Clogcon 2017 Day 1 Game 4: Ossrum vs Doomshaper 3

For my fourth and last game of the day (the tournament was cutting to Final table after it), I was facing Aymeric Prie with Trollbloods.

I remember that I had faced trollbloods on several occasions, and I had some very one-sided games with Ossrum, killing the enemy casters. I also had quite a few games with Damiano, although in one of the last ones, I felt that attrition was not on my side (although that was partly due to my own mistakes).

Looking through Aymeric's lists, I noticed that only one has an Earthborn. To me, that meant that casters are vulnerable to assassinaion. So I decided to go with Ossrum. As I will find out during the game, this is a wrong choice. The problem is that I didn't remember that Doomy 3 has the spell Implacability, which makes the whole battlegroup immune to pushing and knock downs.

The scenario favors going second. I won the roll off and chose to go second. The bulk of my force is skewed to the right (my flag), while the left flank is anchored by the Siege Crawler.

Trolls rush forward.

I advance cautiously and make a few potshots. I make sure to keep my bunnies out of charge ranges of the trolls. I still don't remember abot implacability, so simply getting engaged seems like no big deal to me. I also get Aiyana up a lot, to Kiss some good target nex turn.

Earthborn runs to engage me, and implacabitlity is cast. This is when I find out that I chose the wrong list for this battle. The rest of the trolls advance into range for the charges next turn.

I Kiss the Earthborn, and then take him to low hit points with shooting. Ossrum feats and charges in and finishes him. Then the Battle Engine charges Mulg (which moved closer with admonition). Some shots are fired at the mauler. I recognize that the attrition is severely lacking. I score one point.

Doomy feats. Mulg uses the Fury6 trick and kills the crawler. Eiryss, Kell and Alten are killed with thrown bunnies. Trolls score two points.

I know that my next turn will have no attition (I might actually heal up the trolls more if I shoot). After that I am going to lose avalancher and 2-3 bunnies, and probably also Aiyana and Holt, while also losing points. I see no point to drag this on and concede.

Analysis

Here, my mistake is very simple: I chose the wrong list. This Ossrum list is pretty dependent on Bulldoze to unjam, and where it's negated his attrition gets hampered severely. Moreover, Ossrum's feat does nothing to help against Doomy's feat, unlike for example Damiano. And lastly, the nature of attrition in this list is such that most attacks will do only a little bit of damage - which is very bad against Doomy 3-s feat.