Da Git Posted September 16, 2012 Report Share Posted September 16, 2012 Alrighty… First game with Misaki for me!! This is using the unfinished stat cards I made so some things might not be 100% but they’ll have to do till I get the book & models!! Ten Thunders Vs Ressers Strategy: Shared Escape & Survive Deployment: Standard Terrain: Quarantine Zone, Magic Nexus (3x3 marker cast & Rst flips of models completely within receive +). Ten Thunders Crew Misaki, 6 cache Shang – 3 Ototo – 8 Yamaziko – 6 Toragake – 6 Archer – 6 Wastrel (Petrified Feather) – 4 Schemes: Breakthough, Kill protégé (Dead Rider) Resser Crew McMourning – 8 Cache Avatar – 2 Grave Spirit – 1 Dead Rider – 10 Bete Noir – 9 3 Necropunks – 9 1 Canine remains Schemes: Breakthough, Grudge (Torakage) Tactics are: Big brawl in the middle, Use the Archer & Wastrel to shoot anything makes it past the main line, Wastrel goes for Breakthough with feather late game. Game tomorrow, Thoughts?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Git Posted September 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 So I had two scraps last night… contrasting with each other rather vividly… The first was full of forgetfulness & errors… I deployed from left to right the archer on a raised platform on the flank, followed by the Wastrel, Toragake, Ototoin the centre then Yamaziko, Misaki & Shang on the right. Opposite them was McMourning, Grave Spirit, Dead Rider & Canine Remains in the centre, with the 3 Necropunks facing Misaki. First turn the necro’s moved up as did my centre. Misaki went last & after 3 walks melee experted a Necro with Decapitate. She followed up with the next 2 on the next turn. It was then that we realised that if he had of discarded the cards I wouldn’t have killed the punks as they have Hard to Kill… He also finally remembered to bring out bete! With such a strong centre, he taxied McM around to engage Misaki and after a big brawl ended up with all of McM’s side dead, highlight was the wastrel shooting into melee with Misaki, McM & Bete, killing Bete (who then failed One with the Night!!). All in all, a very favourable win for Misaki’s first outing but soured by so many errors! 8 – 0 Misaki Round 2 (same crews) Same deployment from Misaki but a little more compressed. This time McM deployed the Necro’s on the other flank well away from Misaki! Misaki’s side moved up staying as a group while McM was a lot more cautious, gaining his body counters & staying out of sight. Turn 2 saw the Torakage dropped some smoke to prevent any Dead rider charges. However although it couldn’t see over the smoke it could over the barrier it was hiding behind & taxied him back to McM’s LoS. (rats, bad mistake on my part!!). Misaki companions Shang & Yamaziko to engage the dead rider bringing it down to 2 wounds (dang Grave spirit!!) McM activates slings Torakage (for grudge) & then takes out Yamaziko with a dissection/scalpel strike trigger (ouch!). this also brings out Bete… Who runs rampant slitting Ototo’s jugular & teaming up with the doctor to take out Misaki & Shang. The Archer managed to shine at this point shooting both McM (who was town to 2 wds) & Bete (One with the Night) with a well placed focused trigger! Only to watch the Wastrel get eaten by Necropunks & re-release bete! I conceded as the Archer head for the hills! Result 0 – 8 McMourning! Thoughts… Still very new to the crew & it showed! Really need to remember what each model can do. The cards also played a fairly big part in the games (an example being comparing the wastrel’s shot into combat game one then both the wastrel’s & the archers shots finding Misaki four(!) times in a row) Misaki: Great stats but really needs those rams for decapitate (this is such a brutal trigger for her, use it! Also really needs the defensive bonus from “your mine” while in a brawl… I forgot it a few time & really would’ve helped. I need to use this action a lot better. This was the only (0) I used as I tried to stay out of LoS (preventing shadow, which could pull her too far out of position) to use diving charge & no one fled to need Save Face. Shang: Not sure on this one yet… Rush of Magic was ok as I got to trim out a rubbish card each turn & whenever I re-flipped cards they were generally no better (or worse!), but I could see this as a game winner so will keep trying. Something I used game one was magical extension Misaki’s clear off spell to move my models out of combat so I could shoot them! Ototo: shone game one doing hurt to the dead rider & McMourning, ignoring Hard to wound is great! Game 2 he missed Bete & then got flurried & jugular slit Yamaziko: good little support model for Misaki, I like her a lot for healing, supporting attacks, companion & un-recklessing! Will use again. Torakage: Need more practice. Used switch a couple of times & smoke bombs were useful (just needed better placement!). Archer: Expensive, but I found useful. I used Yajiri to make stuff slow or do lots of hurt. The focused shot is great! 2 Questions: Something from Malifool’s is that if you get the re-shoot trigger, it is still focused, is this right? Can threading the needle be used to ignore a model engaged with the target? Wastrel: I like this model. Great for 4ss & I think I will include them a fair bit. Brilliant shot in game one for Bete! Other models I think would be good & would like to try are the clockwork traps & Oiran. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FearLord Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Something from Malifool’s is that if you get the re-shoot trigger, it is still focused, is this right? I can't think why it would be, but I'll wait until my book actually comes to confirm or deny... ---------- Post added at 08:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:11 AM ---------- Can threading the needle be used to ignore a model engaged with the target? For line of sight, yes. For shooting into melee penalty, no. Good games overall - can't wait to get some games in myself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausplosions Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Bete can't return on the same turn she uses one with the night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekboy Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 I'm fairly certain that decapitate ignores hard to kill - hard to kill only cares about wounds caused, decapitate just straight kills them dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRC Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 I'm fairly certain that decapitate ignores hard to kill - hard to kill only cares about wounds caused, decapitate just straight kills them dead. Hard to Kill only cares about Dg. If the attack does Wds, it also bypassed HtK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FearLord Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 I'm fairly certain that decapitate ignores hard to kill - hard to kill only cares about wounds caused, decapitate just straight kills them dead. That's what he was saying - if his opponent had discarded the cards they would have lived due to Hard to Kill - he didn't discard the cards, so they were killed by decapitate... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Git Posted September 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 That's what he was saying - if his opponent had discarded the cards they would have lived due to Hard to Kill - he didn't discard the cards, so they were killed by decapitate... What he said!! Sorry for the confusion. Also let me just say again, Decapitate is amazing. Save those Rams! Something I found hard was the general squishiness of living models. Coming from McMourning & Kirai I found the minions quite soft. Any advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Git Posted September 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2012 Game 2 Ten Thunders Vs Arcanists Alrighty so after some ponderings I come into my second (kinda third, but I count the first games against McMourning as 1 practices match!) 35SS Scrap Strategy: Shared Treasure Hunt Deployment: Diagonal Terrain: Mine, for fun we decided to make this an underground mine… so lots of passages and such. Random feature: Rockfalls Ten Thunders Crew Misaki, 8 Cache Shang – 3 Ototo – 8 Yamaziko – 6 Toragake – 6 Wastrel (Strange Metal Blade, this was a tough choice… In the end I chose this for some extra oomph in CC & the possibility of paralyse or slow. Earth’s Elixir was also tempting to keep him alive until he makes his escape) – 4 2 Clockwork Traps – 4 Schemes: Holdout, Kill Protégé (Ama) Plan: Set up traps to hinder his approach to the treasure. Use Wastrel to secret passage up to the marker while everything else sets up as a wall to provide backup to protect him and stop him getting through. At least in theory... those Night terrors might be hard to stop! Arcanist Crew Marcus – 8 Cache Jackalope – 1 Kaeris – 8 Essence of Power – 2 1 Ama No Zako – 8 4 Night Terrors – 12 Schemes: Stake a claim, Bodyguard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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