Legion vs. Cryx AAR - Bobby Gavlik takes his revenge
May 3, 2014 8:20:23 GMT -5
Post by captainecho on May 3, 2014 8:20:23 GMT -5
I was dying to get in a Warmahordes game this week. I've been looking for a chance to play with my fully painted models for 3 weeks now. So I decided to commit heresy and go the gamer's gambit. Since it was Friday, the Magic players were out in force. Mikey Gavlik was there to win some money off of poor hapless drafters, and I bumped into two of my students who had graduated in 2011 which was awesome!
And then in came Stephen and Bobby! With their armies! Bobby had a caster he "just wanted to try out." little did I know it was a caster specifically built to murder me. brutally. Still, Bobby is always fun to play, and since I was an idiot, I hadn't even brought half my stuff anyhow.
I threw together a list based on what I had. It was a lesson in what happens when lylith tries to run too many beasts and you don't know your opponents rules very well.
I think after my fluke success in one of the recent tournaments, I had an inflated sense of what my army was capable of. I had failed to realize that I will need to take my lumps and get stomped on for a significant period of time before I really learn how my army works, and what will happen if I mis-use it.
My thrown together list
PLylith
Shredder
Stinger
Stinger
Scythean
Carnivean
Unit of Archers
Considering lylith only has 5 fury.... was going to be murdered.
Bobby's list
Lots of Bane Thralls
A BLT (Bane Lord Thrall) or bacon lettuce and tomato
A wormy thing
an evil jack that hates people so it doesn't have to pay a focus to charge.
The caster who blows things up into eternal flames and nukes entire units of 1 wound models.
Turn 1 - Bobby advances, and casts admonition on himself. and with a 14 inch control range, that sucked balls for the short game we had.
I advance into the woods and get into position
Turn 2 - Bobby advances again to within charge range of several beasties, and thinks his stealth gives him cover....it doesn't because of eyeless sight.
My stinger frenzies and poison stabs my carnivean in the face for 12 damage pts. Not a good start. My archers advance and try out their supressing fire rule in an effort to keep a flank shut down from his jacks. in retrospect, since I popped lyliths feat, I should have had them Combined range attack his jack and hoped for the best. on the left flank, I tried to tag some of his bane thralls so I could charge the unit for free with my scythean and clean out some infantry. But Lylith kept killing them, because his banes die like goldfish.
for some reason I thought they were multi-wound models...live and learn.
My shredder moved up to block a charge on lylith or my archer models, but I didn't position him quite right. and my carnivean charged through the woods and his breath attack blasted 4 models, but 2 passed their tough rolls, so no dice on that one.
Turn 3-
Bobby pops his feat, charges through a lane and blows up burning all my archers to death with one bane thrall. then charges and murders my Scthean with his caster. I would have put spiny growth on him before, but he was out of range (6 inches) and also admonition meant it would cost me 4 out of 5 available fury.
his banes then began to snack on my Carnivean...but since it was 9pm, and my wife would be mad at me if I stayed much later, I conceeded and the game ended.
I need to get another caster that can run this many beasts. Multiwound infantry are pretty useful. the Orgun are better than I though. The archers, I need some more practice with before I figure how to use thm. I also got an officer and ammo porter, so I am curious what they will add to the unit. But mostly, I need some tarpit units to bog down troops while my archers snipe them to death.
Are the Bane thralls a very larger threat range? it seems like they are. Even at max range 12, my archers weren't safe. Bobby cast a spell on them that gave him +2 charge distance. is that typical? I guess a ravagore AOE could have toasted them, or I could have tried baiting him with a small beast, and charged into the clump with my scythean?
I just need to play more games. I might start trying to go to Gambit on Tuesdays and see who's around (since that's the big day there apparently?!)
Lots of fun, and more painting to do...I really love these fully painted legion models. I need to finish my 25 pt army! I'm close!
And then in came Stephen and Bobby! With their armies! Bobby had a caster he "just wanted to try out." little did I know it was a caster specifically built to murder me. brutally. Still, Bobby is always fun to play, and since I was an idiot, I hadn't even brought half my stuff anyhow.
I threw together a list based on what I had. It was a lesson in what happens when lylith tries to run too many beasts and you don't know your opponents rules very well.
I think after my fluke success in one of the recent tournaments, I had an inflated sense of what my army was capable of. I had failed to realize that I will need to take my lumps and get stomped on for a significant period of time before I really learn how my army works, and what will happen if I mis-use it.
My thrown together list
PLylith
Shredder
Stinger
Stinger
Scythean
Carnivean
Unit of Archers
Considering lylith only has 5 fury.... was going to be murdered.
Bobby's list
Lots of Bane Thralls
A BLT (Bane Lord Thrall) or bacon lettuce and tomato
A wormy thing
an evil jack that hates people so it doesn't have to pay a focus to charge.
The caster who blows things up into eternal flames and nukes entire units of 1 wound models.
Turn 1 - Bobby advances, and casts admonition on himself. and with a 14 inch control range, that sucked balls for the short game we had.
I advance into the woods and get into position
Turn 2 - Bobby advances again to within charge range of several beasties, and thinks his stealth gives him cover....it doesn't because of eyeless sight.
My stinger frenzies and poison stabs my carnivean in the face for 12 damage pts. Not a good start. My archers advance and try out their supressing fire rule in an effort to keep a flank shut down from his jacks. in retrospect, since I popped lyliths feat, I should have had them Combined range attack his jack and hoped for the best. on the left flank, I tried to tag some of his bane thralls so I could charge the unit for free with my scythean and clean out some infantry. But Lylith kept killing them, because his banes die like goldfish.
for some reason I thought they were multi-wound models...live and learn.
My shredder moved up to block a charge on lylith or my archer models, but I didn't position him quite right. and my carnivean charged through the woods and his breath attack blasted 4 models, but 2 passed their tough rolls, so no dice on that one.
Turn 3-
Bobby pops his feat, charges through a lane and blows up burning all my archers to death with one bane thrall. then charges and murders my Scthean with his caster. I would have put spiny growth on him before, but he was out of range (6 inches) and also admonition meant it would cost me 4 out of 5 available fury.
his banes then began to snack on my Carnivean...but since it was 9pm, and my wife would be mad at me if I stayed much later, I conceeded and the game ended.
I need to get another caster that can run this many beasts. Multiwound infantry are pretty useful. the Orgun are better than I though. The archers, I need some more practice with before I figure how to use thm. I also got an officer and ammo porter, so I am curious what they will add to the unit. But mostly, I need some tarpit units to bog down troops while my archers snipe them to death.
Are the Bane thralls a very larger threat range? it seems like they are. Even at max range 12, my archers weren't safe. Bobby cast a spell on them that gave him +2 charge distance. is that typical? I guess a ravagore AOE could have toasted them, or I could have tried baiting him with a small beast, and charged into the clump with my scythean?
I just need to play more games. I might start trying to go to Gambit on Tuesdays and see who's around (since that's the big day there apparently?!)
Lots of fun, and more painting to do...I really love these fully painted legion models. I need to finish my 25 pt army! I'm close!