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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comment section.