Sunday 31 January 2010

Cygnar vs Retribution of Scyrah

Haley vs Vyros - Kill Box, 35 points.

It's been awhile since we put up a game. Between the Hordes MKII field test and holidays we were just pretty busy. But now we can get back on our regular schedule.

Cygnar

Captain Victoria Haley

Squire
Centurion
Lancer
Charger
Charger
Swordknights (full)
Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team
Field Mechaniks
Captain Arlan Strangeways
vs

Retribution

Dawnlord Vyros
Manticore
Griffon
Dawnguard Sentinels
Dawnguard Sentinels Unit Attachment
Dawnguard Invictors
Dawnguard Invictors Unit Attachment
Arcanist
Battle Mage





Scenario

Killbox

Mark a 24˝ square centered on the table parallel to the board edges. This is the kill box.
Victory Conditions
At the end of each player’s own turn, starting on the first player’s second turn, a player loses the match if he ends his own turn with any friendly warcaster or warlock not within the kill box.
If time runs out before a player has won the match via scenario or assassination victory, break the tie using only the assassination and secondary tiebreaker rules outlined in “Victory & Tiebreakers.” For the secondary
tiebreaker, count only the army points’ worth of models within the kill box.
Setup
I won the roll to go first. On the left flank were the two Chargers with the Centurion to support them. Behind the Chargers and Centurion were Strageways and the Mechaniks. The Sword Knights held the centre with Haley and the Squire centre right. The Lancer held the Swordknights rigth flank with the Black 13th taking cover behind it.

On the opposite side Myantek set up the Sentinels on the left supported by the Griffon. Vyros was centre left beside the Griffon and the Invictors were setup beside him. On the right was the Manticre with the Arcanist behind it and the Magister on the right flank.

Turn 1

Cygnar

Haley assigns focus to all the warjacks and they all run to the centre hill. The Sword Knights run onto the hill as well while Haley and the Squire advance behind them. Haley puts Arcane Shield on the Centurion. The Black 13th run to the left flank.

Retribution

Vyros assigns focus to the Manticore. The Sentinels run and pair up. The Invictors advance but their guns are just short of the Lancer. Vyros casts Mobility and advances, then puts Inviolable Resovle on the Sentinels. The Griffin advances up beside him. The Manticore advances and thanks to Mobility is in range of the Lancer which is shoots and hit, but only does 2 points of damage. The Arcanist and Magister advance behind.

Turn 2

After some eyeballing and measuring of control area Haley pulls one focus from the Squire, upkeeps Arcane Shield, and assigns the Chargers 3 focus each. The Charger #1 moves into the centre and is in range of Vyros. Two solid shots leave him almost dead. The second Charger moves into the centre and is in range. Vyros dies.

Afterward

Defenstrator

Well that was a sudden ending. My original plan was to give the Chargers 1 focus each and have them gun away while slowing down Myantek's army with Temporal Barrier. But then she put Inviolable Resolve on the Sentinels, which pushed their armour up to the point where that wasn't practical. I then decided to hammer the Griffon and try and deny it's use to Vyros, but realised that Vyros himself wasn't that far beyond the light warjack. Thanks to the Chargers Powerful Attack the shots hammered home and that was game. While a good demonstration of why it's a bad idea to leave your warcaster to exposed it didn't make for a satisfying game, so we're planning a rematch quite soon.

Myantek

Huh, the Chargers have guns. Kinda forgot about that. I had intended to put Vyros behind the Griffon but then when the time came to actually place the light 'jack totally forgot where it had been supposed to go. Vyros seems to be a front line caster, but maybe not that far to the front.

Tuesday 19 January 2010

Sentinel

I wasn't sure if I was going to bother painting my Sentinel or not. But then in Prime he recieved Shield Guard and became worth my time.



















The Black 13th

Here are my Black 13th. They jumped ahead of alot of stuff. They're a small unit, which was nice after the 12 Sword Kights, can fit into almost any list, and are a dead solid unit.




























Haley

The Cygnar army continues. Here is my alternate version Haley.