Game 2 against samo958 with Spires in Off-Balance!
He brought a lot of monsters, which is always a bit scary. But we will show him why the Weavers are the superior Exiles – right?!
Opponents List:
| === The Last Argument of Kings === SP: Well, Thats a Few Monsters [2000/2000] The Spires The Underspires == Warlord Pheromancer [110]: Avatar Projection * Brute Drones 3 [150]: * Abomination 1 [180]: * Abomination 1 [180]: * Brute Drones 3 [150]: == High Clone Executor [105]: Induced Fawn Response, Grafted Limbs * Force-Grown Drones 6 [165]: * Siegebreaker Behemoth 1 [230]: * Pteraphon Surveyor 1 [180]: * Onslaught Drones 3 [130]: == Biomancer [100]: * Desolation Beast 1 [230]: * Force-Grown Drones 3 [90]: |
Round 1
We start in summer!
I luckily get all my lights, which is also true for him. We push some models and I start generating some seeds.
Round 2
I get Morrowen, Crann and Sciathan Riders onto the field. He gets two Abominations and a Pteraphon. Not a whole lot happens to be honest.
I need to push up my Whisps a bit and get blasted by Biomancy, losing a whole stand. My Kern start shooting the objective thanks to longshot granted by the Whisps.
Round 3
So he gets the Siegebreaker and both of his Brute Drones, I get everything missing – nice!
A lot of stuff happens this round.
In the center I manage to kill the Objective with both units of Kern firing with Longshot, while he moves up both of his Brute Drone units in a terrifying line., barreling down the midboard.
On the left flank I sacrifice my Whisp unit to block his units off the zone. My Crann move onto it with 4 stands, so I can score the zone even though an Abomination puts his toe onto it.
on the right flank he goes for a longbomb charge with his other Abomination into my Whisps, which he makes and completely obliterates them. This is bad for me I guess. So I have to use my Sciathan to block the Abomination from getting into my Kern. The only way I can do it reliably is to march charge into the front of the Monstrosity.
I reinforce this flank with both units of Ciannir and march up the Morrowen so they can actually do something.
Round 4
Spring it is!
He gets his Desolation Beast and the last unit of Onslaught Drones.
He goes first and activates his Forcegrown Drones with Executioner. He strains them for Burnout, to get the Charge onto the Cranns and hopes to do some damage. I think he killed one and a half stands or something like that and lost 7 wounds thanks to Decay in the process.
He then activates the Abomination, because he thought he could charge into the Crann. But the way the Drones had charged, they actually blocked the Abomination. So he reformed and marched her towards the center, while the Siegebreaker moved up to threaten the charge next turn. The Crann heal some damage back and destroy the Drones afterwards.
In the center the Pteraphon moves up, activates his strain, shoots the Kern with mage and then charges them, doing some impacts and manages to do 6 wounds with all of his actions.
My Kern activate, heal some wound back, inspire and clash and do some wound to the flying Pheromancer-Thingy. The mage shoots some fireball at the Monstrosity and lastly the Sciathan finish the job with a charge into the flank of the Surveyor.
Meanwhile on the right flank, he goes for a greedy play. The Abomination activates its strain and attacks the Sciathan without inspiring. While it has Flurry, it is still very risky, but the gain would be to charge the Kerns behind the Sciathan.
Sadly, he does not manage to get enough hits with Clash 2, even with Relentless Blows, and one mothrider survives with one or two wounds. This is really bad now. The Morrowen activate and charge the Abomination, killing it in the process.
He also brings in the Onslaught Drones and the Desolation Beast on this flank. The Beast even shot some Ciannir that went too close because they shot off a stand of Drones.
Round 5
This was the last round we played and I forgot to take a photo – sorry again!
He went first and activated his Brute Drones with Pheromances, which went for a two inch charge onto the Kern and Failed – even with Unstoppable!
This was very unlucky, but in fact would not have changed the game in any way. I killed the Abomination with Shooting, casting and some fighting on the left flank, killed the Onslaught Drones and the other unit of Brute Drones and started damaging the second objective.
At this point, I was already ahead by so many points. Charging the Brutes into the Kern did not grant my opponent any points. In fact, his unit would have been further out of position and not contributed to the game.
Notably, the Siegebreaker would have killed the Crann over the course of the match!
The end result was 37 to 10 for me!
Much love to my opponent, who was a blast to play with and piloted this list very well. I really look forward to playing with him again in the future!