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I've finally been getting my "dream combo" to work recently and I wanted to share, so I figured why not make a thread dedicated to great moments in Warmachine.

So my dream combo is my Bezerker marshaled by a MoW Kovnik. Oh I know it sucks for the most part, or that I could spend the points much better, but I had this hope and dream for it to be cool, and after going through the PAIN of assembling the Bezerker, I'm making myself use the damn thing and will not stop doing so for a while.

And this weekend I've finally seen the payoff with my combo, getting the full hope & dream to go off:

Activate the Kovnik, perform Drive, Charge/Shoot/Run at something.
Activate Vlad, cast Signs & Portents, move/charge, and pop his Feat (sometimes followed by Boundless Charge on the Bezkerer)
Activate Bezerker and charge a Warjack from 11-13 away.

Bezerker charges for free so uses the one Boost he gets from the Jack Marshall to actually hit his target. Usually goes off between the boost + Signs & Portents. Do Charge Boosted Damage.
Bezerker gets up to a paltry MAT-5 and swings again, actually hits thanks to S&P, and does damage again.
Bezerker gets the Chain attack headbutt, now at MAT-6 base, so with the -2 he's at MAT4 again. Signs & Portents make this hit, do damage & knock down the target.
Bezerker gets the extra Attack after this is done from the Kovnik's Drive, which now auto hits and does normal damage.

Said combo completely destroyed a fresh Thunderhead the other day, as in filled all damage boxes. Having a decayed Cortex, and being "Disrupted" after the first hit didn't mean a whole lot thanks to being Marshalled by the Kovnik.

He did kill some other good stuff throughout the weekend, but that was pretty much my highlight of the game. I actually got the whole combo to go off twice this weekend, but the other time it went off it didn't quite kill a Jack, just kept it a few boxes from being Disabled. Still, I've been a little proud of the guy. I think he just got himself moved up on my "To Paint List" as a result.

Awesome.

I think Kovnik + 'zerker is a great combo. 'Cause really, why not?

I'm sure I've told this story before, but here it is anyways.

It was my Butcher vs. Caine. All that was left on the table is Butcher, two Khador jacks without ranged attacks, and Caine. Caine Flashed to the top floor of a building. Since I had nothing that could reliably damage him up while he was up there, and I couldn't charge him, I decided on a different approach. The Butcher charged the building and destroyed it in one swing. Caine then falled (causing fall damage and knocking him down) right into the Butcher's melee range.

Recently, I've had a Boundless Charged Spriggan skewer a fully healthy Winter's Chilled Epic Feora in one hit. That was fun.

Here's a fun one from waaaay back. I'm running E-Feora and he's running P-Vlad.

Feora advances up the centre of the table behind a full unit of Temple Flameguard. She's anchored on one end by a Vanquisher and a Seneschal on the other side. There's misceaneous stuff on either flank as it was a pendulum mission.

Vlad runs right up the center and has two jacks, a Jugger and a Spriggan flanking him, windwall is up, and a pack of doom reavers up front.

I laugh at the doomies and charge them with my flameguard. My flameguard totally whiff... I figured 12 attacks (CMA, elite cadre and all) ought to be plenty. There's like... 2 guys left. I pulled back the Vanquisher and Feora promptly ran behind her vanquisher to hide from shooting. My flanks looked good, but my center was in immediate danger of folding.

Khador's turn. Those 2 doom reavers obliterated my flameguard. 12 men one turn, 0 the next.

My turn. He's got BOK on Vlad, and I'm standing naked in the middle with my senny and a bonded Vanquisher for protection. Vlad was standing out in the open IN FRONT of his jacks... though he had an unassailable defense against any attacks I could muster from the the center... I tried to find a way to knock Vlad down. The seneschall's MAT8 would need 12's to hit Vlad's ridonkulus defense... but if I could use something as a misisle... I suddenly wished I had not withdrawn my Vanquisher as a new idea popped in my head. But there on a flank was my salvation! I quickly alocated a point of focus to a revenger I had on one flank.

It RAN out of combat with the widowmakers it was tying and stopped 1" away from Vlad with his BACK to my Senny. The senny stepped up and chain attack SMOTE my poor revenger into Vlad (anything but snake eyes!). Vlad's eyes widen with an OH S*** and was promptly knocked on his back. Eyriss hits him with a disruptor bolt. To add insult to injury, the bonded Vanquisher fires on him and puts him on fire. Vilmon, who was on the other flank, goes invlunerable and leaves HIS combat with a damaged Drakhun and RUNS past his Juggernaut and into combat with Vlad.

Next Khador turn was inconsequential. He was boned no matter what he did. Vlad gave up his action to stand, but couldn't do anything to Vilmon. With no focus, he wasn't sure he could survive a free strike at effective MAT11, POW16 +4D6. With no focus, his jacks couldn't shift the High Paladin, and he had no other magic attacks to kill him either. He ended up trying to run - which was the only sensible choice. Between the hit and the fire, that was the end of Vlad.

You don't see many comebacks like that from the "other manufacturer".

keezus wrote:
Next Khador turn was inconsequential. He was boned no matter what he did. Vlad gave up his action to stand, but couldn't do anything to Vilmon. With no focus, he wasn't sure he could survive a free strike at effective MAT11, POW16 +4D6.

Vlad can survive infinite free strikes, considering he can't be targetted by them.

oomiestompa wrote:

keezus wrote:
Next Khador turn was inconsequential. He was boned no matter what he did. Vlad gave up his action to stand, but couldn't do anything to Vilmon. With no focus, he wasn't sure he could survive a free strike at effective MAT11, POW16 +4D6.

Vlad can survive infinite free strikes, considering he can't be targetted by them.

Ahh Vlad, is there anything he CAN'T do?

No seriously, our gaming group has been playing a TON more WM, and we're talking about making little Road Runner style signs, mostly because of my use of Vlad, it should be a lot easier to have that instead of having to say "Signs & Portents" "Blood Of Kings" or "Wind Wall" all the time.

Voodoo: where are y'all playing?

Well these little feats were pulled off in my basement, mainly because I'm tethered to my house for the next few weeks.

The shop I play at most is Ye Olde Hobby Games in Pennsauken. I used to play at Showcase Comics in Media PA on Weds, and while Mikhalia is a great guy and runs an awesome shop, it's about 40 minutes away with tolls - and YOHG opened up about 3 miles from my house not too long after I started WM.

I plan to head back out to Showcase once and a while to play the guys there as they have a nice group of PP fans there, but our local South NJ area group has been growing exponentially. We've got just about every adult regular from the GW store playing or talking to us about starting.

oomiestompa wrote:

keezus wrote:
Next Khador turn was inconsequential. He was boned no matter what he did. Vlad gave up his action to stand, but couldn't do anything to Vilmon. With no focus, he wasn't sure he could survive a free strike at effective MAT11, POW16 +4D6.

Vlad can survive infinite free strikes, considering he can't be targetted by them.

Oh come now, what's a more awesome win than one achieved by CHEATING???!???

Yeah, Showcase is pretty awesome, but it's a shlep and a half for me (1 hour+ with tolls).

I've mostly been going to Abington Games in Abington Pa, but they're still 30+ minutes.

Sounds like you hit the goldmine.

Another fun one from my first Summer Rampage game last night:

Realizing I don't have the number of units to space out for the mission (where the table has four 12" sections running east to west along the board), I had to pull something off on turn 2 or my opponent would start getting control points and win via mission.

Obligingly he had one of his warbeasts within Feat+Boundless charge range, so turn 2 Vlad's feat gets popped a Bezerker gets sent against a Carnivean (and goes one point away from killing it and getting the finishing move), but then my special moment happened.

Kodiak runs 16" to engage some Everblight archers. Can't attack or vent steam this turn, but he engages them and keeps them from getting more control points. Afterwards he manages to vent his steam and start to wipe almost all of them out.

Sorry, it's just the idea that my SPD-4 Warjack ran 16" across the board is plain entertaining. The irony that it was against Everblight helps out some too.

Since I don't have an awesome moment, that probably
means I suck at this game.

For me awesome means that I win not because the
opponent screwed up, but because I pulled off something
totally unexpected.

I've had two recently.

First: A circle caster [forget her name, not Kaya, she's got a reach sword and her feat makes forests] cast some really nasty AoE spell at a unit of my knights exemplar that were all clumped together. This was one of my last units left. She needed a 4 to hit, and boosted the attack roll anyway [I'm sure you see where this is going].

Rolled triple 1's, and the game continued on. Eventually lost, but it went back and forth a lot because of rolls like that [like my charging choir almost bringing down a warpwolf, that was fun too].

The other was just yesterday, when Saeryn used her feat to make several models untargettable by melee attacks, cast some spell that made a 5" AoE centered on a warbeast [harrier] and then ran the harrier right into a bunch of my exemplar errant. I used the Harbinger's purification to remove the spell effect, then used one of the errant to walk over and smack a nearby wrack, blowing it up. Doing dice+2 damage to the Harrier, I rolled double 6's, killing it outright from full damage despite being untargettable. Priceless!

malfred wrote:Since I don't have an awesome moment, that probably
means I suck at this game.

For me awesome means that I win not because the
opponent screwed up, but because I pulled off something
totally unexpected.

Nah, I think because my moments are much more mundane affairs it means that I suck a whole hell of a lot worse.

Hell I'm excited about a 16" run saving me from losing. How bad must I suck where that's exciting?

I won a game because Thanatos forgot that Kaya could
Spirit Gate a Warpwolf next to her.

I won a game because my opponent didn't realize that
the Testament's feat would allow me to charge Vilmon at his
warcaster.

I won a game because my opponent left just enough space
for a Dark Guidanced Stalker to leap next to the
Harbinger.

I won a game because my opponent got greedy and
tried to get bounties, etc. which left him open to spell
assassination via Immolate.

My wins are VERY mundane and none of my doing.

I'm starting to realize that my wins only come off when
my opponent gambits and fails, which leaves him wide
open.

Most of my wins with the current army list are centered around Vlad and Blood Of Kings.

Generally what I end up doing is sending my army after the rest of my opponents, and clearing everything out. I setup his Feat round to eliminate enemy Jacks/Beasts, and the IFP/Widowmakers/Mortar take out the infantry.

Usually this means just about everything dies and it leaves Vlad alone with their caster with maybe 1 or 2 elements of my army left, and pretty much no one has been able to stand up to Vlad once it gets down to mano-a-mano. And if I happen to have set everything up right where I still have a Jack left or some other support from the army, it's pretty much game.

On the other hand, I don't know what to do when I switch to my non beatstick casters.