Battle Report #7: Harkevich1 vs Una2

January 10, 2017

Scenario: Line Breaker
Opponent: Idavoll H
Initiative: Idavoll



Harkevich1
Kodiak
Kodiak
Kodiak
Juggernaut
Juggernaut
Marauder
Marauder
Ogrun Bokur (c: Harkevich)
Ogrun Bokur (c: Ragman)
Ragman
Orin Midwinter



Una2
Wilder
Gorax
Scarsfell
Scarsfell
Scarsfell
Scarsfell
Scarsfell
Scarsfell
Scarsfell
Scarsfell
Scarsfell
Shifting Stones
Shifting Stones
Sentry Stones
Sentry Stones
Blackclad

Idavoll proxied this list so I could get experience against Una2. I wanted it to be a worse case scenerio so we dropped the pieces that don't do much against my list (like the pureblood) for more Scarsfell. Also gave him first turn to see what its like going second against her. Since it was his first time playing her, and we were trying to see how the matchup played, we played pretty loose with some take backs and such. Because of this I'm not going to do much of a battle report and instead focus on the matchup in general.

I knew how hard the griffons hit but seeing it play out was still eye opening. Their damage output is absolutely ridiculous. The game ended with him getting a single primal'd griffon into hark and running another griffon in for flank. Hark was sitting on 4 focus, and under feat so arm 19. Two griffons benefiting from flank can kill a jack outside of feat turn.

Under Una's feat, my list does have some methods to deal damage. Orin shooting a friendly jack and then boosting on the griffons gets some good damage on. As does the boostable vent steams. Applying ragman to any of this damage is just gravy. It can reliably kill 1-2 griffons through Una's feat turn depending on positioning.

Harks cloudwall is quite beneficial. Staying just within 10” of the front griffons, but outside of 9.5” with clouds is ideal if possible. That way even under feat the griffons cannot walk into my jacks and my jacks threaten his griffons. Save Harks feat for the turn after Una's feat if at all possible.

Keeping Hark safe is paramount to this matchup. Need to remember about thunderbolt. Fishing for the crit with thunderbolt allowed Una to knock down my jack blocking LOS, and push hark away so he doesn't benefit from Iron sentinel. This also allowed Una to get the griffon in which killed Hark. Blocking landing zones for griffons is important to keep hark safe as well.

This matchup is favoured for Una, but not crushingly so. And the more common builds with a pureblood and only 6 or 7 griffons is better for hark. Will need some more practice against her.