Cygnar vs Khador (Kara Sloan vs Vlad3) 35pts - Battle Report

Challenged my friend to a quick 35 points game since I knew he had bought some new cavalry models and a new caster. I kinda of knew what I was facing but I still choose to play a list full of Gun Mages (and my new unit of Tempest Blazers) and see how they could handle it. The lists were:

Points: 35/35
Captain Kara Sloan (*6pts)
* Defender (9pts)
Arcane Tempest Gun Mages (Leader and 5 Grunts) (6pts)
* Arcane Tempest Gun Mage Officer (2pts)
Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team (4pts)
Greygore Boomhowler & Co. (Boomhowler and 9 Grunts) (9pts)
Tempest Blazers (Leader and 4 Grunts) (10pts)
Reinholdt, Gobber Speculator (1pts) - Whom I forgot to put on the table

Points: 34/35
Vladimir Tzepesci, Great Prince of Umbrey (*5pts)
* Beast-09 (11pts)
Iron Fang Pikemen (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
* Black Dragon Officer & Standard (2pts)
Iron Fang Uhlans (Leader and 4 Grunts) (11pts)
Fenris (5pts)
Gorman di Wulfe, Rogue Alchemist (2pts)

Setup - Process of Elimination

Khador won the roll and wanted to go second. I choose to deploy the Tempest Blazers in front of the forest as they are the only unit with pathfinder in my army. I but ATGM and Boomhowlers on each flank to be able to contest both. B13 was placed so they could support either side. And I forgot about Reinholdt...

He deployed with Pikemens against Boomhowlers and the Uhlans against the ATGM. Fenris got put on far on the flank to do his work.

Cygnar - Turn 1

Kara gave 1 focus to the Defender and cast "Refuge" on herself. Everything ran.

Khador - Turn 1

Vlad kept his focus this turn. Pikemen used "Iron Zeal" and ran as far as possible. Vlad moved up behind them and cast "Windwall" and "Dash". Uhlans ran forward, and a single model ran far enough to engage Tempest Blazers in combat. Fenris moved up behind cover on the flank.

Cygnar - Turn 2

Kara gave 2 focus to Defender and up kept "Refuge". She started her activation by popping her feat and shot the Uhlans engaged in combat with the Tempest Blazers, the boosted damage roll did no damage as I rolled 1-1-1-2(!!!). Defender shot and killed a Uhlan out of activation. Tempest Blazers activated and killed the Uhlan in melee with them, and one pikeman.

B13 activated and killed a Uhlan. Defender activated and killed a Uhlan, and Kara managed to kill one with her out of activation shot. But the last remaining Uhlan made his command check without problem. ATGM activated and shot a Fenris, and did 0 damage to him. I did however knock him down with one Thunderstrike. Boomhowler charged the Pikemen and killed two of them.

Khador - Turn 2

Vlad kept all his focus this turn but activated first casting "Dash" and "Infernal Machine" on Beast 09. Pikemen then charged into the both Tempest Blazers and the Boomhowlers but only managed to kill two trolls. The last Uhlans charged the Defender but rolled snake-eyes on the attack. Fenris moved into combat with the ATGM who then failed their command check against abomination. Beast moved into combat with the Boomhowlers, and thanks to Infernal Machine he now caused terror, and of course the Boomhowlers also failed their command check...

Cygnar - Turn 3

Kara gave 2 focus to the Defender and up kept "Refuge". B13 activated first and killed the last Uhlan and Gorman. ATGM made their rally check but 2 models moved out of combat with Fenris and were killed by the free strikes. Defender activated and shot Fenris for about 8 wounds. Kara then activated and shot and killed Fenris, but he made his tough roll. Tempest Blazers activated, one shot Fenris (who once again made his tough roll) the rest shot and killed two pikemen, one being the officer. Boomhowlers also rallied this turn but couldn't do much else.

Khador - Turn 3

Vlad gave 3 focus to Beast 09 this turn. The pikemens managed to kill the Boomhowler in front of Beast. Vlad activated and popped his feat. Beast 09 charged into B13 and with a thresher attack he killed Watt, Ryan and two Tempest Blazers. He then side-stepped into combat with Kara and with his two remaining focus he manged to kill her. Axe to face, the Khador way.

Conclusion

I had never faced Vlad3 before, but I knew the could give Beast a huge threat range, but I still thought I was safe with Kara. It was also a huge deal to fail command checks with both ATGM and Boomhowlers on the same turn. Also my dice rolls are really odd, I can could hit Eiryss hiding inside of a bunker from across the table but my damage rolls are so low I couldn't even kill Reinholdt with a Stormwall... and I didn't help that I also forgot about the gobber this battle.