Battle Report #4: Butcher3 vs Doomshaper2

January 6, 2017
Scenario: Outlast
Opponent: Dan W
Initiative: Dan

Butcher3
Ruin
Marauder
Rager
Min Uhlans
Min Uhlans
Eliminators
Eliminators
Drakhun
Ragman
Kell
Alexia2

Doomshaper2 (ADR) - Power of Dhunia
Mulg
Mountain King
Mauler
Earthborn
Axer
Runebearer
Janissa
Whelps
min stone


-Scenario victory, attrition advantage
-Once again, I forget pictures
-He runs up, I run up.  He moves up the MK spraying 2 cav and primal shocking another, luckily, he only kills 1.  He kills alexia with a primal shock coming from the earthborn, rolling the needed 14.
-I send in 5 uhlans and a SoD'd ruin and leave the Mountain King on a handful of boxes.  Dan forget to check Ruins threat range when he moved up to spray and primal shock some stuff, but it worked out in his favour as the MK survived
-I lose ruin and all 5 remaining cav in response, Dan feats to send mulg in to kill 2 eliminators and ragman in opposite zone
-I kill the MK with elims, drakhun and kell.  Butcher clears the other zone (needing to feat to kill mulg and cast an obliteration to kill whelps).  I score 2 and because of a building placement, it will be difficult for dan to get something meaningful in to contest/threaten butcher now.
-We fight back and forth but due to the strength of Butcher I get up on attrition and score my last three
 
-Dan feated too early, if he had kept Mulg toe'd in the zone, saving his feat it would have been much more dangerous to get butcher to get into the zone and be relevent
-His list is extremely fast.  With a 15" threat on the MK and 14" on Mulg, even with ruin and all my cav he out threats me
-If he goes first he can rush all his heavies and get way up the board, guaranteeing him the alpha, and with sprays and primal shock I have to put a heavy in his face, not cav, otherwise he can zap my cav while staying far enough back
-Might be worth sacrificing ruin as bait since the marauder hits like a truck against the MK
-Have to be careful with wild aggression on mulg with his retaliatory strike, its a ~40% chance that he will crit butcher if butcher goes in on him
-This matchup is probably not favoured too heavily one way or another

-Working on finding a pair for Harkevich.  Butcher3 seems to be a good fit, however I'm not sure about this list
-It's fun and its fast, but to boostable shooting or magic the cav probably wont last long.  Will continue to test