Game report 29.05.16 50SS Leveticus vs Jakob Lynch

Game report - 29.05.2016

50SS Leveticus (daniello_s) vs Jakob Lynch (Gavin)

Deployment: Flank Deployment
Strategy: Reconnoiter
Schemes: Convict Labour, Show of Force, Hunting Party, Take Prisoner, Set Up

Gavin brought:
Jakob Lynch (6SS pool) - The Rising Sun, Wanna See a Trick, Woke Up With The Hand
Hungering Darkness - Addict, Fears Given Form
The Illuminated
Barbaros - Rapid Growth, Nephilim Gladius
Candy - Best Behavior, Fears Given Form
2x Terror Tot

I took:
Leveticus (4SS pool) - Pariah of Bone, Tally Sheet
(ultimate killing machine)
Rusty Alyce
(heavy shooter/hitter; Waif anchor)
Lazarus
(second heavy shooter in the list; Waif anchor)
The Valedictorian
(second heavy hitter in the list; Waif anchor)
Dead Doxy
(support model with her movement shenanigans; Waif anchor)
2x Rotten Belle
(support models)
2x Hollow Waif
(Levi's life insurance)

Gavin picked: Hunting Party and Show of Force
I took: hunting Party and Take Prisoner (Lynch)

Plan for a game: using Belles get things out of cover and shoot it dead with Levi/Rusty and Lazarus. Dead Doxy would use her Take the Lead to move my slower models (Levi/Lazarus) into position or push enemy as well. Valedictorian would take a role of flanker to hunt down enemy minions which would possible hide in the corners ;)

Deployment: Levi deployed second (at bottom of the picture):

Turn 1
Initiative: Levi

Key actions/moments:

- Jakob's crew spread into two groups and moved forward. Only Candy decided to stay where she was as she could be lured closer and punished by my heavy shooter.
- I pushed Valedictorian with Doxy, he walked and tried to hit Tot hiding behind hill but missed. Barbaros walked 3 times and engaged Valedictorian. Belle lured him back and lured Levi closer. Then Levi, Rusty and Lazarus (one shot with him) put a heavy fire on Barbaros (in hard cover) which wounded him seriously (plus made him Slow from Levi's attack). Generally I shifted almost all my crew on my right flank to deal with Barbaros first leaving only Lazarus, Belle and one Waif closer to my left flank.

Upkeep phase:
No VP score this turn by either crew

Score after turn 1: Levi 0 - Jakob Lynch 0


Turn 2
Initiative: Levi

Key actions/moments:

- Levi tried to kill Barbaros but he used soulstones heavily for damage prevention and survived on the last wound. The Barbaros took Df stance hoping he could withstand other attacks in hard cover but Belle lured him which allowed Rusty to shoot him dead.
- Valedictorian killed Tot and got me a VP for Hunting Party.
- I spread my crew to get VP for Reconnoiter.
- Jakob and Illuminated flanked me and Huggy stayed near centre point and secured Gavin VP for Show of Force.Candy decided to play safe and stayed out of the main action securing VP point for Reconnoiter

Upkeep phase:

Levi: +1VP Reconnoiter, +1VP Hunting Party
Jakob: +1VP Reconnoiter; +1VP Show of Force

Score after turn 2: Levi 2 - Jakob Lynch 2

Turn 3
Initiative: Levi

Key actions/moments:

- Levi killed Illuminated and I forgot to bury him this turn ;) Now the only minion left on Neverborn side was Tot who took defensive stance. Valedictorian flurried at him but missed. Rusty took a single swing and hit him for 3 damage. As I didn't want to hurt Jakob with Lazarus (and Huggy was in the cover) I decided to try to finish Tot with him to get auto-points this and next turn for Hunting Party. Thankfully Lazarus have succeeded in this task.
- Huggy charged Belle and beat her heavily. He also forced Lazarus to shoot at Waif but got a Black Joker on damage flip.
- Jakob moved closer but I had everything in cover and he didn't want to kill Belle with his Master as it wouldn't give him any VP for Hunting Party.
- Candy moved closer to get points for Show of Force.

Upkeep phase:

Levi: +1VP Reconnoiter, +1VP Hunting Party
Jakob: +1VP Show of Force

Score after turn 3: Levi 4 - Jakob Lynch 3

Turn 4
Initiative: Jakob

Key actions/moments:

- Huggy killed Belle and tried to 'kill' Levi but missed. In return Levi 'killed' Huggy ;) I decided not to summon Waif as Jakob was to close and could easily put a Brilliance on her and get Huggy back by killing her. Later Rusty 'killed' Levi :)
- Jakob walked twice and was able to attack Waif putting a Brilliance on her and getting Huggy anyway...
- Valedictorian was not impressed seeing Huggy back to life and flurried at it killing it.

Upkeep phase:

Levi: +1VP Reconnoiter, +1VP Hunting Party
Jakob: +1VP Show of Force, +1VP Hunting Party

Score after turn 4: Levi 6 - Jakob Lynch 5

Turn 5
Initiative: Levi

Key actions/moments:

- Lazarus engaged Jakob and I made sure he will survive his attacks this turn.
- Candy sprinted around the woods towards Jakob but was too far away to negate me some points for Take Prisoner.
- Valedictorian was pushed by Doxy and charged her but missed.
- Game ended on this turn.

Upkeep phase:

Levi: +1VP Reconnoiter, +3VP Take Prisoner

Final score: Levi 10 - Jakob Lynch 5

Few comments after the game:
- I like how this crew works and I thing it is deadly efficient. Belles luring enemy and Doxy pushing my models around gives me huge flexibility on what I want to engage and kill.
- Dead Doxy was one among two models I used for the first time and I must say she is an awesome support piece. Her push action is really great and she is quite capable in melee as well. Not to mention she is an anchor for Waifs.
- Valedictorian, the second model who had his debut that day, is another very interesting model in Levi's crew. Mobile, quite resilient (decent Df/Wp, Terrifying 12 (All), Armor +1 and an access to soulstones for damage prevention) and very reliable beater. I'm really glad I decided to get her when running Pariah of Bone on Levi and even after the single game only I can recommend her ;)

Till next time!