tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41315218510013340752024-03-12T23:15:50.509-04:00Fading Interest Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-2636020655573601012016-10-16T12:48:00.003-04:002016-10-16T12:49:08.938-04:00Knight Exemplar Officer (painted)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Protectorate of Menoth Command Attachment for the Knights Exemplar Unit:</div>
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<br /> Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-45556318014910551182016-06-04T16:28:00.000-04:002016-06-04T16:28:00.857-04:00Avatar of Menoth (new sculpt) (painted)This is my third Avatar. I had an intense dislike of the original model (the pose is awful and the sword is double awful), so I bought a second one and modded it last year. The new sculpt arrived recently (pre-ordered with a birthday gift card), and I spent the last few days painting it and assembling it (in that order).<br />
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Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-51342708751664052882016-03-27T19:16:00.002-04:002016-03-27T19:16:32.937-04:00Purple Protectorate of Menoth - Mercs and Other Things<i>I have been working to repaint my Protectorate of Menoth models from their original "fire truck red!" schema over to a more nuanced purple and copper. I have made a ton of progress since the fall of 2015. I have a bunch of models I need to finish up and I'll continue to update as I complete new ones.</i><br />
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Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-27543234475584503142016-03-27T19:11:00.000-04:002016-03-27T19:11:16.286-04:00Purple Protectorate of Menoth - The Colossals<i>I have been working to repaint my Protectorate of Menoth models from their original "fire truck red!" schema over to a more nuanced purple and copper. I have made a ton of progress since the fall of 2015. I have a bunch of models I need to finish up and I'll continue to update as I complete new ones.</i><br />
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Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-6257398656686548802016-03-27T19:08:00.000-04:002016-03-27T19:29:30.885-04:00Purple Protectorate of Menoth - The Solos<i>I have been working to repaint my Protectorate of Menoth models from their original "fire truck red!" schema over to a more nuanced purple and copper. I have made a ton of progress since the fall of 2015. I have a bunch of models I need to finish up and I'll continue to update as I complete new ones.</i><br />
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<b>High Paladin Dartan Vilmon</b></div>
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Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-24516561557234591942016-03-27T18:58:00.000-04:002016-03-27T19:09:11.774-04:00Purple Protectorate of Menoth - The Units<i>I have been working to repaint my Protectorate of Menoth models from their original "fire truck red!" schema over to a more nuanced purple and copper. I have made a ton of progress since the fall of 2015. I have a bunch of models I need to finish up and I'll continue to update as I complete new ones.</i><br />
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<b>Daughters of the Flame I</b></div>
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<b>Daughters of the Flame II</b></div>
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Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-45064240851763166472016-03-27T18:48:00.000-04:002016-03-27T18:48:13.536-04:00Purple Protectorate of Menoth - The Warjacks<i>I have been working to repaint my Protectorate of Menoth models from their original "fire truck red!" schema over to a more nuanced purple and copper. I have made a ton of progress since the fall of 2015. I have a bunch of models I need to finish up and I'll continue to update as I complete new ones.</i><br />
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<b>Avatar of Menoth</b></div>
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<b>The Hand of Judgment</b></div>
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<b>Devout I</b></div>
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Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-9749478558132008982016-03-27T18:42:00.000-04:002016-03-27T18:42:42.826-04:00Purple Protectorate of Menoth - The Warcasters<i>I have been working to repaint my Protectorate of Menoth models from their original "fire truck red!" schema over to a more nuanced purple and copper. I have made a ton of progress since the fall of 2015. I have a bunch of models I need to finish up and I'll continue to update as I complete new ones.</i><div>
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<u><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Warcasters</span></b></u></div>
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<b>Intercessor Kreoss</b></div>
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<b>High Reclaimer</b></div>
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<b>Anson Durst, Rock of the Faith</b></div>
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Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-61527355430742926262016-01-23T20:45:00.001-05:002016-01-23T20:45:46.275-05:00Warmachine Battle Report: Feora, Protector of the Flame vs. Kreuger the Stormlord<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was able to get a pair of games in with one of my local friends, Kevinbakon, who runs around with great looking Circle models that constantly make me want to buy into Circle. The first match we played was Feora2 vs. Krueger2 and then we swapped to our other lists and played Anson Durst vs. Morvahna1. This is the battle report for the first game. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 1: PROTECTORATE OF MENOTH</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Choir starts with Battle. The Judicator advances and starts lobbing rocket shots downrange. It is hard to see from the picture, but I have a line on Krueger, even off the hill (the Stones are stealthed). I roll mostly garbage, but manage to drop a pair of Blast templates onto Krueger, light him on fire and force a couple transfers to the Gorax. I also manage to kill the Stone Keeper with some hot dice. The TFG mini feat and run, trying to jam up the center and the charge lane to the Judicator. The Hand advances and fries a couple Bloodtrackers. Enliven is more important than a couple more dead Bloodtrackers, so that is what the Vassal gives him. The Reckoner sets up in the middle, preparing to be the last piece in the upcoming trade-fest. The Book is pushing the Lawgiver's Creed and Gorman steps over the wall to add some concealment to the Hand and coverage for the group behind him. Rhupert keeps piping the Dirge.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Choir Battle the warjacks again. I make a couple mistakes this turn. I should have juggled Ignite. This is the first time I have really used the spell on a warjack … don't ask me, I have been playing for a few years and I always throw it on my infantry. Surprise surprise, POW 22 is a thing. Anyway, the Judicator manages to severely wound the Ghetorix but rolled snakes on one of his good attacks (left arm was out). I spend the rest of my activations on that side trying to do enough the dirt the thing and come up about 4 or 5 boxes short (this includes a free Assault from the Reckoner than manages to land and a CMA from the TFG that I think failed to break armor). Ghetorix gets a bonus to his ARM when engaged. Ignite would have made the difference. Oh well. The Vassal Enlivens the Hand and the Hand charges the Stalker. Like I said, POW 22 is a thing and the Stalker goes down quickly. I spend his last bought attack annihilating a Stone and stopping some serious Teleporting shenanigans. I am prepared to lose the Hand. I am a little annoyed I had to commit the Reckoner. There is a chance he is going to take all of my Heavies off table next turn. Gorman steps up to the disappointed Bloodtrackers and drops a no deviation acid bomb on the three of them. Feora heads central again. The Hand is out of support range, but there is fire on the table now.</span></div>
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-61563357164012960452016-01-21T09:55:00.000-05:002016-01-21T09:55:21.855-05:00Hand of Judgment (sealed)Forgot to glue the banners into place when I took the previous pictures. Here is the finished and sealed model.<br />
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Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-39617438930275257292016-01-19T09:53:00.000-05:002016-01-19T09:53:20.888-05:00Hand of Judgment (painted)I'll be adding more to this or else making an entire series of all the painting I have done in the past few months. However, here are the quick shots I took last night.<br />
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Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-11041713495552366462015-12-16T15:54:00.000-05:002015-12-16T15:54:10.012-05:00Warmachine Battle Report: Anson Durst vs Butcher Unleashed<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<br /> Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-54453975504590527532015-12-10T09:43:00.004-05:002015-12-10T09:43:50.228-05:00Warmachine Battle Report: Anson Durst vs. Supreme Kommandant Irusk<b id="docs-internal-guid-4ac94412-8c51-ab7d-1fd7-918e6867c666" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
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<br /> Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-23857527002006242332015-11-29T21:47:00.000-05:002015-11-29T21:47:10.065-05:00Temple Flameguard (painted)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am switching my paint scheme for my Protectorate of Menoth army over to a purple / bronze with red highlights. I started when I picked up Anson Durst...</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently I have repainted a pair of Templars and my Holy Zealot unit (plus Monolith Bearer). Next up for the holiday weekend was my first Temple Flameguard unit. When I first acquired these guys, I was a bit too into Exemplar Errants to appreciate everything the TFG do for the Protectorate. They have since become one of my very favorite units to put on the table. I think I spent about 20 hours repainting them into my new purple/bronze scheme. I just couldn't stop and the hours kept slipping by. Hopefully the pictures do them justice. They might be the best work I have done to date.</span></span></div>
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Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-65966926811033637172015-11-26T10:45:00.000-05:002015-11-26T10:46:32.282-05:00Holy Zealots (re-painted)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am switching my paint scheme for my Protectorate of Menoth army over to a purple / bronze with red highlights. I started when I picked up Anson Durst. So far I have completed Durst, a Vassal of Menoth, and pEiryss (for some reason). </span></i></span><br />
<i style="font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I haven't made the dive with a unit yet, but I did strip and reprime my Holy Zealots, so I guess they are up first.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That was last week. Last night (in the wee hours), I put the final washes and touch ups into my new Holy Zealot paint scheme. The first time I painted my unit of Zealots was in October of 2013. Here is what it looked like then:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Garbage lighting, terrible focus ... all things that sort of but not really hid my heavy hand, lack of thinned paints, unawareness of dry brushing, and ugly choices in basing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But they sure were shiny red.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is the unit now, two years later, in my Purple Menoth scheme. I used a lot of dark washes to dirty them up. I am not very pleased with how the Monolith Bearer came out. I waffled on some color choices late in the process and the Leader and UA suffered the most from it.</span></div>
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Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-66139057833152165822015-11-21T21:56:00.001-05:002015-11-21T21:58:33.517-05:00Templars (painted)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am switching my paint scheme for my Protectorate of Menoth army over to a purple / bronze with red highlights. I started when I picked up Anson Durst. So far I have completed Durst, a Vassal of Menoth, and pEiryss (for some reason). I haven't made the dive with a unit yet, but I did strip and reprime my Holy Zealots, so I guess they are up first. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did make a non-magnetized Templar for Durst with the scheme. I liked it so much that I stripped a magnetized kit, swapped out the chassis with a "Vanquisher only" pack I picked up off eBay a while back, and made a second fixed Templar with the new scheme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are the results.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Templar 1:</span></u></b><br />
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Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-79089736440782563132015-11-11T18:01:00.001-05:002015-11-11T18:21:00.624-05:00Warmachine Battle Report: Anson Durst, Rock of the Faith vs. Major Markus "Siege" Brisbane<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Surprise, surprise. Feat turn for Siege. He catches most of the Protectorate army under his control thanks to the Squire. The Stormwall rolls garbage dice, however five attack later, it has splatted 2 Paladins. The Pod disrupts a Templar and zaps a TFG dead. For some wonderful reason the Pod counts as a Stormcaller for Triangulation and Shamrod manages to drop two Triangulations into my TFG ranks. Combined with ATGM attacks, by the end of the turn There are six out of 24 TFG still alive - the UA + Leader. The only ruts in the road for Cygnar was that Eiryss botched her attack roll and the Rangers fail their command check from engaging the TFG. Also, Shamrod killed so many Protectorate troops that there were plenty of lanes to get at his Stormwall. Hallowed Avenger was useless because the only "attacks" that qualified for it happened before all the non-attacks. There was nowhere for the Templar to go. From the picture below, it looks like Cygnar has a firm grip on the zones.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 2: PROTECTORATE</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Stormwall has to go. It is the absolute number 1 priority. That thing gives Cygnar so many options and the last thing I want is for Siege to pack up, back up and spend the rest of the game feeding the Stormwall focus. One Templar is disrupted but is next to the Fuel Cache Objective. The other Templar is a bit further out and will almost definitely need a Boundless Charge. The plan for the left side of the equation is to accept the jam and just see what can be smashed. When in doubt, attrition. Oh and this turn both TFG mini-feat.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The right side TFG charge, one into Eiryss (miss) and one into the Stormwall (a scratch!!). The Choir puts out the Hymn of Battle and mostly tries to get out of the way. Mistake #2: I completely forgot about the Pod!! The disrupted Templar free charges into the Stormwall and manages two moderately ok attacks. Durst activates and backs up after casting Boundless Charge on the loaded Templar. The loaded Templar smashes into the Stormwall and after five attacks comes up about 3 boxes short (one of the damage rolls was well under par). This is very bad. But wait! I had planned for this. All the Choir got out of the way so the Vassal could advance and Ancillary Attack a Templar. Bam. The Stormwall is a wreck!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forgetting the Pod meas more Triangulations and two disrupted Templars. Between that and the AGTM pushing the left Templar around, Cygnar manages to clear the zone although the mini-feated TFG prove to be sticky enough to require many attacks to do so. Unfortunately, Siege forgets to preemptively move into the zone. Eiryss is engaged and whiffs. The Rangers fail to rally. (At this point we were both looking askance at Shamrod's dice.) The hero of the fight against the Stormwall (the Vassal) is blown apart by Siege. Cygnar's hold on his enemy zone is wavering, although he has a Ranger, Stormsmith, and Eiryss inside it. His friendly zone is clear, but he isn't doing any damage to the Templar (just pushing it around).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ok. Those Stormsmiths have to go. There is just too much disruption on the table. Also, I need to start clearing a zone if I want to get anywhere because now Siege is just camping a ridiculous amount of focus. Fortunately I have made it to Turn 3 without needing to Feat. That means it is time for a solid Durst Feat turn. The left side Templar gets fully loaded. The closest Templar to the Pod backs up and smashes it. I use the BeatBack to reposition forward slightly. The Choir run around trying to get out of the way. I don't have any good way to reach more than the Templar on the left, but that is going to force the entire unit to shift hard in that direction. Oh well. Mistake #3: I leave a bunch of Choir just out in the open. Durst charges far off target to go Base to Base with a Templar. The loaded Templar goes to town on Boomhowler himself and the Stormsmith on that side. After pasting the Stormsmith, It takes all the remaining attacks to finally get Boomhowler to fail a tough check. Vilmon and Vassal button up with the Templar. Vilmon drops a Boomhowler, but it toughs. The Vassal Ancillary Attacks the Templar who hits another Boomhowler, but that one toughs as well. The TFG Leader and Officer Combine Melee and manage to kill Eiryss2. The forward Templar waddles forward and pastes another Stormsmith. If I had been able to reach the lead Templar, No Spelling it, instead of Battling the other, would have been really cool.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the Feat up and my important pieces bunkered into Templars, all the AGTM and Siege can do is take out whatever Choir I left in the breeze. They do manage to kill the Choir leader in the trench. By the end of the turn, I have one Choir member left. Siege also manages to Force Hammer the forward Templar. He knocks it back into a Ranger which gets turned into jelly. Maybe this is what snaps them back into focus, because the Rangers manage to rally. All the Boomhowlers manage to do is stand up. Siege gets into the zone by the end of his activation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have big plans for this turn, but I have a small focus issue. I need to allocate enough to the lead Templar to give it up and into the Objective, but I can't afford to overcommit. I want to put Durst deep into the flank of the zone. I need the Stormsmith dead. On the other side, I need to keep the ATGM and the Boomhowlers tied up working on that Templar. I don't have a ton of models on the table, but three Templars is still three really heavy jacks. The goal is to contest as hard as I can and move towards a scenario victory. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Durst puts one focus on the center Templar, two focus on the lead Templar, one is used to shake Knockdown. The TFG manage to kill the Stormsmith, and position themselves in such a way that Durst can charge them to extra distance. The Choir can't reach the lead Templar, so he moves into the Zone and Battles the center Templar. That Templar charges a Ranger, smashes it, moves forward with a BeatBack, hammers a second with the shield, then buys an attack to crush a third Ranger and BeatBack backwards to cover the path towards the zone. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mistake #4 … Durst needs to cast Boundless Charge on the lead Templar … therefore he can't fail a charge. He has to opt to advance into the Zone, cast Boundless Charge on the Templar, and Rampart Stance camping 1. The lead Templar charges the Objective for free (Boundless Charge) and rolls GARBAGE on damage. After three attacks the objective is left at 2. This is the Templar that almost gets it done all game. Almost on the Stormwall, almost on the Objective. Whelp. The only other thing I can do is attempt to Arcane Bolt it with the Vassal. The Bolt hits but fails to break armor. Le Sigh. Vilmon and the left Templar successfully murder two Boomhowlers, but the third makes a tough check. At least that will gum up any sort of Assault. Durst manages to score a Control Point.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 5: PROTECTORATE</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The goal here is to clear the zone and grind down as much of the rest of the Cygnar forces as I can while still giving Siege a clear and present danger to consider. So far, Shamrod has not been able to free up his ATGM to come across the field and cause trouble on the other side. In a previous game we played, he was able to use Thunderbolt to deny me access to a zone late game and he won as a result. I need to get ahead far enough that he won't be able to manage to do that again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The left Templar kills the two Boomhowlers engaging him. Sadly, sort of unsurprisingly at this point, the Boomhowlers fail command. Durst advances and blows up Rangers contesting the zone to clear it. Since the Gunmages have Truesight, Durst casts Deflection (the Cloud isn't going to help him). Durst in melee is so much fun, but you have to earn it by playing a tight opening game. The lead Templar smashes the Objective and follows-up by trying to remove the Squire (Dice off 3 and it gets left on 1). The Choir sings No Spells on central Templar who runs around the obstacle to contest zone. Vilmon swings at Siege but doesn't break armor (Dice off 10). Vilmon is not moving so he can stance up to 21 Armor. The Objective is gone and Durst dominates his Zone giving the Protectorate forces two more Control Points.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SCORE: CYGNAR 0, PROTECTORATE 3</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 6: CYGNAR</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ATGM push Vilmon and the Templar out of the Zone in a hilarious series of slightly differently angled shots such that he gets moved something like seven inches but is only 2.5 inches away from the zone. One of them shoots the last Choir member, Deflection doesn't save anyone today. Reinholdt runs to contest. Siege backs up to the edge of the zone. Junior moves to the back of the zone as well. Poor Boomhowlers fail to rally. However, Cygnar has managed to clear the Zone and score a Control Point.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 6: PROTECTORATE</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Look at that picture up above. That straight line from Vilmon to Siege is so tasty. All the Thunderbolts pushed the Templar into Durst's Control (it also pushed Vilmon into Deflection). Durst hands out some focus. Vilmon charges Siege and manages to deal ten points of damage even at Dice off eleven. The Templars smash everything on the near side of the Zone to prevent anything from running to contest. The TFG (supertroopers at this point in the battle) engage Reinholdt, he fails command … of course he does, and then he dies to the flaming spears of the Temple Flameguard. Durst backs up to take any sort of Hail Mary assassination off the table. Durst scores the fourth Control Point for Protectorate.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 7: CYGNAR</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unable to run anything into the far zone, Cygnar concedes the battle to Protectorate.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Victory for Menoth!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This game was a blast. We played on the clock, but Shamrod and I play a 90 minute clock instead of a 60. That way we won't accidentally play a four hour game, there is still some time pressure, but we can focus on having a good time. Both of us dislike games that go to time, but we both see the need to have some time element in play. Overall, it was a good back and forth. The opening salvo from Siege was almost enough to break my forces (or at least it felt that way). The Templars really shine with Durst and I even managed to run the list ok without any focus assistance. Shamrod's dice were … below average when he really needed to roll high and above average when he needed to roll low. Even with the ups and downs of dice, he still managed to push me pretty hard. Thanks for the game, Shamrod!</span><br />
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<br /> Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-3261375374868484502015-11-05T12:54:00.000-05:002015-11-05T18:51:10.310-05:00Super Mario Maker meets Dungeons & Dragons<b id="docs-internal-guid-20b345b8-d8bd-383e-3441-3d5ad5070c3d" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"If you have time on your dance card, I built you a prison."</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That was the message Griffin McElroy sent Patrick Klepek in mid October. At the time, I didn't know anything about either Patrick or the game Super Mario Maker. However, Griffin McElroy is one of the funniest people on the planet and I am continually delighted by the things he creates. He is one of the three McElroy brothers on the widely loved My Brother, My Brother, and Me podcast. He is the Dungeon Master of The Adventure Zone podcast (featuring his father and his brothers as the players). He is also an editor at Polygon.com where, among many other things, he creates Monster Factory (also with his ridiculously funny brother Justin). In short, I will consume </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">anything</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Griffin McElroy creates. But I had never heard of Super Mario Maker.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Super Mario Maker does what it says on the tin. It is a game level editor that gives the user the power to build interesting (or dull or impossible or fun) levels of Nintendo's Super Mario. And people have been making a lot of Mario levels since it's release. Patrick Klepek is a senior reporter at Kotaku and he streams on Twitch (which archives to his channel on YouTube). For the last few months, Patrick has spent his mornings before work streaming levels of Super Mario Maker in a series he calls Mario Maker Mornings. He is engaging and charismatic and complimentary to well-designed levels. In late September, Giant Bomb senior editor Dan Ryckert and friend of Patrick, fed Klepek a truly outrageous level dubbed "The Ryckoning". This was following a series of other challenging levels coming from the Giant Bomb region of the internet that Patrick also defeated.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The results were entertaining. But I came to that well after watching and re-watching Patrick attempt to decipher the monstrous prison constructed by Griffin. Watching Patrick twist and turn through a scenario that started at zero information beyond the known capabilities of Mario was fascinating. Since devouring the Hypercube episodes of Mario Maker Mornings, I have dipped deep into Klepek's archive. I watched all of The Ryckoning, I watched him work through the Giant Bomb levels. I have watched Patrick work through a ton of puzzles. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I like puzzles. I especially like puzzles in my twice monthly 5th edition D&D campaign. Currently the party (attendance waffles between 4 and 8) is working their way through C2: The Ghost Tower of Inverness. My campaign has blended themes and tropes I enjoy with 35 year old 1st edition modules. Previously, they have worked through a fast bastardization of L1: The Secret of Bone Hill (one of my favorites), the "good parts" of I1: Dwellers of the Forbidden City, the lower half of C1: The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan, and have now found their way into the Ghost Tower. One of the hazards of uplifting ancient modules is a lack of puzzles, so I find ways to mix in things that interest me or currently have my attention. I also tend to drop campaign plot points and boss fights of my own design into the mix whenever it seems appropriate. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have thrown puzzles at them inspired by my love of the Legend of Grimrock. I have hit them with encounter set pieces aping the Punisher battlefield in Heroes of the Storm (yes, they played a MOBA as D&D characters and it was awesome). The intersection in my mind of Griffin McElroy Dungeon Mastering a Super Mario Maker level somehow made total sense to me. In the most recent session of the campaign, I slipped a Mario puzzle into one of the blank spaces on the map.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.24px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In Super Mario Maker, a lot of the puzzles revolve around being Big Mario or Small Mario. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/adventure-zone" target="_blank">The Adventure Zone podcast</a> </span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlKnEgPEGmA&list=PLaDrN74SfdT6duuVl_8qxJ5eaaPHRX_ij" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Monster Factory</a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feora’s fire does good work and nearly every Halberdier dies to fire. Most of the Stormfall archers shoot Star strike shots onto the mini-feated zealots, catching most of them on fire (take that, Feora!) while a few (and the Banshee) shoot at the objective. I roll like crap, it takes some damage, but I don’t kill it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dropping fire on the Zealots was a great play, but there was little I could do to prevent it. In fact, it is about the least damaging thing that could happen to my force because it gives my grunts a chance at living. True to math, two of the six fires go out while the other four Zealots burn to death. The Templar attempts to clear off the remaining Halberdiers, but only takes out one. The Judicator advances and rockets and sprays the remaining Halberdiers away. A long deviation hits the Arcanist but fails to kill. One Monk attempts to tackle the Objective but only drops it to about 7 boxes. The other stances and jams the MHSF. The remaining Zealots throw some bombs, killing a few MHSF and an archer. The Vanquisher takes out some Riflemen and gets Enlivened. Orin runs to control the flag. Feora runs to a safe Killbox spot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My remaining Stormfall Archers advanced and shot at the opposing objective and actually managed to kill it this turn. I then charged my fully-loaded Banshee (with concentrated power) into his Templar but only took out his movement. That’s okay, though, because killing a jack takes time, and I just need to stall for three more minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My MHSF activate, and three walk out of melee with the kicky-monk. They get punched to death handily. The others (with magic weapons from aiyana) move up and shoot the Vanquisher, standing in a formation that will prevent all of the contesting mage hunters from getting killed by the same Thresher. The Riflemen mini-feat, aim, and blow the monks off the table. I’m actually surprised with by how effectively that worked--I hadn’t expected to clear the flag. Because of this, my caster is blocked in by my objective and my Riflemen, so I won’t be able to run him over, Dominate the Flag and win. I want to say that it might have been toward the end of this turn that Dweomer realized he’d Killboxed himself earlier in the game, and so until that point I hadn’t been planning on being in a position to win at all, but I might be mis-remembering (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was the prior Turn, your Turn 2 - Dweomer</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have three minutes. The loss of the Monks basically put the game away from me. I had a shot at scoring four points with them still in the mix. I probably should have run Feora to the flag for Domination and risked the attack by the Banshee. Then I would have only needed three to win which was possible (clear the Banshee, dominate my Flag, Vanquisher the Objective. Looking at the picture of the board now, away from the game, I can see the optimal play. But with three minutes on my clock and embarrassed at how poorly I managed it, I couldn't unlock the puzzle at the table. The Templar gets three focus and uses Beat Back to put the Banshee out of range, except I roll fire and take it off the table. Feora runs to dominate. I activate the Judicator to take a downtown shot towards the objective and time expires.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We talked about it after the match and summarized my play the following way: "I made excellent decisions slowly." I had to be careful because of the threat of his guns, but I was probably overly careful (which translated into slow play) because of my overall struggle with Retribution. The entire time I believed that one wrong footed step and I would be completely wiped off the table. This is probably not a thing that would happen. I felt like with ten more minutes on my clock, I would have had the scenario victory. I made the right choice with list selection, but some combination of missing tools and cautious play buried me. FatValKilmer, even though his strategy was to watch me burn up my clock, was a fantastic sportsman and helped me with all the fiddly bits of deviations. Even on my last turn, he did what he could to make my Banshee-wrecking Templar activation as zippy as possible (it was essentially me just calling out damage and neither of us worrying about the Beat Back distance as it happened).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I burned five minutes deploying and ten minutes on turn one. That is inexcusable as well. Somehow I let 42 minutes go by in two turns. I have practiced my Judicator play, my opponent helped me out on all of the deviations, and the minutes still cooked away. Slow play is my bane. I feel like I make good decisions, but I need accept slightly less optimal plays much much faster.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I should have recognized the challenge of needing to score on three turns versus on two turns to win. I should look more into two point turns and three point turns (versus one point, three points, one point) until I can get my clock issues improved.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Although I burned too much time to do it, I made good positioning choices, good buff choices, and good target selections. I never gave my opponent very clean opportunities to remove my pieces. At the end of the day, he only capped nine army points (half the Zealots, half the Choir, and both Monks)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I feated at the right time. I took the first opportunity I could to make something of my feat. I was able to strip almost all of the Halberdiers off of my side of the board. That made scenario live for me. If I had failed to do so, I would have been picking them off too slowly to accomplish anything for the rest of the game.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overall, it was a good game. FatValKilmer is always a fun opponent. We have a great time playing each other and push ourselves to play clean, ordered matches. Thanks for the game FatValKilmer, we are allies now, so let's start teching against the rest of the field!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knowing that Dweomer plays slowly, my plan boiled down to: do dumb things fast, try to have the best feat I can. I never ended up feating because of where I committed my army (and if I had feated, it never would have been great) but I certainly did plenty of dumb things fast.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I either over- or under- committed the Halberdiers. I needed to remember that Shieldwall wasn’t worth very much in this fight, and so I could have run them a lot further forward to claim board space.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I forgot about Enliven. It would have been easy as pie to knock down his Vanquisher. Banshee’s gun is pretty great at that. After that: no more Vanquisher, and an easy path to a scenario victory. </span></div>
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<br /> Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-15177107127522264512015-01-29T13:10:00.001-05:002015-01-29T13:10:26.764-05:00Warmachine Battle Report: Feora, Protector of the Flames vs. Artificer General Nemo<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My ranges aren't exactly what I wanted because the Stormguards can't be charged and didn't move up as far as I hoped they would. However, I am able to get a couple Daughters on Nemo to scratch him up a bit. Again, the goal is to slow my opponent's roll. I can't start scoring until my next turn. I should probably look at going second with this list. I need to start scoring before everything gets wiped off the table. I do manage to take out three Stormguards and create more nuisance positions with my remaining Daughters. Feora has to move towards the Stormwall to rally the broken Daughters. I felt clever about that, even though it was not the direction I wanted to travel. The thinned out TFG advanced into a Shield Wall. Everything else moved up and attempted to screen Feora. The right flank Cleansers advanced but failed to clear anything. I am hoping to get something out of them next turn. I never get to spray stuff and I am excited by the chance.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Defenders of the Temple is fast up the field, but I definitely just threw my Daughters into the jaws of Electroleap City. I never really planned on trying to take down the Stormwall. My hope was to push scenario and if it became untenable, try to burn Nemo to the ground. Dynamo was fantastic at causing me trouble throughout the entire match. In Nemo's hands he is terrifying. This was only the third game that Shamrod fielded him and he was already clicking. So many shots, so many rerolls. so much electricity. I love it and hate it a bit.</span></div>
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<br /> Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-25169096795125864342015-01-27T21:33:00.000-05:002015-01-27T21:33:34.690-05:00Warmachine Battle Report: Intercessor Kreoss vs. Lord Arcanist Ossyan<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My goal this game is to play faster than the last time I faced Ossyan. Kreoss hands out a focus to his jacks. The TFG advance and Shield Wall. Rhupert gives them Dirge of Mists. The Vengers run forward aggressively, and a few gain the hill. Aiyana & Holt swing out behind the Vengers. All the Jacks run forward and the Vassal practices Enlivening the Vanquisher. The Choir advances and sings Passage - my primary mode of defense against the Retribution guns. Kreoss puts Holy Ward on the TFG and puts Warpath on himself. Holy Warded, Dirge of Misted Temple Flameguard are my new jam (in both senses of the word). They are irritating to remove and if you leave them alone, they are going to clog up everything all game.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As expected the MHSF gains the fence. The Halberdiers get Quicken and advance in Shield Wall. Everything else either runs or advances into a favorable position. Several of the Riflemen drop a hammer on the lead Venger, triggering Battle Driven.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 2 (MENOTH)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kreoss upkeeps Holy Ward and Warpath. Aiyana Kisses the Halberdiers and Holt shoots at a few. I am tempted to try adding an Attendant Priest into the A&H pair because it seems like Holt is always trying to trigger Warpath. The Vengers charge/run. Reflecting on my Venger activations, FVK and I both think I kind of wasted them. Yeah, I threw them into his face and made him have to clear them out, but they are not supposed to be a lead screen. They are supposed to be the hammer that rockets into my opponent's ranks after the initial engagement. I also misjudged the distance and didn't really smash into the Halberdiers like I wanted. Several are killed and I take my Warpath triggers on the Vanquisher and Templar. The TFG minifeat and run because I need to keep the remaining Halberdiers contained. They are the time-sink garbage chaff of the list and I have to limit the time I use up dealing with them. The warjacks get Passaged by the Choir and advance. The Vanquisher drifts fire onto the UA for the Halberdiers but the blast damage fails to kill. Rhupert plays another dirge and the Vassal puts Enliven on the Vanquisher.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, FatValKilmer counter attacks and wipes out the remaining four Vengers, half the TFG, and Aiyana. The Halberdiers are split oh so carefully such that the five remaining grunts are all in formation with the Officer standing in the center of the zone. The Banshee makes an appearance and I learn that I can't receive orders within 5" of him. This match is heading downhill and I am again burning too much clock.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feat turn. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kreoss drops all his upkeeps because it is time to feat. He loads up the Templar and holds on to a few focus for a Crevasse. I scheme and plot and position and burn clock by spending more activations than I wanted taking Banshee off the table. Because of activation orders and things that need to happen, Kreoss declares a Ride by Attack, advances, and feats. The TFG get Holy Ward, the Templar gets Ignite, Kreoss takes Warpath, and Death Sentence is attempted on the Halberdiers but fails to land. Kreoss hits the Halbardier Officer with a Crevasse and the Templar takes a pair of free strikes from the Warpath. I advance the TFG out of the way of the eventual charge lane and flail pathetically at the Objective. Then FatValkilmer gets a surprise as I take my free charge from my Objective. With the math suddenly changed, the Templar has little trouble smashing the Banshee into an almost wreck. Unfortunately, I only get one attack (my Shield) on the Objective and I fail to finish it off (thanks TFG!). The Vanquisher advances to do what he can, misses and it deviates onto a Rifleman. Holt has to finish the Banshee and once again, I fail to get a Warpath trigger (thanks Holt!). The Reckoner is thoroughly stuck flailing at in formation Halberdiers. Without Battle my one attack whiffs. Rhupert advances and puts Tough on Holt. I still feel ok with my board position, but I have burned up most of my clock by this point … again … sigh.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 3 (RETRIBUTION) [NO PIC]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feat turn. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Under feat and without too much trouble, Lady Aiyana's magic and Ossyan himself take the Templar off the table. The Vanquisher was too far upfield for an Enliven because at least I derped that part of my turn well and good. So the hammer comes down on the Vanquisher. Fortunately, Vanquishers don't really care if they have a broken gun. Sadly, two of the Choir are killed. Holt get's dropped (even with a tough check from Rhupert!). All the TFG except Flag Bearer killed. I still have a Reckoner, but the writing is on the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 4 (MENOTH)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Somehow I have burned all my clock again. I have about 3 or 4 minutes. I need to free up my Choir. I move the TFG and line up a Crevasse to spray down the Halberdiers tieing up the Reckoner and Choir. One dies, the Reckoner kills the other, but the last one is still holding me back. Rhupert and the other Choir screen the Vassal who tries to make it to the Vanquisher (in my haste I forgot about Warpath). The Vassal doesn't make distance. I try my Vanquisher shot, except I am under feat. I clock. My opponent wants to see if his list could actually finish the game, so we turn off the clocks and roll back a bunch of my turn (eliminating the frantic and mostly dumb things I did trying for a low percentage kill). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We allow the Warpath, back the Vanquisher up and get the Enliven from the Vassal. We both agree all my attempts to free the Choir were things I would normally try to do, so I activate the Vanquisher and advance and shoot. We keep the same die roll deviation. I catch Ossyan on fire. Choir drops Passage on the Reckoner. Annoyed that clock continues to be my biggest enemy, I pass the turn.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 4 (RETRIBUTION)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After all that I forget about Enliven and the Vanquisher gets hammered into mostly scrap. There is a difference between not caring about a broken gun, and having two boxes while being engaged and debuffed. The Halberdiers kill the Vassal and the rest of the Choir. FatValkilmer advances Eiryss and wants to shoot the Reckoner but forgets about Passage. However, Eiryss is threatening to disrupt the Reckoner for the rest of the game because I am out of songs. He also eliminates the Objective, scores a point, and removes my free charge.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 5 (MENOTH) (no picture)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Things are going to be even more difficult for me if the Reckoner gets Disrupted for the rest of the game. I am annoyed that I forgot Enliven. Having a second heavy would be pretty great. I clear out some stuff and kill some stuff and get a charge on Eiryss, killing her. Rhupert fails to kill the Halberdier in front of him again. Kreoss repositions behind the Reckoner and camps five.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 5 (RETRIBUTION)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My opponent clears the Vanquisher out of the zone and scores another point. He also manages to remove the Reckoner after sacrificing everything surrounding it to free strikes to get it out of melee. We forget to put a wreck marker on the table.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 6 (MENOTH)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Hierophant runs to contest the zone. Rhupert fails to kill the Halberdier. Kreoss full camps and runs down the field.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 6 (RETRIBUTION) (no picture)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hierophant is killed. Ossyan upkeeps Admonition and runs into the zone onto a few wreck markers. (Banshee and Templar). Retribution dominates the zone for two more points.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SCORE: MENOTH 0, RETRIBUTION 4</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TURN 6 (MENOTH) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am able to Force Hammer Ossyan to the ground, but not out of the zone. I cannot reach him to kill. I don't even think I tried to move Rhupert to contest. We call it a game.</span></div>
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<br /> Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-44102047423951733582015-01-13T00:19:00.000-05:002015-01-13T00:19:23.364-05:00Warmachine Battle Report: Madrak, the World Ender vs. Intercessor Kreoss<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At this point, I make a major tactical error. Firm in my belief that the Fenblades are going to whittle and chop at the Objective uselessly, I fail to put anything substantial into the zone. The Vengers pull off a charge/run, allowing several of them to use lances. My main focus this turn (and part of why I lost sight of the scenario) was the Mulg question. Kreoss had allocated three focus to each jack and dropped all of his spells. Aiyana starts the show by Kissing Mulg. Holt is disgusted and completely forgets to shoot anything. Good job, Holt!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The TFG activate, receive a Shield Wall order and jostle around. The second unit of Runeshapers break under Menoth's Howl. The reluctant Runeshaper is reignited and his friend is killed. Two of Temple Flameguard poke Mulg for a point and three of them manage to drop a Warder. Kreoss activates, declares a ride-by-attack, advances, and feats. The TFG get their Holy Ward back, the Guardian get Ignite, Kreoss gets Warpath, and Mulg gets Death Sentenced. The Choir battle the Jacks and the Reckoner activates. It gets a slanty Assault Charge off on Mulg, ending in melee. The Condemner shot hits, lowering Mulg's defense, and it proceeds to wail on the Troll. At the end of the activation, Mulg is on a couple boxes. The Vessel activates and obliterates Mulg, Warpath triggers and the Guardian adjusts his charge lane. Rhupert Dirges the TFG again. The Vassal Enlivens the Guardian again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With just the Guardian remaining to activate, I decide to try to run down the Krielstone. It takes a free strike from a Warder for a spot of damage and unloads on the Rock. For a minute we screw up and perform a take-up style model replacement instead of a self-sacrifice style model replacement. Without the Rock in my reach for an additional attack, the Guardian drops a Warder. Then we catch our mistake. I ask my opponent to replace the Krielstone bearer to the proper place, but I don't rewind my attack on the Warder. I buy another attack on the Krielstone and leave one on the table. Notably, I am not in the zone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Again, only one picture for the two turns. Of course, fire goes out on the Runeshaper. Horgol toughs. Vengeance takes it's toll and the Venger contesting the zone goes down. One of the Fenblades advances and hits the Guardian. Enliven triggers and I make a huge mistake. Instead of pushing sideways into the zone, I pull the Guardian back to protect him from charging Fenblades. Then the Fenblades activate normally. The rest of the Fenblades part like the sea and I see the mistake I have made. Several of them hack at the Vengers, but miraculously the remaining three survive. But it doesn't matter, there is a straight road from Madrak, right to the Objective. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The only model I have contesting the zone is a Choir member who is sitting in front of two Warders. One of those Warders is going to kill him and then the other is going to crush my Jack. When the Warders activate, the first one misses the Choir with double ones! I have a chance! Then the second one cuts the singer in two. The other Warder mulches the TFG officer, pulling the remaining TFG on the flank out of formation. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the other side of the table, the Axer advances and Threshers down a couple TFG. One of them steps through Death's Door and lights up Janissa. Janissa advances and attempts to hit Kreoss, but is out of range.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">Madrak activates and advances into the Zone. In moments, he has battered the Objective into pieces, scoring a point and ensuring the domination for another two. Then he Feats. Whoops. The Runeshapers rally, and the active Runeshapers tremor and throw Rock Hammers. The tremor knocks down the out of formation TFG and the Rock Hammer fails to damage anything (It missed Aiyanna).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feat triggers and the Fenblades murder another Venger. My opponent could probably have had a second one, but activated his Fenblades in the wrong order to manage it. Horgol and the Warders mop up more TFG … leaving my leader alive and well … well away from his friends. The Guardian also takes a significant hit. At this point the Guardian has some boxes in column 1, several in 2, all of 6, and two precious Cortex boxes in 5. Any significant hit is going to cripple it. The Arc Node has been out for a turn. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I do not have the pieces necessary to hold scenario and deal with my side of the board. I have to move immediately to assassinating Madrak, the World Ender. This is the troll that other trolls die to save. He has three models within 1". The only point in my favor is that his only Warbeast is outside of his control range, so I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">only </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">have to break armor on him three times before I can do any damage to him. I would like the Admonisher shot to clear out some of those helpers, but I am doing the math and I don't think I can save it. I really need to apply two Jacks to his face. Unfortunately, my Guardian is stuck in front of two Warders. I need the TFG to get out of the way so I can Assault with the Reckoner. I need to clear one Warder in front of the Guardian. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kreoss upkeeps Warpath and Ignite and gives two Focus to the Reckoner and three to the Guardian. If if if the Assault kills the last free troll, the Charge attack and the Buy might do the deed. If that fails, the Guardian is going to have to do something … somehow. But it all starts with a Kiss.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aiyana and Holt advance. Aiyana kisses Madrak and Holt shoots. One of his shots breaks armor and a Fenblade dies. The Choir activate, advance, and Battle both Jacks. The TFG slide the rest of the way clear for the Reckoner. I look at the board and the math and decide to commit the Vessel to clearing the Guardian's problem and triggering Warpath for the Reckoner. The Vessel shoots and kills a Krielstone Bearer. Admonisher rolls 1 and the boosted POW 10 fails to break armor on the Kissed Madrak. However the Warpath trigger moves the Reckoner. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now I have a real problem. The Reckoner isn't in the zone, so the premise of the turn is still on in full. I have very very few activations remaining. Kreoss, the Guardian, and the Vassal. Ok … Vassal Ancillary Attacks on the Guardian. Guardian swings at the Warder. And misses. Ohhhh nooooo. Maybe Kreoss can kill him! There is a Choir member in the way … there is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">always</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a Choir member in the way. Wait!!! Rhupert. Do what must be done! Rhupert advances and shivs the Choir leader in the back, clearing the path for Intercessor Kreoss to triumphantly advance through the thinning ranks of his force in order to come up a half inch short on his intended target. Ugh.</span></div>
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<br /> Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-3820143642547295952015-01-08T16:22:00.000-05:002015-01-08T16:22:19.935-05:00Warmachine Battle Report: Kommander Sorscha vs. Intercessor Kreoss<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feat turn. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gorman is a problem and my front ranks are not going to get to do anything. I feel like if I can take away Gorman and manage the Behemoth a bit, I can recover enough from the feat to swing attrition back to my side of the table. I would have loved to clear the zone, but the appearance of the Great Bears made that a non-starter. If I can free up an attack or two I can finish off the Objective. However, I will have to do it withouth the Vessel this turn. First priority, though, is Gorman. I cannot take another turn of blind and expect to win.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dougal shoots the last TFG and Doors of Judgement triggers. The TFG advances and kills the Great Bear Volkov. Behemoth tramples forward and buys some shots on the mercs, but only manages to kill Alten. Fenris charges the Reckoner and smashes it for a ton of damage but doesn't take out any systems. Harlan kills an Ignited Venger. The other Great Bears charge, one kills a Venger, one takes out the Reckoner's movement. Kell pops the Reckoner's cortex with his magical gun. The Widowmaker rallies while Eiryss attempts to get a line on Kreoss. However, she ends her movement within five inches of Behemoth and her activation ends immediately. The Marksman shoots at Aiyana and misses.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I see an opportunity to get rid of the Behemoth. The Reckoner is mostly a lost cause at this point, however, if it can soak a few activations to be properly removed, I will have enough time to prepare for the arrival of Fenris. I give the board a look for a few minutes and then make a decision. At this point there are three models contesting the zone, the Behemoth, a Great Bear, and Eiryss. Killing Eiryss is going to take the Venger, but I need the Venger to hammer on the Behemoth. At this point it is my biggest hammer. That means clearing the zone is not going to happen. I choose to focus on the jack.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Redeemer gets 1 focus, I upkeep Holy Ward on Kreoss and Ignite on the Venger and camp 4. The Choir battle my jacks (they were ok with Fenris being an abomination). The Reckoner smashes Fenris for 9, leaving him mounted. That is a complication. I was hoping for a dismount and then using the Vassal to hammer the Great Bear. Instead, the Ancillary Attack goes into Fenris, the dismount fails to tough and Fenris lines up to cleave himself a Reckoner next turn. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Next up, there is a Great Bear in the zone with a clear line straight to my caster. Kell aims and puts two shots into the Great Bear. He fails his tough and another deadly problem leaves play. Now it is time for the show. Aiyana & Holt advance. Aiyana kisses the Behemoth. Holt shoots the Marksman and gets to put his second shot into Behemoth, scratching off some paint. Kreoss activates, declares a ride-by-attack, advances, Force Hammer's the Behemoth about two inches, and then retreats. The Behemoth fails to smash into the Objective (I was hoping it might make distance), however I crank the unboosted damage roll on the spell and actually darken some boxes. I have one more ranged attack before I charge in. The Vessel aims, boosts (needing three 1's to miss), and hammers the Behemoth at dice off 4 with a boosted shot. I forget the Admonisher and the Objective and Dougal live! Then the Redeemer charges in and takes a swing for about nine more boxes. And finally the Ignited, Battle Driven, Divinely Inspired Venger charges in and delivers the coup-de-grace. Mission accomplished. Behemoth wrecked. High-fives all around. Time to pack up and head home… what? oh right … the rest of the match.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the loss of Behemoth and the hour drawing late, Khador attempts to force the issue. Sorscha tries to make distance on Kreoss, but falls short. Eiryss takes a shot at him but the dice go cold. Fenris trashes the Reckoner and a Choir. The Great Bear runs to engage Kreoss. Dougal steps up and kills Holt (Aiyana is ok with this). Sylys runs into the zone. Harlan Versh fails to make distance on his shot against Kreoss (that would have been bad news because of Holy Ward). My opponent is dejected that Sorscha has been presented. However, she is Defense 18 and I still have to hit her to knock her down. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nothing is a given and I consider for a minute casting Warpath, having the Venger kill Sylyss, Warpath triggering the Redeemer, advancing the Redeemer to power attack head-butt Sorscha. Then I come to my senses. My opponent has given me a Great Bear to pinball into Sorscha (and even if he had not, I had two Choir there ready to die for the same cause). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I should have scored a few points and completely overlooked my chance to do so. Some rolls went my way and some did not, but that is how the game goes. Overall, I felt like I recognized the threats I had to deal with and although I did not have the Book to rely upon for protection, made the right choices in where to put my spells and which targets to prioritize. I don't think my opponent accounted for the nastiness of Admonisher on the Vessel of Judgement. Taking Aiyana & Holt out of the equation helped my Vengers survive as long as they did. I put twelve points of activations into taking out Gorman, not because I planned it that way, but because no one was getting the job done. On one hand that inhibited my ability to attrition that turn, but on the other hand, Gorman had to go. Blind Vessels of Judgement are the saddest Vessels of Judgement.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This was my first time out with Kreoss3 in many many months. He is going to be my primary warcaster for 2015 and I am excited to unlock all his mysteries. This is also one of the few times I have put Vengers on the table, and they were very pleasing. I know that isn't always the case, but I am excited to use them more.</span></div>
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<br /> Nathaniel Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772577383215903825noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131521851001334075.post-22308275756187547642014-12-22T15:27:00.000-05:002014-12-22T15:27:36.087-05:00The Slow Burn: Round Two - Caine2 vs. Kaya2<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kevinbakon:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ah, well. Caine took advantage of the lane I opened. Oops. Shamrod was a great opponent and it was a really fun game. He's also the one who invited me into the league, so thanks a lot for that! Krueger MIGHT have worked better than Kaya. He's got a better toolbox in these matchups. Stormwall for the guns, telekinesis for turning jacks around, the dwarves hate the feat. On the other hand, stormwall doesn't help much at gatecrash distance.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This was the first time I used eCaine’s Feat to kill off beasts instead of going for the caster kill. I’m proud of myself for using the feat to hurt my opponent instead of just saving it for an assassination.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even though I did better at unpacking my dudes, I STILL crowded my Gun Mages a bit. I feel like they should be hanging out with the dwarves, helping to clear the way for them. Maybe I’ll try that next time.</span></div>
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