Batrep 1. Abby2 vs Gyrrshylld(WHAT IS EVEN LANGUAGE)

So I got a game in, now that I had an evening off work, which is unusual. I ended up playing Abby2 as I just got her table ready, against a Gyrrshylld list.  Cant quite remember his list, but I believe it was:

Gyrshylld:
-Sylyss
-Manticore
-Manticore
-Banshee
-Chimera

Max Sentinels
-Officer and Standard

Cylena and the Nyss Hunters

2* Mechaniks

My list was:

Abby2 (Oracles):
-Archangel
-Proteus
-Carnivean
-Naga Nightlurker
-Seraph

Sorceress on Hellion

3* Shepherds

3* Spell Martyrs

2* Forsaken




The plan for me was to have 3 18" Hex Bolts to trigger Alpha Hunter, one of which was for a hard and fast alpha, from which my opponent wouldn't be able to recover from. Unfortunately, he won first turn, and I picked the wrong side which forced me to split my forces around an obstruction in the centre of the board.

Anyway:


Ret deploy centrally with his Sentinels to the left behind a building, and the hunters to the right. His  first manticore and banshee are fairly central, and the chimera is on the left whilst the other manticore is on the right.I respond by putting Proteus, the archangel and the carnivean on that side, with the naga and seraph opposite the hunters. The forsaken hug the seraph and archangel, the shepherds hug all the beasts, to keep them in range, and the spell martyrs go on each flank, with 2 on the sentinel side.


Ret turn 1 - It ALL runs. Barring gyrrshylld, who puts frost field on the sentinels. I still don't get what this spell does in a faction of highly accurate infantry! 

Legion Turn 1- Thanks to Bracer starting out for free, Abby had a simple turn, walk up and slipstream the seraph to put some early damage out there. She does it, and the big bird-lizard shoots off 2 Nyss Hunters. The Forsaken  pulls off all the seraph's fury, including a random rile as I forgot to slipstream with it.

Ret turn 2 - He upkeeps for free. There is no allocation either. The Sentinels run and minfeat. The  Banshee walks up to 11.5 inches away from the carnivean and blasts it for 1 to the mind. The first manticore then rolls up two shots, and deals a WHOPPING 2 damage to the carnivean's mind. Gyrshylld advances to camp behind a wall. This took the assassination off the table regardless of range.  His hunters target my seraph with a cra and cripple the mind. The second manticore just drops it. This was also a Gyrrshylld feat turn.

Legion turn 2 - Abby feats and proteus kills the Banshee. The carnivean then kills off a manticore. The gargantuan moved up to threaten his caster and killed two nyss hunters whilst its there.

Ret turn 3 - Gyrshylld and his sentinel buddies team up to kill my heavies. The remaining nyss hunters and manticore kill off the archangel.

Legion turn 3 - At this point I have 2 Spell martyrs, 3 shepherds, 2 forsaken, a naga and abby left. So I go for the casterkill. The sorceress sprays  sylyss to kill him but it gets arcane vortexes Abby charges his caster, taking two sentinel free strikes, which, due to poor rolling is enough to make sure abby takes no damage from that. Her charge attack is a stinger which pulls off his one camp. She then drains her stack to kill him.

NOTE. MEMES TO COME