Reply To: Hobby Weekender 01/03 – Back to the 80s

[biggabum 4565xp 3]

Well we caught a break this afternoon and just finished the game we were going to play throughout tomorrow… yay us.

Not going to have time to do a proper Bat rep but….

We both spent the first turn moving our respective armies into range. Not knowing how nasty the Kraken was going to be I made sure that I kept my troops that could combine fire and all my shooty jacks close to the darn thing. A risky move in that if I ended up opposite Matty’s Bile Thralls he could really do some damage to my chances very quickly. Fortunately Matty deployed his Biles on the flank opposite my Long Gunners and Trencher Commandos. By the end of the second turn I had wiped out the Bile Thralls, and thanks to Striker casting Earthquake through the Lancer and knocking his Bane Warriors to the ground everything that could shoot on that side of the board opened up on them.

Matty moved to counter by using his Reaper to drag the Lancer to him but had some appaling luck as both the Reaper and The Slayer failed to do any damage. This allowed me to counter with my Ironclad and freed up the rest of the troops on that side of the board to go after Blackbane and his raiders.

Matty’s lack of experience using the Kraken meant he was getting in his own way and blocking his own Mechanithralls from getting into the fight allowing the Trencher commando’s to get into his flank. With the Long Gunners and Trenchers now in range to combine their shots and my Defender, Charger and Hunter all targetting the Kraken it only took two turns to cripple it and a lucky boosted shot from the Defender to take it out completely.

Matty tried a clever move with Gaspy but it went wrong when he tried to cast a spell with the Skarlock Thrall before he had intended to end Gaspy’s activation leaving him in full view of the Trencher Commando’s and the two remaining shooty Jacks and unable to finish what he intended to do. Gaspy was gone and his remaining Jacks were inert. With the Mechanithralls still stuck at the back of his lines the center was mine.

This left Matty with a problem, no matter which way Denny, his last caster, went, her back was vulnerable to either my flanking force or the guns from my central line. Matty took a while to assess the situation and realising that he was stuck between a rock and a hard place he conceded.