Taking a break from the Void Seer

Too bad the actual model doesn't look more like this. 

After the tournament, I decided to take a break from Mordikaar and explore other casters. I have been writing lists with more of a tourney mindset lately, I want to play more of them and get better.

Today I'll be playing at the Forest with Adam. Today is a fun day, playing a pMakeda list for the hell of it. I finally got the mammoth painted, now I have to get it on the table.

Points: 50/50
Archdomina Makeda (*5pts)
* Basilisk Krea (4pts)
* Cyclops Raider (5pts)
* Mammoth (20pts)
Cataphract Cetrati (Leader and 5 Grunts) (11pts)
* Tyrant Vorkesh (3pts)
Nihilators (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
Paingiver Beast Handlers (Leader and 3 Grunts) (2pts)
Mortitheurge Willbreaker (2pts)

Fully painted army!! WOOOT!!!

Tournament!!

I was supposed to spend the day with my daughter yesterday. She instead spent the day with her friend. So I was left wondering how to make the most out of my surprise day to myself. I called Adam for a game and he mentioned the tournament at Dark Forest (this was on Friday night). So I wrote up 2 50 point lists for Mordikaar and eHexeris.

The tournament started at 10 am, I got there, paid the $5 and registered. 

Game 1: Mordikaar vs. eHaley - Cygnar
I didn't do too bad, I didn't have any trouble with time, I had lots to spare. I attempted an assassination with a void spirit, but rolled low and failed to kill Haley. He won by scenario 5:3.

Game 2: Buy
Odd number of people, so I just hung out and watched other people play.

Game 3: eHexeris vs. Kaelyssa - Retrubution
I was totally unprepared for this list. Basically I dropped my pants and got kicked square in the balls. Worst game ever. His jacks put out a defensive field right in front of my nihilators, my entire army came to a skreeching halt. Plus I moved Hexeris up way too far. Game took about 20 minutes. Nice guy though, he apologized for his list before the game even started.

Glad I got to play in a tournement finally, even though I didn't even place. I learned alot, made me take a good long look at my army and my playstyle. Adam didn't do very well either.

Battle Report....sort of

"I got 2 turntables and a microphone..."

I played my latest list against Adam and his Khador.

50 points, Incursion
Zevanna Agha, the Old Witch of Khador (*3pts)
* Behemoth (13pts)
Battle Mechaniks (Leader and 3 Grunts) (2pts)
Kayazy Assassins (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
* Kayazy Assassin Underboss (2pts)
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)
Iron Fang Kovnik (2pts)
Kovnik Jozef Grigorovich (2pts)

I won the roll and went 2nd.
I decided to run everything forward on turn 1 and feat. It did mitigate my losses quite a bit.
Instances of note:
The Nihilators tied up the Winter Guard all game, contesting the objective on the left. Each turn, Mordikaar would cast Revive and bring back at least 2 Nihilators.
I played more aggressive with Despoiler. I enraged him with a beast handler and charged him into a MOW, killing it and thus spawning a void spirit. The void spirit then ran over to the widowmakers, hoping for a failed CMD check. No luck. Next turn Despoiler killed a battle mechanik, spawning yet another void spirit. This one charged into the Old Witch, tagging her for 7 damage. Despoiler cast his Arcane Suppression animus on himself as he was slowly creeping up to Old Witch.
Damaging Witch sent Scrap Jack into a flailing bundle of rage as he proceeded to charge Despoiler and knock out 2/3 of his health boxes. Behemoth moved in and finished the job.
During Witch's feat turn, those inside her control area stayed put and took no damage, only 3 Nihilators were out.
Archidon charged Behemoth hoping for a lucky critical pitch. No dice.

It became an attrition battle; Khador's high DEF and ARM vs. Mordikaar's ability to cast Revive and spawn void spirits. The score was tied 0/0, both sides contesting. It was a close game and it got cut short because we lost track of time and the store was closing.

Overall I'm happy with the way things went. I learned a lot.

50 Point Mordikaar

After a short break, I'm upping my list to 50 points.

Void Seer Mordikaar (*5pts)
* Archidon (7pts)
* Despoiler (10pts)
* Titan Gladiator (8pts)
Cataphract Incindiarii (Leader and 5 Grunts) (9pts)
Nihilators (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
Paingiver Beast Handlers (Leader and 3 Grunts) (2pts)
Praetorian Karax (Leader and 9 Grunts) (6pts)
Tyrant Commander & Standard Bearer (3pts)
Void Spirit (2pts)

My biggest problem is that I tend to forget shit. Feating is a big one. Many a game where I slapped my forehead and exclaimed that I should have feated that turn. Turn 2 seems to be the optimal feat turn, allowing my units that extra bit of DEF to stay alive once battle has been joined.

I'll be playing this list today, I have high hopes. 

Remember: Aggression pays off. 

Tracking my weight: as of 8/2/14: 232