Scenario: Recon
Opponent: Matt R
Initiative: Me
Butcher3
Wardog
Wardog
Ruin
Marauder
Min Uhlans
Min Uhlans
Eliminators
Eliminators
Drakhun
Drakhun
Orin
Kell
Bokur (c:Butcher)
Xerxis2
Molik Karn
Desert Hydra
Gladiator
Krea
Max Swordsment + UA
Max paingivers
Our Skorne player is back, and its great to see Skorne on the table. Hardly ever saw them in mk2 and never played against them in mk3. Matt hasn't played many games recently and is a little rusty.
End of Round 1. Camera must not have flashed. Matt chooses sides but probably chose the wrong side as it made maneuvering 2 huge bases difficult. He does not have much experience doing this. I forget to move my left drakhun up. Damn 2D proxy.
I don't commit much this turn. Kell aims and kills 2 swordsmen, orin kills 2 and elminators kill two. Eliminators move up to provide a difficult target for his swordsmen and prevent jamming of my uhlans. One Uhlan with SoD on it charges molik to get some early damage on him and with any luck, knock him down. But I fail to roll a 6 for my impact hit. and stop just outside of melee. Butcher (who is the yellow proxy between the bokur and the 2d Drakhun, stays just outside of the Hydra's massive 14" range. Ruin and the marauder hide behind the forest just outside of 11" from the hydra.
With Ruin threatening the Hydra, Matt feels that he should send it in and try to do some good damage at pow 22. Xerxis feats and clears the uhlan from infront of molik. The hydra tramples then procedes to buy 3 attacks on ruin. Ruin survives with 3 boxes, with his right arm and cortex functional. Uh oh. Molik charges 15" into my marauder (I should have moved ruin a bit to the left and stayed out of Moliks range). Matt doesn't jam my drakhun with swordsmen and I get a counter charge on molik, doing 13pts of damage taking out his mind. Maurader goes down and a huge spike on the objective leaves it on 1. Swordsmen kill one eliminator.
A fully loaded ruin, 2 drakhuns and a bokur kill the hyrda and the guys on the right side mostly clean up the swordsmen. Butcher moves onto the flag to score.
Matt's pretty well boned at this point. He decides for X2 to shift towards the right and perhaps clear and score that flag, but he comes up short. Paingivers contest.
Another dark picture. Middle Uhlans kill objective, flag is cleared and both drakhuns tie up the paingivers. I go to 3 at the end of this turn and with no way to contest, Matt concedes.
X2 is terrifying with the amount of speed he can bring. My Butcher list is supposed to be fast but Xerxis puts it to shame! And its skorne so the amount of damage it can inflict is crazy! Plus with fate walker Molik is hard to pin down! So many threats! So many exclamation points! I think effectively piece trading with skorne is going to be very important in the matchup. I feel that with access to the extoller and with how hard skorne hits, Harkevich is probably not great. Tho perhaps the sheer volume of jacks maybe enough that skorne chokes since their strong beaters tend to be more expensive than khador jacks. Anyways, for know its Butcher's game. I'll need to get more practice in vs them because Skorne seem to have a ton of legit casters now.
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