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Gun Mage






New Hampshire, USA

Well, I'm playing in my first Warmachine event: The Flex League.  I figured I'd write up either fluff or brief battle reports of each game here, to share the love (and the hurt).

Here is the first installment:

Flex League ? Game One: Bittersweet

 

Stryker stood in his steam powered armor holding his blade, Quicksilver, in one hand and his disruption pistol in the other.    He barely noticed the last member of his battle group, a charger 'jack, erupt in steam and boiling water as it was sliced nearly in two by a massive blow from the executioner axe of the Khadoran destroyer warjack.  

 

He barely noticed this because most of his attention was focused on the "Dark Prince" currently striding toward him.   This crimson armored figure walked with confidence and radiated a powerful aura that could only be described as Kingly.  Stryker knew the figure to be the powerful Khador warcaster 'Vlad', a man who's skills in combat were legendary.  

 

A flicker of a smile crossed Vlad's face as he closed with the Cygnaran warcaster.  "Look how his eyes flit about with uncertainty" thought the Dark Prince "he knows he is no match for me, look how he backs away and tries to circle?cat and mouse today Cygnaran?"

 

Commander Stryker withdrew a small amount, so that the two warcasters were just sword tip to sword tip, he then circled slightly to the left. <script>><!-- D(["mb","<span>  </span>Suddenly the commander looked away to the left at a near by Khadoran pikeman that was about 10 paces to the rear of Vlad.<span>  </span>He focused and uttered the words of power, the earth around the pike man erupted with the raw energy of an earthquake.\n<span>  </span>The shockwave spread out and hit Vlad in the back knocking him to the ground and dissipated only inches from Strykers\' face.<span>  </span>The Cygnaran did not miss a beat, even as the Dark Prince rolled over to recover he plunged Quicksilver through a gap in Vlad\'s armor.\n<span>  </span>He withdrew his sword and struck again, this time the sword buried to the hilt.<span>    </span>Vlad\'s body shuttered twice, then moved no more.</font></font>\n
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\n<div style\u003d\"margin:0in 0in 0pt\"><font size\u003d\"2\"><font face\u003d\"\"></font></font> \n",0] ); //--></script>   Suddenly the commander looked away to the left at a near by Khadoran pikeman that was about 10 paces to the rear of Vlad.  He focused and uttered the words of power, the earth around the pike man erupted with the raw energy of an earthquake.   The shockwave spread out and hit Vlad in the back knocking him to the ground and dissipated only inches from Strykers' face.  The Cygnaran did not miss a beat, even as the Dark Prince rolled over to recover he plunged Quicksilver through a gap in Vlad's armor.   He withdrew his sword and struck again, this time the sword buried to the hilt.    Vlad's body shuttered twice, then moved no more.

 
   
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Thanks for report. How are you liking WM Russ?
   
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Thanks for report. How are you liking WM Russ?


The biggest problem with Warmachine is that I'm loving it in spite of myself. I really wanted to not like this game. I don't know why, but I just did. It was a green eggs and ham thing.

Then a good friend (Raef aka Stonedogs) got me to try it. I'm now hopelessly addicted.

 
   
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Flex League <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Battle</st1:place></st1:City> 2 ? Many Mercs<?

Striker smashed his blade Quicksilver into the small jack again and again.  ?The problem with these gunner jacks is they have no weak points? he thought.  ?You literally have to tear them to bits.?

 

The battle was not going smoothly.  He?d lost his Lancer Warjack early on due to the massed Gunner jack fire (there were 3) and the Hunter had both arms blown off.  That left himself and his Ironclad in fighting shape.  While his wily merc foe, Gorten, still had his massive Driller jack and his 3 gunners. 

 

?Make that 2 gunners? murmured Stryker as he demolished the one he was fighting.  The hunter had managed to destroy the cortex of another before loosing its gun arm, so that threat was reduced, however Gorten had thrown up defensive spells that prevented any kind of assault on his position, nor could Stryker leverage his favorite spell, Earthquake.

 

?At lease we are close to the enemy objective, if the Ironclad can just make it past that driller?.GO!? Striker willed the large jack to move in on the Driller.  Instead of charging at full speed, it advanced slowly, trying to get as many hammer blows as it could.  With the extra energy the warcaster was funneling into the Jack, it should be quite a few.  ?I?ve only got one shot at this?.

 

The Ironclad swung it?s massive quake hammer at the Driller.  The first blow smashed into its right shoulder, demolishing the joint holding the driller arm and sending the whole limb flying.  The reaming blows rained down on the Driller?s head, destroying its cortex. 

 

Striker disabled another Gunner jack as the Ironclad finished its work on the Driller.  ?Now I have to distract the warcaster.?  Striker lept forward at Gorten at full speed.  He struck the ?casters power field with his sword again and again.  It wasn?t quit enough to break through, but if he could just parry long enough to find another opening, Stryker felt he had him.  In the distance he could see the Ironclad picking up the enemy safe box and heading back toward Cygnaran lines. 

 

Gorten and Stryker danced around each other, parrying blows, neither could find an opening.  ?I just have to delay him a little more, my field can?t hold up much longer.?  Finally Striker saw his chance and swung Quicksilver with both hands.  Gorten?s power field fell and Sryker came around and hit the merc in the temple with the pommel of his weapon.  Gorten slumped.

 

?We will meet again Mercenary, you fought well this day, but you should consider more carefully who you take money from.?  The commander quickly strode away, gaining on his Ironclad who still carried the package. 

 

 

 

 


 
   
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Flex League <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Battle</st1:place></st1:City> 3: Frozen <?

 

Cold.  That was all there was in the world.  Cold darkness.  Too cold to move, too cold to think.  The sun has been blotted from the very sky.  No reason to live, no reason to?

 

?Commander.?

 

So cold, can?t move.

 

?Commander Stryker!?

 

His eyes opened, slowly and with much effort.  Above him stood a woman dressed in steam armor holding an elegant spear.

 

?Haley?  What are you... Where??  Stryker tried to sit up, but his body ached and his armor was refusing to move.

 

?Sir, your boiler is out, let me help you.?

 

?What happened?  I remember we were securing the strongbox, and had sighted smoke from advancing warjacks.  They looked Khodoran.  Then, I don?t remember??

?I found you here, your ?jacks all inert, still covered in some remnants of ice.  You were almost totally encased.?  Haley managed to get Stryker?s armor working again.

 

Stryker stood, the heat from the furnace on his back re-energizing his body.  ?Now I remember, Sorcha.  That witch!  Did she get the strong box we got from the Mercs??

 

Haley closed the access panel on the back of the commander?s armor.  ?Looks like it, I?d say you?re lucky to be alive. The tails of her exploits are legendary.?

 

?Damn it!  Well, at least she has the honor not to slay a defenseless opponent.  I?ve no doubt we?ll meet again.  And next time, I swear by Leto?s sword, I?ll be ready for her.?

 

?Sir, the only way to be ready is to practice.?

 

?Is that a challenge to a little war game Haley??

 

She winked, ?If you want it to be.?


 
   
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Re: Many Mercs: Just a quick q for ya Russ, when your Hunter lost its limbs did you switch tactics and use the Hunter as a slamming jack? I just recently used slaming to great effect. Next up for me is throwing some thing!

Re: Cold: I love my Sorscha. That is all.
   
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Heh,

 

I've seen the same with alot of my friends : "It aint GW so it stinks".

And then they try it ....

   
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Re: Many Mercs: Just a quick q for ya Russ, when your Hunter lost its limbs did you switch tactics and use the Hunter as a slamming jack? I just recently used slaming to great effect. Next up for me is throwing some thing!

Yes! Well, I tried it, I ran the jack in close and set up for the slam, but my opponent easily anticipated my intentions and moved one of his cortex-less gunners right in front of the Hunter and within 3", preventing the slam. These two beat up jacks danced around like this most of the battle, and I couldn't really put a lot of focus into the hunter to outmanuver the gunner because I was 'focused' on making sure the ironclad destroyed the driller and Stryker had all the help he needed fighting Gorten.

A great move on my opponent's part.

 
   
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Ah, gunners...thats where you TRAMPLE those sobs. (gunners are the infantty guys right?)

   
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Ah, gunners...thats where you TRAMPLE those sobs. (gunners are the infantty guys right?)


Sadly no, Gunner Jacks are small gun jacks that the mercs can field. Here's a link to a picture:

http://privateerpress.com/WARMACHINE/gallery/miniature_pages/previews/gunner_preview.htm

 
   
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Awe. That looks so cute....too bad you'll have to wreck it!

When your opponent moved the Gunner, did he move it to within 3" of your Hunter, thus preventing the slam? Im sure you could still use the "headbutt" special attack and do some nice damage that way. Is this what you did?
   
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Wow, these are great!  And I am the one (for the readers here) who so valiantly strode forward (Vlad) for the kill when you so deftly quaked him then stabbed him to death.  I really liked the Haley dialogue to describe that battle too.  These are cool.  Keep them up they are fun to read.
   
 
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