Battle Report #13 - Harkevich1 vs Amon1

January 18, 2017
Scenario: The Pit
Opponent: Bryan Taylor
Initiative: Me

Harkevich1
Kodiak
Kodiak
Kodiak
Juggernaut
Juggernaut
Marauder
Marauder
Joe
Max Winter Guard Infantry w/3 rockets
Free UA
THEME: WINTER GUARD KOMMAND

Amon1
Templar
Templar
Crusader
Crusader
Dervish
Dervish
Dervish
Dervish
Dervish
Devout
min Choir
min Choir
Wrack
Vassal Mechanic
Free Vassal
Free Vassal
Free Covenant of Menoth
THEME: CREATORS MIGHT

Battle of the themes! Jack spam on jack spam.  Last time Bryan played the High Reclaimer into me and after that he felt that if he couldn't kill Harkevich, the cloud wall and armour hark brings is to much.

Turn 1 we both run up.  And man is Hark fast in theme.  My kodiaks are past the halfway mark top of 1!  Once again, lots of missing pictures :(.


End of my turn 2. I didn't need mobility so I load up 2 kodiaks and a maurader on the left.   The maurder charges the dervish on the left, boosts the combo slam and rams him into the building.  One more attack goes into him leaving him on 3.  Marauder repo's back.  One kodiak charges the templar that WAS besides the building and the dervish.  He did have fortify and enliven on him, but because of bad positioning on bryans part, i was able to pin him in with a charge.  Punch him at dice-7 a couple times and throw him into the wall.  Next Kodiak charges in doing more damage and throws him at a choir member further away, leaves it on 18 boxes.  The Blue and white templar in the picture is where the it ends up.  A rocket moves up, hits and kills a vassal that bryan accidently put within 20".  I create a cloud wall but didn't quite plan it out well enough as I leave 1 kodiak in sight.  Hark runs to the flag

(MISSING PICTURE)

With full synergy and d battle he kills the kodiak in sight and gets 2 fully loaded dervishes onto the left marauder and kills him as well.  He needs to feat to do so.  With side steps he also contests my flag with the broken dervish and a full one.  He contests with 3 heavies in a triangle, placing the fortified jack in front to stop me from throwing it out of the zone.

 (MISSING PICTURE)

Feat turn.  I load up a kodiak and 2 juggernauts.  My WGI, joe and hark kill the 2 contesting dervishes and shoot up the third south of the building, crippling its arms.  Kodiak kills a dervish blocking my juggernaut, juggernauts go in to finish off the fortified jack and kill the crusader.  I score 1.

Bryan is in trouble, to much armour and not enough jacks left to chew through it.  He leaves a kodiak on 3, and does some damage to my marauder knocking both its arms out.  Unfortunately the crusader had to trample to get in range though.  Bryan feels the game is pretty well over so to maximize damage, he allocates everything and gets the syngergy chain started with Amon, butting him in a risky position.



I load up my jacks that have cortex's.  The kodiak damages the templar and the juggernaut finishes it off with its charge.  With his 3 remaining focus he boosts his fist and buys and boosts an ice axe into amon, killing him. 


Bryan is still learning Menoth and in time he'll be quite skilled.  He did very well in mk2 with both cryx and khador.  He made some mistakes by not effectively using enliven and boxing in his templar turn 1.  His list struggles with the cloud walls, but at full synergy, his crusaders hit at even dice against my feated jacks.  It's crazy.  This is a game of positioning, enliven and effective cloud walls.  The list probably favours Hark slightly, especially with in theme with the extra move turn 1, but amon definitely has game into it.