And there we have it, only a few days before the first Golden Ticket qualifier here in Flanders, and I am in a bit of an arrrrgh place.
I've build a deck for my Shadeborn, which worked fine, but was build around the re-rolls of Raging Slayers and mobility, so basically aiming for "a death by a thousand cuts" style of aggro.
And then last update two weeks ago, the whole mechanic of the plot card changed. I don't want crits to hit possibly harder, I wanted almost guaranteed hits allround...
So not sure if I would be playing any role the coming sunday, I went to the weekly wednesday meeting to give it a try in the current form and see if something could be salvaged out of it still...
My first game was against Wim and his Xandire's Truthseekers, who with their Pillage and Plunder / Deadly Synergies combo had been running amok on the evenings I heard.
The cards where drawn, both bands deployed, as I opted to set up deep and rely on my speed and teleport to get where I wanted.
The initial actions where undertaken by both ranged fighters, Sylarc both shooting and pinging with Dark Lamprey on Dhoraz. My plan was to take him and his grievous out without damaging the others,as against Stormcast bands, and especially these ones, it's better to overload one instead of slightly damaging a few. They tend to attack pretty accurately, and being armoured with only a cape of smoke isn't cutting it then.
Dhoraz came forward as his leader moved back for safer places, attacking Valyssa with his huge hammer. But she stuck a Knife in His Heart...
...and Slythael moved in and finished him off, bringing down the first of the tin cans.
Xandire herself, supported by Taros, came forward and attacked Slythael though...
... and my valiant leader was duly finished off by Luxa as a result.
The first round ended, but the Shadeborn where 7-5 in the lead, though still hadn't gotten the numerical advantage.
The second round started furiously though, and the combined attacks of Valyssa (long live the crit inspire with new Slayers, at least she benefits greatly from it) and Sylarc (somehow my most accurate one), brought down Xandire. As I had refrained from damaging his other models, this meant his double heal was wasted as a result.
The game turned into a to and forth in the middle of the board, as everyone of my crazed Khainites where out to draw blood.
Taros retreated to the back of the field to go delving, in order to allow him to score objectives instead of throwing the bird in for a mild attack. And as a result, it stood 10-9 for the Shadeborn after round 2, but now I had the numbers and my eyes set on the archer...
Charging up like a meatgrinder, Drusylla flew into Luxa, smashing a large piece out of her chest and gravely wounding her.
And while she was severly injured in return, Sylarc sneaked up and put a knife in the back of her neck, ending the Stormcast, though she did wound Drusylla still in her dying throws.
This left only Taros on the field, who went on guard. Valyssa charged the bird...
...but it made good it's escape.
However, as it failed to finish Drusylla, she brought down her coffeemill of a grinder down on the beast, ending it and allowing me to score both Unrelenting Massacre as well as Annihilation, giving the Truthseekers a crushing 21-13 defeat. And I hadn't even used my teleport during the game...
For the second game, it is the kings of the current aggro elite, and also fielding Blazing Assault with Raging Slayers: Ironsoul's Condemnors piloted by Nico, who now basically auto-inspire every activation...
We both deployed aggressively, and initial blows where quickly exchanged, Tavian going after Valyssa while Drusylla went for my main target: Brodus, who would even inspired remained on one shield.
The big guy came forward injuring Slythael, who returned the favour before Sidestepping out of range hopefully of the others, but forcing him to use a heal on the hammer guy.
Ironsoul herself came forward, and she smashed Sylarc to the floor with her hammer, making him the first casualty of the game.
And so round one ended with a hefty 4-8 lead already for the Condemnors, who where also all inspired.
But so where a couple of mine, and Slythael finished the big hammer off. He didn't have a shield, so Nico couldn't put my Cleave off, which helps greatly.
In a battle of leading ladies, Slythael was taken out in return by Gwynneth herself.
Valyssa put a lethal dagger into her though, bringing her immediatly to vunerable status.
Drusylla came flying in, carried on Wings of War, and with the re-roll from the Wayward Hex made her attack against the guarded Ironsoul, but failing to finish her.
However, in a desperate attempt, Valyssa wanted to put her 1 damage Cleave dagger into his leader. She put off the Cleave ability, but even guarded failed to save the one hit with two dice, and Ironsoul fell to a sneaky knife in the dark.
The second round came to an end, and the Shadeborn had scored massively, taking the lead now with 13-12 over the Condemnors. Now it was one healthy Stormcast against two Grievous wielding ladies...
And while he was first wounded by Valyssa before finishing her off, the coffeegrinder called Drusylla came crashing in, and decapitated the Eternal with a flurry of strikes. The game ended with a 23-14 victory as I focussed through my objectives for my big scorers.
So, won both games, both times against Stormcast warbands, and both times tabling them completely AND scoring both Unrelenting Massacre and Annihilation... maybe the deck still functions after all.
I must say, Valyssa benefits greatly from the new plot, as would her inspired three swords hit, she can use the crit to use Grievous every time, effectively giving the fragile aelven assassins two three damage attackers. I even never used Twist the Knife in either game...
Now let's see if it will work out on Mines of Alost in the first hunt for a Golden Ticket...
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