Battle Report #8: Butcher3 vs High Reclaimer1

January 11, 2017

Scenario: Incursion

Opponent: Bryan Taylor

Initiative: Bryan

Butcher3

Ruin

Marauder

Rager

Min Uhlans

Min Uhlans

Eliminators

Eliminators

Drakhun

Ragman

Kell

Alexia2

High Reclaimer1

Scourge of Heresy

Reckoner

Knights Exemplar

Max Vengers

Max Idrians + CA

Rhoven and co.

Min Cleansers + CA

Min Choir

Ok so there's a lot of proxies in this report but I actually remembered pictures this time! My models are out being painted and Bryan just bought a bunch:

Here's the proxy legend:
Winter guard infantry = Idrians

Storm knights = Vengers

Ternion + IF Kovniks = Rhoven & co.

Risen = ChoirRockbottom = Cleanser CA

Templar = Scourge of Heresy

Greylord outrider = Uhlan leader

End of round 1. Butcher casts energizer and everything charges and runs up. I try to use uhlans to tie up idrians. Probably shouldn't have used the unit that was their prey.... Alexia move up, hits a def 17 idrian with a hellfire, removes it from play, and repo's back.

In response, the HoF'd idrians kill the 2 engaging uhlans and shoot the third, killing the unit and shifting prey to the drakhun to which he also shot and put 5pts on. The rest of his stuff run around as shown.

Time to get work done. Butcher puts silence of death onto himself, charges up, engergizes into position and pulls almost all the idrians and removes them all from play. He also kills scourge but due to slightly bad positioning, the reckoner is a tiny bit out of range. I have to feat to kill scourge and I end up sitting on 3. Ruin gets a soul from a venger and chargers the reckoner, knocking everyting out except for his cortex and right arm, uh oh.... Alexia moves up to deny souls from the errants that my eliminators kill to score the flag. HR only gets 2 souls the entire turn.

Bryan needs to kill me or lose. Cleanser aim and blast butcher, bryans dice are on fire! They burn through 2 of my focus and put 4pts of damage on top of that. HR feats back Exemplars, puts them into position to walk into butcher, and puts HoF on them. HR walks into butcher (6.9” away!) and puts another 5 or so pts of damage on him. He gets 3 Exemplar onto butcher (drakhun counter charged and killed 2) but his dice arn't great and leave butcher on 7. But reckoner gets the job done and puts butcher into the dirt.

Butcher has game and tools into HR, but i definitely underestimate his assassination potential. Even if I had killed the reckoner, which with better positioning I think I could have, he still has a decent chance of killing Butcher. Silence of death is money in this match, as is being able to deny HR souls with good placement of Ruin and Alexia. Going first is probably good against HR as well. Matchup probably isn't favoured to much one way or another