Practice game: Ossrum vs Kaya3

This was a practice game I played against my friend who plays circle.

I played my ADR variant of Ossrum list out of theme.

ADR-choices-wise, I figured that against Kaya I'll need stealth removal, so I dumped a spray bunny for Reinholdt, and also changed Kell for Alten.

Kaya's army included two Ferals, a Pureblood, a Stalker, WE&SJ, two compulsory units of mannikins and an arc node tree.

I won the roll to go first, and the terrain on my side forced me to skew to the left due to a house on my side. I figured I would need to contest the flag there, and try to kill anything that tries to contest the left flag.

Turn 1, I give out FFE to the artillery and energize, also running with all bunnies, creating a huge zone where any beast entering it would be killed.

Kaya hides behind the cloud and advances somewhat. I don't go for assassination only since the objecive can't be targeted (so I would have to roll to hit against her full defence; also, the cannons are out of position to target her).

Instead, I kill the Pureblood and some mannikins. I also create a clear zone around Snapjaw, but contesting with one dwarf. Basically, if he wants to score with flag, then Wrong Eye is almost guaranteed to die next turn.

I was careless with Thor last turn, so he's taken out by a mannikin spray. Other mannikins do some very good work on dwarfs. SJ charges to kill a dwarf, but WE doesn't run to the flag to score, instead putting up Star Crossed and Submerge and hiding behind the wall. Stalker damages a bunny but fails to kill it, so no sprint.

I use the damaged bunny to bulldoze the stalker away from other bunnies and sacrificing it to a free strike. Shooting softens him up, and then the dwarfs finish the job. Three of the dwarves were sent to kill Wrong Eye, and they did their job. I move a bunny to score and the Avalancher to contest (outside of both ferals' LOS).

Mannikins kill an artillery and a few drarves. Ferals kill a bunny and slightly scratch the avalancher. I score one more point.

I didn't make the photo of the next turn but I killed a Sentry Stone with Avalancher, damaged another feral somewhat, killed the arc node tree, and pushed the blue feral toward the other one and blocked the way with bunnies, and went to three points. Next turn, my opponent was unable to get anything to the flag to contest so I won on scenario.

The biggest lesson I re-learned from this game is that Avalancher is not a front-line piece in this scenario despite having all the stats for it. The reason he isn't is that Thor needs to get BTB with him every time he tunes up, and Avalancher really needs Thor alive to pose a threat. As long as Thorvalancher is on the table, I am guaranteed to take a circle heavy per turn and still have some shots remaining.

The second lesson is to focus Sentry Stones early. After all, they are the reason Reinholdt is even taken into the list.