After a long time I participated in a tournament again. Stampede rules. This means that you have an attacker and defender. If the attacker wins he becomes defender, if the defender wins, he stays defender on the same board but a part of his casualties won't be replaced. So you'll be fighting with a smaller force if you take heavy losses in your game.
This was my first tourney with Cryx
And this was my list:
Army Points: 499/500
Victory Points: 16
Pirate Queen Skarre
Deathripper
Deathripper
Helldiver
Skarlock
Bane Lord Tartarus
Bane Knights (10)
Bile Thralls (
Mechanithralls (10)
Brute Thrall
First game: Jurn with Menoth - Kreoss
The list:
Kreoss
Redeemer
Crusader (I think, the starterset jack with the mace)
Choir
6 flameguard + attachment
10 zealots + monolith bearer
Piper of Ord
Vilmon
I was attacker. Yesss! Time to be agressive.
I deployed everything against the edge of my deployment zone. Bane knights on the far left, then tartarus + helldiver next to them. Bile thralls + skarre and skarlock + 2 deathrippers in the middle and mechanithralls on the far left.
My opponent deployed his zealots + piper + vilmon opposite of my banes. His jacks in the middle + kreoss in the middle behind a wall. Flameguard in front of Kreoss.
First turn:
I ran everything forward. Skarlock cast sacr. Lamb and sacrificed a bile thrall. 4 extra focus for skarre next turn.
Jurn gave the zealots + 2 defence with the piper and ran the zealots into a trench and he gave them the 'no magic' prayer. Flameguard advanced into the other trench and shieldwalled. Kreoss stayed put but cast some protective spells on the flameguard( +2 def and armour). The choir sang the 'no magic' song on the jacks. Crusader walked into the trench and the redeemer took out some mechanithralls with his rockets.
Vilmon ran behind the zealots.
Turn 2:
I ran my deathrippers up for some spellcasting. The helldiver advanced in front of the zealots and burrowed.
My baneknights couldn't reach the zealots and I didn't want to sacrifice them all to the bombs of the zealots so I spread them out a bit. Tartarus advanced cautiously.
Mechanithralls ran again to threathen the flameguard + jack in the trench. And spread out because of those nasty redeemer rockets. Bile thralls advanced and one got sacrificed by the skarlock for 1 extra focus next turn (yay!)
Skarre then arced Bloodrain on the zealots and 2 died. Then I arced the same spell on the flameguard. 1 died on the direct hit. 5 others suffered corrosion.
In Jurn's turn 2 out of 5 flameguard died due to corrosion (lucky bastard)
Jurn charged my deathripper with vilmon and disabled it with 1 attack. Then his zealots advanced received a + strenght prayer and the monolith bearer gave them greater destiny. Great, now the zealots can't be killed next turn. They started lobbing handgrenades at my bane knights. A couple died but most of them could shadowshift into melee range with zealots and tie them up. One shadowshifted into melee with Vilmon and chopped him to pieces. The flameguard shifted around a bit to take the mechanithrall charge next turn.
The crusader charged my other deathripper but failed to hit twice.
The redeemer took out some mechanithralls and then Kreoss took out some more with cleaning fire.
turn 3
I tried to take out as much as I could this turn. Bile thralls advanced and 2 purged. One over the zealots (corrosion for the next turn) and one over the flameguard killing 2 and corrosion on the rest of them. The mechanithralls (only a few left + brute) charged the flameguard + crusader jack. The jack got hurt pretty good, but no systems were taken out. No flameguards died.
Bane knights all advanced into melee with the zealots to tie them up. One took out the piper. Tartarus charged the jack and did massive damage, but the damn thing still functioned. Skarre casted backlash on the jack. And kept the rest of the focus for herself. No sacrifice this turn because skarlock was out of range of the biles.
Jurn rolled for corrosion on 9 models and only 1 died!!! Lucky dice. He risked free strikes on his zealots to be able to throw bombs. 4 died, 3 were left. 2 were able to throw a bomb and 2 banes died. I was left with 4 knights now
tartarus got smacked by the jack but survived with 1 wound left. Flameguard poked the mechanithralls to death. Only the brute was left now, but he got taken out by Kreoss... damn....
Redeemer positioned himself for next turn.
Turn 4
This was the turn it had to happen. If I didn't kill Kreoss this turn, I would be dead. And this turn... I knew exactly what to do... got distracted and messed it up
Sh!t happens....So I had to activate Tartarus first and beckon the bane knights next tohim. I activated him and attacked the jack, realising as I roll the dice that after attacking his activation ends, so no beckon. Crap! That move cost me the game. I needed the beckon to get the bane knights within 1" of Skarre so that I could use her feat for a POW 21 sacrificial strike on Kreoss. I knew I had lost right then. I finished off what I could to get victory points and popped skarre her feat to give her 21 armour. Maybe if I was lucky she would survive... I then let Jurn take his action.
Kreoss activated, popped his feat, skarre got knocked down. The redeemer activated, 3 rockets directly hit Skarre and she was down to 5 wounds. Then the flameguard just reached her and it was game over.
Conclusion:
A very hard game and it could swing any direction till the last moment. Too bad that I made that mistake or I defenitly would have won...
(I will post the next game during my lunch break)
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