Welcome back to battle report week! Two of my mates played a game the other week, one with one of my favourite casters ever (Irusk2) and one with a list that I adore (the horde of Mechanithralls). Since the next battle report will be a Circle tournament battle report of mine, I felt that this would be a good time to go with something other than Circle before you get inundated.
| Lists | |
| Khador | Cryx |
| Armoured Corps | Infernal Machines |
| Irusk2
-Destroyer -Destroyer
Man-O-War Kovnik Man-O-War Suppression Tanker Man-O-War Suppression Tanker
Kommandant Atanas Arconovich & Standard Max Man-O-War Bomardiers -UA Max Man-O-War Demolition Corps -UA Max Man-O-War Shock Troopers -UA Min Battle Mechaniks Min Battle Mechaniks |
Terminus1
-Slayer -Slayer -Nightwretch
Pistol Wraith Darragh Wrathe
Necrosurgeon & Stitch Thralls Necrosurgeon & Stitch Thralls Min Carrion Thralls Max Mechanithralls Max Mechanithralls Max Mechanithralls Max Mechanithralls Max Mechanithralls Max Mechanithralls -3 Brute Thralls |
List choices: These lists were selected before play began because they wanted to test this matchup
Scenario: Invasion Priority roll: Irusk2 won the roll off and chose to go first
Objectives: Both players chose the healing objective
Deployment:
Khador
Proxies: Incendiarii are Bombardiers, Clamjack is a Destroyer, Winter Guard Infantry are Mechaniks
Cryx
Ambush: Max Mechanithralls with 3 Brute Thralls
Proxies: Satyxis Raiders are Carrion Thralls, Banes are the ambushing unit of Mechanithralls
Turn 1
Khador Turn 1A
Everyone runs forwards, Irusk puts up Solid Ground and charges up.
Cryx Turn 1B
Terminus casts Malediction on himself and advances, Daryl Braithwaite sings Horses (Death Rides) and everyone gets a bit quicker. The horde runs up.
Turn 2
Khador Turn 2A
Irusk advances, feats, casts Artifice of Deviation (here the guy who takes the notes inserted “Model/Unit, WTF PP? FIX PAGANI FFS. For reference, he plays double Judicator Menoth). The Kovnik gives Desperate Pace to the Demo Corps, who then advance up. The Shocktroopers Shield Wall and advance. Suppression Tankers advance and suppress, putting their walls down. The horde makes the walls look tiny. The Bombardiers, making use of Irusk’s feat to shoot through the forest, get some work done this turn. They minifeat, aim, and put down 19 Mechanithralls and 1 Stitch Thrall, ouch. The close destroyer shoots and kills 4 Stitch Thralls, while the far one shoot a Slayer, misses, and kills another 5 Mechanithralls.
Sheer brutality, but somehow there are still buckets more thralls to go… Good God I love the look of this list.
Cryx Turn 2B
(Note taker had another bit of input here, apparently the Cryx player hit “TILT TILT TILT”. Wish I had been there to see it). Ambushing unit comes on, and Terminus upkeeps Malediction. The ambushing unit charges the character unit and the Demo Corps, killing 2 members of the Demo Corps and both the officer and the standard bearer of the character unit, wiping it out. 6 Mechanithralls are returned to the horde, before they all flow up and around the covering fire walls. The Pistol Wraith stationaries a random shock trooper without damaging him, and Terminus gets up to spray the unit. He corrodes one and puts 5 and 3 damage on two others. Darryl puts up Mortal Fears.
Not quite the retribution the Cryx player had hoped for, but at least he’s in combat now and that crippling feat is gone…
Turn 3
Khador Turn 3A
Irusk upkept Solid Ground and Artifice of Deviation, while allocating one to the near Destroyer. He forgets Vengeance on the Demo Corps. The Mechaniks heal up the Shocktroopers to full, before the Destroyer puts 7 damage into Darryl. The Kovnik charges the Mechanithrall unit with Brutes and kills one. The Demo Corps minifeat and kill 3 Brutes. The other Destroyer shoots and kills 3 Mechanithrals, and the Bombardiers kill a few more as well.
The kill count has slowed down very quickly, I wonder if they can last it out…
Cryx Turn 3B
Terminus allocates 2 to one Slayer and upkeeps Malediction. Darryl Deathrides before Terminus decides to get scrappy and feats before moving in on the Bombardiers. He makes 5 attacks and kills 2. Well 4, but 2 toughed (cue the note taker again: “WHY PP WHY”). The Slayer goes in and also kills 2. The rest of the army runs about and charges a bit, the note taker must have been all mad about tough no knockdown on Irusk2, because he kind of stopped taking notes this turn…
Turn 4
Khador Turn 4A
The Suppression Tanker turns and sprays the Carrion Thralls. Irusk Battle Lusts the Shocktroopers, then shoots a knocked down Carrion Thrall. The Shocktroopers charge in and do 11 damage to Terminus. The Destroyer walks in, hits twice but does no damage. With that, the Khador player’s clock hits 0 and that’s game. The players rolled out the remaining attacks he could finagle onto Terminus, and it didn’t get the job done.
Result: Cryx victory by deathclock (and if not by deathclock, by attrition/assassination most likely)
Thoughts: I was somewhat shocked when I saw the result of this after seeing the photo from Khador Turn 2. But I guess that there were just too many bodies for the Khador player to get through this time. Glad to see a list I love getting a run, and a caster I thoroughly enjoyed when I played Khador having a good go of it.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed it. You can look forwards to some painting next week (Loki!) and
Bless My Wold 