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So this was a game played at the beginning of the month :) I'm the cryx player and my friend Joseph played Menoth. The lists are as follows;

pDenny
Defiler
Deathripper x 2
Reaper
Slayer
Gerlak
Skarlock
Withershadow
mcthralls (10)
brute thralls x 2
necrosurgeons x 2
bile thralls (10)

against

Thyra
Reckoner
Blood of Martyrs
Revenger
Covenant
Choir
Zealots + UA
Daughters of the flame
Piper
Aiyana & Holt
Gorman
Exemplar Errant Seneschal
Vassal of Menoth
Nicia

I'd won the first turn and we played Distant - Guidons, so essentially 2 zones 2 objectives and we had to move the objective into our zone to score 1 pt and destroy the enemy objective for 2 pts

Deployment:
(Cryx)Mcthralls on the far right, bile thralls on the far left and everything else in the middle, splitting the bonejacks into each flank and the middle

(Menoth) Zealots were facing off vs bile thralls, daughters, nicia, seneschal, reckoner and vassal were facing the mcthrall mob, the rest of his stuff were in the middle.

Turn 1:
(Cryx) i ran pretty much everything up straight ahead and took over the middle ground, i also just ran Denny into B2B with the objective so next turn i could start moving it into the objective zone, with the withershadow and the heavy warjacks all around denny as a big mass of metal and blockage for him. I moved gerlak forwards into the forest behind the biles.
(Menoth) the sisters moved cautiously into the middle slight but still on my right flank the reckoner ran forwards next to the objective on his side, the zealots ran forwards cautiously too so i couldn't get too close.

Turn 2:
(Cryx) i moved the bile thralls forward into the forest between me and the zealots, the slayer, gerlak and the withershadow moved to the front of the hill getting ready to smash anything that came towards me. The reaper moved past the hill almost to the centre of the board behind a wall but staying fairly close to the hill so the others on the hill could help support. I arc noded a scourge onto the revenger knocking it down, a daughter and nicia. Then i ran forwards the mcthralls to block him. Denny also moved closer to the zone with my objective, so next turn i'd be scoring next turn.

(Menoth) he mini-feated and bombed my bile thralls killing all but 2 of them, lots of scattering and firey death ! but he did leave 2 ready for a purge next round ^^. Aiyana and holt missed the reaper hiding behind the wall. One of his daughters moved into a position to kill one of my necrosurgeons and crippled part of my tarpit he managed to kill about half of the mcthralls too but not the brute thralls. The reckoner missed the other necrosurgeon.

Turn 3:
(Cryx) i purged and hit all but his UA for his zealots and i managed to kill one of my stitch thralls lol. I then moved denny and feated, she then put parasite onto the reckoner and crippling grasp onto the revenger, i was also in a position to be scoring this turn. I used the skarlock to venom 3 of his daughters and killed them quite easily due to the feat but got revenge for the loss of a necrosurgeon, which also netted me a soul token. I charged in the mcthralls and brute thralls, 2 mcthralls onto the revenger, 1 brute and 2 mcthralls onto the reckoner taking down the reckoner to 5 health and the revenger was luckier and still had plenty of boxes on it, i ran one of brutethralls to engage a choir member, gorman and the seneschal just to tie them up. My other models moved forwards to prepare to kill things. Score 1 for me

(Menoth) The corrosion killed all but 3 zealots, he then took gerlak down with the zealots bombs but i made a tough roll and he remained a threat on the board. His remaining daughters tried to kill some mcthralls but didn't do so well. His reckoner took out 1 mcthrall the revenger killed 2 mcthralls. He charged blood of martyrs into gerlak and killed him and sidestepped closer towards my withershadow and killed 2 of them with his MAT 10 POW 20 ! :/. Aiyana and holt missed the reaper again sitting behind his hill. Nicia charged into the reaper and did very little damage to it, he was not in a good position for my next turn. Gorman did nothing to the brute thrall but he did kill the brute with the senschal. Score 2 for me

Turn 4:
(Cryx) I moved the skarlock into position to venom his last daughter, nicia and a choir member killing all 3, using the soul token to boost to hit nicia. I had given full focus to the slayer which was in a good position to move and throw blood of martyrs away from Thrya, but then we realised that i'd score a third point this turn i'd win. He also realised he couldn't use sidestep to get close to the withershadow due to being out of Thrya's control, so he'd potentially set himself up for some slayer throwing/headbutting and some withershadow action.

So it was a great game for me i managed to tarpit well and counter pretty much all of his stuff but i realised that having 10 bile thralls in one big unit isn't very productive and 2 smaller units would be better, also i've not been using 3 arc nodes very much, i use 2 at most for now, so i may drop one, but i want to leave those points for nightmare. Some playing around needed but it's quite a good list it can both tarpit, take down infantry and heavy armour. I need to spread the corrosion goodness a little bit. Perhaps take 2 units of 6xmcthralls instead of 1 unit of 10xmcthralls but 10mcthralls is a really nice tarpit.

For Joseph's force, he doesn't like being swarmed by so much infantry and because his covenant wasn't glued together he'd forgotten about it completely. But he is considering taking out the revenger and putting in the redeemer as he likes his shooting and there was not enough templates for his liking.
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Re: So... What did you play today?

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And for the game i played today :D another game vs Joseph today the lists are as follows:

Terminus
Leviathan x 2
Blackbane's Ghost Raiders (6)
Bane Thralls (10) + UA
BLT
Skarlock
Pistol Wraith x 2
Madelyn Corbeau
Skarlock
Bile Thralls (6)

Vs

pKreoss
Reckoner
Redeemer
Repenter
Fire of Salvation
Choir (6)
Exemplar Errants (10) + UA
Knights Exemplar (6)
Exemplar Errant Seneschal
Mechanik
Vassal of Menoth
High Exemplar Gravus

We'd rolled Radial - Command & Control Scenario, So centre Zone with 4 flags on the compass points where the caster had to be B2B and control the zone, First player to 2 pts. I'd won the roll here and deployed first.

Deployment:
(Cryx) Blackbanes to my far right, terminus in the middle surrounded by banes (closer to the left side of me) and bile thralls, Madelyn and skarlock behind Terminus and a leviathan on either side of them all behind them, the two pistol wraiths on the far left.

(Menoth) He deployed the exemplar errants in the centre with advanced deployment, his warjacks were all fairly central, redeemer and reckoner more to my right and the other two more to my left, with Gravus behind all of them, the choir inter-mingling across them all, the seneschal to my far left. Kreoss and his posse far at the back in the centre.

Turn 1:
(Cryx) I pretty much ran everything forwards, Madelyn Corbeau failed her command check and was scared of Terminus (who wouldn't be?) but they all ran forwards as far as possible. The two pistol wraiths sticking together like siamese twins to the far left, the blackbane's ghost raiders to the far right using a wall as cover and whatever forest i could use. The banes just spread out through the middle with the bile thralls hanging behind them.

(Menoth) He moved his stuff forwards, taking cover and some of the errants took some shots at my ghost raiders killing one of them :( and the redeemer took a potshot at some of them, killing a bane thrall.

Turn 2:
(Cryx) The 2 pistol wraiths moved up and took all their shots at the exemplar seneschal, he'd sacc'ed one of his errants but then decided not to sacrifice anymore and lost his seneschal to my pistol wraiths. Black bane's engaged most of the other errants but remained incorporeal. The banes and biles moved up with terminus, the banes were mostly sitting behind walls with the BLT, my leviathans moved up and took pot shots at the errants taking down a couple. Madelyn passed 2 command checks and moved up behind terminus.

(Menoth) Lots of pot shots were taken at terminus, with me losing 2 bane thralls and 2 bile thralls to his shooting in conjunction with me using sac pawn. His errants were given the charge/run order and all my freestrikes killed about 3 errants increasing the size of my unit to 8 models, which was very annoying for him. Then he'd moved his knights to engage terminus and a couple banes but couldn't attack due to lack of pathfinder and my positioning. His choir had blocked a lot of the movement and crippled him quite a bit to the point where Gravus had a failed charge on the ghost raiders. His repenter shot at 2 banes and a bile thrall, i lost 1 bane and the bile thrall.

Turn 3:
(Cryx) Now comes my biggest mistake, i forgot to feat due to timing. I moved the bile thralls into a position to purge onto the knights and errants, i killed 4 knights, and a tonne of errants with 2 biles ! Then BLT killed a knight and gave me a bane back, the banes were given a charge/run order so that i could get into combat with fire of salvation, his repenter the remaining knight and almost all the remaining errants, i took the repenter down to a few boxes remaining, damaged the fire a little bit but killed the errants. My leviathans moved up, the one on my left shot at Gravus and killed his mount. The other one killed an errant. The pistol wraiths ran up into position in the forest to the far left ready to shoot next turn. Then i activated blackbane's ghost raiders and gave them the charge/run order, killing 5 of his choir and Gravus and engaging Kreoss, the redeemer and the reckoner and one of 2 remaining errants.

(Menoth) Kreoss feated and knocked down 80% of my force. He killed 2 bane thralls with a trampling Fire of Salvation which engaged a knocked down Terminus and took him down to 10 health. Then he shot with the redeemer at terminus killing madelyn corbeau and one more bane thrall, terminus took 2 more points of damage from the last remaining errant charging me down to 8 health, i was on ARM 20 at the time. He moved his repenter but a freestrike from my only standing bane thrall wrecked him and the reckoner moved into kill a bane thrall.

Turn 4:
(Cryx) I feated (too late) and put up malediction, killed the remaining errant and damaged Fire of Salvation. Then the BLT charged into fire of salvation taking it down to about 5 boxes of damage, lots of insane rolling here, but he was at -4 ARM. The remaining bane thralls mopped up the knights and moved to engage as much as i could, but due to Kreoss's knockdown it was quite difficult to do much. The leviathan charged into combat with Fire of Salvation wrecking him. The other leviathan charged into the reckoner and took out both it's arms, it was a good thing i'd moved a bane thrall next to the reckoner too. Then i moved blackbane's into melee with Kreoss and the redeemer. I then took pot shots with the pistol wraiths at the mechanik, killing him and then again at a choir member who was in melee with some of blackbane's, i managed to kill the choir member but also one of blackbane's ghost raiders lol !

At that point Joseph called it a loss as he couldn't see how he could win, he had the reckoner on about 8 boxes left, the redeemer, Kreoss, the vassal of menoth and 1 choir member. Well so far my track record with Termius is excellent and i love how this whole force is working out, I should have feated as we guesstimated that Terminus would have had 20 souls that turn giving him ARM 40 as i had 2 spare focus on him too ! I need to feat on the turn i know i'm going to be smashing him down, plus Madelyn corbeau's fear check at the start sucked big time for me. But Joseph needed to position his force better, i think he has a really good and scary force but he was not too great on the deployment or luck this time around. My dice rolls were insane today, i failed very little and even when i was hitting his models engaged needing 9's or 10's with the pistol wraiths i still hit ! The ball was really rolling this time.
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didn't have a camera :P lol
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arctica wrote:didn't have a camera :P lol
And your phone doesn't have one? :D
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what he said!
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yep ! :D
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Second day in a row played 'Cadwallon: The city of thieves' board game with my wife. She just likes very much to play it and I must say that I am amased how great and dynamic this game is. Now she got so much into it, she wants to paint all the miniatures and give the real Cadwallon game a try :D
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Yesterday we spent another evening in Cadwallon :) I took a photo, but can't upload it right now.
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I understand: it's still before 10 PM... :razz:
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