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 fourth game was against Thomas Heussner with Cygnar. I played Ossrum and he played Darius. I was pretty certain he'd take Darius, and I had previously played this matchup and lost on time. I wanted to see how I will fare when I'm more familiar with Darius.
I dropped a blaster for Eiryss and another blaster for Eliminators. The purpose here was two-fold: both Eiryss and Eliminators are strong assassination threats. Also, Eiryss is good for disrupting his heavies and Eliminators can hunt his solos and halfjacks.
Hist list was:
Heavy Metal theme
Darius
- Squire
- Stormwall
- 2 Centurions
Strangewayes
Journeyman
- Hunter
Jakes
- Hunter
- Sentinel
The scenario was Recon and I got the first turn.
I deployed my whole army to advance into the zone between the two woods, with Kell using a wood for Stealth and Eiryss hiding behind it. Eliminators are operating independently running around the wood.
I run everything forward and put snipe on Avalancher and FFE on an artillery. Kayazi stay outside of 11" from the closest hunter.
My opponent moves up and does wo shots at my avalancher. He also makes a fatal mistake by leaving a gap between his Centurion with Fortify and he Fuel Cache cloud, as well as between the Centurion and Stormwall. Moreover, the Sentinel blocking LOS to Darius isn't BTB with the Fortified Centurion. This means assassination, which is exactly what happened. Avalancher shoots at Sentinel, knocking him and Darius down, followed by bunnies advancing to shoot Darius through the gap, and artilleries just advancing into range to fire.
After this, we decide to roll back the game since we have a lot of time till next round, and see how it plays out otherwise. We move the Centurion BTB with Wall and Sentinel with the Centurion and roll back my models approximately where they were before.
I take out two hunters with my shooting and drop the centurion without Fortify to low health with both hands damaged. Eliminators run behind the centurion and engage him. In hindsight, I move eliminators wrongly. They should take a longer circle around the Stormwall to avoid getting podded. If they reach the back intact, then they can threaten the Journeyman or Strangewayes, and that is of critical importance in this match up.
I forgot to make a photo after his turn, but he made some shootign on a bunny and killed it, and also podded my eliminators. He puts covering fire templates between the wall and the bunnies. Also, he feated to get the almost dead centurion back to full health, and activated polarity field on both Centurions.
In response, I take out the centurion that was just healed and charge my hammer dwarves into the Stormwall, taking ot a half.
On his turn, he heals up the collossal and kills almost all dwarves. We grind a bit more here but I didn't make any more photos. Basically, I feel that:
1. Some more hammer dwarves would have helped in the match up.
2. Eliminators can be really good here if used properly.
3. Kell and Eiryss together taking a shield off a heavy go a long way toward killing it.
I do not think that I would drop Ossrum into Darius without ADR. So, in a non-ADR environment I need a different armor-cracking caster. Currently thinking either Damiano or Cyphon.
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