Every Sunday, our super Sexret Sunday gaming club takes place in a location which is extra extra extra secret in Chingford... Near the Tesco... And that's all I'm disclosing about the location!
During that time, Mike from RiotVilleOnFire and I like to partake in some we like to call, photoporn!
Two guys with painted armies taking really sweet and astounding photos of two armies going at it like rabbits in a hole.
Unfortunately Mike hadn't painted so we are stuck with a generic battle report for you!
Setting the scene, Mike wanted a 50pts game, straight up caster kill. Unfortunately, I hadn't been behaving with the camera, and I kept forgetting to take photos as we went along, but none the less, enjoy the photos, and what little I can remember from the actual game itself!
Everblight deploys fairly centrally, using Thagrosh1, he is flanked by two full units of Ogryns. I've been playing this list for a while now and I think it works amazingly. Hits hard, hits fast, and these Ogryns, when times right, can destroy a handful of jacks on the Assault!
These boys earned their supper the last couple of games, even through Trollkin champions they still walked through and have them a right bollocking back!
My man Thagrosh walks in the centre, his role is vital in ensuring the Ofryns stay alive. Between Fog of War and Death Shroud, he helps ensure the advance of the Ogryns through shooting and makes them a solid wall in combat!
Mike's Mule is his old favourite, blasting things apart is his specialty and my god does it do it well!
Yet again, the game is so good that I forget to take photos. Fast forward a turn, and the Scythean misses a charge by literally the fraction of a millimetre.
The turn later, that mule is turned to wreckage as the Ogryns hit their prey targets and follow through into the Mule, the left flank is well and truly secured. The plan is working well as this now forces mike to either divide his forces to hold me up which I want, meaning I can fan out the attack and hit on multiple fronts; or, refuse the lost flank and try to push through on my right. Luckily Mike chooses to stay and fight. Had the gun mages moved off and shot me, my Ogryns would have been feeling a lot of pain suddenly!
In the past I had experienced the annoyance of Eiryss. Not as potent against hordes, but she did keep death striking my Ogryns, which kept knocking 3 damage a turn. If Mike had focused and concentrated on killing 1 a turn, maybe the left flank wouldn't have been turned over so quickly.
In the end, my Angelius managed to hunt her down with Eyeless Sight.
This is one of the only panning shots I got. As you can see, the right hand flank in the distance was being held up, and my left had pushed well forward. My Scythean who I had used to control the centre of the board and merged with the left, giving them some much needed clearing.
The only problem with this was the lack of coverage Thagrosh could give. Because of the disjointed positioning of both units, his Death Shroud wasn't able to cover both units. In the end, keeping him covering the right flank ended up being the right plan as the -2STR allowed my Ogryns to survive the game. Only the Warmonger Chief and Warspear UA stood amongst the dead.
No pictures were taken on the right due to the ugliness of Unpainted models on both sides.
Photo porn moment, the Scythean does his job holding the Middle while the Ogryns finish up and sweep round.
Being a large model with reach, he has a real threat range which scares a lot of people. With chain attack Bloodbath, he has a real chance to clear swathes of models in one go! The hard worker finally went down to Ashlyn but did enough to earn himself an MVP in my eyes.
2 initials, 1 Bloodbath, and 3 fury later, the middle is empty. I chose to leave the mule alive to get the target in combat bonus but made sure the Gun Mages were cleared. Scythean thinks he looked better without arms I guess lol!
Ashlyn pops her annoying feat of "I hit everything and you hit nothing"
I've learnt in these situations you just have to play through it.
Luckily, I have enough corpses on my Vassel to unleash a Harrier into the fray.
With the animus which negates her feat, a damage roll at -8, my harrier rolls 6,6,5 and deals 9! Go harrier!
Ashlyn as you'd expect wasn't amused, he spawned one turn, then died the next...
Good job little man, good job.
In the last turn of the game, Alexia was losing her battle of attrition with the Ogryns, between the Warmongwr Chief and Warspear UA, she was losing too many Corpses and finally with the Nephilim soldier joining the fray, Alexia ran out of transfer targets and joined her undead buddies in the dead pile.
Soon after, the Ogryns finished their sweep of the left flank, caught sight of Ashlyn, and unleashed an Assault which saw her fall in gracious battle.
Thanks for the game Riot! Maybe next time!
What I have learnt...
1) keeping Thagrosh in the middle handing out the buffs is integral to making this list work.
2) pushing different fronts at keys times.
Having thought the left flank was too far ahead, maybe sometimes over extending can do you well!
I guess it's knowing when and how to push.
