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Sanctjud’s New England (USA) Breast Cancer Brawl 2010 Report.

I dropped by the Hobby Bunker in Malden, MA and had a great time at the Breast Cancer Brawl. To spice things up, we can put in $ for tickets to use ‘cheats.’
So I got around 100 tickets for the whole day and ended the day with 0 tickets left.

From memory, I used tickets for the following:
-ADing two arc nodes.
-Tough on female models.
-Re-rolls galore.

Here is the trophy for first place:



We ran with only 1 list with the Steamroller rules. I went with Cryx and pGaspy. I have never played the list, I’ve never played pGaspy, I’ve never played with the Canker, and everything else has been dabbled with somewhat.
But wait, there is more sadness, these three fights will be my sixth, seventh, and eighth game of Warmahordes.

So, yea, sounds like much doom and gloom, but this is a friendly event and what better than to have some hard lessons to get things into mind?

Anyway, the following is my army:



pGaspy
-Cankerworm
-Deathripper
-Deathripper
5 Soulhunters
10 Satyxis Raiders
-Sea Witch
Wrathe
Satyxis Raider Captain
Warwitch Siren
Machine Wraith

My theme for the list was, “The Need For Speed.”
With army set and a pocket full of tickets, it’s go time.

Round 1, aka “TOUGH!!! It does not work!!!”
Scenario: Close Quarters.
Opponent: Trollbloods.

Grissel
-Pyretroll
-Bouncer
-Earthborn
10 Kriel Warriors
-Unit Attachment
Cav Solo
3 Buffalo

So this is my first time fighting against Hordes and Trollbloods.
I knew much about Trolls, though, much Theorymachine and reading up on all the factions from the PP boards and Battlecollege just so that I am not completely clueless.

So before the game starts I put down tickets for Women are Tough and get it.

My opponent wins the roll off and goes first.

Here is a pic of the early game:


Basically, I went ahead and took the advice on the forums I posted my list on and use the Raiders as the first wave and use the Soulhunters as the second.
Grissel pops her feat turn 2 and the Kriels slam into the Raiders that ran into position over the objectives.

Here is a pic of the late game:


There were a lot of attacks put down and much missing, but tough was not very hot for me.
Nor my opponent when the Raiders hit back and the Soulhuters smashed their way through.

The Cav and the beasts were pincering my main line, I ran incorp. Soulhunters to engage Grissel, but then time is called.

Neither player won on Scenario or Assassination.
Neither player had any Scenario Points.
It came down to who had more points in the control area tiebreaker, and I had the Raiders and Soulhunters in my zone while my opponent had nothing in there.

I get the win on the second tiebreaker, tough took a lot of time out of the game (using ‘cheats’ as well) even with die in hand.

Problems I had:
-Deployment sadness, had had issues with order of activation with respect to stuff in each others’ way. It ended up the Soulhunters getting scything touch on them instead of the intended Raiders.
-pGaspy, I played him real back and real safe, which is prob. something I needed to avoid. I was worried about he flanking Cav and beasts. He ended up using his focus to put on jacks…and I don’t remember… I don’t think he did any useful offensive spells and didn’t even use his feat. I just don’t believe it. I prob. should have parasite the kriel warriors and try to POW5 with the feat to try and get lucky that way.
-I completely forgot about Soul collecting from the Soulhunters.

What I’m Proud of:
-Lots of attacks from both Raiders and Soulhunters. I had more carnage from them compared to my using them in the past.



Automatically Appended Next Post:
Round 2, aka “All That You Have Done, Was Useless!”
Scenario: Outflank, Outfight, Outflank.
Opponent: Khador.

pIrusk
-Devestator
-Wardog
3 MoW Shock
3 MoW Demo
MoW Dragoon
MoW Jack Marshal
-Berserker
-Berserker

Wow, very killy and tough list. My opponent was pretty scared at mine, but I’m not too comfortable wielding it yet.

So before the game starts I put down tickets for Women are Tough, but my opponent matches my contribution to prevent me from getting it.

When I deployed, I spent some tickets to Advance Deploy Move my two Deathrippers in the intent to get some debuffs going on, but I had a mind fart and just didn’t use it the whole game…yea, really bad.

My opponent wins the roll off and goes first.

Here is a picture for Deployment:


My opponent moves stuff up, with the Devastator leading the way.

Here is a picture of my epic charge with Scything Touched Raiders with power swell on:

I got 6 into combat range though.

Here is a picture of the Devastator running side ways and taking 10 freestrikes from Raiders:


ZERO DAMAGE…
Damn man, that event is a great advertisement for the Devestator.
After all that feedbackless action, the Captain Charges the Devestator and causes 8 points of damage…sheesh, she shows how it’s done. And then she dies to a rain of death.

So…pIrusk pops his feat on turn 2 and both MoW units march up to the Raiders and proceed to clear out all but 3.
All the while the MoW Jack Marshal marches over to my right objective…only to have the Berserkers run away from the Machine Wraith. He was quite alone, but the only magical weapon was on pIrusk…….and he starts to make his way to the Machine Wraith…

Ok, so here is the best part and the worst.


The right arc node gets a focus and runs to the ruines on top of the hill, making sure to get LoS on pIrusk but not in combat with the MoW.
pGaspy upkept scything touch on the Soulhunters (who were not using it, GRRR).
With his last 5 focus, he put a fully boosted Hellfire Attack onto pIrusk, rolled high, and was made to reroll it with tickets. My opponent takes the second roll that causes 7 damage onto him.

What was the worst part? I forgot I had a feat.
Hindsight is 20/20, but I only had once chance, and this was it.
I had no other point where I could do better.
At least here, I’d still have one boost to hit and one regular Hellfire, and I had my own re-roll tickets available.

I blame my noobness.
Though, it was an avenue that would have been denied to me. At the end of the game my opponent informs me he forgot about counter charge from the MoW Cav Solo, which would have engaged the Arc Node/Destroyed it anyway.

Here is a pack of the late game:


So, almost all of my stuff is dead, and the MoW Jack Marshall all the while just sits on the far right objective to just rack up the 3 points he needs to win by scenario with almost no contest.
Basically I was pressing for assassination and didn’t follow through and forgot about the objective on that side.

Problems I had:
-Parasite much?
-Feat at the right time much?

What I’m Proud of:
-Too little, too late, but the Soulhunters are really cool at getting places…problem is, I never committed them to attacking and was too run frenzy with them this game…something I should have learned not to do so much.

So I have lost by scenario.
Just by the MoW Jack Marshall sitting on the objective cleaning is Gun-Axe.



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Round 3, aka “DENIED! THRICE”
Scenario: Killbox.
Opponent: Legion.

Ryhas (Tier 2)
-Teraph
-Raek
-Shredder
-Harrier
10 Swordsmen
-UA
10 Swordsmen
-UA
6 Swordsment
IIRC.

Wow...that looks really nasty. More infantry and weaponmaster than I have with respect to being a Cryx player, heh.

So before the game starts I put down tickets for Women are Tough and get it.

This time I won the roll off and decided to go first for once.



I run up. Legion runs up to engage me.
I whip some swordsmen and do as poorly as I did with the Soulhunters by running them at Rhyas.



Rhyas pops feat turn 2…OMFG…that is a bucket full of attacks that sees stuff just erased. It also isn’t great that I forgot that my girls had tough after 7 ladies were down…then proceed to fail almost all the tough test that were required.

Here is a picture of the sadness in this game.


Rhyas is sitting on 3 Fury.
Wrathe moves closer to Rhyas and hellfire her. He rolls high and it is transferred.
“If I can’t assassinate you this round, you win.”
Arc node uses a fury to run with in 3-4” of Rhyas.
Gaspy throws down on Breath. Only 3 damage, she takes it.
Breath 2, transfer.
Feat
Breath 3, transfer.
Breath 4, boost damage, with re-roll….I reduce Rhyas down to ONE BOX…

I chose to bypass the POW5’s on the Swordsmen to save time, but I really should have gone through with trying to kill them off…20/20 now, but even one going down would have saved pGaspy…not much he can do next but at least he wouldn’t be cleaved in half, heh.

Charged the Machine Wraith. Miss.
Canker moves and attacks, miss bite, miss tail, reroll, reroll, reroll, all miss.
I forget she has corrosion on her…2/3 of a chance to win the game…FRAK!

Here is the endgame:

4 Charging Swordsmen, 3 misses, but one connects and rolls crazy high and pwns pGaspy…/sigh.

Here is a picture of the caster cards:

Damn it…

Problems I had:
-I should have committed the Soulhunters to killing more swordsmen instead of running at Rhyas.
-Not maximizing use of the secondary part of the feat.
-Forgetting Corrosion.
-Soulhunters not doing what they should be doing.

Unit Rundown:
Overall, I like the list.
I have a soft spot for the cankerworm. I most likely used him poorly, but I think the Withershadow Combine would have done more for me.


Army Rundown:
pGaspy: I like him. He has great potential with me, when I don’t goof up… but that can be said of any caster.
I engaged in combat once to take out some swordsmen in my last game. I for got about the soul cages.
He had the chance to assassinate the casters of my first game and last game, both failed due to my stupidity and both ended up losing the game.
Spell rundown:
-Parasite- I seriously need to use this more often vs. the tough stuff… seems so no-brainer.
-Scything Touch- I got this running most games, but honestly, the type of stuff I was hitting was either too highly armored or too lightly armored.
-Teleport-I used this a few times to move back after going up to arc some stuff…but I think I played pGaspy too defensively I feel.
-Hellfire-Put damage on pIrusk, but not much else, real focus hog.
-Breath-Nearly assassinated Ryhas with 4 fasts with feat…otherwise, I don’t think I used it elsewhere effectively. I casted it 3 other times hoping for some nice scatters, but it was not to be.
Feat:
Need to go through the POW5 effect… don’t be lazy!
Try and remember it’s there when you are given an assassination vector.
I don’t remember feating in my first game…I won, but I guess I should have used it to kill supporting stuff like Horthol or parasite some stuff, or even mix it up in combat as the rest of my forces back him up.
Why did I use pGaspy? Because I felt I played eGaspy too slowly, esp. with the feat and more activations.
The result? pGaspy plays pretty fast and I just need to remember to feat for more juice when the time is right.
Cankerworm: I did not use it well this game. So poorly did I use it, I was thinking the Withershadow Combine would have done better for me.
I didn’t really make maximum use of Hit and Run.
I didn’t really do that much damage to heavies (as I didn’t really put that much focus on the canker)
What I was able to do was to get into positions to threaten the opponent. Parry and Pathfinder, coupled with a decent move and out of activation movement was worrisome for the opponent.
Deathripper: Great. They arc stuff well enough. I got 2 assassination vectors…they didn’t follow though well, but I think 2 is a decent number for Gaspy, I just need to be more careful than I already was holding them back. Fragile, yes, but can be frustrating for lower Mat stuff.
Side note: I don’t think I made any power attacks, which I think is kinda weird… even with my apparent lack of love for jacks.
Soulhunters: I need to stop going after casters with constantly running Soulhunters…seriously.
Incorp. 16” running cav is clouding my judgment.
I ran out of range of Wrathe in two games and ended up not doing a whole lot for me other than distraction purposes. It was only game one where they did really well in cleaning up trollkin… and even then I forgot about the soul token collection.
I REALLY like the cav, but consistently use them wrong. It only compounds my problems when they are 9 points for a max unit.
I didn’t even use the cave move too good usage…only because they were in dangerous territory with some freestrikes to be had if they moved too much.
Satyxis Raiders: I liked them a lot. They are a very flexible unit. Though they completely failed me the one game they were sent after a jack…they were able to do anti-infantry pretty well in their games vs. Hordes.
It took Rhyas’ feat and 2 squads of Swords men to carve up most, but not all, of the Raiders. Long engagement ranges, CMA combos with horns and lacerators, with reach and no reach, there was a lot of Anti-Infantry, even with just a handful.
They are great as a first wave and relatively good at tying things up, but glass cannons they are. I think I poped the seawitchs’ minifeat once or twice; they were mostly wasted. Force Barrier and Pathfinder were great all round. pIrusk didn’t bother with inhospitable ground and the Devestator had to make a detour seeing as rain of death is blast damage.
Wrathe: Overall, he’s a great solo as known. He didn’t mix it up in combat but he kept near Gaspy, did Death Ride most of the time. He did use Hellfire to put some damage onto a caster, otherwise, I prob. didn’t use him to his highest potential, he felt like 3 points instead of 4 points.
Raider Captain: I constantly forgot to keep her near the Raiders to maximize tough…when I remembered they had tough. She was out trying to kill solo’s or stalk the flanks… and I even forgot about sprint.
She is accurate and hard hitting, just fragile as the card looks.
Warwitch Siren: She is her usual cheery self. Power booster was very important to me, esp. if I make mistakes of not allocating enough focus to jacks (aka, completely nothing). She got to shadowbind a devastator and then venom some swordsmen…so I got a lot of mileage from here, a great addition.
Machine of stuff, scaring jack Marshals…when do you see 2 Berserkers run away in Wraith: He basically was around to be annoying. I played against 2 Hordes opponent, so that’s basically what he could do. Of the one game with a perfect target to Machine Meld, I had deployed rather poorly and had nothing to contest an objective but the Machine Wraith. Other than that it was killed the both times it was by the opponents’ caster.
He’s cool for one point. Getting in the face fear?

In general, the army achieved what it was supposed to do, be fast.
The problem, as was described in army creation by many posters, was that there was no way to deal with heavies reliably.
In addition, I goofed up all over the place…like really hard. But it was a friendly event and there were goofups scattered around.
In addition, time was pressing, but I didn’t run out of it in all my games…IMO a great improvement from my last tourney.
I kept the cards near units and tried to memorize as much as I could with the stats.

As for the list… I do like it.

My only substitution may be taking out the Canker for the Withershadow Combine. They add some more focus efficiency because I was constantly out of focus on Gaspy, and they collectively hit harder than the Canker from the looks of it vs. Jacks. They then add some range, a nice reroll, and anti-upkeeps (like taking off Superiority…).
I’m not sure how much the captain is doing for me… prob. only good for me when vs. Bloody Barnabus and pKreoss.
I can try to drop her and even the Machine Wraith to free up 3 points for say a Bokur and play pGaspy more forward as I think he should.
Anyway, I had a lot of fun and learned a lot again.

Thx for reading up until this point, esp. through the spam near the end.

Looks like you had fun, and thats the important part. Not to bad for game 6,7 and 8.

It does sound like a fun list. I will have to try running something like this when I get my raiders. (will probably use skarre as a caster instead of gaspy though..)

Keep working on the stuff you mentioned going badly, but do not feel bad this happens,. I played a lot more games now and (not 100's, but 40 or 50 or so) and I still get overly excited when I see a good assasination chance, which makes me forget something or screw up activation...

I'm sad I missed the BCB in Boston. They're great guys, and where we started the whole thing.

Rock on!

Experience doesn't stop stupid mistakes, but it does make it less frequent.

I had a PG who had been playing for years walk eStryker up in front of my list at full camp...The MHSF killed him. He wanted to see what would've happened if the MHSF hadn't killed him and the Stormfalls killed him two more times.

All in all a good first showing, congrats.

Another thing to keep in mind, painted figures fight better! Don't go to tourneys with such an obvious disadvantage.

@Whitekong:
Fun it was, my army did what I wanted it to do.
As for painting, I have a color choice, but I’m still in greenstuff mode.
I think my basing material was still kind soggy at that time

@LordRavurion:
pSkarre looks better and better for my forces… better accuracy spell and more strength feat….very good combo for combat units with multiple attacks.

@Devilsquid:
Yea, we got the cameras out and we had some time to share with the representatives from Pink & Black.
Maybe we’ll even get into No Quarter .

If it does, I won’t say who I am…

@Mastershake:
Funny you should mention him. The two Cygnar players of the day had a mini game afterwards. eStryker, Man of the Midfield, gets a turn 2 melee assassination by the book on Kraye… 3 Focus forward at an angle, then charge sideways, clipping Kraye with reach….. overcharge on 3 dice to add 10 power to his attack at the cost of 13 life.

One hit and …Kraye is down in like…5 minutes.
___________

Anyway, I’m looking forward to getting another game.
Gonna take out the Canker and Machine Wraith and throw in some Bane Knights.

Your army is awsome, I love the dragon's conversion.
I will strive harder to look prettyer, and focus less on my tactics becuse of your army.

Winning isnt everything, looking good when you win is.

Yea, i do love my Wrathe model.
I can't claim that it's my original idea (completely stolen from the internet, likely the PP forum), but the greenstuffing is my own.

I put a little bit of Nurgle into my models .

As mentioned, I do have plans to finishing my Captain Morgan posed Slayer... just need to figure out the hat