Battle Report: Masters Tournament

I played two games yesterday, at the Cog Collective Master's tournament at Guardian Games.

First was against Sean's Cryx - he dropped a Scaverous list with Deathjack, Bane Knights, and Croe's Cutthroats, plus some other stuff. The scenario was Outflank - two zones on either side of the table, which players attempt to control for points.

I ran the following:

Mordikaar

* Tiberion

* Basilisk Drake

* Basilisk Krea

Agonizer

Soulward

Willbreaker

Cataphract Cetrati (max)

* Tyrant Vorkesh

Cataphract Incindiarii (max)

Paingiver Bloodrunners

Paingiver Beast Handlers (min)

As it happened, this turned into a bit of a slap fight thanks to really poor dice on both our parts. He lined up a pretty decent run at Tiberion on Mordikaar's feat turn (top of two), and then failed to kill him with Deathjack. I had a superb assassination opportunity on Scaverous, who was out in the open and sitting on no focus, and then missed two out of four attacks - and failed to do any damage on one of the attacks that hit. In the end, he was finally able to bring Deathjack in to kill Mordikaar...

I made a couple of mistakes in this game which - dice aside - really cost me the game.

First, I should have put Fury points on the Agonizer on the first turn. Had I done so, I could have put Deathjack on the back foot from the second turn on.

Second, once my initial shot on the assassination failed, I should have given up on the assassination that turn, and gone for plan B: killing as much of his stuff as possible. Had I done so, I probably could have removed Tartarus, Deathjack, and the Bane Knights from the table, and still had a decent amount of stuff to survive the counterstrike.

Second game was versus Adam's Mercenary force in Close Quarters. He brought Magnus 2's theme force, with Sword Knights and plenty of ranged 'jacks, plus some Rangers.

I brought:

Rasheth (Chain Gang T4)

* Bronzeback

* Gladiator

* Gladiator

* Krea

Agonizer

Agonizer

Task Master

Task Master

Gatorman Posse (max)

Gatorman Posse (max)

Beast Handlers (min)

This one I straight up lost by scenario. I completely forgot about the scenario on my last turn and forgot to run something in to contest the flag he controlled, thus giving him enough points to seal the deal. Admittedly, it would have been difficult to do so, thanks to Magnus' feat and the rather slow speed of my army, but I still screwed up.

After those two games, I dropped, for two reasons: We'd have an odd number of players if I didn't, and I figured I'd rather go home in time for dinner than take the bye or have someone else do it. As it happened, I got distracted, but that's for another post...