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Lucant forget to Feat

I haven't been able to get many games in the last couple weeks. But in the games that I did get in, I decided to put a bit more focus on using my caster's feat. In my first game, I played against Circle, forgot just how awful Prime Axiom is with Axis. I seem to forget that Huge base models just can't activate except during your turn. So when I was ready to give my team speed and strength boosts, my axiom was no longer with me. The next game, I was more prepared. I chose Lucant this time around. Built a list with a bunch of heavies, a TEP, like 8 repair units, and 2 squads of Clockwork Angels to look pretty and clean up. I was feeling very confident with this list, borderline cocky, and I am actually looking forward to playing this list again, because I feel like it is the best list I have come up with to date. I will post it after I get in a couple more games with it. My strategy was to push forward onto my opponents objective, stalling them and contesting their control point, while I sat Lucant on my point. This went very well. Until an important turn came up in which I gave an initial push into Legion forces, softening them up a bit, I moved Lucant onto point, and promptly ended my turn without Feating. The 4 armor this would have given me the following turn would have saved two of my heavy vectors, allowing me to repair them and charge them back into the point. Also giving Lucant something else to do with his focus... My Opponent also rolled incredibly well to help punish me further. SO please, please, please! Use your feat, especially if it is part of your game plan from the get go.

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PS: Iron Mother Domination

PS is going to be Powerful Synergies/Potential Strategies. If I notice something cute or cheeky, or if I think it is legitimately good, I will post it and try it out.

I really like Iron Mother Directrix. I think her sculpt is awesome, and I love her spells, especially Domination. At 4 Focus, it is a little spendy. But I think the pay off could be very high. This does only work against other Warmachine factions, though. Convergence and Hordes are not affected. This can theoretically be done on your first turn.

You probably want a Corollary on your Battlegroup. Because, essentially having 11 Focus a turn is pretty neat. And if you sequence everything correctly, you can bounce the same three focus between all the vectors in your battlegroup, letting the Iron Mother use her 8 focus to wreak havoc with her spells. The Corollary also has speed 6, so it can run 12 inches forward giving Mother an effective range of 20 freaking inches for domination. So, assuming your opponent did not deploy at the edge of the battlefield and decline to move forward, you should be able to hit a warjack with domination. When you control it, you can go a few different routes. You could move it back, making its last turn virtually pointless. You could move it out of its casters control range, forcing some weird movements. You could try to assassinate their warcaster. But as my buddy Chris “Sleepy Peepers” Bailey (He plays Skorne???) and I figured out, you can take control of a jack, move it to your battlegroup, then you can charge it.

What my sequencing for this would be is:

1. Assign my Prime Axiom 2 focus, and remember to give Corollary it’s free focus.

2. Run Corollary forward, remembering to give its focus to the Prime Axiom, to the jack you want to get rid of.

3. Channel your Domination through the Corollary with Mother. And be sure to measure out if the jack will be within range of your Prime Axiom’s Tow Cable. If it is not quite in range, cast Firegroup to give yourself a couple of inches.

4. Move the enemy jack towards Prime Axiom, then turn it around to face his friends. This will make him even easier to hit. Pretty much don’t roll snake eyes.

5. Tow him in with Prime’s cable, begin the beat down. Drill vice just needs to hit once, then you are set to hit it the rest of your 5 attacks. Remember to induct your focus. I would induct to Cipher if I still need to beat up the jack more.

Hopefully this works and basically sets you up with a 75pt army vs a 60pt army.

Or maybe it is just bad and I’m a noob dreaming. Let me know!

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My list for 1/10/2017

We played 75 point games.

Iron Mother and her Exponent Servitors

Prime Axiom Corollary Cipher

Transfinite Emergence Projector (TEP) Steelsoul Protector Steelsoul Protector Enigma Foundry Obstructors (1 Leader and 9 Grunts)

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A Legion and their tentacles

This was the second match I did for game night. I felt really good about my list with the exception of Iron Mother having two spells that were completely useless.

I deployed with my TEP, two protectors (one on either side), and my Obructor/Foundry package on the right, and Iron Mother, Prime Axiom, Cipher, and Corollary on the left. My protectors did their job and forced some awkward attacks, but my movement with the Obstructors was a little too close, and the were hit with a sweeping attack that hit everything within 2 inches and Line of Sight. This was enough to wreck them, and my TEP. My TEP at least got to attack this game, though, so staying positive...

Back to the left side, my warcaster’s party was doing just fine. Cipher made some units easier to hit, which Iron Mother enjoyed using a Shrapnel Swarm on to put a dent into their unit. Prime started picking off models from a unit with his 5 Rate of Fire Accelespiker and two Tow Cables. While I did not gain control or dominate that objective, I was winning the attrition war.

Unfortunately, since my right flank fell hard and fast, my opponent took advantage and stuck his warcaster on the objective and rode it to victory.

From this I learned that:

My infantry units are doing virtually nothing at the moment other than eating up my points. It felt like I was playing a game with 10 points less of power than I should have. Yes, they clogged stuff, but they couldn’t move far enough ahead to clog a meaningful spot without dropping their defense down to 14. Convergence has some fantastic vectors and is super efficient with its focus. I need to play more vectors to take advantage of that.

I need to get on the objective. I need to get on the objective. I need to get on the objective. I need to get on the objective. I need to get on the objective. I need to get on the objective. I need to get on the objective. I need to get on the objective. 

I can probably leave ranged units a bit farther back. The TEP may hit my unit, but he gets to move damage to one of his servitors if it comes from a ranged attack. I think that could be good. Plus, with the spread of the spray, I can move my vectors into different locations to hit multiple enemy units with crushing damage. May be good. I’ll have to give it a shot.

I think the most important thing I learned was that deployment can play a massive role in leading to a victory. My biggest problem with this game was that I just couldn’t move far enough to contest the objective. If I had play my Prime more central, he could have easily contested the point, made ranged attacks, pull enemy units off the objective, etc. Iron Mother with a Corollary has a command range of 18 inches, so I had no reason not to run the prime up the middle. Plus she can use the vectors in her battle group as Arc Nodes, effectively giving some of her spells a 26 inch threat range.

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Skorne is the worst.

At my LGS game night, I played against Skorne and Legions. Unfortunately, I was so excited to play, I forgot to take pictures and notes vs. Legions.. So, I’ll recount that as best I can.

While playing against Skorne, I think I got a little unlucky with dice rolls against my TEP. I deployed my TEP on the left objective with a large unit of Obstructors and an Enigma Foundry. My thought process with this was that I could push the obstructors in front of the TEP, blocking enemy units, then blast through them all with TEP and spit more of my units out with the Foundry. This did not  happen like that at all. Not even close. Three infantry units rolled well and the last one spiked high to defeat my TEP in one combat round. Then my Obstructors showed up late to the party and clogged that objective as well as I had hoped. Slowly getting destroyed, but still doing their jobs.

On the right side, I deployed Iron Mother, a Prime Axiom, Cipher, Corollary and two protectors. My plan for this was to basically have high enough damage output to trade units and get ahead with the two protector’s Weapon Master. I got a few shots on the opposing Colossal my Prime’s Accelespiker. Unfortunately, my Prime fell in one attack round to the big pissed off elephant.

The following turn, Cipher stepped up his game and brought the elephant to his knees, then the Axiom got a little revenge when the Reflex Servitor he spit out got the final point of damage in. I took out the opposing Tiberious, but just didn’t have enough damage output to stay in contention.

What I think I learned:

I want the protectors protecting the TEP. I have two, so one on either side, so if an enemy unit does charge the TEP, they will have to risk two P+S 12 Weapon master stikes (3 damage dice). I am also going to proxy a second TEP during some of my next matches with the idea that six 10 inch spray attacks with 3 dice for attack and damage sounds pretty alright. And I think the model is super awesome and I can’t wait to get my current one painted.

When I place a reflex servitor with the Prime, or when playing with Axis, I need to remember that  I have the ability to countercharge. I don’t need to use it, but it is a really neat mechanic if I do use it. And while I am on that, I need to read spells, abilities, etc slowly and more carefully. Some of my prior games were thrown because I got excited and misread something, which lead to really bad plays, and nearly throwing one of my two victories.

I need to pay more attention to the objective. I don’t have to charge all in, but I should make sure that I can at least contest. I gave up something like 7 points in two games just because I didn’t move an extra centimeter. The models were going to die regardless of that centimeter.

I learned that it is better to walk than charge in most circumstances. If you do that, especially with a war jack, you can buy one more attack, or still buy an extra damage die. I believe the only real exception to this would be when there is a model with high armor that you need get past, so the extra damage die would be worth it in that case. Plus, if you are within three inches of the target, you do not get the bonus damage die.

I will post my list for this and my match against Legions shortly.

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My Rise. To Power

This is going to be a chronicle of my rise to power with my Warmachine army: Convergence of Cyriss. But first! A little about myself and a few details about this blog.

I am a total noob to Warmachine/Hordes. To date, I have played 8 games. I’ve won 2 of those. I have lost every die roll to determine who deploys first and such.

I am slightly frustrated with the lack of quality content to help new players with the game, which was part of why it has taken me 5 years to get into the game. I hope that this blog will evolve with me and provide increasingly better material to help with rules issues, strategy and tactics, opinions (both mine and other players that I bump into along the way). While I will primarily focus on Convergence, I will try to include content on other factions as well and give battle reports from both perspectives.

I am of course open to suggestions and tips. I am a noob after  all. And my goal is to get better.

Until next time, all hail Cyriss

-Slippy P