Battle at Lund Steamroller Game 1: Ossrum vs Ashlynn

Several people dropped from the Masters by this time for the steamroller. Since there was an odd number of players, one had to get a buy, and it turned out to be me. So, I instead dropped also and joined the Steamroller.

Here, I took a different Ossrum army:

Hammer Strike:
Ossrum
- 2 Blasters
- 6 Gunners
- Driller
Thor
- Avalancher
Max Forge Guard
2 Artilleries

I played against Robin Fredman with Ashlynn, and the scenario was Outlast.

His list was:

Ashlynn, Nomad, Talon and Vanguard
WE&SJ
Dahlia & Snake
Gorman, Ragman, Gibbs
Max Nyss
2 units of Eliminators

Robin got the first turn.

Seeing his deployment, I thought it should be easy enough to contest the left zone with the driller and a couple of bunnies, and deployed to clear the right zone and start dominating there.

Both armies ran and upkeeps went up.

Robin advances on both flanks very cautiously. He puts corrosion on two bunnies with snake.

I make a big mistake here, forgetting that Quicken (which is on Nyss) only gives +2 defence against shooting, and so I commit to killing too few Nyss with dwarves and also bundle them up too much. I have to rely on shooting to remove the remaining Nyss from the zone but fail. The right-side eliminators are gone. Driller gets the Vanguard after some shooting drops it.

Snake kills a lot of the dwarves, and nyss and talon help a bit with bunnies. Snapjaw easily kills the driller with the help of Ragman and Gorman. Ashlynn scores 2 while I am still at 0.

I clear the right zone and contest the other zone with a bunny. The problem is that I can't currently do to reign in Snapjaw and the Snake. Score goes to 2-2.

On his turn, he kills the bunny with something and then sends the lessers and eliminators to do work. He also contested with a nomad, the score now going to 4-2.

I then kill the nomad and still am unable to do anything about the Crocs and Snake. I am only able to contest wih one bunny. Score goes to 4-4.

On his turn, he used ashlynn to kill the remaining bunny and goes to 6 points.

Lessons learned:
1. I am reminded how Ossrum can start losing to scenario pressure, when he has to solve tricky attrition problems.
2. Against Ashlynn and any army with a support bloat, it migh be good to just point AOE guns that way and hope they kill models such as ragman or gorman..