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.