Warmachine Battle report #2: 50pts Mercenaries "MiMeMo" (Gorten) vs. Khador jack spam (pButcher)

Hi everyone! I’m Juho “Tanan” Auer and this is my 2nd warmachine miniature game battle report on this site. The lists below where done using www.forwardkommander.com .

My mercenary list:
System: Warmachine
Faction: Mercenaries - Searforge Commission
Points: 50/50
Gorten Grundback (*7pts)
* Grundback Blaster (3pts)
* Grundback Blaster (3pts)
* Grundback Blaster (3pts)
* Grundback Blaster (3pts)
* Grundback Blaster (3pts)
* Grundback Blaster (3pts)
* Grundback Blaster (3pts)
* Grundback Blaster (3pts)
* Grundback Blaster (3pts)
* Ghordson Basher (7pts)
* Ghordson Basher (7pts)
Tactical Arcanist Corps (4pts)
Brun Cragback & Lug (9pts)
Gudrun the Wanderer (3pts)

Valtteri "Walz" Laivamaa Khador list:

System: Warmachine
Faction: Khador
Casters: 1/1
Points: 50/50
The Butcher of Khardov (*6pts)
* Berserker (6pts)
* Berserker (6pts)
* Berserker (6pts)
* Berserker (6pts)
* Juggernaut (7pts)
* Juggernaut (7pts)
* War dog (1pts)
Widowmakers (Leader and 3 Grunts) (4pts)
Winter Guard Infantry (Leader and 9 Grunts) (6pts)
* Winter Guard Infantry Officer & Standard (2pts)
Winter Guard Mortar Crew (Leader and Grunt) (3pts)
Kovnik Jozef Grigorovich (2pts)

And then disaster struck (again)! One of the Berserkers had its leg damaged during transport and had to be be proxied by Devastator.

 
The scenario: SR2014 "Fire Support"
Two flags and objectives on the middle. The nearest objective is friendly. Destroy enemy objective for one control point. Dominate flag for two control points and control flag for one control point. Win for the first who gets five control points.

55 min deathclock is used, but deployment isn't clocked ("Nordic deathclock").

About the lists: 

[copied form #1 battle report]The basic idea behind my list is pretty simple. Blasters are incredible models, because they hard counter infantry and are one of the most durable models in the game for their point cost. The durability and firepower of Blasters buys me time to annihilate key enemy models and either win by attrition or scenario control points. In Privateer Press Mercenary Faction Forum, this list type is called "Miserable Metal Mountain" or MiMeMo. Thanks @Althrion for coming up with the term.[/copied form #1 battle report]

 

Valtteri's Khador list has a lot of inexpensive Khador melee jacks and the all-too-common Winter Guard infantry, officer and Kovnik Jozef Grigorovich combo (also known as WGI+UA+Joe). I'm not too worried about the WGI, but Khador Berserker heavy jacks could shread my jacks in melee, if I wasn't careful. For those who are unfamiliar with warmachine, Valtteri's warcaster is Orsus Zoktavir - The Butcher of Khardov (also known as "pButcher" or "The Butcher"), who is the hardest hitting melee warcaster in the game. Nothing in the game that can survive his giant axe 'Lola' more than few swings. The Butcher's signature spell 'Full Throttle' gives his warjacks free charges and boosted melee attacks, meaning that he can run a big battlegroup very efficiently. His feat is very simple: add one damage die to all damage rolls. Enemy models/armies tend to disappear during his feat turn.

Khador deployment:
Valtteri won the roll to go first, and chose to deploy and go first.

Mercenary deployment:
I chose the side with the least amount of forest.

Khador Turn 1:
Everyone runs forward.

Mercenary Turn 1:
Assign three focus for Blasters. Gorten casts the Solid Ground spell and walks forward. The Bashers and Lug "help" Blasters to move forward by slamming and throwing them. Brun casts Stonehold spell.

Khador Turn 2:
The Butcher camps everything and charges the leading Blaster and kills it with two swings from Lola. Everyone else runs forwards to engage Blasters.

Mercenary Turn 2:
The Butcher charge was a bad mistake. Assign 3 focus to Basher. Solid Ground and Stonehold aren't upkeeped.  Blasters move to block Khador jacks. Gorten uses his Landslide feat to push The Butcher few inches forward and then casts Strength of Granite spell to Basher. Brun casts Lug's animus (Bear hands) on himself, charges the Butcher and knocks him down with a boosted attack. Lug charges the Butcher and leaves him with a couple of health boxes. Strength of Granite buffed Basher finishes the Butcher with one attack.

 

 Mercenaries win by assassination!

Post-game thoughts:
Sometimes warmachine games can be very short. This was one of those games. :

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