Last night’s game went pretty well. The scenario called for us to control the center 6″ hill on top of a 12″ hill, winning if one of us ends up with 7 control points.
Having seen Advance Deploy screw myself and several others, the Deathjack was deployed only a few inches outside of my own deployment zone so that he could run up and try to hold the hill. Everything else was deployed across the edge of the zone with Deneghra and crew to my right and Asphyxious and crew to the left.
During the course of the game, I had serious trouble with die rolls. It seemed that when I only needed a 6 to hit something, I’d roll a 10, but when I needed an 11 to damage anything, I’d roll a 4. Oh well, it all evened out in the end when a Pistol Wraith needed an 8 to Kill Epic Stryker and rolled a 12.
In the end, Deneghra did her feat, the Withering, to reduce Darius’ ARM and DEF by 2 and attempted to cast Crippling Grasp, but was slightly out of range. The Harrower with 3 focus and 2 (useless) Soul Tokens charged Darius and managed to kill him. I won by assassination rather than by scenario, but I’m okay with that as I doubt I could have kicked both a Centurion and a Thunderhead off of the hill.
BTW, the Deathjack did nearly nothing except maybe draw attention to itself.
I felt really good after this game. I haven’t had a mark in the “W” column for quite a while and to win at 1000 points and against one of our most knowledgeable players was just icing on the already delicious cake.
I believe Rick’s list went something like this:
- Darius
- Thunderhead
- Centurion
- Ironclad
- Stormclad
- Some kind of Standard
- Hunter
- Epic Stryker
- Gun mages x6
- Stormblades
- Standard Bearer
- Some unit attachment with 5 wounds
Well, the Ogres finally had a well-earned victory in the Warhammer League. I played a young guy named John, who I’d played a 600 point game last week where we drew due to his having to leave early.
