Ossrum
- 6 Gunners
- 2 Blasters
Thor
- Avalancher
Kell
max dwarfs
2 artilleries
ADR: Eiryss1, Alten, Eliminators, Orin, Reinholdt, Aiyana and Holt
74 points / 35 in ADR
Cyphon
- 3 Wreckers
- Warden
2 Max benders
max Slavers
Alexia with Dominator
2 Agitators
ADR: Max benders, Warden
74 points / 21 in ADR
My first game was against Michael Groth with Cygnar. I played Ossrum and he had Kraye.
I dropped a blaster for Eiryss1.
Michael's list:
Heavy Metal theme
Kraye
- Squire
- 4 Centurions
- Lancer
Runewood
Strangewayes
2 max Sword Knights
The Scenario was incursion. I really did not consider that fact when choosing my caster. I was going for assassination in this game.
1. By choosing this side, I am forcing myself to skew to one side with at least the dwarves - because they will need to see their charge targets during feat turn.
2. The flag on the left is too easy to contest from behind the forest. The right flag is very difficult for me to contest the way I deployed.
Kraye moves his forces up to claim table space, while staying outside of the range of all my shooting with Kraye himself.
I forgot to make a photo after Cygnar turn, but he basically trampled + repositioned to engage Eiryss with one heavy and the bunnies in the center with another heavy (both with Polarity Field). He spread out his Sword Knights around the two side flags and got the lancer on the right flag. He also moved Kraye further away.
After all this time, I was still not realizing that my opponent was doing - I didn't see the clear scenario game. So in response, I destroyed one heavy in the center and almost destroyed the one on the flank. Only when it came to the activations of the last bunnies, I realized that there are flags there, and that I don't have to stay in one place the whole game. So I went to score one with a gunner, and contested the other two with a blaster and a gunner.
The proper way to play it would have been to feat, and after killing the heavy in the center to really far with the bunnies towards the middle flag. Also, I was always forgetting to reposition with Avalancher and hence get his threat projection much further up the table.
On his turn, he destroys my three unfeated bunnies, and where needed repositions to score. He goes to three points.
I am still not realizing the gravity of the situation, thinking I will just contest, and I will make the attrition so bad that he can't do anything else. To make the long story short, even though I feated and intended to go with bunnies to contest, I forgot that with all of them. In the end, my last model to activate is the Avalancher, whos movement I do not premeasure. After moving 7" inches and shooting, I find out that reposition 5 isn't enough to get him within contesting range of the right flag. My opponent scores one on my turn and one more on his without doing anything and wins the game.
This is the end of game snap shot:
The big mistake I made is not realizing what my opponent is doing, despite the clear signs. I was overly focused on attirion, and yet I didn't make the correct calls in all attrition-related questions (e.g. I didn't finish off the heavy that went back after my turn 1 shooting to get healed by Strangewayes).
I was no respecting scenario at all in this game, despite the fact that this is the most live scenario in Steamroller pack. The biggest problem is that actually I could have played much stronger on scenario without giving up almost any of the attrition, by simply feating on turn 2. Why I didn't is because I was still hoping to save that for assassination.
A deserved win for my opponent who had a clear plan, and a deserved loss for me.
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