Cygnar vs Menoth (eStryker vs eFeora) 35pts - Battle Report

I've bought a lot of new units and casters to my army and so has my friends. One of them is a Menoth player, and he is not in town that often, but today I got a chance to play against him. I didn't really know what kind of army I would be facing and I didn't feel like playing with any of my unpainted models, so I went for my eStryker list that I played at the tournament. This were 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
Feora, Protector of the Flame (*6pts)
* Redeemer (6pts)
* Vanquisher (8pts)
Avatar of Menoth (11pts)
Choir of Menoth (Leader and 3 Grunts) (2pts)
Exemplar Errants (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
* Exemplar Errant Officer & Standard Bearer (2pts)
The Covenant of Menoth (2pts)
Vassal of Menoth (2pts)

Scenario: Process of Elimination

Setup

Menoth got the first turn and did a pretty basic setup with most of his jack in the center of his deployment zone. The Errants got placed against the Stormblades to inflict some damage with their Blessed weapons. I choose to split up my force and try do contest both zones. Eiryss got placed on the flank to try and disrupt as many jacks as possible. Thanks to Elite Cadre from eStryker the Stormblades advanced 5" before the game started.

Turn 1 

Menoth: Everything basically ran up across the board. Choir did the battle song and eFeoras bonded Redeemer shot at the Stormblades. 2 perfect deviations killed all but 2 Stormblades right of the bat.

Cygnar: Stuff ran. Lancer and Ol' Rowdy moved up in the center between the two zones. Sword Knights ran into the zone on the left. The two Stormblades still standing moved up behind the wall in front of the right zone. eStryker and my solos followed close behind Ol' Rowdy in the middle.

Turn 2

Menoth: Vanquisher moved forward and shot and killed 4 Sword Knights. The Avatar moved into the middle between the zones. The Book gave "Flames of Wrath" to the Errants who then moved forward and shot at my Jacks and Stormblades. Ol' Rowdy got to countercharge and killed an Errant. Redeemer once again moved forward and shot his flaming rockets towards eStryker and my solos. With the help of some good dice rolls he killed both Runewood and my Journeyman Warcaster. eFeora moved forward and cast "Ignite" on the Errants (leaving her with 0 Focus).

Cygnar: Without my Stormblades and my Sword Knights quickly dying I saw a chance for a quick end to the game... assassination by eStryker. Ol' Rowdy started and used his "Tremor" attack which knocked down 4 Errants and making a path for eStryker to try the assassination. I activated Stryker and cast "Velocity" moving 6", charged eFeora and used "Overload" (rolled +10 STR and took 4 damage with 2 dices). I rolled and landed my charge attack which did about 13 damage, then I bought an extra attack which also hit and killed eFeora.

Conclusion

First time facing eFeora and the army of flaming death from afar. Don't really know how to avoid all the fire damage coming my way from turn 1. I only got lucky that my opponent is pretty new to the game and doesn't really know how far eStryker can run. No way I could have won that game any other way.