The first event at this year's Coal and Claw weekend was a standard 50 point steam roller, two lists deathclock with a random dice down for no reason.
My two lists were a flash back to my wargames con lists:
System: Hordes
Faction: Borka - Family Reunion (NQ38)
Casters: 1/1
Points: 50/50
Tiers: 4
Borka Kegslayer (*5pts)
* Pyre Troll (5pts)
* Slag Troll (6pts)
Greygore Boomhowler & Co. (Boomhowler and 9 Grunts) (9pts)
Krielstone Bearer and 5 Stone Scribes (4pts)
* Krielstone Stone Scribe Elder (1pts)
Trollkin Champions (Leader and 4 Grunts) (9pts)
* Skaldi Bonehammer (3pts)
Trollkin Champions (Leader and 2 Grunts) (5pts)
Trollkin Champions (Leader and 2 Grunts) (5pts)
Stone Scribe Chronicler (2pts)
Trollkin Champion Hero (3pts)
Trollkin Champion Hero (3pts)
System: Hordes
Faction: Trollblood
Casters: 1/1
Points: 50/50
Hunters Grim (*4pts)
* Troll Impaler (5pts)
* Dire Troll Bomber (10pts)
* Dire Troll Mauler (9pts)
* Trollkin Runebearer (2pts)
Kriel Warriors (Leader and 9 Grunts) (6pts)
* 3 Kriel Warrior Caber Thrower (3pts)
* Kriel Warrior Standard Bearer & Piper (2pts)
Krielstone Bearer and 3 Stone Scribes (3pts)
* Krielstone Stone Scribe Elder (1pts)
Pyg Burrowers (Leader and 9 Grunts) (6pts)
Fell Caller Hero (3pts)
Stone Scribe Chronicler (2pts)
Troll Whelps (2pts)
Round 1 vs Robert S (Outflank)
He brings a Xerxes brick and I counter with bringing borka and I win the roll to go first.
Turn 1:
My boomhowlers make a mad dash to the zone filling up most of it. My max unit of champions head to the middle of the board, being flanked by the other two units and a champion hero. Borka throws Iron flesh on the boomhowlers and advances into cover and throws all of his fury into a stone after being topped off. Stone pops up with armor and gets into the mix.
He runs forward sending his drag guys towards my champions wall and his normal big weapon masters towards the zone.and gladiator and tiberion head over to the flag. and runs up an artillery piece on each side.
Turn 2:
Iron Flesh dropped and the boomhowlers, charge/ Run into the Shield wall unit and put in a few points of damage in, but no real good hits. They eventually get iron fleshed again and stay in that zone for the rest of the game. The champions run again staying outside of charge range for tiberion and the gladiator or even the drag guys . I give the front unit of champions tales of mists from the chronicler. Borka moves up to the other side of cover and hangs out and super powers up the krielstone
He tries to fight the boomhowlers and is unable to beat the 4 + tough. His shot and drag guys have to move forward and are unable to hit the def 14 champions. He looks at moving in tiberion who had an armor buff on him in to start mixing it up, but looking at how many champions he'd have to fight off, he decided to hang tight. Xerxes hides behind a wall and his other unit of shooters try to work on the boom howlers, but still miss to break the tough checks.
Turn 3:
Borka up keeps Iron flesh and pops feat. The main unit up champions charge forward and with the help of the hero end up killing the full unit of shoot and drag dudes and drop the gladiator. The other two units of champions are impressed and jockey for counter strike position when tiberion decided to avenge his fallen elephant brother. The boom howlers stand up and CMA back getting a few more points in. The pyre troll sneaks up and launches an AOE into the other shooty guys, killing 3 and setting 2 on fire, who promptly failed a stop drop and roll the next turn.
He pops feat and tries to retaliate, but the weapon masters are only able to take out 1 boomhowler, tiberion walks up and takes out 2 champions and a hero and hangs tight, with a pain giver moving into base to base to take advantage of defensive line, bringing him to arm 25 and a ball buster to say the least. The remaining shooting guys manage to take out 2 more boomhowlers and he passes turn .
turn 4:
Borka up keeps iron flesh and Second unit of champions heads over to help out with the weapon masters, taking out two of them and the third decides to throw one of them to tiberion wedging him against a terrain feature. The boomhowlers, remain to be annoying and the pyre troll ends the shooting guys.
He moves up Xerxes closer and discards down to 2 fury, and hangs out behind his wall. Tiberion kills his champion food and is unable to move. The weapon master guys decided tried to shift down to get a couple on the champions, but do no damage.
Turn 5:
Borka moves into the zone to be able to dominate and able able to put two champions onto a low fury Xerxes and force him to push damage into tiberion, but not able to kill him. The other champions clear out two more weapon masters I feed tiberion another champion and pass turn
He pulls in the fury and dice down is called. I have my full kriel stone, way more than half of the boom howlers and my slag troll in the zone vs his 2 weapon masters. I win Via Points in the zone .
Round 2 vs Andy K (Incursion)
Andy has Baldur and I end up throwing out Hunters Grim. I'm not really going into this game as it wasn't really one. His dice were on fire and in one turn he killed all 15 kriel warriors from blood tracker charges and quick works. My only recourse was to try an assassination, which was taken off the table by baldur's feat and him not being able to be knocked down. I did score a moral victory in destroying Baldur's favorite toy, megalith and his loaned toy from Kromac, Ghetorix.
Round 3 vs Pandios (Destruction)
He drops epic morvahna and I decide to bench Grim and bring in the zone taking King, Borka.
I win the roll to go first:
Turn 1:
Just like in the last time borka hit the field, the boomhowlers run for the zone and get iron flesh.
He preys my boomhowlers and runs up his forces, but not close enough to charge.
Turn 2:
I end up spreading my boomhowlers throughout the middle zone and put a set of champions at either end of the zone ready to counter. One of my heroes runs out to my flank but still within the maxed out stone.
He comes up, kills 4 boomhowlers and reforms his blood trackers into the war path of my Hero. He decides that he needs to not let that happen so he sends in the lord of the feast who doesn't manage to kill the hero, but instead dies to retaliatory strike. His skin walkers are unable to charge in this turn so they run up enough to be able to fight next turn. Morvahna goes for a death knell, but misses and does no damage. black clad sneaks around the side and tries to spray the boomhowlers, but fails. two stalkers jockey up for position.
Turn 3:
The champion hero who ate the lord of the feast, wasn't done there and clears out 4 blood trackers. The other champion didn't want to be left out and goes after blackclad and sends him to circle hell. The Boomhowlers spread out in the zone again an one set of champions head over to join the lonely injured hero on the side and has to drop fury.
He charges in his skin walkers killing all but two of the boomhowlers. The blood trackers, now respecting the awesome power of the champion hero back up and try to take him out, using most of the units activation to do so. One stalker gets ported into the min unit of champions and failed to hit or failed to damage, leaving only a few points on the champions. morvahna goes for the death knell again and this time kills 2 kriel stone scribes.
Turn 4:
The Min champions end up taking out the stalker after getting buffed up borka a slag and a pyre buff. The max unit move in blowing up full unit of skin walkers and the rest putting damage into the objective blowing it up after the slag had put some damage into it. The other unit of champions unable to reach most of the bloodtrackers send 2 into the objective and 1 into a bloodtracker. The objective was 3 boxes short of dying.
On his turn he brings up a primal'ed stalked and takes out 3 champions and moves his shifting stones into the zone to help contest. Morvahna backs up now that side unit of champs is so close. His bloodtrackers try to kill my champions around the living objective and fail.
Turn 5:
My turn I charge borka and the hero that had killed the black clad into the primaled stalker and dropped him. The rest of the champs clear the stones out of the zone and I blow up the objective scoring two points.
He has only a goreaxe left. He charged in morvahna and cleared two of the champions that had blown up the objective and feated bringing back a tree the lord of the feast and a few blood trackers and dice down is called. With a max and min unit of champions in the zone and both beasts, this one goes to me.
I end up going 2-1 on the day when they make the cut to top 6. I end up 14th out of 33 players and I have decided to shelf the Hunters grim until I can play them responsibly.
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