50SS Leveticus (daniello_s) vs Hoffman (Gavin)
Deployment: Flank Deployment
Strategy: Extraction
Schemes: Convict Labour, Show of Force, Leave Your Mark, Covert Breakthrough, A Quick Murder
Gavin brought:
Hoffman (3SS pool) - Field Mechanic, On Site Assimilation, Remote Mines
Mechanical Attendant
Peacekeeper
Guardian
2x Hunter
Pistolero De Latigo
Watcher
I took:
Leveticus (5SS pool) - Pariah of Iron, To The Earth Return
(ex-ultimate killing machine)
Joss - Oathkeeper
(tanky model; Waif anchor)
Ryle
(second tanky model in the list; Waif anchor)
Hooded Rider
(flanker and heavy hitter; Waif anchor)
Flesh Construct
(backup scheme-runner; Waif anchor)
Necropunk
(scheme runner)
2x Hollow Waif
(Levi's life insurance)
Gavin picked: Leave Your Mark and Covert Breakthrough
I took: Leave Your Mark and A Quick Murder (Peacekeeper)
Game strategy:
- Secure Extraction with Joss and Ryle spending soulstones for damage prevention if necessary. Flesh Construct to support Henchmen if necessary.
- Hooded Rider to flank and kill enemy scheme runner(s) and later in the game to secure Extraction points if needed.
- Necropunk to run Leave Your Mark scheme, supported by Flesh Construct if necessary.
- Levi.... hmmm... to kill as much as possible?.. ;)
This game was a baptize of fire for Hooded Rider. Also it was second game I used Ryle. I was really eager to see their performance.
Also it was third time Gavin played Hoffman.
Deployment flip won Hoffman and forced Levi t deploy first.
Turn 1
Initiative: Hoffman
Key moments/actions:
- General note: my control hand was crap (highest single 10, single 7 and rest 5 and below including Black Joker)
- Hoffman granted Watcher Hydraulics modification (Nimble) and Peacekeeper with Targeting Systems modification (auto-Rams during one activation for all MI and Sh actions). He also looped some of his models. Then Watcher used his Sky-Eye action on my Waif and walked 2 times dragging with him Hoffman behind the building.
- One of the Hunters dragged my 'exposed' Waif into open and tore her to pieces... Nice start of the game... Rest of his crew pushed towards middle except Guardian who tried to flank me.
- I moved Joss and Ryle behind the low wall (hard cover). Hooded Rider moved closer to Hoffman and Watcher but stayed out of LOS. As Gavin used all his control hand Flesh Construct did benefit from Reactivate and run all the way along the flank to do get Leave Your Mark next turn. Necropunk re positioned himself to the centre of the table (behind LOS blocking woods) to avoid Hoffman, Watcher and Guardian. Levi focused and shot at Peacekeeper in the hard cover but flipped weak damage on single negative flip. If he flipped moderate/severe I could declare To The Earth Return trigger. Then he shot twice at Hunter who killed Waif and reduced him to 2 wounds left,
Upkeep phase:
No VPs scored by either side.Key moments/actions:
- General note: my control hand was crap (highest single 10, single 7 and rest 5 and below including Black Joker)
- Hoffman granted Watcher Hydraulics modification (Nimble) and Peacekeeper with Targeting Systems modification (auto-Rams during one activation for all MI and Sh actions). He also looped some of his models. Then Watcher used his Sky-Eye action on my Waif and walked 2 times dragging with him Hoffman behind the building.
- One of the Hunters dragged my 'exposed' Waif into open and tore her to pieces... Nice start of the game... Rest of his crew pushed towards middle except Guardian who tried to flank me.
- I moved Joss and Ryle behind the low wall (hard cover). Hooded Rider moved closer to Hoffman and Watcher but stayed out of LOS. As Gavin used all his control hand Flesh Construct did benefit from Reactivate and run all the way along the flank to do get Leave Your Mark next turn. Necropunk re positioned himself to the centre of the table (behind LOS blocking woods) to avoid Hoffman, Watcher and Guardian. Levi focused and shot at Peacekeeper in the hard cover but flipped weak damage on single negative flip. If he flipped moderate/severe I could declare To The Earth Return trigger. Then he shot twice at Hunter who killed Waif and reduced him to 2 wounds left,
Upkeep phase:
Score after turn 1: Levi 0 - Hoffman 0
Turn 2
Initiative: Levi
Key moments/actions:
- Control hand this turn was good. I had Red Joker, 12 and few moderate cards (9 and lower).
- Levi finished off Hunter and hurt Peacekeeper, not as much as I hoped to but he gave him Slow.
- Gavin put enormous pressure on another Waif so I had to use my high cards to save her.
- Ryle charged Hunter but my flips were terrible and Gavin flipped/cheated higher than me so Ryle missed everything. Then Guardian charged Ryle and hurt him slightly. Joss couldn't stand this beating of his buddy so he burnt Oathkeeper, moved and charged Guardian but hit only once. Seeing this things Hooded Rider rolled over his eyes in disbelief and killed Guardian with a single swing of his sword during the charge.
- Watcher dragged Hoffman along the back of the table so I decided to tarpit Hoffman with Necropunk and I charged nearby Watcher (1 damage inflicted). I knew this was a suicidal mission but I suspected Gavin trying to drop so scheme markers and at least it would delay him with this task. As predicted Necropunk died of Hoffman torch but it Hoffman's took two actions to kill him and third action he spent at the start of his activation to borrow Necropunks leap but failed.
- Flesh Construct got Reactivate this turn again so he easily dropped scheme marker for Leave Your Mark.
- We both score Extraction by having 3 models each within the marker.
Upkeep phase:
Levi: +1VP Extraction, +1VP Leave Your Mark
Hoffman: +1VP Extraction
Score after turn 2: Levi 2 - Hoffman 1
Key moments/actions:
- Control hand this turn was good. I had Red Joker, 12 and few moderate cards (9 and lower).
- Levi finished off Hunter and hurt Peacekeeper, not as much as I hoped to but he gave him Slow.
- Gavin put enormous pressure on another Waif so I had to use my high cards to save her.
- Ryle charged Hunter but my flips were terrible and Gavin flipped/cheated higher than me so Ryle missed everything. Then Guardian charged Ryle and hurt him slightly. Joss couldn't stand this beating of his buddy so he burnt Oathkeeper, moved and charged Guardian but hit only once. Seeing this things Hooded Rider rolled over his eyes in disbelief and killed Guardian with a single swing of his sword during the charge.
- Watcher dragged Hoffman along the back of the table so I decided to tarpit Hoffman with Necropunk and I charged nearby Watcher (1 damage inflicted). I knew this was a suicidal mission but I suspected Gavin trying to drop so scheme markers and at least it would delay him with this task. As predicted Necropunk died of Hoffman torch but it Hoffman's took two actions to kill him and third action he spent at the start of his activation to borrow Necropunks leap but failed.
- Flesh Construct got Reactivate this turn again so he easily dropped scheme marker for Leave Your Mark.
- We both score Extraction by having 3 models each within the marker.
Upkeep phase:
Levi: +1VP Extraction, +1VP Leave Your Mark
Hoffman: +1VP Extraction
Score after turn 2: Levi 2 - Hoffman 1
Turn 3
Initiative: Hoffman
Key moments/actions:
- Control hand was terrible again despite using stone for cards...
- Rider pushed and killed Watcher tar-pitting Hoffman.
- Levi killed Pistolero and crippled heavily Hunter who was later finished off by Joss.
- Peacekeeper tried to shoot Levi but missed.
- Ryle walked, pushed closer to Peacekeeper but missed.
- Hoffman couldn't disengage from Rider so he walked once and hit him (1 damage thanks to damage reduction on Rider).
- Flesh Construct secured another point for Leave Your Mark.
Upkeep phase:
Levi: +1VP Extraction, +1VP Leave Your Mark
Score after turn 3: Levi 4 - Hoffman 1
Key moments/actions:
- Control hand was terrible again despite using stone for cards...
- Rider pushed and killed Watcher tar-pitting Hoffman.
- Levi killed Pistolero and crippled heavily Hunter who was later finished off by Joss.
- Peacekeeper tried to shoot Levi but missed.
- Ryle walked, pushed closer to Peacekeeper but missed.
- Hoffman couldn't disengage from Rider so he walked once and hit him (1 damage thanks to damage reduction on Rider).
- Flesh Construct secured another point for Leave Your Mark.
Upkeep phase:
Levi: +1VP Extraction, +1VP Leave Your Mark
Score after turn 3: Levi 4 - Hoffman 1
Turn 4
Initiative: Hoffman
Key moments/actions:
- Please don't mention my control hand...
- Peacekeeper flurried, hit Ryle with Ram and flipped Red Joker on damage... Ryle was gone...
- Levi killed Attendant and hit Peacekeeper for 2 damage. Joss charged Peacekeeper but hit only once dropping him to last wound.
- Rider couldn't hit Hoffman and Hoffman couldn't disengage again and hit Rider once.
- Flesh Construct secured final point for Leave Your Mark.
Upkeep phase:
Levi: +1VP Extraction, +1VP Leave Your Mark
Score after turn 4: Levi 6 - Hoffman 1
Key moments/actions:
- Please don't mention my control hand...
- Peacekeeper flurried, hit Ryle with Ram and flipped Red Joker on damage... Ryle was gone...
- Levi killed Attendant and hit Peacekeeper for 2 damage. Joss charged Peacekeeper but hit only once dropping him to last wound.
- Rider couldn't hit Hoffman and Hoffman couldn't disengage again and hit Rider once.
- Flesh Construct secured final point for Leave Your Mark.
Upkeep phase:
Levi: +1VP Extraction, +1VP Leave Your Mark
Score after turn 4: Levi 6 - Hoffman 1
Turn 5
Initiative: Hoffman
Key moments/actions:
- Have I asked you not to mention my hand before... ;)
- Peacekeeper flurried at Joss. Then I witnessed deja vu as he did exactly same thing like with Ryle - first hit went through and flipped Red Joker on damage. Second hit finished Joss...
- Levi finally killed Peacekeeper.
- Flesh Construct walked towards the Extraction marker.
- Rider and Hoffman traded some blows but with moderate effect.
- Game ended this turn.
Few comments after the game:
- Focus+attack on Levi is a must now. I think I only flipped moderate damage once during this game and the rest thanks to negative flips were weak damages. And if you plan to use To The Earth Return be ready to use Focus+Focus+attack if something is in heavy cover.
- Hooded Rider... I love this guy already. Mobility and damage output is awesome. And I even didn't use his marker removal trigger yet! Awesome model.
- Ryle - thanks to my miserable cards and flips during the game he couldn't do much but I feel the power in this model.
And now the best stuff - my hand on turn 5 before I spent last stone for cards (I drew 4 and 5...):
Sweet wasn't it?
Till next time!
Key moments/actions:
- Have I asked you not to mention my hand before... ;)
- Peacekeeper flurried at Joss. Then I witnessed deja vu as he did exactly same thing like with Ryle - first hit went through and flipped Red Joker on damage. Second hit finished Joss...
- Levi finally killed Peacekeeper.
- Flesh Construct walked towards the Extraction marker.
- Rider and Hoffman traded some blows but with moderate effect.
- Game ended this turn.
Upkeep phase:
Levi: +1VP Extraction, +2VP A Quick Murder
Final score: Levi 9 - Hoffman 1
Levi: +1VP Extraction, +2VP A Quick Murder
Final score: Levi 9 - Hoffman 1
- Focus+attack on Levi is a must now. I think I only flipped moderate damage once during this game and the rest thanks to negative flips were weak damages. And if you plan to use To The Earth Return be ready to use Focus+Focus+attack if something is in heavy cover.
- Hooded Rider... I love this guy already. Mobility and damage output is awesome. And I even didn't use his marker removal trigger yet! Awesome model.
- Ryle - thanks to my miserable cards and flips during the game he couldn't do much but I feel the power in this model.
And now the best stuff - my hand on turn 5 before I spent last stone for cards (I drew 4 and 5...):
Till next time!
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