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List A:

eCaine +5
Rowdy 9
Squire 2

Alexia Ciannor and Risen 5
10 Trenchers with UA 13
10 Devil Dogs 7
with Murdoch 2
Rangers 5
Black 13th 4

Gorman diWulfe 2
Reinholdt 1
Piper of Ord 2
eEiryss 3

List B:

eStryker +6 (Tier 2)
Rowdy 9
Stormclad 9
Stormclad 9
Hunter 6
Squire 2

6 Stormblades 5 with UA and 3x WA 11
6 Stormblades 5 with UA and 3x WA 8

Stormblade Captain 2


These lists are for Steamroller 50 point tournaments. The list chosen is pretty straightforward based on opponent. Comments and thoughts are welcome.

I'm interested as to your choice of Trenchers in list 1, what will be their role? Smoking and advancing in front of the devil dogs or something? I can only make them work with a Deadeye caster, but then that may just be me...

Couple thoughts...

1) Isn't there a restriction in Steamroller that says you cannot have characters in both lists (so no Ol' Rowdy in both)?

2) You have a lot of 'Jacks on Stryker- even with the focus efficiency of Stormclads and Rowdy, you are likely going to have problems fuelling them, even before you get to the hunter. Definitely drop the Hunter, maybe consider adding Katherine Laddermore to get the T4 deployment zone boost (very useful in Steamroller).

 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:
Couple thoughts...

1) Isn't there a restriction in Steamroller that says you cannot have characters in both lists (so no Ol' Rowdy in both)?

I thought there were several ways it can play depending on the tournament, and that character unrestricted was one of them. But I could be just making stuff up. Who knows?

edit: yeah page 6 says that there is a "Characters Unrestricted – Models/units with FA C can be included in more than one list." game type. So maybe that's what the OP is playing

 motyak wrote:
I'm interested as to your choice of Trenchers in list 1, what will be their role? Smoking and advancing in front of the devil dogs or something? I can only make them work with a Deadeye caster, but then that may just be me...

Everything in the list was carefully chosen to either protect Caine on the way into the assassination, or to help him during the actual feat turn. The trenchers screen the entire army on the way in, spreading out and popping smoke. Alternatively, they can CRA at RAT 18, POW 22 to either remove one model in Caine's way, or to mop up the enemy Caster/Lock should Caine nerf it.

Steamroller 2013 rules state that two different versions of a character may not be used with a different one in each list; for example, you could not have pEiryss in one list and eEiryss in the other. However, the exact same character may be used in both. The exact text reads:

"Characters Unrestricted – Models/units with FA C can be included in more than one list."

This is indeed a lot of 'jacks for one caster. However they are more present for the benefits of Positive Charge. Also, the list is not subtle, so strategy will matter a lot. I do have the option of running two waves of heavy hitters, letting the Stormclads lead in the first wave and then letting Stryker and Rowdy push in after to mop up. But mainly I like having 3 bubbles to put in Stormblades so they have MAT 9, POW 17.

Basically I'm curious what y'all would do to give these lists trouble. I, curious what I'm going to see there.