Battle Report #83: Maddox vs Stryker1 (Internal affairs IX #1)

For the first round I get matched against Jarle (http://www.courageofcaspia.com/), so it's going to be a rough start to the tournament! His lists are Stryker1 double Stormwall and Haley2 robots. Both have a lot of electro immune. I think Nemo3 into Stryker1 is almost an automatic loss, so I decide to drop Maddox. Jarle drops Stryker1.

Major Beth Maddox (75 points)

Objective: Bunker

Theme: Storm Division

Major Beth Maddox (Maddox1)

* Squire

* 2x Charger

* Ironclad

Journeyman Warcaster

* Firefly

Captain Arlan Strangewayes

Major Katherine Laddermore

Stormblade Captain

5+5 Storm Lances

6 Stormblades

* Stormblade Infantry Officer & Standard

Commander Coleman Stryker (75 points)

Objective: Bunker

Theme: Heavy Metal

Commander Coleman Stryker (Stryker1)

* Squire

* Firefly

* 2x Stormwall

Captain Arlan Strangewayes

Journeyman Warcaster

* Charger

Lieutenant Allison Jakes

* Charger

Deployment

I win the roll. I doubt I will be able to win the attrition game here, so Maddox goes on the right side in order to try to score in my zone. 

Round 1

I move up. Dauntless Resolve on Stormblades, Arcane Shield on left flank Lances, and Snipe on one Charger.


I do a classic mistake. In WARMACHINE it's usually better to commit, or not commit. I keep my right side Lances far back so I won't get much use out of them, while the left side Lances are near enough to be shot up by Chargers and Stormwalls.

The barrage of shots kills 4 Arcane Shield Storm Lances. 4 Covering Fires go down.

Round 2

Maddox goes into the zone and infantry goes in to jam.

One intrepid Storm blade refuses to die. More Lances die. Stryker feats and goes into the zone.

0-1

Round 3

I score my first point. Ironclad goes just outside the Stormwall charge ranges.

1-1

Clear zone, pod.

2-1

Round 4

I am running out of models. I kill a pod, contest, score. Chargers put some damage on the objective.

2-2

Clear zone, Stormwall moves closer. Arlan repairs the objective.

2-3

Round 5

I am very low on the clock. I Feat and charge in but the Stormwall lives.

3-3

Zone is again cleared.

3-4

I just have 2 seconds to activate and kill the pod with Maddox before I run out of time. I would never have been able to score again after this turn, though, since there would have been a Stormwall in my zone.

4-5

Evil Cygnar wins by deathclock!

Post Mortem

I think this is pretty difficult for Maddox. Stormwalls and Chargers are good for dealing with her infantry, and Stryker's feat means I do very little for one turn. I should have played the first turn differently - either committing harder, or keeping outside 19".

There is also another play I could have done, by putting models on the edge of my zone to interfere with podding. That forces a Stormwall to go into my charge ranges in order to pod.


Update: Jarle has now also posted a battle report about this match.

And then, burgers for lunch with Jarle & the visiting Swedes.

Battle Report #75: Haley2 vs Stryker1 (Internal Affairs VIII #2)

After that long fight against Axis I meet my old nemesis from Norwegian Masters again. This time we will not have a bullshit Nemo3 against Stryker1 match, but a real fight! I was thinking about dropping Maddox here, but I want to see if Haley2 or Stryker1 can win this one. And also I have some bad experience with getting list locked recently...

Major Victoria Haley (75 points)

Theme: Storm Division
Objective: Fuel Cache

Major Victoria Haley (Haley2)
* Squire
* Stormwall
* Thorn
Journeyman Warcaster
* Firefly
Major Katherine Laddermore
5+3 Storm Lances

Commander Coleman Stryker (75 points)

Theme: Storm Division

Commander Coleman Stryker (Stryker1)
* Squire
* Stormwall
* Charger
Journeyman Warcaster
* Charger
Captain Arlan Strangewayes
Major Katherine Laddermore
Stormblade Captain
5+3 Storm Lances

Deployment

Lasse wins the die roll and puts his Stormwall on the right. My plan is then to clear the left flag and spend my forces capping that area, use the small Lance unit to harass the other flag, and use my Stormwall to physically block him out near the central stone.

Round 1

He runs up.

I Accelerate my Stormwall up and set up outside his Lance threat ranges (mine are 2" longer due to Telekinesis - something that is quite important in Lance on Lance action!

Round 2

I get jammed on the left flank. The Stormwall shoots away two Lances, silly of me to put 2 in range of his big guns. His other 3 right flank Lances move down to pin down the last Lance, nice play there!

Fireflies and Lances have no problems clearing the jam. I do what every Haley2 player must not do, I forget to feat.

1-0

Round 3

His Stormwall is trapped between his objective and the central stone, so he proceeds to just shoot and charge me a lot. My Stormwall is half dead. A pod contests. Lasse seems to be quite confused since I forgot to feat, so he also forgets to feat.

Now I feat, kill the objective and kill more models in that central cluster****.

3-0

Round 4

He can't do much under my feat, but caps the right objective, and feats.

3-1

I cap yet again.

4-1

Round 5

Finally he finishes off my Stormwall, which did an excellent job keeping his entire army busy for the entire game.

I kill the only contesting piece, and win!

5-1

Cygnar wins by scenario!

Post Mortem

Typical Cygnar Haley2 game here, trading pieces for scenario points all game long! I am 2-0 so far, this is going well! :D

Battle Report #66: Nemo3 vs Stryker1 (Norwegian Masters 2017 #5)

Of course it had to happen after I got list locked into Nemo3. I face Cygnar and Lasse is list locked into Stryker1. Nemo3 is all about lightning and in theme Stryker1 is immune. I have no feat, and no shooting. Essentially half my army does nothing, and I cannot win.

Artificer General Nemo (75 points)

Objective: Armory

Artificer General Nemo & Storm Chaser Finch (Nemo3)
* Reinholdt
* Dynamo
* Firefly
* Thorn
Journeyman Warcaster
* Firefly
Gun Mage Captain Adept
Major Katherine Laddermore
5+3 Storm Lances

Commander Coleman Stryker (75 points)

Theme: Storm Division

Commander Coleman Stryker (Stryker1)
* Squire
* Stormwall
* Charger
Journeyman Warcaster
* Charger
Captain Arlan StrangewayesMajor Katherine Laddermore
Stormblade Captain
5+3 Storm Lances

The "Game"

What happens is that we play three turns, I grab the two control points that I could possibly manage to grab before getting tabled, and I concede. We shake hands, I grab a beer and we relax and watch the other games!

An impotent force hits an immovable object

Post Mortem

Everyone cracked up completely when we told them what happened. :D

Bit unlucky with that one, and of course kicking myself for not dropping Nemo3 in the first game against the double Gargantuans. I ended up going 3-2, and in 17th place out of 64 players. My strength of schedule was of course poor since I lost the first game. I had a great day, and my goal for the tournament was getting more wins than losses, so all in all it went rather well. Also, I got to play good games with friendly people all day!

Me, Nima and Kuba then decided to register a team for the 3-round Team Tournament next day, and then I went home to sleep.

Spawn of Everblight #1: Lylyth1 vs Stryker1

My son got to visit our wargaming club for the first time! He was so excited yesterday that he was bouncing around in the living room. Today we packed his miniatures and the paint, and off we went.

Lylyth, Herald of Everblight (5 points)

Lylyth

* Carnivean

* 4x Shredder

Commander Coleman Stryker (0 points)

Commander Coleman Stryker

* Charger

* Firefly

* Ironclad

First things first. The correct front arcs were painted on all his models.

Turn 1

Lylyth moves up and grabs the zone. Offense is the best defense!

Charger gets Snipe and shreds a Shredder. Ironclad get Arcane Shield, moves up and contests the zone. Look at those little puny Shredders, what could they possibly do to an Ironclad?

Turn 2

Lylyth moves into the forest to get Stealth. She shoots the Ironclad and applies Parasite, and then shoots it again and applies Blood Lure. Carnivean assaults and blasts the Ironclad. The Shredder that is out of range runs in, and the rest of them charge for free with flank. The Ironclad has his cortex blown out his ear, and left hand crippled. Little blighted buggers, they hit hard!

Ironclad swings and kills off a Shredder with his good arm.

Turn 3

One Shredder frenzies but does not kill off his pack mate. Lylyth feats and tags the Charger with Parasite and Blood Lure, and after another assault spray and charge attack both the Ironclad and Charger die.

0-2

Stryker really has only one option. He spends his stack hacking the Carnivean to bits before it can eat him alive.

Turn 4

Lylyth aims and hits Stryker with the Parasite. The Shredders move in and munch on Stryker.

And so it ends. Poor Stryker!

Legion wins on assassination!

Post Mortem

Everyone agreed that we had had an excellent time playing WARMACHINE! My son was ready for another round.