Battle at Lund Team Tournament Game 3: Cyphon vs Nemo1

I played the third game against Cornelius Dyhre-Poulsen with Cygnar, and he had two heavy metal lists, so I chose Cyphon.

His list was:

Nemo 1
- Squire
- Lancer
- Hammersmith
- Stormclad
- Cyclone
- Dynamo
- Centurion
Strangewayes
Jakes
- Charger
Journeyman
- Firefly

Cornelius deploys fairly centrally, and I skew my deployment towards the left with monstrosities, because of the wood on my right flank.

Nemo advances as far as possible, with upkeeps going up. The stormclad gets arcane shield, and Jakes' charger sidekick.

I advance with the infantry horde in front to screen from charges, and advance my monstrosities behind those. One wrecker is redeployed more centrally. The only upkeep going up is onslaught.

Nemo opens with some shooting, clearing a ton on infantry (who will be brought back by Alexia later). He also for some reason commits the stormclad, probably hoping that Arcane Shield will save it. Jakes and her jack do some work on the Overlords on the right and prepare to secure the flank against potential ambushers,

I contemplated not feating but I just really need the armor bonus. The central wrecker easily takes out the stormclad (POW22 is a thing), while the rest cooperate to remove the lancer (iirc). The new risen jam up the center. I must say, it was pretty difficult to maneuver with the risen, trying to avoid blocking myself from places I needed to get. On the right, I bring in the ambushers and get some work done on the charger, but haven't taken him out yet.

Nemo removes a wrecker and does some damage to the other one, as well as the subduer. However, the brain on both remains intact. Jakes and her charger try to do some work but aren't very efficient. He keeps dynamo conservatively back, which is a big deal, since this jack is bound to be a big pain in the end game, once the exchanges are done.

I remove a hammersmith and a firefly, as well as Jakes' charger but am unable to do more than that.

Nemo removes a second wrecker and cripples brain on the third (I have paper armor after all, outside of feat turn). Jakes kills the agitator on the right. Cyclone gets Arcane Shield.

With no brain on the one wrecker, I am unable to remove Cyclone. I move Cyphone away from Dynamo. Drudges kill Jakes.

My heavies are already damaged a lot, so it is trivial to remove them, and then get a heavy to Cyphon. Cyphon dies.

Lessons learned and thoughts on the matchup:
The only mistake that I have maybe made is not putting up perseverance on one of my heavies. Otherwise, the match up is just not kind enough to Cyphon. The jacks under Nemo can be as powered up as monstrosities (on feat turn, it is actually very easy for him to go all convergence-style on focus). The fact that monstrosities have paper armor is huge here, as in a prolonged grind this just means he can survive my attacks and I can't survive his.