Sunday, February 2, 2014

Tracking my progress: pHexeris vs. pButcher

Played a game with Adam this past Saturday. I decided to use my new pHexeris list. I wanted to try out the archidon as an arch node and get some more mileage out of the Cataract Cetratii unit I just purchased. Plus I wanted to field the rhinodon.
System: Hordes
Faction: Hexeris - Kingdom of Shadow
Casters: 1/1
Points: 50/50
Tiers: 1
Lord Tyrant Hexeris (*6pts)
* Archidon (7pts)
* Rhinodon (7pts)
* Titan Gladiator (8pts)
* Titan Sentry (9pts)
Cataphract Cetrati (Leader and 5 Grunts) (11pts)
Paingiver Beast Handlers (Leader and 3 Grunts) (2pts)
Praetorian Swordsmen (Leader and 9 Grunts) (6pts)
* Praetorian Swordsmen Officer & Standard (2pts)
Agonizer (2pts)
Extoler Soulward (2pts)

Adam's list:


System: Warmachine

Faction: Khador
Casters: 1/1
Points: 50/50
The Butcher of Khardov (*6pts)
* Destroyer (9pts)
* Juggernaut (7pts)
Kayazy Assassins (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
* Kayazy Assassin Underboss (2pts)
Lady Aiyana & Master Holt (4pts)
Man-o-war Shocktroopers (Leader and 4 Grunts) (9pts)
Widowmakers (Leader and 3 Grunts) (4pts)
Winter Guard Infantry (Leader and 9 Grunts) (6pts)
* Winter Guard Infantry Officer & Standard (2pts)
* 3 Winter Guard Infantry Rocketeers (3pts)
Kovnik Jozef Grigorovich (2pts)

We rolled scenario #1: Destruction, I won the rolloff and chose to go second. Tier 1 allows Hexeris to begin the game with upkeeps in play. I had Soul Slave on the Archidon, Death March on the swordsmen and Psychic Vampire on Hexeris. As per usual, Adam and I will ignore the scenario and just try to beat each other's face in. I moved the Cetrati up to deal with the Shocktroopers and the swordsmen to counter the advancing Kayazy. The Kayazy and swordsmen were a good match up with both units almost wiping each other out. The Cetrati and MOW exchanged blows but were mostly deadlocked. The rhinodon used its animus, walked up and threshed 7 (?) winterguard, only killing 2 and hitting 2 Certati, killing nothing. I moved the Archidon close to the widowmakers and arched Obliteration at them. I missed and only took out 1 widowmaker. The Sentry slammed the Juggernaut doing some damage and knocking it down. In retrospect, I should have just charged it. The soulward, gorged on souls from the dead swordsmen, proved her worth and finished off 2 of the MOW plus 1 Kayazy. I made my critical mistake by moving Hexeris up too far to engage the oncoming Kayazy. He charged the underboss, killed it and proceeded to move closer to engage another Kayazy which he failed to kill. That left him wide open to get charged by the Juggernaut and killed.