Tactics: Gorman Di Wulfe

Gorman Di Wulfe gets a lot of play around here. His Black Oil grenades are spectacularly useful against enemy warjacks and beasts. But that's not their only use. He can effectively employ them against groups of Cryx bile thralls to prevent them from activating Purge (ranged attack special ability) in the next turn, buying your infantry another turn to destroy them.

Warmachine Batrep: Skarre2 vs Rahn

Malice

With the League and Unbound out of the way, Chris and I thought it was high time to throw down a fifty point game.  Chris brought his Skarre2 list, upgraded and improved for fifty points.

I've played Chris' different versions of this same list at 35 points a few times now, and knew what to expect.  Cryx is full of nasty little tricks, but one of the dirtiest plays out like this: Malice harpoons one of your warjacks and tows him across the board, and spends a soul to possess it.  He then activates the 'jack and sends it running deep into the Cryx lines where the Withershadow Combine uses their Dark Industry power to wreck it and replace it with a new helljack.  Hooray.  What could be more fun?  He fills the rest of the army with units you can't really ignore, like The Deathjack and a full unit of satyxis raiders with UA and solo support.  And at fifty points, he throws in some pistol wraiths to ensure your 'jacks are easy pickings.

But it didn't quite play out that way.

Warmachine Batrep: Terminus versus Ravyn

Last night was an epic match coming after a week off just playing teaching games with new players.  Chad, who is now just days away from his first kid, had one last night out for gaming and we decided to throw down fifty points.  Chad brought his big nasty Terminus list, and I brought my mass-infantry Ravyn list from two weeks ago.

It's probably important to note I have never played against Terminus or seen him played.  Patrick offered me one, solemn piece of advice, "Kill all his infantry... before Terminus gets to you."  Eep.

Chad's list was:

Lich Lord Terminus

* Leviathan

* Leviathan

Bane Thralls (full+UA)

Bane Lord Tartarus

Withershadow Combine

Necrosurgeon & 3 stitch thralls

Mechanithralls (full+Brute)

Darragh Wrathe

Madeline Corbeau

Saxon Orrik

Warmachine Batrep: Mortenebra Tier 4 vs Ossyan

Jim and I played a thirty-five point caster-kill game last Friday, 9 July, after work.  Jim's actually played fewer games than me, but he's a clever list builder and a great player.  His list was:

Master Necrotech Mortenebra (Infernal Machines, Tier 4)

- Deryliss

- Slayer helljack

- Slayer helljack

- Slayer helljack

- Slayer helljack

- Slayer helljack

- Slayer helljack

Necrotech

- Scrap thrall

Necrotech

- Scrap thrall

Scrap Thrall (full)

Scrap Thrall (full)

Scrap Thrall (full)

Warwitch Siren

Warwitch Siren

Holy crap! Six heavy 'jacks!  Mortenebra's tier list decreases the cost of heavy jacks by one point each.  Still...