January 18, 2017
Scenario: Recon
Opponent: Dan W
Initiative: Me
Harkevich1
Kodiak
Kodiak
Kodiak
Juggernaut
Juggernaut
Marauder
Marauder
Joe
Max Winter Guard Infantry w/3 rockets
Free UA
THEME: WINTER GUARD KOMMAND
Doomshaper2 ADR
Mulg
Mountain King
Mauler
Earthborn
Axer
Runebearer
Janissa
Whelps
min stone
THEME:POWER OF DHUNIA
No pictures this time so I'll just give a brief overview of the game. Once again, Dan's list is so fast and threats so far! I wanted to see if Hark in theme could play into it. Unfortunately I think doomy is advantaged a bit too much for comfort.
I go first and blaze up the table, staying just out of his threat ranges (15" MK melee threat!) He responds by running up just outta my threat. I try to make a cloud wall that stays just outside of his feat walk and punch range, forcing him to either cast rush and feat to walk into my kodiaks, or feat and trample with rage. He opts for the latter and kills a marauder, 2 kodiaks, cripples a third. Ouch.
My first priority is killing the mountain king. I try to move up and kill a couple stone guys to get the MK out of stone protection, but the 3 shots I take on the stone bearer, I don't even force a tough. The rest of the winterguard fire at his mauler and a rocket goes into the MK. The mountain king has probably taken 8pts so far. I feat and get a fully loaded juggernaut and loaded marauder into him. My dice are terrible with the marauder and leave the MK on 1 box! I feel the MK HAS TO DIE, so I take 2 free strikes and get my final juggernaut into him, killing him on the charge, wasting 3 focus. Perhaps I should have just killed the mauler like I planned, but I felt the MK was too big of a threat to leave fully functional, surrounded by whelps.
That was the turning point, with the mauler still alive and my juggernaut banged up from taking a bunch of free strikes, he is able to get to much work done on his turn (even tho his earthborn and axer were full fury (but didn't frenzy!). He grinds me out and my last ditch assassination attempt fails.
Thoughts. I'm not sure what the best way to play into this game with Hark is. Especially if he goes first. Do I be really aggressive, cloud up and feat hoping he doesn't do enough? Do I cloud up and stay much farther back? The amount of damage he can do even from just trampling under Doomys feat is staggering. I think Butcher3 is generally what I want to drop into trolls, and this convinces me further. Even though with butcher the matchup isn't that great either. Retalitory strike with wild aggression on mulg is terrifying and mulgs animus is rough on Butcher.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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