Battle Report 67

eVlad vs Scaverous

I went first, ran uhlans up the middle, kayazy on the east, nyss on the west. His croes killed an uhlan or two after scav arced icy grip onto them and hid himself behind a wall of 3 ogrun. Biles lay in wait behind the croes.

I looked at the situation for a really long time, like 8 minutes long (yay deathclock). I didn't feel it was quite feat turn yet, and decided to take out his main threats (biles and arcnodes). Again, he had nicely hidden one of the biles far enough back behind scav that I wasn't going to completely kill the unit and prevent excarnate, but it would limit it.

I started things off with uhlans charging into the ogrun, mostly because i wanted more practice getting impact attack timing correct. I killed one ogrun with the first impact attack, got greedy and tried to declare a further charge target and kill with the second, ended up failing; the third uhlan failed to kill even his charge target.

Widowmakers moved far enough back away from croes that stealth kicked in, shot 4 biles. Nyss got HoF swapped to them, killed one arc node through the croes and then the bile hiding behind the arcnode. Eliminators killed the remaining arc node and (critically) the last one sidestepped around into the croes, killing one and putting her further away toward the west.

Opp was pretty gutted by this, since he had a plan to use the arc node to tk vlad around, icy grip him, and then drag him into range of banes. Of course, problem with that being unless he dragged out of range of the dog, no backstrike bonus and +2 def offsets the icy grip.

He went ahead and excarnated one of the uhlans to get a bile, tried to get another one but didnt do enough damage. Biles got a good chunk of the kayazy but not one of the eliminators, and the boss toughed so banes had to finish him off. Scav hid in a gorman cloud with death ward, but had otherwise spent his focus. Croes forgot to move, made an attack against one of the uhlans and failed to kill it, forgot to shoot with other croes (which probably would have removed some nyss). Ogrun finished up the uhlans.

Nyss kept HoF, vlad charged spriggan to get in range, feated, rolled the minimum, put it on 3 nyss and the eliminator. Nyss zephyred out of combat as necessary, shot up scavvy with 2man cras for a decent chunk. WIdowmakers put 3 more on him, I got greedy and tried to aim with one that was just out of range. Eliminator wasn't going to get the gang bonus since her sis was dead, but still got the job done. Enough pow 12s do kill casters, especially if they're hitting on HoF 3s or boosted 4s.

Still, a hard fought game, fitting for what is apparently the 100th win.

I'm a little torn on spriggan in this list vs drago, no dog, add pEiryss to take care of focus campers. But spriggan is just too versatile, and the dog is potentially really stupid with eVlad (even though i think its better to spend points on stuff that kills the other guy).