Cygnar vs Retribution of Scyrah (eStrykver vs Issyria) 35pts - Battle Report

I actually got to play 2 games of Warmachine today, which hasn't happened in a long time. I'm back with Cygnar after the short Journeyman League with the Gators. I got my hand on some new models and planning on painting and playing a few tournaments this year, but I'll talk about that in another post. Let's focus on the battle at hand. My friend Emanuel made a list with Retributions latest caster Issyria and wanted to try her out. We played two games, he didn't change his list, but I ran eCaine in my first game and eStryker in the second. This is the report with Stryker. On to the lists.

Points: 35/35
Lord Commander Stryker (*6pts)
* Lancer (6pts)
* Ol' Rowdy (9pts)
* Squire (2pts)
Stormblade Infantry (Leader and 5 Grunts) (5pts)
* Stormblade Infantry Officer & Standard (3pts)
* 1 Stormblade Infantry Storm Gunner (1pts)
Sword Knights (Leader and 9 Grunts) (6pts)
Archduke Alain Runewood (3pts)
Eiryss, Angel of Retribution (3pts)
Journeyman Warcaster (3pts)

Points: 35/35
Issyria, Sibyl of Dawn (*6pts)
* Hyperion (18pts)
* Sylys Wyshnalyrr, the Seeker (2pts)
Dawnguard Invictors (Leader and 5 Grunts) (6pts)
* Dawnguard Invictor Officer & Standard (2pts)
Dawnguard Sentinels (Leader and 9 Grunts) (9pts)
* Dawnguard Sentinel Officer & Standard (2pts)
* Soulless Escort (1pts)
Arcanist (1pts)

Setup

I won the roll and wanted to go second. The scenario was from Steamroller 2013 and the one called "Into the Breach" (I think...). The one with a flag and a control zone. He deployed Hyperion in the middle of his side with Invictors and Sentinels on each side. I deployed with Stryker and the Jacks in the middle, Sword Knights across from Invictors and Stormblade across from Sentinels.

Turn 1

Retri - Stuff ran, Issyria cast "Inviolable Resolve" on the Sentinels.
Cygnar - Stuff ran, Stryker cast "Deflection". Journeyman cast "Arcane Shield" on Stryker. 

Turn 2

Retri - Issyria cast "Crusaders Call" and upkept her other spell and used "Ancillary Attack" on Hyperion. Hyperion activated and killed 7(!) Sword Knights with two shots, both got Critical Consume. Hyperion also shot the Lancer and destroyed both arms. Sentinels charged the Stormblades and killed three of them and did some damage to Ol' Rowdy who counter charged and killed a Sentinel. Invictors moved forward and did a CRA on the Journeyman, but left him alive with three boxes. They also tried to kill Runewood, but he used his Sac Pawn to transfer the hit to the Lancer.

Cygnar - Eiryss shot the Sentinels to remove "Inviolable Resolve". Stormblades and Ol' Rowdy charged into the Sentinels and killed 6 of them. Sword Knights charged into Invictors and killed three of them. Stryker moved up behind Ol' Rowdy and used his feat. Stormblades and Rowdy killed some more Sentinels, leaving only the UA alive. Sword Knights killed two more Invictors during the feat. 

Turn 3

Retri - Invictors killed the remaining Sword Knights. The Sentinel Officer and Escort charged Eiryss but missed with their attacks. Hyperion got 3 focus and charged Ol' Rowdy and wrecked both him and the Lancer without needing to spend all focus. Since the control zone was cleared he also scored a point. 

Cygnar - I had two choices at this point. Use Stryker and the Stormblades to try and kill Hyperion and play the attrition game, or go for the assassination on Issyria. I went for the assassination run. Stormblades charged and killed Sylys who was blocking the charge lane. Runewood boosted Strykers MAT. Stryker then cast "Velocity" to get into position and then charged. Overload with three dices only gave Stryker +5 STR and did 9 damage to him. The charge attack hit and killed Issyria with a single blow. 

25pts Steamroller Tournamnet

Well... that didn't go so quite as planned. For some reason *cough* I was hungover by the time the tournament started. Multiple bad plays and some poor dice rolls really did it for me. I didn't know what to expect but there were a lot of good players at the tournamnet. I'll give you just a quick recap of my four games.

Game 1 - vs Reznik (Menoth)

A Reznik list with a Reckoner and a Vanquisher with some standard Menoth support units. The only unit he played was Flame Guards with the UA. The scenario was Close Quarter and I played with my Rask list. I used my feat early to not get shot down by his jacks, the following turn he sent in some Flame Guards to jam my Gatormen. My Wrastler got the charge on the Reckoner and killed it without using all of its Fury. The following turn the Vanquisher killed my Wrastler and the Flame Guards got some insane dicerolls and killed all of my Gatormen. Couldn't do much rest of the game and Reznik got the charge on Rask and killed him.

Game 2 - vs eVayl (Legion)Stupid tier list with 3 heavy beasts, two Angelius and a Ravagore. I played with Baranabus and I almost won the game. It became a slugfest in the middle of the board and he only had an Angel with 4-5 boxes left and the Spawning-pot-thingy. In the end he made a last atempt to kill Barnabas with a summoned Stinger. He got a realy spike in the damage roll and killed him outright(!).

Game 3 - vs Clanadra (Trolls)

Never played against this caster before. Earthborn, Stormtroll, Pyg Burrowers and some strong solos. I chose to play with Rask this time again. Was a pretty one sided game. The Burrowers made more than 60% of their Tough rolls. I couldn't prevent him from getting the charge and killing my beasts and gators one by one.

Game 4 - vs Gorten (Mercs)

Not a Seaforged list. He played with Gorten, Driller, Forge Guards, Thor, ATGM and a Mule. I played with Barnabus just to be able to hide in the swamp pits. The only reason I won the game was due to a miss play by him. Me moved Gorten to the flank, away from his main force, which let me use Barnabus feat and knock down his entire army and kill most of it in one turn.

Conclusion

Don't play when this hungover kids. Some real advice would be practice, practice and practice. I haven't played in quite a while and almost everything I faced felt like something I've never encounterd before. Hopefully this next Journeyman League will help me get in shape with Cygnar once again.

My first Steamroller with Gatormen

 



Holy Crap! I haven't done an update on this blog for ages. Well, I haven't been playing that much Warmachine either. Finished my first Journeyman League last year with the Gatormen. Didn't have that much time to play games, but I painted most of the models.

Anyway, this weekend will be my first tournament of the yeah. It's just a small local tournamnet at 25 points, so I will bring my minions this time around. There will also be a new Journeyman League (slow grow) starting next week, and so I will probably return to Cygnar as they are my main force. I will try and make some battle reports this weekend, but don't expect a lot of pictures.

As far as lists go, they're pretty straight forward. I will play 2 lists, Rask and Barnabus, and they'll be something like this:

Points: 24/25
Bloody Barnabas (*6pts)
* Bull Snapper (3pts)
* Blackhide Wrastler (9pts)
* Ironback Spitter (8pts)
Gatormen Posse (Leader and 4 Grunts) (9pts)
Feralgeist (1pts)
25/25
Rask (*6pts)
* Bull Snapper (3pts)
* Blackhide Wrastler (9pts)
* Swamp Horror (8pts)
Gatormen Posse (Leader and 4 Grunts) (9pts)
Professor Victor Pendrake (2pts)