50SS Leveticus (daniello_s) vs Ramos (Owen)
Deployment: Corner Deployment
Strategy: Interference
Schemes: Convict Labour, Hunting Party, Take Prisoner, Set Up, Inspection
Owen brought:
Ramos (7SS pool) - Arcane Reservoir, Under Pressure, Field Generator
Joss - Imbued Energies
Large Arachnid
Mobile Toolkit
5x Steam Arachnid
I took:
Levi (3SS pool) - Pariah of Iron, Desolate Soul, Tally Sheet
(killing machine and Abomination summoner)
Rusty Alyce - From the Aether
(scrap and Abomination summoner; Waif anchor)
Mechanical Rider
(scheme runner and summoner; Waif anchor)
Johana
(anti-construct beat-stick; Waif anchor)
Necropunk
(scheme runner)
Soulstone Miner
(anti-construct hitter; Waif anchor)
Hodgepodge Effigy
(soul stones re-charger; scheme runner)
2x Hollow Waif
(Levi's life insurance)
Owen picked: Convict Labour and Inspection.
I took: Convict Labour and Take Prisoner (Ramos).
I was thinking about taking Set Up on Joss or Ramos and I should do that as taking Convict Labour when facing an endless tide of Spiders wasn't the beat idea...
Deployment (Levi deployed first, on the bottom of the photo):
My plan was to use Rider along my left flank on turn 1 and 2, get advantage on those quarters with a support from Levi and Rusty, when I'll defend my deployment quarter with my other models.
Turn 1
Initiative: Ramos
Key actions/moments:
- As usual the turn 1 was almost exclusively about movement. We moved our models along our flanks to seize quarters on turn 2. Owen concentrated more forces on his left flank which was OK with me as that gave me easier task to deal with remaining models on my left flank where Mech Rider, Levi and Rusty push forward.
- Joss killed Toolkit and Ramos raised two new Spiders.
Upkeep phase:
No VPs scored by either side.
Score after turn 1: Levi 0 - Ramos 0
Turn 2
Initiative: Levi
Key actions/moments:
- Levi tried to kill two Spiders but Owen cheated high cards for defense and Levi was able to kill just one Spider and hurt other. At least with the killed Spider he raised one Abomination.
- Ramos summoned more Spiders and cleverly used his Magnetism and put enormous pressure on Hodgepodge Effigy.
- Spiders rushed forward and put scheme markers for Convict Labour. Joss burnt Imbued Energies, rushed towards centre of the table and dropped scheme marker too.
- Rusty raised Abomination from scrap marker she summoned on Turn 1 and tried to hit tar-pitting Spider but hit only once.
- Mech Rider summoned first of my Spiders. She tried also kill enemy Spider but positive Df flip from Ramos' Arcing Screen negated any hit.
- I started dropping scheme markers but it was really hard to find a safe place to put them already (I told you it was a bad idea to take Convict Labour...).
Upkeep phase:
Levi; +1VP Interference
Ramos: +1VP Interference, +1VP Convict Labour
Score after turn 2: Levi 1 - Ramos 2
Turn 3
Initiative: Ramos
Key actions/moments:
- Ramos detonated Spider nearby Levi, Mech Rider and Rusty and then summoned 3 new ones. Well, we forgot that sacrificed models don't drop markers... ;)
Ramos also used Magnetism on Hodgepodge Effigy again. And if I only remembered that it has Hard to Kill... Thankfully those two mistakes were also our last two during this game ;)
- Joss walked and hit Rusty.
- Rusty hit Spider twice. Well she tried at least but she missed all (Ramos used his Arcing Screen again...).
- Levi killed Spider and summoned another Abomination. Then charged another one but hit only once and didn't kill it.
- The gargantuan battle between Abomination and Spider was taken place at the table edge and Abomination was the winner (Red Joker on damage flip).
- Johana charged Large Arachnid but hit only once. Accidentally I put her to close to the target instead at the 3'' range.
- Miner fought with Spider who tar-pitted him but my flips this round were so bad he didn't do any damage.
- Mech Rider summoned my second Spider and tried to kill enemy one - just guess with what effect.. ;)
- Necropunk walked twice and Leaped over on the enemy quarter which denied Owen a VP for Strategy this turn.
Upkeep phase:
Levi; +1VP Interference
Ramos: +1VP Convict Labour
Score after turn 3: Levi 2 - Ramos 3
Turn 4
Initiative: Levi
Key actions/moments:
- Rusty summoned Abomination from scrap marker and tried to hit Joss - miss again...
- Ramos walked once, he used Magnetism on one of my Spiders killing it and then he summoned two more Spiders.
- Joss killed Rusty
- On my side: Levi killed newly summoned Spider and then another one, Miner killed Spider, Johana killed the Spider but missed a swing at Large Arachnid who put her at the last wound (Hard to Kill).
- Mech Rider summoned next Spider and put a pressure on Ramos.
- Necropunk was engaged with enemy Spider and all he needed to do was to Leap and drop scheme marker so I could score Convict Labour. At this stage I had 5 cards on my hand where 5 was the highest one... Leap - no... Disengage flip - nope as I needed a 6 to success... crap...
Upkeep phase:
Levi; +1VP Interference
Ramos: +1VP Convict Labour, + 1VP Inspection
Score after turn 4: Levi 3 - Ramos 5
Turn 5
Initiative: Levi
Key actions/moments:
- Abomination walked and slapped Ramos.
- Joss charged and 'killed' Levi.
- Ramos being with 2'' of Abomination could raise only one Spider.
- Mech Rider charged the Spider who was in the corner of the table and killed it.
- There was some more movements this turn but game ended at this turn.
Upkeep phase:
Levi; +1VP Interference, +1VP Convict Labour, +3VP Take Prisoner
Final score: Levi 8 - Ramos 5
Few comments after the game:
On From Aether upgrade:
If I get some free 2SS it is worthy to take it as Rusty doesn't have any other (0)AP action anyway, but still I'm not its biggest fan. Need to try it again.
On Mech Rider:
Evil... Lovely evil model... ;)
On Ramos and Interference:
Bloody bugger was sending wave after wave of those pesky Spiders... I like him ;)
Till next time!
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