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Today my whole gaming group (me and two others so far) got together for a nice evening of assembling, painting and gaming. I ended up playing a game against the newest member of our group, who has a few games under his belt, but is still kind of the newby among us.
I offered him the choice which army he wanted to play against, so I ended up playing Khador vs Cryx, 20p overrun (from Steamroller 2011; our default scenario).
Choice of Warcaster was pretty hard, as I own six of them and none of them sees enough play time. In the end I went with the (p)Butcher, mostly because I still hadn't used the model even once since I got it, not even for a test game against myself. I thought about my new Juggernaut, but ended up taking my default Kodiak. After that came 10 Winter Guard + UA and Saxon Orrik to grant them pathfinder (a model I picked up just this week and was eager to use), followed by my equally new Manhunters and the Greylord Ternion I tend to field in most of my Khador armies.
My opponent, with full access to all my Cryx models, chose eGoreshade. He decided early on that he wanted to take something else than Deneghra or Asphyxious for a change, and all we had left after that were eGoreshade and the Witches of Garlgast. In addition, he took a Defiler, 6 Bane Thralls with UA, Cylena and 5 Nyss hunters, and the Withershadow combine.
The game started extremely well for me. I won initiative, set up with the Winter Guard spread across the middle, the Greylords to the right on the Flank with less terrain, and Butcher and Kodiak to the left where several forests loomed.
My opponent slapped the Nyss hunters on the left flank for the forests, put Goreshade and his Withershadows into the center with a small gap between two forests in front of them, and pushed the Banes pretty much on the terrain-light right flank. I couldn't have chose better match-ups for me deployment-wise myself.
My Saxon went on the left flank as well, right next to the Winterguard he was supposed to guide through some scrubs and small ponds. The Manhunters took to the far left, eager to embrace the elven hunters.
I pretty much ran my whole army forward in turn one, except for Orrik who guided the Winterguard and the Butcher that cast Iron Flesh on them after their move and Fury on his Kodiak.
My opponent pretty much wasted his first turn, as he struggled with Goreshade's far from beginner-friendly spell list. The defiler came forward on the left flank and ended up one inch outside spray range of my closest manhunter. The Hunters advanced to shoot at my manhunters - I probably should have pointed out stealth to him before he concluded their movement... Goreshade walked straight ahead right towards the center of the board, while his Withershadows ran sideways around the forests towards the far left side for some reason. His Bane Thralls meanwhile ran behind a hill on the right, obviously afraid to face a world of spray hurt.
In turn two, I charged my Manhunters right into his Defiler (crippling the arc node in one mighty stroke and the movement system in a puny second slap) and towards his caster (I ended up half an inch shy, should have charged the Nyss or kept him back for a turn). The Greylords on the flank meanwhile advanced into a position that allowed for some potshots at the Banes behind the hill without retribution from Goreshade's special ability.
Butcher, Kodiak and Winterguard meanwhile flooded the control zone.
That was the moment things started going wrong. Goreshade killed the Manhunter in front of him, then threw a boosted Hex Blast into my Winter Guard, that not only dispelled their Iron Flash, but also killed four of them - bad positioning on my part, I have to assume. Then came the Nyss, killing even more of them, followed by Banes running out from behind their hill and a second dead Manhunter on the hands of the Withershadows.
With the game pretty much on the line, I decided it was time to end it. I waited for our third guy, a Khador player himself, to put full attention towards our game, then Full Trottled my Kodiak swollen with three focus right into Goreshade - or rather that was the plan. I ended up a few milimeters short, and widely overexposed.
After that the game quickly turned around. Goreshade froze my Kodiak with his first strike, then crushed both arms and the Cortex, taking it out of the game more or less. The rest of his army advanced, killing Orrik and more Winterguard.
I used my next turn to move the Butcher forward, while the few other reminders of my army failed to put more than a dent into my opponent's turn. His next turn consisted mostly of killing the rest of my infantry (except for two remaining Greylords our far right) and using the Withershadows to turn the reminders of my Kodiak into a fully functional Slayer. None of that closed the charge line from my Butcher to his caster, though, and the apparently is brutal in melee...
Originally Posted by Wishing
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