Battlefield Bangkok

Well first comes the solo solo, Strider Deathstalker, and to follow that it looks like we have even more strider goodness with the Strider Officer and Musician Unit Attachment. Whoo Hoo! Bring on the archery badness.

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It was plain to see that both players had given this battle a lot of thought, though Kris showed he was far more commited when he pulled a battle plan from his pocket! Terrain was placed before the battlegroups were revealed and this created a field of mixed terrain, Swamps on the Khador left, hear field and forest central, crators and chasm on the right.  Cyganer revealed a mixed battle group of Bart and Epic Haley. Two mules, a lancer, a full gaggle of trenchers, Maxwell Finn, Major Katerine Laddermore, Journeyman Warcaster, lots of StormLances, Piper, Lady Aiyana & Master Holt and  Dougal MacNaile. They Cygnar rabble faced off against a the none epic Sorcha and The Old Witch, they were supported by the Behometh, Fenris, Doom Reavers, Kayazy Assassins, @ units of Grey Lords, 2 Units of Widowmakers, Eyriss, 3 Man-o-War Demolition Corps, 3 Man-o-War Shocktroopers, Gorman, the real Lady Aiyana & Master Holt and good old Scrappy.

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Cygnar won the toss and opted to deploy and move first, as soon as Cygnar started casting multi shot, fast move horror spells I got a sinking feeling in my gut and sure enough the trenchers lined up to take… hmmm 20 odd shots into the Khadorian deployment zone… as luck would have it I’d deploted deep. The only models in range were the Kayazy’s (well in range but not in range), the widowmakers and the Shocktrooper. The Cygnar sneak attack collapsed with only 2 widowmakers and stray Greylord and Holt (killed by an errant grenade) . With the trenchers under the effect of temporal accel, they were done for two turns, the Assassins rushed forward and made a right mess of the counter attack, doing little damage. Meanwhile Fenris lopped off Maxwel’s head and booted it back where it came from.

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Turn 2 Cygnar advanced, did little damage other than blowing Fenris into the air with a Mule hit, sadly for the lancer he lander right next door and it had already activated.  The main Cygnar army moved up, considered popping feats and opted not to. Khador continued the Trencher mop up, the Witch charged into combat killing three trenchers and getting some nice soul food.  Gorman popped some smoke and the widowmakers made rather hard work of not doing much damage to the cygnar cavalry under Arcane shield. Fenris stood up and made very short work of the Lancer.

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Turn 3 Cygnar didn’t really lead to much, with the trencher sneak attack failed they were lacking in a back up plan and the Cavalry was bogged down in rough terrain facing the Behmoth widowmakers and Aiyana. The mules fired, missed and did little damage, more consideration to feats, decided against and then all hell broke loose.. The last trenchers died.  Sorcha moved up and it was a whole world of icey pain, catching both casters, both Mules, Laddermore and the Piper. This was followed by a tempest and it was time to clean up . Gorman popped smoke, scrappy slipped through the secret paths and sprang on Haley, Frozen she was easy meat and swiftly pinned and reduced to a few hitpoints, Fenris cleaved off the arm of one of the Mules and the Shocktroopers blew the cannon arm of the other one.

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Turns 4 to the end saw the Cygnar army in pannic as they failed to kill scrappy, Haley, and her support group were polised off and suddenly there was just bart, three StormLances and the fake Aiyana & Master Holt left. The Old Witch popped her feat to ensure no Cygnar stragglers got over excited. Bart held out, but was frozen every turn and while his Armour kept him alive, it was only until Eyriss arrived to stop that and the the Demo boys moved in splattered him all over the floor.

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All in all a massacre, Khador casualties amounted to a few scratches here and there and one unit of Greylords. Cygnar were left realing from the loss and review the trencher sneak attack as a viable attack option. For Khador it was stunning success, the synergy between Sorcha and the Old Witch was devestating. Scrappy once again did an awesome job but the hero of the day was Gorman who set up the cloud that enable Scrappy to jump into the frozen heart of cygnar and take out Haley.

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Battles raged across the fields of war this past Wednesday with multiple factions taking up arms.

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First up was a 750 Rage, Rivets and Solos with Kromac and the Circle taking on a confident Dominic Darius. Darius had witness last weeks royal massacre of the ciricle by Khador and felt the battle was going to be a mere formality of handing him a medal and getting his butt kissed by a hairy wolf… not quite the way it turned out. Luck desered Darius from the get go as his forces missed everything. Given a blunderbuss and a barn door, his forces would have missed, that was how badly it was going. Even his half jacks couldn’t repair his Jack’s fast enough and the forces of Kromac ripped a trail of cogs and screws right up to Darius and then ripped his head off and played footy with it, until that was, one of the Warp Wolves got hungry and ate it. All said and done, not a day to remember for the blue boys.

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Next up Dark hearted Fiona took on Vlad in a 500. Fiona fielding a couple of Jack’s, a full unit of Croe’s bad boys and some other assorted riff raff. Against an interesting combination of Khador cavalry and Yuri and his Manhunter gang…plus the obligatory fire and hope Mortar.  Well as it was for the Blue’s so it was for Croe and the barn door. Miss after miss and then the cavalry and the single Kodiak Jack stormed in. Blood everywhere and while a counter attack from Fiona did finish off the 3 Khador Cavalry she was left horribly exposed and with Yuri’s gang coming at her fast. Even her feat failed to stop the reds from cutting down her forces. A last throw of the dice she moved up to get range for an attack on Vlad…and forgot about the Man-o-War Drakhun counter charge.  That left her with 3 wounds left and no line of site to Vlad. Next turn just to add to the general all round horror, she got boiled alive the next turn by the Kodiak Vent attack… nasty!

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So the reds were feeling confident. And faced Madrak in a 500, Scorcha in for the reds.  The terrain was awful. It was a double champions brick and the reds really became very tentative early on, unable to find a way through the brick, even with the Kazyak Assassins and underboss they dithered around and waited for the Trolls to attack, which they did and then it was all down hill from there. Madrak maintained Sure Foot whch mean Scorcha couldn’t get penetration on the Brick and the Iron Fang Pike men couldn’t knock anyone over.  Greylords were burnt alive by the Pyre Troll, and the only good news was when Hawk managed to take out the fell caller, though with sure foot running he was never going to be needed. In the end Scorcha was left almost alone and made one last effort to get to Madrak, it failed and she died under the stomping champion boots.

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Well my last three ladder matches were all robberies. Defeat thrust into the jaws of victory, though the Vayl vs Darius battle would have been rather humorous to have won considering I was taking out Darius with shredders and Harriers and needing 14+ on 3d6 to damage him….and he had 5 hits left! It was all looking good with Darius frozen for 3 turns until the question was asked of Vayl who had drifted a little too close to combat…”What is her Armour”, crunch splat and that was the end of Vayl . I do hope Epic Vayl gets a bloody melee weapon!

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But the battle before that was just saw horribly wrong it beggars belief. Shae and his pirate scum were getting sliced into tiny pieces, it was a massacre beyond all belief, the VPs were massing and Shae had yet to get a single one, even when the Butcher was knocked down by the bloody Mule he laughed, and he laughed off all the melee attacks that followed, and then he got hit by Bradigan and that hurt, but we killed him next turn. Doc was rushing up with the medical kit, the Mule was engaged, the entire Pirate forced was in collapse.. and then Shae hit Butcher with Blow the man down… and killed him. I must have had 20+ VPs stacked up… and I was killed by a lucky shot from Shae… GAHHH!

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Then last week Everblight vs Trolls, last turn, it’s all square with 8 VPS each, just my caster to go, I need one VP, just need to kill a Fellcaller engaged with my Shephard. Bootsted attack. I needed something like a pathetic 11 to hit….and missed…. hit my Shephard…killed her… lost by one VP, on the final attack of the game on my own turn! But as well all decided, it was a gutsy shot, and will be remembered long after a draw would have faded from memory.

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On the upside a Khador / Merc shooter 500 gave the Circle a mauling that they won’t forget in a hurry, Khador lost “one” model.  And scrappy was the champion of the day, pinning Baldur and then surviving a mass assault by everything that could get to him… and then holding Baldur down.  No fear, to spells, good night to the Druid! Too bad it was a friendly match

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It’s been a long wait but I just got a product update email from FRP with the magic words “It’s here” in it! I Pre-ordered both the Warmachine Rulebook: Legends HC and SC just a couple of days ago, so the order should be processed very shortly and the books with us in a week or two. Now we just need to wait for all the models to be released, two new ones I saw released today were Epic Eiryss ( Yea order your own no one is borrowing mine )  and Captain Jeremiah Kraye, for Cygnar rabble. Interestingly I also saw this available, Legends Legacies Reinforcement Kit, no idea what it is, it’s only $5 so might have to buy it to find out

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New Cygnar unit. Something else to snipe … Cygnar Trencher Cannon Crew

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New Khador Solo : Koldun Lord

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New cryx WarJack : Nightmare.

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A new Cryx Unit coming soon. Blackbane’s Ghost Raiders.

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A new Ciricle Solo, with Ravager synergies.

Those few beast lords who have survived dozens of hunts and surpassed the odds by outliving their peers become White Manes. These seasoned killers are heroes among their savage tribes. Seeing a White Mane charge into battle inspires Ravagers to a frenzied state as they rush to follow his example. His scarred mien and grisly tokens are reminders of countless kills and many years of hard fighting.

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The Tharn Ravager White Mane comes in a blister. A player may field two Tharn Ravager White Manes for each warlocks in his Circle Orboros horde.

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