The list is:
Ghost Fleet
Denny 1
- 2 Death Rippers
- 2 Stalkers
Wraith Engine
Free rengrave, Caine and Pistol Wraith
3 min crews with 8 rifles
Max Blackbanes
Unfortunately, he wins the roll and Denny gets first turn. A least, this allows me to deploy the Crawler opposite the Wraith Engine.
He runs things up, getting them really in my face.
I feat and advance too, put snipe on the Crawler and Bullet dodger on Ossrum. I make one important mistake though: I forget to activate A&H before I move my BE, and so it can't actually do any harm to the Wraith Engine. I remove the Stalker on the left with my shooting (although the Avalancher missed). Another Stalker is blocked by a bunny.
He feats and charges in. Due to my feat also being in place, he only kills one bunny (and Alten and Eiryss). He also makes a big mistake: Denny is placed B2B with the objective.
I plan an assassination, which starts with the avalancher shooting the objective and knocking Denny down (and doing 4 damage). For the rest of the assassination to succeed, I need to kill the Wraith engine, because it isn't incorporeal and blocks LOS to Denny. After all the shots, I leave the BE on 3 boxes and Denny on around 8 boxes (I managed to get one spray on her and rolled well). Now, had I inflicted some damage on the engine the turn before, I am almost sure Denny would have died this turn.
However, what happens is that Gerard scores two points instead.
In his turn, Gerard kills my objective with the Wraith Engine and scores another three points, winning the game.
Analysis
In this matchup, it is extremely important to get the first turn. However, if you do get the second turn, then it's important to start shooting the Wraith Engine immediately, and also not to forget contesting with something sturdy. Going for attrition of the opposing forces is pretty difficult, because Denny's feat is coming in turn 2. This means also that Ossrum must feat turn 1.
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