore and half the angelius, with my withershadow taking 3 souls from firing at the legionnaires. I thought I could always use the souls for something. Boomhowler charged up and gave 3 of his beasts -2 to hit for a total of -4. My mechanithralls who had doubled in size ran to the centre to hurt some stuff next turn.

I got a decent feat and was already way up on attrition so Dario said he needs to go for the assassination. I thought I had it in the bag, until he proceeded to hit my screening deathripper with a RAT 3 ravagore shot, made 2 damage to Denny from the blast damage and got her on fire. After that he made a shredder from the pot, which ran to arc spells at Denny. Vayl came up, hit the shredder, feated and proceeded to hit a boosted Icy Grip and two boosted Obliterations with a little bit over average damage rolls to end the game on his favor. Apparently 20/18 isn't a good enough stat line to take eVayl's assassination. After our team made room for a judge-sized ruling in our collective buttholes in another game, we went on to lose 2-3 to Italy. What a way to start the WTC!

2nd Game vs Hungary Red's János Kendi

Janos had the Harbinger and Feora2. I didn't know what to expect but I figured I want to play my second list in this matchup as both lists had quite a lot of heavy armor. Also the Harbinger had a Judicator on Tristan so if I could get my Satyxis on his Judicator it would be out for at least a round. He chose Harbinger vs my Asphyxious2.



He basically had his 3 paladins screening the judicator for the whole game while my banes where on the other side of my corrosion cloud wall from them. They were taking single points of damage from corrosion. Meanwhile I made some kills on the sides and eventually my bane knights and satyxis came around from both sides to score some reasonable disables (not kills because of Harbinger) on Tristan, the covenant, Rhoven & Co so he had to martyr most of his hit points away. My helldiver finished harby with a double boosted attack. Not my game plan but I'll take it.. I was on the road to winning anyway as he ran out of room (and Harbys hitpoints) to avoid my banes any longer.

3rd Game vs Germany Red's Daniel Hostert

There's a video that I'll link about this game but it basiacally came down to me dominating his Harbinger list with my pDeneghra as pictured below. You would think that's a win, but no.. I blame Sami for this one.



Watch game 3 on video from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBPni4MjctE

Reserved for games 4-6.

4th game vs Norwegian Blue's Mikkel Christensen (aka Dagowit on the PP forums)

He had eBaldur's ARM skew tier and eKaya's new tharn ravager tier. I knew he would take eBaldur so I needed to play another Asphyxious2 to have a chance at cracking the armor.

I got to go first which was really good and I ran a long way because eBaldur's threat ranges aren't that terrifying.

Except for the Lord of The feast with 20" deployment for the stones and double teleport. Whoops. I was camping 4 though so my caster wasn't in danger. He got in the middle of some bane knights and satyxis and made a thresher sized hole where some 5'ish guys of mine were. The rest of his force came cautiously forward with only the woldwatchers toeing the zone.

I could've done the basic cryxian full monty with running aimlessly forward but instead I cursed the other woldwatcher, which I charged with a few bane thralls for half or so of his damage boxes. I also got a stone killed from the non-stelathed set. All of the rest of my forces stayed at the far edge of the scenario zones, waiting for targets to come forward.

He had to feat to come to the zone. He killed and RFP'd the few guys who had charged but otherwise didn't get any kills. Megalith came to the middle of the other zone to cast a crevasse, needing a six to hit. Mikkel thought his dice had been bad so was a bit paranoid so decided to boost the hit roll and went on to roll 5 on 3 dice. Ouch!

I had a bunch of my guys rfp'd with 6 guys killed. I decided to feat with the 6 guys as getting rid of Megalith was definitely a priority against his list. Also I could get some of the banes into eBaldur himself who had 2 trasnfers and 19 ARM instead of the 22+ everyone else had. I tried to get rid of the druids so I boosted a spray from the defiler. Got one but not the leader. Tartárus charged through a building and got Baldur, Megalith and a druid in his tresher range. I cursed Baldur because he was my main way to get damage through transfers into his beasts. My banes charged Megalith and the shifting stones screening him. The shifting stones vanished, even with ARM 21 and Megalith was down to 7 or so hit boxes with only my caster to go.

Asphyxious charged a shifting stoned, killed it, feated 6 models and remembered to teleport away!! I decided to try how many models would fit to charge eBaldur. The first one surely did, but didn't get to move 3" for the charge bonus but went on to roll 5,5,6 for the damage like a boss. I don't know why but Baldur died at this point. Maybe he didn't have any transfers left or something. Another win where I wasn't really planning on doing a casterkill but accidentally did it anyway. Killed a few shifting stones and the caster but scored nearly 50 army points and 3 control points since his battlegroup didn't contest the zones anymore.

5th game vs United Nation's Dyland Simmer from Australia

He played Issyria with Hyperion, Discordia, Magehunter Strike force and some other stuff. I chose eAsphyxious as I needed to deal some damage to the warjacks when I get there and the satyxis might give me an advantage against his shooting.

I got to go first. We calculated that there was exactly 19" between our AD'd Satyxis and MHSF, so I couldn't run and engage on my first turn. Instead I ran 7ish inches so he couldn't aim my satyxis. The banes fell in behind the satyxis, while the other flank advanced full spd.

Dyland took his MHSF 1-2" backwards so he wasn't in the satyxis' charge range and advanced the rest of his stuff a little forward.

I thought this was all to my advantage because I was closer to the scenario zones and my other flank was moving past the mid-line so my satyxis flank just advanced the same 1-2 inches to once again be outside his aiming range.

Dyland took his feat turn. Discordia came forward and took down Tartarus and got admonition on himself. The MHSF shot some satyxis, but as the UA was still up I was immune to blast damage which saved me from some elements of the list alltogether. Hyperion came forward trying for a massive crit, but failed to hit entirely, which was truly game changing.

On my turn I ran a satyxis behind Discordia (who took the admonition move, but he had to go through rough going because of my satyxis being in the way so couldn't get to safety) and the rest charged the MHSF, and after some miraculous dice, i killed like 6 of them and engaged a good part of the rest. My front banes were just numerous enough to take down discordia with their last attack. I ran everything else way up the table to score some points next turn. I think I scored to 1-0.

He's turn he had some bad rolls and failed to kill the satyxis in melee.

My turn my plan was to take my feat, cast parasite on the hyperion, but I made some miserable play errors and failed the charge with Asphyxious, so I decided to hug the flag and camp 6 (i had hellbound up) instead. The bane knights got into the MHSF and rolled some 8's like a boss, with some 9's as well to kill both Ayana and Holt. 'Because why not, right?

He killed a bunch of stuff and had the option to trample Hyperion forward and buy attacks on Asphyxious with 2 focus, but as he needed 9's to hit that propably wouldn't have been enough so he killed a shitload of banes instead. I think I had 4 bane knights remaining.

On my turn I forgot about vengeance on the knights, which was massive as I could've taken a few tries to roll 8's to take down the rest of his shooters, but more importantly I could've moved in his back arc before my activation. Oh well. My plan was to feat-kill hyperion, and take down or engage all of the MHSF and stormfall archers, but I had a helldiver who got up near Issyria, so I thought what the heck, let's do this first and ran the Skarlock commander base to base with Issyria and slammed it in the back with the helldiver, boosted the hit and got the 6 I needed. After that I charged 2 bane knights into the knocked down Issyria and got a caster kill with the dice off 2 damage rolls. Another casterkill I didn't plan for.



6th game vs Austria White's Daniel Pawelka

He played trolls and to me it was obvious he was going to play Calandra. I had tested the match with eAsphyxious and it wasn't too comfortable so I decided to play pDeneghra to stay out of star crossed, when making my attack rolls.

I got to go first and I ran so that most of my important stuff got to be in trenches (he had double bombers so the immune to blast damage was huge), while most of the actual army just stayed out of threat ranges alltogether. Deneghra moved up camping 7 so she could get a feat off next turn. My plan was to try to kill his Nyss on my feat turn and grind my way to victory.

He moved up, took a few shots, killed a nyss or two and one of my necrosurgeons with a good deviation. He also knocked down Dougal, who is immune to AOE attacks. Calandra came up, cast Star crossed, put some fury on the stone and camped 3. Janissa critically put her wall up in front of the bomber and not Calandra.

On my turn I thought I had a good shot at assassination (and I was really tired) so I went for it. Dougal forfeited his action, moved up and minifeated. Gorman moved up and threw his acid bomb on the three krielstone bearers blocking LOS to calandra. I killed one and knocked down 2. My withershadow combine moved up, put puppet master on Deneghra and shot the two knocked down krielstone bearers for two souls. The krielstone aura went down as well. I couldn't figure out the probability of hitting scourge on calandra to knock her down. I moved up, feated Calandra to DEF 12 (?) so I needed to roll a 5 to hit in Star crossed. I had the puppet master reroll so I felt confident and went unboosted. I got it easily and cast a parasite on her as well.

Teemu was having a hard time consentrating on his game on the next table as he heard me go over Calandra's defensive stats, which were DEF5, ARM 9 at this point. I got 7 of my
Nyss to shoot Calandra at 3 to hit and +1 for damage to end the game. One acutally missed because of Star crossed, but I got an early win which was good so I could relax with a cold beer.

Here's a picture of Calandra (the one with ALL the tokens) just before the Nyss started their combat action:

petskules kirjoitti: My turn my plan was to take my feat, cast parasite on the hyperion, but I made some miserable play errors and failed the charge with Asphyxious, so I decided to hug the flag and camp 6 (i had hellbound up) instead.

Toi ei tainnu mennä ihan noin. Mä muistan nähneeni, että yksi Mage Hunter Assassin chargasi eGaspyn tolla vuorolla, mutta taisi jäädä noin puol tuumaa lyhyeksi. Hellboundia ei siis ollu. Se eGaspyn aktivaatiohan päätty siihen, että yritti chargata lipun läpi, mutta ei ihan matka riittäny ja se pakitettiin lipun taakse mokaamaan charge.

Kuulostaa siltä, että ulkomaalaiset eivät hallitse caster-baittausta yhtä ammattimaisella tavalla kuin suomalaiset.

Celebdae kirjoitti:

petskules kirjoitti: My turn my plan was to take my feat, cast parasite on the hyperion, but I made some miserable play errors and failed the charge with Asphyxious, so I decided to hug the flag and camp 6 (i had hellbound up) instead.

Toi ei tainnu mennä ihan noin. Mä muistan nähneeni, että yksi Mage Hunter Assassin chargasi eGaspyn tolla vuorolla, mutta taisi jäädä noin puol tuumaa lyhyeksi. Hellboundia ei siis ollu. Se eGaspyn aktivaatiohan päätty siihen, että yritti chargata lipun läpi, mutta ei ihan matka riittäny ja se pakitettiin lipun taakse mokaamaan charge.

Joo, siis MHA tuli sillon ku olin lipussa kiinni. Ei kai mulla sit ollu hellboundia. Eli kämpissä 7. Tai sit vaan feilasin ihan kunnolla ja annoin sen chargata hellboundista huolimatta ;)

(Heitettiin sen MHA:n hyökkäys läpällä ni ei ois riittäny.)

Vihdoin kerkes kattoon saksa pelin videon.

Loistavaa hajoilua siinä lopussa.

Swordie kirjoitti:Loistavaa hajoilua siinä lopussa.

Thanks. Sua varten mä sen tein.

Ei se pitkällä ollu nyt ku kattoo vielä videolta. Jos ois ollu vähän enemmän aikaa tehdä edes hyökkäyksiä ni sil ei ois ollu varaa ees marttyrdoida niitä kaikkia ku Harby jäi johonkin kuuteen hipariin... Byääh.