Scenario: Outlast
Opponent: Bryce J
Initiative: Me
Butcher1
Ruin
4x Marauders
3x min rifles w/9 total rockets
Joe
Mortar (free)
Field Gun (free)
Gorshade2
Deathjack
Ripjaw
Max Blackbanes
Max Raiders + CA
Max Bane Thralls
2x Necro Surgeon
6 scrapthralls
Machine Wraith
Soul Trapper
Well its been quite awhile since my last post. Went to the LVO, made it to the top 16, but came 10th after that, so not great. Awesome convention tho. I didn't take any pictures so not going to do any write ups about them, but got to play a lot of lists I've never played against before, as well as some big names like Trevor Christianson and Chuck Elsworth (who got revenge for me knocking him out of masters last year!). Realized my pairing had some weaknesses, the butcher list in particular was somewhat subpar and with the change to the theme list, the hark list has to be reworked (likely to what I was playing before).
Tho after about 25 games with Hark in a month, it was time for a new pairing. Trying out this Butcher1 list paired with an Irusk2 list. I have played games since the LVO but kept forgetting pictures so wasn't writing about them. Also spent a week in mexico, but am now back to it! Anyways, onto the bat rep.
Bryce is one of our local cryx players and although he tends to play unorthodox lists, he's very skilled and very calculating and is one of the best players in the local Victoria meta. I have played very little Cryx in mk3 and wasn't really sure how to go about the matchup, but knowing he had a fair amount of incorporeal in his one list, I figured I should drop butcher as his list has my only magic weapons in my pairing (as well as armory with Irusk2)
I run up, he runs up. IF goes on Butcher. Occultation goes on the bane thralls and mirage on the raiders. It isn't until after the game that I realize I forget to advance move my jacks. Damn vacation making me rusty.
(Picture taken after he mirages his raiders and blackbanes). Joe yells at the left rifle corp and they all aim. 8/9 of them hit and kill a raider. Leaving 2 alive in the rubble and 1 alive way in the back to be safe for gorshades feat. My jacks move into the zones, ruin positions outside banethrall threat and more importantly, machine wraith threat. Damn I hate that thing.
Blackbanes charge and kill some rifles on the right. Remaining raiders do the same on the left. Deathjack gets mirage. Machine Wraith covers the right zone so I can't get ruin in the zone to start killing blackbanes.
I continue attritioning him down, know that once he feats, I'm gonna be jammed to all hell. Black banes are also going to become a problem since for every winter guard they kill, one more ghost pirate joins the fight, butcher charges a blackbane then arcs a boosted oblit into blackbane himself, since he cannot be feated back....but I miss the boosted 7.
Doesn't really matter anyways cause this turn I die. Once again its a slam that gets me. Death jack mirages from outside the building. The machine wraith charges a marauder and moves it into perfect minimum slam distance. Death jack slams the marauder into butcher, blocking him down and pushing butcher towards his army. Deathjack hex blasts off IF. Goreshade feats and with butcher now closer to the cryx army, a feated bane thrall is able to walk to engage butcher. Goreshade puts curse of shadows on butcher and then 5 blackbanes kill him with little issue.
Should have found a safer way to get rid of black bane, maybe even ignored him for another turn. Hard to say how the game would have gone if i kept butcher safe, but between all the mech thralls and scrap thralls bryce brought 19 models back on feat turn, it was rough. Not sure if I would have been able to chew through that. Hard to say. Need more cryx experience, particularly against players like Bryce.
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