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[angelsanguine]

Steamroller League Game 3

Played game 3 of the local steamroller league this evening. Still no pictures because my phone had to be used for time keeping.

We had both pretty much locked ourselves for this game, and I had to play Saeryn vs his pMakeda list, the lists were:

Saeryn, Omen of Everblight - WB: +5

- Angelius - PC: 9

- Carnivean - PC: 11

- Ravagore - PC: 10

- Scythean - PC: 9

- Shredder - PC: 2

- Naga Nightlurker - PC: 5

Blighted Nyss Shepherd - PC: 1

The Forsaken - PC: 2

Blighted Nyss Grotesques - Leader & 9 Grunts: 6

Archdomina Makeda (p) (+5)

* Molik Karn (11)

* Titan Gladiator (8)

* Basilisk Krea (4)

* Aptimus Marketh (3)

Paingiver Beast Handlers (Leader & 3 Grunts) (2)

Cataphract Cetrati (Leader & 5 Grunts) (11)

Nilhilators (Leader & 9 Grunts) (8)

Tyrant Commander & Standard Bearer (3)

Swamp Gobbers Bellows Crew (1)

Mortitheurge Willbreaker (2)

Saxon Orrik (2)

The scenario was Rally Point. We both pretty much deployed heavily on the opposing zone's side.

The game itself was pretty one sided with his army easily holding of my army, but at the same time not being able to advance into my zone.

A long story short, it ended with a loss for me. And although he played a decent game, it was mostly because of bad luck. For example: My Carnivean and Ravagore did only 15 damage to his Titan Gladiator over two turns, and a turn or two later Saeryn and the Naga Nightlurker couldn't manage to kill a Willbreaker despite hitting with a Hellfire, a dagger and the Naga's shooting attack (boosted damage). Beyond that my Scythian failed to even hit Molik Karn over two turns.

I was lucky he only sent a token force into the zone closer to him, so that I could dominate it one turn and almost do it the next as well. All in all I managed to get two Scenario Points while he didn't get any.

With only the Skorne-players 3rd game vs the Cryx-player I played in my first game left, for me not to go on to the finals the Skorne-player will have to win his game with at least 4 Scenario Points and 28 army points taken.

Interesting indeed. Who knows what will happen.

[angelsanguine]

Steamroller League - Game 2

Played the 2nd of 3 games yesterday, against a eMadrak infantry horde/brick. His list was:

eMadrak: (5wbp)

mulg (12)

earthborn dt(10)

pyre troll(5)

runebearer(2)

fenblades max+UA(10)

warders(8)

kreilstone max+UA(5)

fellcaller(3)

Couldn't take any pictures since we had to use my phone for Deathclock (60min/player), but a quick recap. We played Destruction. Since both his lists were decent against my Saeryn list I picked Rhyas... again. Really need to play more with Saeryn so I can figure out how it works and against what.

Anyways, it pretty much went as expected in the beginning of the game - he won the roll off and picked one of the sides, leaving me with first turn. We both ran against eachothers and clashed in the zone. However in his Turn 2 he threw caution to the wind and went all in with most of his forces, managing to clear the zone and destroying my objective giving him 3 control points. In return I sent in most of what i had left (about 1½ units of Warspears and 1½ units of Swordsmen) and managed to clear Mulg, 4 Warders and 9 Fennblades off the board. I had also secured a position where he would not be able to clear the zone in his turn. I figured I had him now.

However, I had not expected his next move. In one activation with eMadrak he managed to kill 5 Warspears, 6 Swordsmen and still keep a decent Fury Camp, that was about half of my forces at the time. In the same turn he also killed my only Heavy (a Scythian) with his Earthborn, leaving me quite low on heavy hitting power around his warlock.

To make matters worse my 3rd turn had taken too long, and I only had 12 minutes left on my clock (note to self don't get drawn into discussions not regarding the game when on deathclock).

Then I realized his mistake. He had forgotten that Rhyas now has Reach. Thinking himself safe in the zone I was smiling when I measured my control and realized she would be able to get the charge off without a problem. So starting with only the important models I cleared a chargelane for three of my remaining swordsmen near eMadrak and they charged in, hitting all three attacks and removing two of his fury and about half of his boxes due to some decent rolling (weaponmasters for the win). Then Rhyas charged in, her charge attack dealing only a few boxes of damage, leaving eMadrak on 8 box remaining. Her next attack managed to procure a Critical Hit (Decapitation), striking Madrak for 12 points of damage, which he transfered away. A few fury later eMadrak hit the ground.

I now have 2 wins, 0 losses (with one game remaining). The league is organized in a manner where the best player(s) in each league group (4 players) go on to a small finals tournament. Since I only have 2 controlpoints I can't say that I am not certain I will manage to get to the finals, but we will see. I hope to be able to play the 3rd and final game next week (against Skorne with either pMakeda or Zaal).