Here’s the list he used to my recollection:

• Vampire w/an item that lets him keep a dispel die from the previous turn to use as a power die
• 10 Skeletons w/full command and some banner that makes their unit strength twice their normal number
• 10 Grave Guard
• 10 Crypt Ghouls
• 3 Cairn Wraiths
• The Vampire had the spells Raise Dead and Invocation

My list:

• Bruiser w/great weapon, heavy armor, Gnoblar Thiefstone x2
• Bulls x4 w/additional hand weapon and bellower
• Ironguts x3 w/bellower
• Gnoblar Fighters x20
• Gnoblar Trappers x8
• Leadbelchers x2 w/bellower

Having played a partial game the previous week versus John and his VC, I knew he’d be raising units in front of me so I couldn’t charge his good units, which I thought would hinder me pretty badly. In this game, he did that three times and two of the three, I was able to overrun into another unit. The Leadbelchers did little except to distract his Grave Guard, which worked in my favor more than I though it would. In the end, the unit of Ironguts with my Bruiser managed to get into combat with the Vampire and his Skeletons. The Vampire, having higher initiative struck first and whiffed on all of his attacks. The 3 attacks from my Irongut in contact with him took him down. The other Ironguts managed to kill a bunch of Skeletons, but they didn’t go away. I thought the Cairn Wraiths would have been a big issue since I didn’t have any magic weapons, but I managed to hold them up enough to keep them out of the way until the very end. They did, however, run down the Bulls after winning combat. There were a couple of instances where I might have gotten a multi-charge on one of his units, but because my Ogre units were 4 wide, they would have run into other enemies beforehand. Oh well.

I will admit one thing, though: I forgot the Leadbelchers can’t fire every turn, so I might have killed a couple less Grave Guard than the 8 or so they did kill over the course of the game. What they did do, though, is keep the Grave Guard facing them instead of engaging one of my other units. I’ll be making a Reload counter or something to remember this rule.

It was a very good game and I’m feeling much better about the Ogres. I need to get better with them, which will be easier as the league gets bigger.

So, here’s the list:

• Iron Lich Asphyxious
• Deathjack
• Deathripper x2
• Skarlock
• Skarre, Queen of the Broken Coast (epic)
• Harrower
• Leviathan (bonded)
• Nightwretch x2
• Pistol Wraith
• Bile Thralls x8
• Mechanithralls x8
• Brute Thrall
• Satyxis Raiders x8 (Elite Cadre)
• Sea Witch

996 points / 33 VP / 37 models

I played against Phil with the army I listed previously and he played his Mercs. We had to play the Domination scenario, which I had played once before. We were supposed to get through 8 rounds to determine the winner. Well, with the amount of jawjacking we did and the fact it was a 1000 point game, that didn’t happen. We ended up going through 3 rounds and as expected, Phil won. Not that I think it’s impossible to win with an Iron Man Cryx list, just I don’t think I’m good enough to pull it off. It was all for fun anyway and I earned more points for my team than if I’d lost at any of the other point levels.

• Skarre, Queen of the Broken Coast (epic)
• Leviathan (bonded)
• Harrower
• Slayer
• Deathripper x2
• Warwtch Deneghra
• Deathjack
• Slayer
• Nightwretch x3

982 points

This ought to be interesting

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

Rick is our local Press Ganger and as such knows the rules inside-out. And me, I’ve only played one 1,000 point game of Warmachine ever. So, this should be interesting.

This week the Cryx vs. Cygnar scenario is the one where the water can rise every round. Lucky me, Cryx has Amphibious warjacks! The bounty this week is my bounty against Cygnar where I have to kill all their solos. So, I can probably count on a Junior, a GMCA, Eiryss, possibly Rupert, and any number of others.

Here’s the list I’ve planned:

• Iron Lich Asphyxious
• Deathjack
• Leviathan
• Deathripper x2
• Skarlock
• Warwitch Deneghra
• Harrower
• Nightwretch x3
• Bloat Thrall
• Pistol Wraith x2
• Bile Thralls (9)
• Mechanithralls (10)

998 points

I’ll report how it fares later.