Journeyman, Week 4

Played Monte this week. He's still at fifteen points with his Legion, so we didn't follow the week's rules (Battle Box upgraded to twenty-five points with a different caster).

Monte ran:

Lylyth, Herald of Everblight- Carnivean
- Shredder
- Shredder
- Shredder
- Shredder
The Forsaken

And I ran my fifteen pointer from week two, again:

Kaelyssa, Night's Whisper- Manticore
- Griffon
- Chimera
Mage hunter assassin
Mage hunter assassin

Legion had advantage in mobility and model count, so the first order of business was to clear shredders and dent Lylyth's fury generation.


Turn 1

Shredders came at us on the left, casting Rabid on themselves. The carnivean comes right up the middle, and riles to full focus. The forsaken heads up my right side and strips four focus from the carnivean.

Kaelyssa and the manticore advanced into a forest and shot down two and a half shredders, stealing three fury. Left-flank assassin killed another, leaving one wounded, eyeless lizard-dog. Myrmidons advanced making a little bunker around Kaelyssa in the woods.

Turn 2

Lylyth cuts herself for fury, then sends the carnivean charging into my two light myrmidons, missing his spray attack against the manticore and ripping the shield arm off the griffon. Unfortunately, he activated first and was now outside Lylyth's control range. No fury for you, bad man! In retribution, the last shredder eats my left-flank assassin and the forsaken eats my right-flank assassin. Lylyth moves up to a commanding mid-field position and pumps a seven-damage arrow into Kaelyssa. Owch.

Chimera uses Apparition to teleport out of the carnivean's melee range. Kaelyssa loads up her myrmidons with focus and her tries to shoot down the last shredder, but misses. I consider popping feat here, but the free stealth makes no difference to Legion. Manticore roles in to head-butt the carnivean to the ground, freeing the griffon to charge. Chimera and griffon both charge in, boost, and miss every single attack against Lylyth's DEF 16.

Turn 3

Lylyth, down to two fury, rolls out of combat with the two myrmidons (who miss both free strikes), pops feat, boosts to hit (RAT 8+4d6 versus DEF 16 for those of you playing at home) and misses. I believe he rolled 1, 1, 2, 3. She buys a second attack, drops Kaelyssa another five boxes, and then the carnivean charges in (manticore missing the free strike, too) to finish the game.

What a great game. Warmachine/Hordes still finds ways to amaze me with tense, back-and-forth games where skill is primary, but chance and mistakes can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

Best game in a while. Thanks, Monte.

(Something about playing Legion gives me the urge to start a Hordes army. Hrm...)