A RED MORNING

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER GAME.

I played another Cygnar game today, against Khador again. This time, my opponent was running Karchev. The list was:
Karchev the Terrible - WJ: +30 
- Behemoth - PC: 25 (Battlegroup Points Used: 25) 
- Juggernaut - PC: 13 (Battlegroup Points Used: 5) 
- Demolisher - PC: 16 
- Berserker - PC: 8 

Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios - PC: 7 
Kovnik Apprentice Kratikoff - PC: 0 
- Beast 09 - PC: 18 
Manhunter - PC: 0 
Widowmaker Marksman - PC: 0 

Kayazy Eliminators - Leader & Grunt: 5 

Widowmaker Scouts - Leader & 3 Grunts: 8 
 Battle Mechaniks - Leader & 5 Grunts: 5 

THEME: Jaws of the Wolf --- 

I played a Sons of the Tempest list which was Siege1 with a stormwall. Double gun mages and UA, one of which was martialling an Avenger, minimum Blazers, Bastian Falk, and the Black 13th.

We played Invasion.

He won the roll off and chose first turn.

He deployed with his battlegroup central, Sorscha and Beast on my left flank, the widowmakers and marksman on my right with Eiryss AD'd to the far flank on my left, and the manhunter AD'd centrally.

I deployed my Stormwall to the left opposite Beast alongside the blazers, Siege was central, and the infantry sat on my right with the avenger.


KHADOR 1:
Everything runs. No spells go out on Karchev. Sorscha charges and puts out fog.

CYGNAR 1:
Siege walks up and drops a foxhole opposite the widowmakers, and sticks explosivo on the stormwall. The first unit of Gun Mages sit in it to get cover. The Black 13th run into rough terrain to get cover. The second unit of gun mages minifeat to kill off his manhunter. Support runs up.

KHADOR 2:
Jacks power up. No allocation. Stuff runs up. Sorscha boundless charges Behemoth too. He charges into the centre of the board. Karchev sticks up Battlecharged. Widowmakers snipe out Lynch from the 13th. Eiryss walked out and shot off a Blazer. Kayazy run up to try and contest that side of the board for now.

CYGNAR 2:
Gun mages and the remnants of the Black 13th clear out the round zone. The Blazers walk out and both miss Eiryss. They repo back to safety. The stormwall steps up to be behind a wall, and drops a pod, killing eiryss. It then shoots the pod, using explosivo to blast eiryss and a kayazy off, and leaves the other on 1 box. Siege hits the objective with a ground pounder, leaving it on 5 boxes. The gun mage unit in the centre walk up and finish it off. Avenger knocks down Behemoth, Beast 09 and the Demolisher.

Cygnar score 2 points this turn.

KHADOR 3:
Jacks power up. Behemoth gets 1, Beast gets 2.  Beast Forces to stand.  Karchev casts Jumpstart, and wanders up, dropping battlecharged for Road to War. Sorscha boundless charges Beast, and he charges the stormwall. He triple 1's the charge attack, and as a result, leaves the stormwall mostly intact with all systems working fine. Behemoth aims, and boosts a shot into a clump of gunmages, killing all of them, barring Falk and the UA. His second shot takes care of them. The Demolisher road to wars up, and kills the objective. The second Road to War move advances the juggernaut. The Berserker charges in, and kills Watts. The Juggernaut charges in and misses everything. The Marksman double sixes his attack roll to kill Ryan.

Khador score 1, scoire is 2:1 in favour of Cygnar.

CYGNAR 3:  
Siege allocates 2 to the stormwall. The autonomous Avenger knocks Karchev down, dealing some damage to him. Siege feats and drops 16 damage off Behemoth, and force hammers the demolisher away. The Stormwall beats the tar out of Beast, and leaves him with the right arm. The tempest blazers kill sorscha. The Gun mages try thunderbolting everything out of the zone. They fail.

Score goes to 3:1 in favour of cygnar.

KHADOR 4: 
Karchev fully allocates the Berserker, and gives Behemoth 1. Behemoth shoots Siege twice, leaving him knocked down and on 1 box. The Berserker finishes him off.

Thats it! Game 3 goes to Khador! That makes this best of 5 go to 2-1 to me!

I knew that it was a rough match going into it, as I had a stormwall to deal with that battlegroup. I tried going up 3-1 real early, which failed, and the jacks started contesting all zones. So I basically had to go balls to the wall and hope for a miracle, which did not come.