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Hi,
Played a Proxy game tonight to test my first 15 pts core for Menoth. This was to test my newest army in my slowGrow-progress. proxies where made using my mercs. Hope you like the report...
I played menoth with pSeverius, which I think has a very cool model. My opponent had Nemo.
We fought between buildings in a little village called TinselTown. All the villagers where hiding in their homes and the sherrif had fled his station. He was a follower of morrow and scared of the consequence of staying. on his route he passed a laboratory of Nemo who had some guests. They went over to the town to take a look. [Tinseltown is what he calls his Wild west buildings for another game. they work well for warmachine too though ]
Severius walked into the Town with his small group of priests and a few guardian jacks. He only wanted to convert the villagers and used minumum protection to achieve this. He had fauith in his ability to convert people and in the hundred warriors and several jacks just outside the village.
Armies:
Severius
- blessing of Vengeance
- Vanquisher
- Hierophant
Min Choir
Vassal
Nemo
- Lancer
- Ironclad
Black 13
Gun mage captain adept
Gun mage Captain adept
[ First assesment: It would be difficult to properly engage with the cygnarians. lots of shooting and all shooting was magical. I would just have to go for the ssasination... ]
Severius walked into the Town. He walked behind his choir and the jacks where up front. This way the people would see the might of menoth and the faith they brought with them. the Vassal and hierophant where flanking Severius.
Nemo Approched the city. he had spread his forces to do some reconnaisance. He saw the white jacks dooming up in the distance and immediately knew the troubles they could cause. He commanded his jacks to take up position in front of him. The Gunmages each took a flank. The black 13 deployed left from the Center.
Severius saw the oncoming Jacks and gunmages. He started to give a boost to the blessing and the Vanquisher. They would need to get into a better position fast or they would be killed by the firepower of the unbelievers. The jacks Ran towards the right side of the building in front of them. The choir moved up and started to chant. The sound of spellwards buzzed in the air.The Vassal moved up and enlivened the Vanquisher. The Hierophant moved up and started to chant a supporting hymn. Severius moves up and casts Eye of menoth, with taking the help of the hierophant. He then casts Vision on the Vanquisher and Defender ward on the Blessing.
Nemo saw the jacks and heard the chants from the other side of the field. He needed to close fast and empowerd both his jacks. The B13 where not in a good position, as was the captain on the left. They redeployed by running forward. They still did not have a good shot, but they where in a position to threaten the menoths. Then the Jacks moved up, flanking each other. They moved towards their Menoth Counterparts. The Gunmage on the left ran forward and too position just past the sherrifs building on the right. Nemo then moved up and chants a protective spell for his warriors and then empowers the Ironclad.
Severius saw the threat the unit of gunmages made and decided to do something drastic. He empowerd the blessing. He also made sure to keep his spells where they where. The blessing ran forward. he took position to arc a Ashes to Ashes (on the edge of the range for this spell.) The Vanquisher moved up a little, making sure to stay on the edge of his guns range so he can hit the Ironclad, but it would not reach him. It then Fired its cannon hitting the ronclad and almost takes out it's left arm. The flames engulf it. The lancer is also set ablaze. The Vassal moves into contact with the vanquisher. He the uses his anciliary attack to make the jack shoot again. This time it almost takes out the Right arm of the Ironclad. Now the choir moves up. they keep on chanting their spellward. The hierophant again gives up some of his energy to help severius. Severius moves up to stand just behind the center building and arcs a ashes to ashes through his trusty node. It hits the small unit of Gun mages and takes out 2 of them. The effort costed to much energy though and the other 2 gun mages are spared. [The captain adept and Watts remained] Severius considerd using his powers to shut down magic, but it was a bit too early for that. He needed to preserve his strenght in case more troops where coming.
Nemo looked at the damage and thought to himself that he needed to fireproof his jacks. They do not get additional damage though, although the fires continue to burn. He then powered up the jack giving him almost half his energy to boost it's damage-capabilitys. He commanded the last of the B13 to take up cover. The fallen would be recovered later. The Gunmage shot the blessing and hid between some barrels. Unfortunately thanks to the ward on the blessing damage was nothing more then a scratch. The captain on the left moved towards a gallow next to the building on severius left. He shot the blessing boosting damage and almost took out it's Right arm despite the warding. on the other side the captain also aimed for the blessing, intend on doing the final damage needed to take out the right arm. He however failed to penetrate the wardings. Finally nemo moved up a bit and tried to shoot the blessing with his lightning Rod. He missed however because of the lightningrod on the roof of the center building. Then he expends his last energy casting locomotion on his Ironclad. The Ironclad barreled forward, faster then his bulk would suggest is possible. He hits the vanquisher with it's charge, but as if the Vanquisher saw it coming it dodged the assault. The Ironclad then rams his fist into the Ironclad but the plating holds. It then focuses it's last energie in boosting his damage from the final attack, He hits and almost takes out the left arm. But almost is not enough. the jack does have a small short out though. It's Cortex is not responding until it resets. The Lancer tries to protect Nemo from the counterstrike.
Severius decides to end this. he upkeeps his spells and keeps his energy for himself. the Choir chant the rites of battle. The vanquisher feels it's energie rise and strikes his foe. He deals it enough damage to cripple his Right arm. Then the Vassal uses it's energy to grant the vanquisher a extra strike and it takes out the Ironclads left arm and cortex with 1 fell strike. The Hierophant moves himself between the left gun mage and Severius and again chants to support Severius. The blessing moves to the left to get a clear line to Nemo. Severius then focuses his energy and tries to immolate Nemo through the blessing. Nemo is hit and his body burns. Most of te damage is taken by his forcefield. Nemo then uses another Imolation and really focusses on Nemo. Nemo's suit starts to burn and he start's rolling madly on the ground. The Gunmages see this and run for Nemo. They bring him and their fallen to safety back in Nemo's lab. Severius decides not to follow them, more concerned with the conversion of the citizens then chasing the morrowan scum....
Assesment in hindsight: Deploying in the middle and deciding which side to use after the opponent deploys was a good move. I could neutralize most of his ranged threat immediately. The second turn I could assasinate 2 of the B13 because they did not have stealth. The gun mage captain and the last member of the unit where not hit due to poor roling for A2A. this did take the bite out of the B13 though. Nemo missing it;s attack was the final nail, although I think it would be prolonging the inevitable. I also had my feat to use if the assasination failed so the retalliation would be minimal.
I like this army, although it has too many support for this pointslevel. Severius helps his units and jacks nicely with Eye of menoth and his Vision saved me from a deadly charge. I think playing hime will chalenge me as taking on hard armour will be a bit harder then I am used to.
Onto the next battle...
Edit: Repost for readability and a lot of small and some glaring errors. hope you like...
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